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Fall 2022 Community Service Day
Our Fall Community Service Day covered a lot of ground. Our students took walking tours exploring the area’s non-profit agencies close to campus, many of which we have served as volunteers in the past. Students and faculty also rolled up their sleeves and side by side cleaned, planted, and freshened up our campus inside and […]
Post PSAT Gathering
After filling in all of those circles, our freshmen, sophomores, and juniors had a chance to blow off some steam snacking, volleying, chalking, and just chilling out together in the yard.
French Virtual Exchange
Our French students met online with the English class of Louise Lestavel at Lycée Professionnel Saint Joseph, in Bucquoy, France. They took time to practice in each group’s target language asking questions and getting to know each other. Louise and Sebastian are planning meet-ups with varied formats for the two groups throughout the school year.
Velocity Shots
The Physics class had the giant sling shot out again! They first calculated the base velocity of the sling shot, and then used that data to determine which angle they needed to launch the ball to hit their target at varying distances. It was a perfect day for an outdoor experiment.
Identifying Microbes
Astrobiology students studied the characteristics of life by trying to grow microbes from about a dozen different environments including pond water, yogurt, bread mold, and yeast. Dr. Ken Sosnowski, a retired microbiologist, came in to help the class identify what they grew.
Field Trip to the New Environment Center
The Roanoke Field Studies class visited Roanoke College’s new Environment Center on their most recent field trip. They are working with Dr. Rachel Collins in the Biology department to learn how to identify tree species using dichotomous keys. Students will return to the site in two weeks to collect data on 100 trees in a […]
Ebelin and Her Leadership Workshop Team Earns 1st Place
Ebelin R reflects on her summer experience: The Latinx Leadership Academy (LLA) provided me with the experience of meeting so many wonderful people from around the state of Virginia who, like me, are also first generation college bound students of immigrant parents. I also got to meet many different people of latinx ethnicity, and we […]
CHS Students Attend the Community Remembrance Project Event
In 1893, Thomas Smith was brutally lynched in Roanoke. The events surrounding his killing are unusual; the city briefly descended into near civil war between defenders of the rule of law and bigoted vigilantes, and the chaos that ensued became international news. It was the most violent day in Roanoke’s history. Yet, while remarkable, […]
Geologic Time
Students in Roanoke Field Studies took advantage of a beautiful day to work on the creation of materials and lesson plans to teach the concept of geologic time to younger students. They made a rope timeline to symbolize the age of the earth, and plotted out when certain events occurred – such as the creation […]
Meet Our New Band Leader
Meet our new band leader, Brian Mesko. Born into a family of musicians in Little Rock, AR, Brian mastered rhythm section instruments and has been gigging since age 14. Prog rock influences led him to discover fusion and then jazz, for which he developed the strongest passion for and settled on guitar as his primary […]