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Letter from Superintendent
Nossa Graded. Our Graded. This is the title of this year’s yearbook- a short, simple, yet powerful phrase that exemplifies the collective ownership of the Graded Experience. Whereas some students around the world simply indicate that they “go to a school where they take advanced Chemistry” or they “study at a school which is known for its sports program” or they “attend a school with a great arts department”... Graded students tend to use the possessive ‘our’ to endearingly describe their experience at school. Rather than ‘go to, study at, attend’, the learning journey at Graded is described with much more emotional attachment and ownership. It is ours, constructively created by all and sustained by everyone involved - students, parents, teachers, staff, and other community members. One gets out of Graded what one puts into it.
Board of Directors Roberto Sallouti - President Marvin Boakye - Vice-President Renato Ochman - Secretary Luiz Claudio Galeazzi - Treasurer Monica Boudaye Della Nina Fabio Coelho Lee Fertig - Ex-Officio Ana Cabral Gardner Paige Geiger Dennis Hankins Rodolpho Protasio Johann Mathias von Bernuth
“It is not enough to simply listen to student voice. Educators have an ethical imperative to do something with students, and that is why meaningful student involvement is vital to school improvement.”
And there is no better way to capture this collective student voice than through language and images generated directly by students. This is what Nossa Graded sets out to do... it is a journey of the 2014-15 Graded Experience through student-generated words, notes, images, and graffiti. Nossa Graded reflects student voice at its best. It informs the rest of us what is most meaningful and valued by our students.
“And you, of the tender years, can’t know the fears that your elders grew by... and so please, help them with your youth, they seek the truth...” - Graham Nash Our students, our school, Nossa Graded ! Abraços, Lee Fertig
Superintendent
- Adam Fletcher
Fer d’Andrade Fotografia Jennifer Gadsden-Carpenter Karin Gunn Lucinha Ariani Paulo Ito Photo Club members
Art by
High School Visual Art students Lower & Middle School doodlers Photo I students Cover art inspired by: Simon dos Santos’s design
Editor’s Letter
special thanks
The Graded Yearbook has been a publication that many students wait for anxiously year after year. The process starts with a selection of theme and design, continues with the creative and building process, and finishes with hours of revision to make sure our pages are ready for the community. When this year’s staff began to conceptualize, we realized that our purpose was to make a collection of memories that anyone could revisit and treasure. With this perspective, the staff designed an interactive, creative yearbook full of memories and personal jokes that everyone could connect to. By using student made doodles and graffiti, as well as stories told by faculty and students, we were able to put together a book that holds a lot of personality and one that you will hopefully have fun with. The 2014-2015 yearbook is brought to you by a hardworking staff that spent months debating the colors, fonts, and drawings that were incorporated into these pages and whom I was honored to work with. A lot of time was spent working on a publication that we hope you will all enjoy, connect to and keep forever. I certainly will.
This time, the yearbook had an even greater importance to me, as it is the last one that I will be contributing to as an editor, as a student, and as a reader. With that in mind, I strived to help create a book that the Graded community would remember and cherish for a long time. The idea of including memories and jokes this year was a meaningful step towards making the yearbooks more personal and relatable. As a Graded Lifer, having been at this school for 12 years, I know I will refer to this book in the future and be able to look back at all my time spent here. Finally, I want to thank all of the talented art students who provided amazing doodles for us to use and helped us make this book successful. We hope you enjoy reading through these pages as much as we have enjoyed making them for you! Thank you, Fernanda Fiszner
Editor-in-Chief
Yearbook STaff
Yearbook Staff
Fe fiszner :: Editor-in-chief Likes: cats, #7, chick flicks, feel good tea, dance shows, chocolate, chocolate and chocolate Dislikes: the color orange, spiders, papaya, goodbyes, #7, coriander and low battery
Marta Jorda Garcia :: High School Editor Likes: traveling, pavé, weekends, minions, mangos, my bed and hugs Dislikes: airplanes, selfies in public, waking up early and mondays
“Worry about things that matter.”
“Ma, calm down, there are still four minutes left”.
Sam Fertig :: Content Editor Likes: bears, music, pumpkin pie and bears playing music at Thanksgiving dinners Dislikes: spiders, Devan, pollution and people with strong work ethics
Cesca Civita :: Senior Editor Likes: brigadeiro, the o.c., rollercoasters, goofy people, online shopping, hot showers, sleeping and tanning Dislikes: waking up at 7am, high heels, clowns, unfaithfulness, peanuts and numbers
“I’m very narrow-minded towards my open-mindedness. Deal with it, but only if you want to.”
“Live, love, laugh.”
Sarah Santiago :: Art & Design Editor Likes: singing, watching trash TV, churrasco on sundays, hot soccer players e um sertanas de lei Dislikes: Esther Choe, mangoes, skittles, maple syrup and raisin cookies that look like chocolate chip cookies
Gabriela Lati :: Activities Editor Likes: food, elephants, friends, snowboarding, Miami, LA, talking, drawing and buying clothes Dislikes: summatives, sushi, shouting, homework and being interrupted
“I’m trying to set the world record for grooving.”
