Ninth graders nabbed several honors at last week’s upper school science fair. Winning high honors were freshmen Helena Ikenberry and Alicia Campbell, Lucas Roemer and Max Regardie, Oliver Krisetya and Miles Tiller, and Zoe Edelman and Hawa Sturr., Niko Davis, and Una Yarsky. Also honored were Lydia Moore, Such Mulholland and Aviel Honey, Will Monti and Ketan Mampara, Isaac Epstein, Nazzy Fisher, Joshua Perrin, Jalen Richardson, Paul Mwombela, Griffin Smith and Robbie Mirabello, Aaliyah Hudson and Lisa Trejo, Gabby Rodriguez and Coree George, Each pair or single conducted research based on a hypotheses, collected data, and evaluated the results in order to present their work to parents, faculty, friends, and visiting judges. The event, held last Thursday in the MPR, will be followed by a trip to the Citywide STEM fair.
Ms. Kolb’s eighth grade theatre class will be at the Folger Friday for the Secondary Shakespeare Festival. The class will be performing their production of scenes from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Student performers include Henry Cohen, Harrison Flakker, Nathaniel Fox-Halperin, Kayla Freedman, Wyatt Grimm, Will Mader, Estelle Monti, Christian Pacheco, Lawrence Phelps, Mia Sullivan, Rubi Vela, Nico West, Genesis Young, Vlad Zadorojny, and Sophia Zinn.
Seniors and Mr. Day’s Honors English 10 will attend the Shakespeare Theatre Company production of Hamlet next week. The play, directed by Michael Kahn and starring Michael Urie as Hamlet, focuses on a Danish prince trying to avenge the murder of his father. In previous years, students have seen Othello, The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Henry IV, and Romeo and Juliet performed.
Later this month eighth graders will take a two day trip into the past as part of their history and English curricula. Students will spend a day watching court cases at the D.C. Superior Court in connection with their Justice unit in English and their study of the play “Inherit the Wind” by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. Students will also spend a day visiting Lincoln’s Cottage and Ford’s Theatre in connection with their study of the Civil War in history class. We often take for granted how rich our city is with historical landmarks!
Thursday upper school ninth and tenth graders took part in the annual science fair. The students, lead by Mr. Torrence and Ms. Shapiro, created a hypothesis, designed an experiment, and tested their hypotheses. Students evaluated the results in light of other scientific research. The results were on display for judges from our community on Thursday in the MPR.
