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participation ribbon. The judges awarded a first, second and third place, honorable mention and best of show awards in three grade groupings. Best in show winners were Nicholas Pfarner for K-2, Bo Barber for grades 3-5 and Kristin Girkin for grades 6-8. The art show is led by Patty Rudnicke, the school’s art teacher.
ISS Team Scores with NASA The Indian Springs School student team of Quinn Balazs, Carlin Laney and Connor McGarty placed second in a nationwide lunar research competition. The students’ research on the timing of multi-ring basin formation and the lava flows contained within the moon’s Orientale Basin won second place in the High School Lunar Research Projects
program, sponsored by the Lunar and Planetary Institute’s Center for Lunar Science and Exploration. The ISS team’s research was selected by a panel of lunar scientists from NASA’s Johnson Space Center for the honor. The students’ abstract and poster summarizing their research will be showcased at the 2012 NASA Lunar Science Forum in July at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California. Each of the 18 teams that entered the competition spent the fall semester completing a basic lunar geology course and then embarked on a standardsbased, data-rich, authentic lunar science research project aimed at increasing the understanding of the moon. The Indian Springs team’s teacher was Lisa Balazs, ISS science department chairman. Their mentor was Dr. Cari Corrigan with the Smithsonian Institution. ❖
St. Francis Xavier students who won best in show awards at the schoolʼs recent art show included, from left: Nicholas Pfarner, Kristin Girkin and Bo Photo special to the Journal Barber.
St. Francis Xavier Hosts Art Show Parents of students at St. Francis Xavier School were invited to the school’s annual art show April 17. The event was sponsored by the school and the Home and School parent organization, which provided refreshments. Students in grades 1-8 submitted
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a piece of art that they considered their most important work sample. Included were works in crayons, pastels, watercolor, metal, clay sculpture and plaster. This year’s judges included Larry Thompson and Katie Sullivan Kauffman, art faculty members at Samford University, and Meredith Keith, a professional artist. Each student received a
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Indian Springs School students placed second in a nationwide lunar research competition. The team includes, from left: Quinn Balazs, Connor McGarty, Photo special to the Journal teacher Lisa Balazs and Carlin Laney.
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The Vestavia Hills East Elementary Chess Team won first place for grades K-3 at an April 27 tournament. Team member Hannah Ashraf, far left, won third place in the individual tournament for grades K-3. Others on the team are, from left: Noah Williams, Robert Pritchard and Garrett Lee. Also pictured are the studentsʼ enrichment teacher, Rowena McNab, and Vestavia Hills East Elementary Principal Mark Richardson. The teamʼs coach is David Brooks, Photo special to the Journal who is in charge of the Knight School chess program.
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