“What? Was it due today?”
Vivian Aidukaitis :: Photo Editor Likes: Ashlyn Farnes, Grey’s Anatomy, Watching GA with Misaki and giving Misaki spoils about GA Dislikes: deaths in GA, Cristina Yang leaving GA and when none of my friends have seen the latest GA
Marcela Riechert :: Activities Editor Likes: movies, food, vacation, beach, skiing, Angra, New York, shopping and festivals Dislikes: reading boring books, tests, Veracross and fake people
“Should I sleep or should I shower? I could sleep in the shower. But I’m also starving.” - Cristina Yang
“Bii, the summative is due tomorrow! Facetime AGORA!”
Ma Rodrigues :: Faculty & Staff Editor Likes: Rio, watching FRIENDS, family reunions, supermarkets and carnaval Dislikes: commercials, formatives, volume of the TV on an odd number and diets
Tibet Alptekin :: Arts & Events Editor Likes: Beyoncé, my friends, American Horror Story, meeting new people and tumblr Dislikes: the color green, exercising, going to bed early, thinking about my future and blood
“We have to go to class, we ‘re going to be late!”
“Be confident in who you are and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.”
Esther Choe :: Lower School + Art & Design Editor Likes: my phone, weekends, traveling, TWD, waking up before alarm goes off and getting to sleep more Dislikes: Sarah Santiago, no wifi, waking up early, cucumber, summatives and school after a long weekend
Devan Gardner :: Sports Editor Likes: sports, music, sushi and almost everyone Dislikes: boats and Sam
“You can’t be sad when you are holding a cupcake.”
“Life is just so much easier when you just chill out.”
Dani Serwaczak :: Middle School Editor Likes: gymnastics, TV shows, my phone, netflix and wifi Dislikes: school on a monday, running around the track and tests
Lu Barbosa :: Advisor + Art Director Likes: smiles, grins, giggles, laughs, chuckles, eye to eye, a good dose of imagination and lots of love Dislikes: hypocrisy, frantic consumerism, stereotypes and ego trips
“If getting addicted to TV shows was an actual condition, I would be the first to be diagnosed with it.”
“Creativity is a way of knowing. Connect, free yourself and enjoy what the universe has to offer you.”
Table of Contents 014 Faculty & Staff 016 Faculty & Staff Headshots 028 Back In The Day 030 Teacher Farewells
042 Lower School 044 Pre-primary 056 Grade 1 062 Grade 2 068 Grade 3 074 Grade 4 080 Grade 5 086 Middle School 086 Grade 6 094 Grade 7 100 Grade 8 106 High school 108 Grade 9 114 Grade 10 120 Grade 11 126 Seniors 128 Grade 12 134 Senior Baby Pictures 138 Senior Wills, Parent Dedications & Superlatives
216 Activities 218 Ardusat 218 Baking For All 219 Bricks For Community 219 Cancer Shelter 220 CBT 220 Community Service Learning 221 Day Care 221 Debate Group 222 Do Something 222 Drama Club 223 Elderly Home 223 FALA 224 Film Club 224 GAA 225 Gastronomy 4 Geeks 225 GBC 226 GEE 226 GIN 227 GMT 227 Go Green 228 Graded Coding Academy 228 GradedLive 229 Gradio 229 GSC 230 HACIA 230 Harmony 231 Ilha do Cardoso 231 Knowledge Bowl 232 LAFF 232 Lê Comigo 233 LS Leadership 233 Math Club 234 Math Counts 234 MUN Middle School 235 MUN High School 235 PGC 236 Photo Club 236 SAB 237 Sister School 237 Speak Up 238 Student Voice 238 The Talon
240 Sports 242 JV Basketball Boys & Girls 243 JV Futsal Boys & Girls 244 JV Soccer Boys & Girls 245 JV Volleyball Boys & Girls 246 Little 8 248 Varsity/JV Cheerleading Sem 1 249 Varsity/JV Cheerleading Sem 2 250 Varsity Basketball Boys 251 Varsity Basketball Girls 252 Varsity Futsal Boys 253 Varsity Futsal Girls 254 Varsity Soccer Boys 255 Varsity Soccer Girls 256 Varsity Softball Boys 257 Varsity Softball Girls 258 Varsity Volleyball Boys 259 Varsity Volleyball Girls 260 Big 4 261 SALT 262 Big 8
264 Arts & Events 266 LS Holiday Concert 267 Band :: Trip & Jazz Festival 268 Choir :: AMIS & Orlando 269 Strings :: Festival & AMIS 270 Graded Voices 272 Pride & Prejudice 273 School House Rock! Live 274 The Butler 275 The NSA’s Guide to Winning Friends and Influencing People 276 K-12 Art Exhibition 277 Artist in Residence :: Paulo Ito 278 Battle of the Books 280 Celebration of the World 282 Destination Imagination 283 Feira do Livro 284 Grade 1 :: Sleepover 285 Grade 2 :: Toca da Raposa & Pullman 286 Grade 3 :: Burle Marx & Museu da Imigração 287 Grade 4 :: Carroção 288 Grade 5 :: Tietê Trip 289 Grade 6 :: São Luiz do Paraitinga 290 Grade 7 :: Petar 291 Grade 8 :: Minas Gerais 292 Grade 9 :: Foz do Iguaçu 293 Grade 10 :: Bahia 294 Grade 11 :: Amazônia, Paraty, Diving & Patagonia 296 Grade 12 :: Recife 297 Guest Speakers 298 Halloween Benefit Bash 300 Innovate Conference 301 Poetry Recitation 302 MS Dance 303 MS Rollercoaster Project 304 Semana da Patria 305 Teacher Appreciation Week 306 Thanksgiving 308 Wacky Week 310 Zombie Zoo
“When someone falls asleep in my class I wake them up with loud music on their ear.”
