Upper school history teacher Mr. Bhuva is one of 40 teachers across the US and Canada who was accepted into the National Geographic Fellowship Collaboration this year. He will be exploring parts of the Arctic Sea ice, recording polar bears and wildlife, and assessing the damage from plastic that has washed ashore in Svalbard. He will also learn about the cultural heritage of Norway. His expedition with naturalists and National Geographic photographers will be recording history and science.
Sixth graders attended a XSTEM conference to learn more about science, technology, engineering and math. They collected scientist trading cards, learned about bouncing lasers, listened to engineers who worked on the Kepler mission, sent Morse code messages through fiber optic cables, built sumo robots, programmed drones, and used microscope.
Students in Mr. McGrath’s D.C. History class visited Ford’s Theatre on Tuesday. Students will learn about Lincoln’s assassination through the play, One Destiny. The play revisits the events of April 14, 1865 and reconstructs the sequence of events that lead up to Lincoln’s death and its aftermath. The play also grapples with the question about how could John Wilkes Booth have been stopped. Students will visit the Aftermath Exhibits at the museum across the street to get a better understanding about the plot to kill the president and how it affected the country.
Mr. Day’s English 10 class and Ms. Seid’s AP Literature Class will perform a scene in the Text Alive! Hamlet production at Shakespeare Theatre company. The performance will be at 10 am on April 28 at Sidney Harmon Hall and will feature sophomores Eva, Antoine, Sara Auriemma, Dante Belcher, Ryan Bradley, Perrin Brady, Justin Burgon, Nora Butler, Zoe Crute, Nona Douglas, Ava Evans, Shelby Ferncrombie, Will Geist, Simon Hall, Gabby Micheli, Bea Mott, Emma Olson, Christly Patillo, Sofia Posada, Felicity Ryan, Aya Salem, Oliver Stevens and Dakota Turnage.
Students from the Upper School Poetry Club and AP Literature will be meeting with the author Eugina Kim, who wrote The Caligrapher’s Daughter with students from Banneker and Holton Arms at Potter’s House in Adam’s Morgan. The event will be part of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation encourages the art of writing by pairing authors with students.
Juniors Jania Claire, DJ Okuleye and Tate Wright will travel to Rome through the Paideia Institute for language and history study abroad. Last year Isaiah Smith studied in Rome through this scholarship. Students will read selections of Latin texts from the late antique, Patristic, medieval, Renaissance and modern periods. They will experience informal conversational Latin sub arboribus, interactive visits to important historical and literary sites in Rome, lectures in English on different aspects of Latin and its literature, and weekend trips to important sites outside of Rome. Meanwhile, sophomore Kim Motpelier won the essay contest to go to Greece from the Living Greek in Greece Program.
