Glimpses

EIGHT STUDENTS QUALIFY FOR THE NATIONAL CYBER SCHOLARSHIP COMPETITION

Cyber Security Scholarship Competition that took place over spring

break. all-gender cybersecurity competition and only 4,760 students out of 27,000 students in the U.S. and U.S. territories made it to this level. Natasha Mertens, Zoey Mo, Adele Kelley, Alyn Panggabean out of the eight qualifying students went on to win a $2,500 scholarship for their outstanding performance.

MARA WEEKS ‘24 SERVES LOCAL SENIORS

In December 2020, Mara Weeks ‘24 proposed a community service project to help low-income senior citizens in a community called

Tres Lomas. Mara asked Speech and Debate Team members to make treats and Christmas cards for the seniors who live in Tres Lomas, many of whom do not have family nearby and speak only Spanish or Tagalog. The team enthusiastically baked treats and made Christmas cards for the folks that live in Tres Lomas.

The team organized contactless drop-off points and Mara and her mother gathered everyone’s contributions, bundled them in goodie bags and distributed them to the folks who live there.

FRESHMEN VISIT CAMPUS FOR THE FIRST TIME, SIX MONTHS INTO THE SCHOOL YEAR

six months of the school year, the class of 2024 headed up the Hill

on March 3, 2021. The girls got to see and meet not only the faculty The ninth-grade took part in some socially distanced activities such as dancing, making bracelets, decorating the front cover of journals provided by the school and snapping a picture with the school mascot.

EMILY SAM ’21 AWARDED BY NATIONAL CENTER FOR WOMEN & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Emily Sam received a National Honorable Mention Award from the National Center for Women & Information Technology for her

aspirations in computing! Asked about her interest in technology, Emily says, “Understanding technology is essential to bettering our to continue sharing and exploring technology for the progression of our future.” She was one of 400 girls being recognized on the national level out of over 4000 applicants.

JUNIOR RESEARCH STUDENTS WRITE PRAYER SERVICE AS A CLASS

Last Spring, the school held a prayer service to wrap-up the

Junior Research Project experience. The juniors each made a candle to remind them of the social justice experience they studied over the previous summer. Then as a class, they wrote a prayer service, with the theme of “Shining a Light on Injustices.” Prayers tices so that their minds and bodies would do the work to create lasting change in the world.

ENGLISH SEMINAR STUDENTS UNIQUE WAY TO STUDY OSCAR WILDE’S ETHOS AT HOME

In an effort to understand Oscar Wilde’s aesthetics and his “art for art’s sake” ethos, Ms. Wilkinson’s senior English seminar students studied the history of dandy style from eighteenth-century fops and macaronis to modern-day dandy icons like Janelle Monáe and Harry Styles and dandy adjacent movements such as zoot suiters and

Congolese sapeurs. Then, they put these principles of dress to work by assembling their own dandy ensembles. Wilde’s dandy style grew out of his devotion to the ethos of “art for art’s sake” and his belief that creating visual and verbal beauty was the highest goal in life.

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