A look at what’s happening at Upper School
See page 11 for Middle School, page 14 for Lotspeich, and page 18 for Doherty Sophomore Sara Hodgkins has been selected as Upper’s representative for the 2012 Regional Youth Leadership Program. Junior Sharon Liao, Canvass Editor in Chief for next year, has been accepted to the very selective journalism training camp sponsored by the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA). Mrs. Ford invites everyone to view senior Helen Head’s “most interesting and entertaining” two-minute video on YouTube dealing with alternative energy sources to power homes. Helen did the video as the outreach component of her Planet and Me Project for Environmental Science. http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayLvITvvRX8 Congratulations to the winter season athletes and coaches who were recognized as All-Stars by the Enquirer. Senior Max Davis was selected as Div. IV Player of the Year and Coach Willie Hill was named Div. IV Coach of the Year for boys basketball. Additionally, senior Miles Hill and senior Adimu Hunter-Woodard received Honorable Mention recognition for Divs. II-IV basketball. Freshman Lauren Weems received Honorable Mention recognition for Divs. II-IV girls basketball. In gymnastics, senior Alex Wilt was named to the First Team and junior Amy Mauro and freshman Reena SenGupta received Honorable Mention recognition. Junior Sarah Austin was named to the First Team for girls swimming (Div. II) and also was named to the Honorable Mention team for the 200 Individual Medley Relay. Mrs. Ford’s Environmental Science students worked with fourth graders, exploring Smog City (www. smogcity.com), loss of biodiversity and bleaching of the coral reefs. page 7
Three chemistry students earned awards in competitive tests offered by the American Chemical Society, and they were honored at the April meeting/banquet of the Cincinnati Section of the ACS at NKU on April 13. Sophomore Kyle Patel placed fourth on the firstyear chemistry exam out of 150 students in the region, and he was awarded a $115 cash prize. Juniors Kyle Patel, Suhel Singh, Ned Williamson Suhel Singh and Ned Williamson placed in the top ten out of 106 students in the region on the second-year chemistry exam. Ned was invited to compete in a second tier of testing for qualification in the Chemistry Olympiad. He took a six-hour exam, including a lab practical, at Miami University.
Mr. Davis said, “The 2010 first semester Economics class earned money by creating and operating a business that offered lemonade and various complementary products. The class comprised three separate business entities that each showed a profit after one day of operation. The collective profits for each of the three teams was $150. The class learned that seed capital (loans) was the key ingredient in their success. The class decided to take their profits and help another entrepreneur in a distant land that too would benefit from seed capital. The class choose to lend the entire $150 to a restaurant owner in Paraguay that needed a non-secured loan to expand his business. On April 7,
2011, Modesto Paredes Legutzamon fulfilled his obligation by making his final monthly payment.“ Mrs. Ramsay said, “My Upper School Geometry classes culminated their study of right triangle trigonometry with an application of these concepts to North American ski slopes. I loved that students investigated the ski slopes and obtained pertinent data using Google Earth, did their calculations with Geometer Sketchpad’s built-in calculator, drew a visual representation of their findings using Sketchpad or Word, and then posted these documents on our class wiki. A paperless endeavor from start to finish!”