Campus Briefs

New Academic Building

At a faculty and staff meeting in April, Kai Bynum announced that the Board of Trustees has approved a plan to begin exploring options and opportunities that would come with the construction of a new academic building on Lakeside’s Upper School campus. The building could potentially alleviate existing pressure on lab and STEM workspaces, create more flexible rooms for humanities classes, and add spaces where students could hang out after class. Employee and student input on the new building dovetails with the timing of the strategic planning begun earlier this year (see page 6).

Young Artists

Three Lakeside art students, Sydney T. ’24, Brandon H. ’27, and Hyunwoo K. ’24, were selected for the Bellevue Arts Museum’s annual “20 Under 20” exhibition. Their work will remain on view in the museum’s Community Education Gallery until Sept. 3.

High Honors

In addition to state honors taken home by several teams and individuals in Lakeside’s athletics programs (see page 8), the school’s chess and quiz bowl teams both won state championships this past spring — in the case of the chess team, in dramatic, sudden-death fashion. Meanwhile, Lakeside has continued its increasingly dominant showing in regional and national math competitions. In sharing an update through a schoolwide email, math club coach Dean Ballard wrote, “This year we were pleased and proud to have an all-time high of ten Lakeside students reach the rarefied air of the Math Olympiad. But then, there are mountains beyond mountains. The top Olympians nationwide are invited to the Math Olympiad Summer Program, where they are treated to weeks of hard-core training for international math competitions. Alex Z. ’24 has been chosen for this year’s International Math Olympiad team, and Annabel G. ’24 and Amy C. ’26 have been invited to train for a chance to join future USA teams in the European Girls Math Olympiad.”

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