MAY 2016
Campus News & Notes BY LAURA NOEL AND SUSAN QUINN
Here is some of what you have been missing if you haven’t been visiting the George School News & Events website at georgeschool.org/news.
IB Students Explore the Science of Food More than seventy-five students and teachers entered the SpruanceAlden Science building in January 2016 for International Baccalaureate (IB) Science Weekend. This year they designed experiments to answer
questions ranging from “what types of coffee and brewing methods produce the least acidic results” to “what is the effect of lactase concentration on the hydrolysis of lactose.” One group studied the effect of the number of chromosome sets on the DNA mass of various fruits.
Student Work Selected for Publication Nicole Bariahtaris ’17 and Mimi Murdock ’17 both received recognition from creative writing journals this year. Nicole’s poem, “The Ugly Parts” will be published in Creative Communication: A Celebration of Today’s Writers and Mimi’s flash fiction piece, “The Speech” won an Editor’s Choice award from Teen Ink. Les Misérables Packs the House The George School production of Les Misérables filled Walton Center for two consecutive performances in February 2016. With a cast of more than forty-five, a complicated set, and live musical accompaniment, the show came together beautifully and wowed audiences.
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