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Lucy B

Lucy Wins 3 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards

The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards is a juried art competition that takes place once a year nationwide, presented by the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers. Winners are selected on the basis of originality, technical skill, and the emergence of a personal vision or voice.
At the regional level Lucy received a gold key in film and animation for her piece “The Will o Wisp” and a silver key in painting for her piece “The Old Cider Mill”.
Additionally, The Will o Wisp went on to receive a silver key at the national level! There were around 230,000 pieces entered nationally this year, and a little over 1,900 received national recognition.
As a silver medalist, Lucy will be attending this year’s New York City award ceremony virtually.
Congratulations, Lucy!!!
The Old Cider Mill

The Old Cider Mill

Olivia in Dracula

VTA 2024 Conference – Olivia L

Oliva L at 2024 VTA conferenceAt the Virginia Theater Association conference this fall, senior Olivia L attended stage combat, filmmaking, networking, and other fun actor workshops. Les helped Olivia rehearse a 60-second monologue that landed her 14 callbacks from prospective colleges, allowing her the opportunity to chat directly with professors from each college about their theater programs. She individually workshopped with professors from Christopher Newport Univerisy and Virgina Tech on her monologue, and also worked on making connections with scene partners with professors from James Madison University. She also earned two scholarship offers from Randolph College and Rowan University!
Olivia said this was
“a really useful experience for me to learn more about certain colleges and their theater programs. I connected with a lot of the professors that I met and even went on tours and attended theater major days for colleges that I was interested in at [the conference].”
Congratulations, Olivia. Well done!
Zoe at Maine Coast Semester at Chewonki

Zoë Experiences a Semester at Maine Coast Semester at Chewonki

CHS junior Zoë L. spent her fall semester at Maine Coast Semester at Chewonki, and this photo shows her enjoying a canoe trip on the Moose River!

Here is her personal reflection on the experience:

During the fall semester I had the wonderful opportunity to participate in the Maine Coast Semester Program at Chewonki. I, along with 42 juniors from across the country spent the semester learning all about the ecology of midcoast Maine. We also spent time working on the farm, camping, and exploring the woods around the school. Every week we got to practice our fieldwork skills in a different place along the coast, such as a salt marsh, and a bog. Some of my favorite parts were the field lab to Pemaquid point, the solo camping, and working on the farm after school. Even though a lot of the semester was different from past years due to covid-19, I was grateful to be able to have in person classes, and visit new places.

Sophomores, if you’re interested in learning more about Chewonki for your junior year get in touch with Meg!

Zoe at Maine Coast Semester at Chewonki
Zoe at Maine Coast Semester at Chewonki
Zoe at Maine Coast Semester at Chewonki
Zoe at Maine Coast Semester at Chewonki
Daniel C in VASTS program

Daniel Is Selected for the VASTS NASA Program

Daniel reflects on his experience here:

“During the semester-long class I learned a lot about space exploration, NASA‘s previous and upcoming projects, engineering design processes, and wrote a ton of APA essays. During the summer academy, I spent four intense days planning a long-term habitation mission to Mars with the ‘Science and Surface Operations’ team. During those days there were presentations from subject-matter experts and even an astronaut.”

The Virginia Aerospace Science and Technology Scholars (VASTS) program is an interactive on-line science, technology, engineering and mathematics learning experience, highlighted by a seven-day residential summer academy at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va.

Students selected to participate in the program are immersed in NASA-related research through interaction with scientists, engineers and technologists. The program is a partnership between the Virginia Space Grant Consortium, NASA Langley Research Center, The Commonwealth of Virginia and Industry.

QuarantZine

Student QuarantZine Publication Receives Recognition

The work of the creative QuarantZine team has received outside recognition! The first two issues of their publication were reviewed in the new issue of Asymmetrical Anti-Media, a quarterly zine that reviews dozens of other zines. Olchar has even been contacted with requests for copies. Well done!

ComMUN conference

ComMUN Team Attends AmeriMUNC Conference In Washington, DC

The ComMUN team competed against 900 other students at the conference, with some teams from as far away as Italy. Despite the jam-packed morning-and-night schedules, they received multiple awards for their performance even though it was their first time attending this conference.

CHS students Yutika P won a Verbal Commendation (4th place) in National Honduras Police, Morgan B. won Outstanding Delegate (second place) in SOCHUM for her representation of Ecuador,
Sam P. and Tallulah C. won Best Delegate (first place) for their representation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines in CARICOM!

Student Compost Bin

Compost Here!

Nature club has set up a compost bin in the school yard outside! All you have to do is put your food scraps into the stainless-steel collection bin located in the student lounge according to the instructions found here. The proper food scraps can also be placed directly into the bin if you are already outside.

D&D Stream

CHS D&D Group Streams Live

The Funkin Donuts Fairy Club, one of the Dungeon and Dragons groups from CHS, played a game live on 95.7 FM. We tuned in to hear it all unfold between the characters created by Berty A, Sam D, Brian S, Ella B, Fiona J, Sarah L, orchestrated by their Dungeon Master, Jonah C.

It was also live streamed at www.wrof-floyd.com.

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