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Colton Lange of Cold Spring, a junior firefighter for the Southgate Volunteer Fire Department, wears an astronaut suits as he walks in to a group of families gathered for a NASA and Campbell County Schools Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics Night. CHRIS MAYHEW/THE COMMUNITY RECORDER
Bishop Brossart High School drama camp teacher Robbie Tieman of Alexandria and choreography instructor Miranda Hamilton guide students in a K-8 theater camp inside the Catholic school's theater.
Bishop Brossart theater expands school’s art outreach Chris Mayhew cmayhew@communitypress.com
ALEXANDRIA — Bishop Brossart High School new theater enabled a new summer drama camp where students including Maura MacDonald perform on a stage instead of cafeteria tables. Creation of a drama camp for grades K-8 shows the school’s focus on arts outreach, said camp director Robbie Tieman, 23, of Alexandria. Camp participants capped off a week of lessons with a July 18 performance. Tieman is a teacher at St. Henry District High School in Erlanger and a 2010 Bishop Brossart graduate. “Back when we did plays here we were in the cafeteria performing on all the tables pushed together,” Tieman said. Having a camp is a way for the community to take advantage Bishop Brossart’s new Munninghoff Family Performing Arts Center, he said. The theater, with seating for 420 people, was part of an $8 million 35,000 square feet addition
and renovation finished last summer. MacDonald, 11, of Alexandria, said she came to camp because it sounds fun and she wants to be on stage. “I just like being in front of people,” she said. MacDonald, who will enter sixth grade in the fall at St. Mary School, said she plans to be in drama when she gets to Bishop Brossart. Tieman had help directing the camp from his fellow Northern Kentucky University theater program graduate Miranda Hamilton of West Harrison, Ind. Hamilton directed dance steps and singing cues during a rehearsal as choreography director. Camp lessons go beyond acting, she said. “They will learn about stage makeup and costumes and just the entire process of being able to put on a show,” Hamilton said. Bishop Brossart Principal Dan Ridder said drama performances were off camSee DRAMA, Page 2A
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Mara MacDonald, left, of Alexandria and Ella Rinehard, 11, of Cold Spring, rehearse together on stage at drama camp.
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Alexandria Gulley of Alexandria pulls a blindfold over the head of Addison Doughman of Highland Heights during a rehearsal.
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Schools and NASA focus on STEAM teachings Chris Mayhew cmayhew@communitypress.com
HIGHLAND HEIGHTS — NASA came to Campbell County to put some STEAM into children’s summer and school lessons. STEAM is an acronym for science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics. Campbell County Schools kicked off a new partnership with NASA’s education wing July 6 with astronaut and firefighter suit comparisons and hands-on science activities for children. NASA-donated lesson plans teachers at Campbell County can incorporate into existing STEAM curricula. Courtney Long, about to start fifth grade at Cline Elementary School in Cold Spring this fall, tried on an astronaut’s glove. “The glove, it’s really big,” Long said. With rubber fingertips, the glove was cold inside, she said. Christina Vaughn, Long’s mother, said her daughter is in the after school Club 21 science and math program at Cline for a second year. “It’s all about space exploration this year,” Vaughn said. NASA will work with Club 21 and district teachers by sharing lesson ideas and materials to teach science, said Kim Brush, education officer at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton Roads, Virginia. Learning science, technology, engineering and math is necessary for children to prepare them for the future job market, Brush said. “The things we’re doing at NASA is in computer science and technology,” she said. Art activities can bring all the disciplines of science, technology, engineering and math together, Brush said.
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Courtney Long, of Highland Heights, slides her hand into an astronaut’s glove on during a NASA Science Technology Engineering Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) night for Campbell County Schools.
Sarah Parker, a 21st Century Community Learning Center coordinator at Campbell County Middle School in Alexandria, brought NASA to Campbell County. Having a partner organization with deep knowledge of STEAM principles shows students the importance of school work in science, Parker said. All of Campbell County’s 21st Century Learning Centers, which provide after school programs for students, will be participating with NASA to combine art and the other STEAM teachings, she said. “Art is problem solving, and makes it fun,” Parker said. “It’s creative thinking, and it ties them all together.” Card and board games, and links to Internet information provided by NASA and other programs all relate directly to classroom teachings, said Kim Kissee, a second-grade teacher at Crossroads Elementary School in Cold Spring. “The math is the same core content concepts I teach throughout the year,” Kissee said. Vol. 19 No. 13 © 2015 The Community Recorder ALL RIGHTS RESERVED