Lion's Share - September 2017

SEPTEMBER 2017| ELUL-TISHREI 5777-5778

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LION'S SHARE Juda and Maria Diener Lower School | Samuel and Henrietta Scheck Middle School | Ben Lipson Upper School

Welcome to Lion’s Share: Scheck Hillel Community School’s Grade 6-12 bulletin covering news about curriculum, college counseling and our community. Connect with the names, faces and initiatives that make Scheck Hillel a college preparatory school that develops global citizens with enduring Jewish identity and values. For more school information, please visit eHillel.org.

Students dESIGN THE FUTURE IN NEW MULTIMEDIA MAKER LAB Maker spaces provide the raw materials and environment that foster innovation and collaboration. At Scheck Hillel, the new Multimedia Maker Lab in our Berta and Isaac Berezdivin Media Center is just that space. Led by our talented faculty, students in Grades 6-12 meet here for coursework, clubs and hands-on design. By creating products at the intersection of learning in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, these students address human issues using the design process as the blueprint for innovation. Lion’s Share will keep you posted on the amazing things to come out of the new lab.

Toolkit

-Four 3D printers, for a total of 6 schoolwide -Electronics station for soldering and circuitry -Sewing station -Video production equipment -Green screen -Large-format color printer -Interactive white board -Dry erase wall -Peg wall for student maze designs -Design software

Multimedia Maker Lab Facts Total renovated space: 1000+ Sq. Ft. Who is using it?

Grade 6-12 students and their Design/ STEM & Journalism faculty Classes taught: Design/STEM, Engineering & Entrepreneurship, Journalism, Clubs, Co-Curricular Programs Faculty: Ali Baltodano, Gregory Ethridge, Sabrina Ferster, Elana Lazar, Michelle Murray, Scott Savett Upcoming projects: Cardboard creations, prosthetic arm

College Application Season Revs Up

Next up: College Counseling & Gap Year Planning Kickoff Grade 9-10 Students & Parents Wednesday, November 8, 2017 @ 7 PM Rose and Lew Goodman Beit Midrash

Scheck Hillel’s new college counseling co-directors, Cecilia Grano De Oro and Alexandra Gonzalez (l to r), hit the ground running, bringing expertise to College Application Boot Camp, parent-student workshops, and individual college guidance. The college admissions process is tailored to the unique needs of students and families, ensuring the best college fit for every member of the Class of 2018.

Q&A With Alumna Deanna Paul, ‘04, Prosecutor & Journalist Where is home at the moment?

I've been living in New York for almost ten years.

What is your current position/career? How did you come to work in this field?

For the last six years I worked as a New York City prosecutor in the Special Victims Bureau, handling child homicides, violent crimes against children and other felony crimes. Last month, however, I began attending Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

What educational path did you follow?

I received my undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and then attended Fordham University School of Law, where I am an adjunct professor of trial advocacy. I knew I wanted to build a career that merged my in-court experience with writing. Now I’m back at graduate school to do that.

What is most rewarding about the work you do?

Being a prosecutor exposed me to the worst of what people can do to strangers and to those they love. I learned that silence is rarely neutral, especially when many are either taught their voices do not matter or are kept quiet through violence, force, and threats.

The most rewarding aspect of my work has been the ability to give some of those people a voice.

What is the biggest challenge you face?

Special Victims is the only bureau where you have to prove a crime was committed because the victim’s word isn’t enough. We see people at their darkest moments and confront the crimes that jurors don't want to believe people are capable of perpetrating. And even though there are days we come back from court, close our office doors and cry a little, or feel like the system has failed, we wake up the next morning and continue to help our victims by doing the best that we can.

What is one essential academic or life skill you honed at Scheck Hillel?

As a proud theatre alumna, the list of academic and life skills I learned in the theatre program at Hillel could go on for pages! If I was forced to narrow it down to a most essential, transferrable skill, I learned time management and a hard-work ethic.

Photo courtesy of Deanna Paul

"And even though there are days we come back from court, close our office doors and cry a little, or feel like the system has failed, we wake up the next morning and continue to help our victims by doing the best that we can."

-Deanna Paul, ‘04

Read Deanna’s full Q&A at eHillel.org/alumni.

We want to hear from you! Please contact Jessica Wiznitzer, Development and Alumni Engagement Associate, with your news and accomplishments since your years at Scheck Hillel: 305.931.2831 x833, alumni@eHillel.org