BillionGraves is the world’s largest resource for searchable GPS cemetery data, and is growing bigger and better every day. For this community service project, our students contributed by taking headstone images from a local cemetery, and then transcribing the personal information found on the images. The GPS information collected helps others research expansive family histories from around the world without having to travel. The students also collected trash from around the cemetery, and set fallen stones upright.
The PSATs are over! The students took some time afterwards to decompress with friends.
Warren’s Geography class took a creative hands-on approach to explore methods of cartography which included charting geographic location, choosing symbolization strategies, and studying how landforms interact across the surface of the earth. It was a challenge of visual communication skills and hand-eye coordination.
The students also had to coordinate where their landmasses end up on the class global map, making sure that they do not overlap with any of their peers’ creations.
Meg’s Environmental Science class took a field trip to Carvin Creek to place experimental leaf pack bags in the stream. These bags were collected later to observe the macro-invertebrates and other critters caught in them back in the lab. Certain types of macro-invertebrates can be a helpful indicator species for water quality in stream ecosystems.
We congratulate Zoë L. on being chosen as our 2021 Bowdoin College Book Award recipient. She was chosen because she demonstrates:
Extraordinary Service to the Common Good and an Unusual Passion for Inquiry, Discovery, and Innovative Thinking.
Our Chemistry students had fun making colorful density columns. The stacked liquid layers stay separate because each substance has a different density from the others.
The Physics students experimented with angles and distance using this huge slingshot to calculate initial velocity.
Warren presented Jacob M with the 2021 William and Mary Leadership book award. Here is why he was chosen for this honor:
Leadership comes in many different forms. And often, we are unaware that we are being a good leader. Being a role-model, and helping your peers to succeed as well, takes a willingness to fail, to be ready at the drop of a hat to stick your neck out there, and then to improve based on those experiences. Jacob, your improving test skills are testament to that. At CHS, you’ve proven to be an amazing school ambassador as an Orientation Leader three years running. And you’ve been a core member of role-playing club, a font of wit in critiques of visual art, and, well, just relentlessly you.
Please, stay that way. And please begin a Sponge Bob and Spam appreciation society in your adult life.
And I’ll leave you all with a quote from Vonnegut, an author whose Martinian sense of humor Jacob never fails to mention in my classes.
“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”
Congratulations, Jacob!
