Creativity was on display this week, first with the upper school student lead Open Mic, called “The Hook,” and with the Visual Arts Show. Thursday’s show featured the work of 7th and 8th graders and upper schoolers. Ms. David and Ms. Coleman’s classes showed off their work from the semester, using graphite, acrylic, and pencils.
Seniors Mansur Diallo and Jackson Lewis learned before break that they had earned the four year full-tuition Posse Scholarship to Bucknell University. Since the first graduating class in 2012, 14 students from Washington Latin have qualified for the Posse Scholarship. Washington, D.C ‘s Posse schools include Bucknell, Pepperdine, Lafayette, The University of Rochester, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Lewis & CLarke College, and the University of the South-Sewanee. For more information about the Posse Scholarship, look at the website. Senior Brandon Souverain was the first Washington Latin student to receive the QuestBridge Scholarship. He will receive a full ride to Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. The program connects exceptional students with 50 colleges and universities and covers all tuition, room, board, and expenses. To learn more, visit the scholarship’s web website.
The class of 2023 is on track to set a record for merit scholarships. The previous year’s class set a record, with $11 million merit scholarships, with $1.6 million received at this point in the year. In contrast, this year’s class has already exceeded the mid-year merit scholarship offers by more than $6 million. Congratulations to the Class of 2023 on their achievements, and we are excited to see the honors continue to roll in.
Cooper Campus fifth grader Nikolas Fertakis-Perkins earned third place among unrated players his age in the US Chess Federation’s 2022 National K-12 Grade Championship tournament at National Harbor. This was Nikolas’ first tournament. The K-6 Grade Tournament is in Baltimore in May, and Nikolas hopes to return and bring classmates for a School Team.
Sixth graders took part in a winter performance of Arabian Nights before winter break started. The performance was directed by their theater teacher Mr. Baldwin. The play focuses on Scheherazade’s tales used to prevent her husband, the cruel ruler Shahryar from murdering her after 1,001 nights of stories.
Fifth graders at Cooper Campus had a movie night the Thursday before winter break started, and the sixth grade had a Homecoming Dance. The dance was DJ’d by Epic Situation, a DJ who is also a Washington Latin parent. Students enjoyed starting the holiday with movies and music.