Many Washington Latin graduates are taking advantage of the chances to travel during college. Washington Latin 2014 graduate Vanessa Rodriguez has just been offered an internship this summer at Podcasts for Peace based in Managua, Nicaragua for the summer. Rodriguez, a junior at Mount Holyoke College, is currently studying abroad in Spain. No stranger to foreign travel, Rodriguez had to miss her high school graduation ceremony to travel to Doha, as one of 10 American teens selected to attend an Arabic program sponsored by Qatar Foundation International. Her class of 2014 classmate and fellow Mount Holyoke student Marissa Johnson is currently traveling in South Africa this year and 2014 graduate Kelly Rivera chose to study abroad in Italy at the University of Bologna during her junior year at Wesleyan. Meanwhile, class of 2015 graduate Emily Hall is planning to study filmmaking in Prague during her junior year at American University.
Fourteen middle school students took part in Battle of the Books, a DCPS librarian initiative. The event took place in the Sumner School museum on Wednesday, April 5th. The students read 8 books and competed in panels of 4 students against teams from other schools. This year there were 11 teams. They are asked, in which book, does a certain event take place. Our teams of 5th and 6th graders were competing against teams of 7th and 8th graders.
Eighth grader Masai Brown-Andews was selected as part of the Olympic Development Program in Virginia to play soccer in the 2017 International Tour, a series of games against German teams in Berlin and Dresden, Germany. The team left Saturday, April 8, and returns the following Sunday, April 16. There he will be assessed for selection to the regional and U.S. national team. Brown-Andrews also plays on Latin’s middle school soccer team in the fall.
Mr. Dumas’ history class went on a trip this week to the African American Civil War Museum. Students discussed Washington, D.C.’s role as a place for freemen and former slaves. Students have already viewed the Civil war movie Glory, which showcased the impact of the 54th Mass. Regiment, the first exclusively African-American regiment. The museum provided additional information about the role of African Americans in the civil war including letters, artifacts, mementos, and historical information from he time period.
The Jazz Band traveled to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania this week. Students listened to CMU’s jazz band play, and watched the traveling show of Stomp, and visited the University of Pittsburgh. They also worked with a music teacher from a Pittsburgh high school. The Jazz Band includes senior Theodore Ammon, Sophie Collier, Aaron Figueroa, Allegra Hatem, Carmaya Humble, and Ned Yarsky, juniors Harris Marks, Sophie Healy, Baily Pinckney, and Mitch Shapiro, sophomore Adrien Gomez, and freshmen Ethan Gadson, Madeleine Katz, Miles Lang, and Duncan Matthews-Cox and is advised by Pittsburgh native Ms. Nevola.
