WILDCAT TERRITORY

A quick glimpse of the past few months, featuring various SCDS Wildcats

THE SWEENEY BUILDING. In January, our community came together to dedicate the Daniel B. Sweeney Middle School Building and to remember our colleague and friend.

LUNAR NEW YEAR. We celebrated the Year of the Rabbit and the Year of the Cat with food, poetry, martial arts demonstrations, dances, and more.

THE ENGINEERING EVENT. The annual running of the rigs continues! This year, students took on the theme of folding and, of course, the challenge of locomotion.

(Photo: Libby Lewis Photography)

CHECKMATE. After a two-year hiatus, the Parent Council-sponsored, multi-school chess tournament made a triumphant return, with 27 SCDS students in attendance.

(Photo: Nidhi Jayadevan)

INVENTORS’ QUEST. Intermediate School students were offered a new course this year: Inventors’ Quest, a class that helps foster invention (such as the creation of an educational board game, pictured) and problem-solving.

PARTNERING WITH DAYBREAK STAR. “We still have our traditions. And we are still here.” So says Matthew Sam-Thornhill, a program manager for United Indians of All Tribes, housed at Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center. Third-graders spent several hours at the center, which included watching traditional dance performances, learning about herbs, and absorbing the center’s civil rights movement-era history. (Photo: Vickie Madriaga)

DON’T SPARE THE FROSTING. Just before winter break, our K and 8 buddies got together in a delightful tradition: building and decorating gingerbread houses.

THE GREAT MAKER CAPER. This spring, the community raised more than $345,900 for our students and our school at the Great Maker Caper, an evening of Roaring 20s-style frolic and mystery. Pictured: auctioneer Matt Lorch and emcee Mona Lee Locke. (Photo: Nataworry Photography)