Students took part in the first all female wrestling meet at Washington Latin last weekend, helmed by wrestling coach Mr. Torrence. Senior Annika Jobanputra and freshman Valerie DeLeon placed third in their weight class. A homeschooled student named Helen Disimone, who wrestles for Washington Latin, took first place. There were 50 students from 20 different schools in the DMV area who participated. 

Sixth grade scientists at the Cooper Campus took part in a unit called “We’re All Just Stardust,” focused on astronomy.  Students explored different objects in space and learned about the celestial origins of matter. The final project of the unit, titled “What’s Out There?” involved researching an additional space topic of interest including nearby galaxies, comets, stars small and large, and black holes. Students explored several academic web sites and prepared a 4 slide presentation teaching the basics of their topic. With student permission, slides will be made available on schoology to allow other students to access information about these topics. This is the second research based project of the unit following “Welcome to Space” in which students created advertisements for planets and planetoids in our solar system. The class is taught by Mr. Jeremenko.  

The Middle School girls’ basketball team is powering through the playoffs! The team beat Cap City at home on Monday. The team fell after a valiant fight to the #1 seed, DCI, on Tuesday. The team is coached by Ms. Ousley and Ms. Eleby-El.

Students in Ms. Dobler’s STEM club got to take part in some exciting chemical reactions. Students spent club time st week making instant snow mixing a polymer and water in a white cup.They were also mixing copper chloride in a burner with water in a glass beaker to make an aluminum burner.

Ms. Smith will hold the first monthly meeting of teachers to have an academic soiree. She and Ms. Coleman will lead a discussion on the first chapter of Clint Smith’s “How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America.”