Cooper Campus’s Chess Club finished its first  in-house tournament this week. Fifth grader Jacob Rivas won 1st place, fifth grader Claire Astmann won 2nd place, and fifth grader Felix Santiago won 3rd place. 

On Friday the Honors Humanities students went on a field trip to the National Gallery on Friday.  The classes, taught by Mr. Hultgren and Mr. Clausen, features a unit on Beauty. Students will visit both wings of the building and write a paper on whether it meets the classical interpretation of beauty, using a critical lens to understand the piece based on the class readings by famous philosophers.

Students in Honors Biology will be making presentations on their work on genetic disorders next week. Teachers have volunteered to join to ask questions and assist in students research. Students in the class, taught by Ms. Allison, will take on the role of a genetic counselor, research a specific genetic disorder, and then share the results in a counseling meeting with teacher visitors, who will serve as “parents’ learning about a familial genetic disorder. 

Students in the middle school took part in gradewide spelling bees in preparation for next week’s schoolwide bee. Winners of the fifth grade bee include Lila Columbus and Ronan O’Donovan, with Jae Gebreyesus serving as an alternative. Sixth grade winners included Elena Kwon and Evie Paisner, with Peter Clausen as an alternate. In seventh grade Mila Appelbaum and Boaz Movit won, with Francis Etoh as an alternate. Eighth graders Imanuel Brandon and Neila Wright and alternate Caleb Chaffee will face off against the other students in a schoolwide bee during F period on the 25th. 

Upper school students who took part in Fall Sports had a celebration and Awards Ceremony in the MPR on Wednesday.  Mr. Eleby-El and Mr. Kelly spoke to the athletes and their parents, and coaches presented team awards. Senior athletes reflected on their time at Latin.  Cross Country team coaches Mr. Hotchkiss and Ms. Woods presented awards, alongside girls soccer coaches Ms. McBride and Mr. Keller, boys soccer coaches Mr. Slager and Mr. Ochoa, Flag Football coaches Coach K., and Mr. Coleman, and Volleyball coaches Ms. Latham and Mr. Harrison. Mr. Eleby-El and Mr. Callum gave awards to seniors, followed by closing remarks by Mr. Anderson.