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- Jennifer Kagohara
“Something kind of funny about me is that I can’t tell jokes in a funny way no matter how hard I try. I think people actually laugh because of how awkward I look in my effort to make the joke sound funny!” - Aleixo Guedes
FACULTY & sTAFF
K3
K3
Alexia Filgueiras
Antonella Vidigal
Benjamin Calheiros
Claire Couri
Cordelia Juarez De Zamacona
Emilia Contrini Trevino
Felipe Platero Margaride
Felipe Jório Salgado Gama
Gabriella Munoz
Helena Pierry
Isabelle Chang
Josefina Gonzalez del Solar
Valentina Verdi
Yasmin Ting
Yuri Kulikowsky
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Laura Waddington
Nina Ommundsen
Lucas Lorch
Olivia Pierry
Marcos Gonzalez del Solar
Paulo Sérgio Zoppei
Mariana Loures Vale
Pedro Tannuri
Melissa Klabin Ongaratto
Pedro Jório Salgado Gama
Michel Sallouti
Samuel Bernal
“I like swinging on the playground with my friends, because we both can go really high.” - João Hopp
“And I like swinging with João”. - Alexandre Chang
Sandia Oksness
Sebastian Montagna
Stefano Argalas
Stella Filizola
Tarsila Lima
Thomas Lynch
Grade 11
Grade 11
Nicholas Goldlust
Nicholas Householder
Nicholas Regen
Nicolas Raney
Nicole Averbach
Nicole Greco
Nina Mayer de Paulo
Olivia Tavares Paes
Pablo Saller
Pedro Hannud
Pedro Rodrigues
Pedro Salles Leite
“Demanding but rewarding.� - Bruno Riguzzi
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Pedro Werebe
Peter Chao
Pierella Abdon
Priscila Santos
Rafael Wurzmann
Ritvika Sharma
Rodrigo Ko
Sabrina Kim
Sarah Bastos
Simon Chamorro Ramirez
Tamima Mourad
Tatiana Bezerra
Thomas Dreyer
Vaughn Gardner
Victoria Fernandes
Vitor Resende
Walter Hoelz
Yoji Watanabe
“The best excuse for being late is ‘I thought I was going to skip class, but then I realized I had a question about my IA...’”
“The style for this year was havaiana, short de futebol e camisa do São Paulo.” - Guilherme Pires
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SENIORs
Do something
Elderly Home
TOP: Anoushka Gandhi, Catalina Berretta, Mi Jin Kim, Michael Borger, Nicole Greco, Amanda Johansson, Lucas Ahn, Celie Ahn and Faria Nasruddin MIDDLE: Priscilla Santos, Carol Kim, Sarah Bastos and Sabrina Kim BOTTOM: Carla Hidalgo, Ana Sofia Thomas Ibarra, Katarina Hildebrandt, Daniela Serwaczak and Lucas Valim MISSING: Isabella Shim, Celie Ahn, Daniel Sneyers, Akari Esaka, Luana Tone, Luiz Wolfrid, Mitch Herr, Shruthi Raj and Sylvia Yang
“The Do Something club at Graded is currently in its second year and running strong. It has over twenty-five members, working on three different projects. We’ve worked on two main projects in the past: the ‘R U OK?’ Day first semester and the Lower School Toy Drive second. The “R U OK?” Day was great, with over 110 candy grams sold while the LS Toy Drive was astonishingly successful, thanks for the contributions and participation from Lower School students.” - Michael Borger, The Talon
TOP: Julia Pontes, Julia Saliba, Rafael Regis, Cris Mateus and Guillermo Loyola Ruiz BOTTOM: Alan Garcia Ramos Hochman, Marta Jorda Garcia, Bianca Marinkovic and Angela Garcia MISSING: Gabriel Reg and Laura Gibs
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“As the years went by we started working much more and bonded as a group.” - Tibet Alptekin
“Warning: we are prone to spontaneous singing, dancing, and acting.”
“The students loved to use what they have learned in class, and to have the opportunity to have “gently used” clothes, shoes, home utensils, all for a very good price. To those who donated items, the whole FALA community gives their thanks.” - Julia Marangoni, The Talon
FALA
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- ELiza Knode
TOP: Tibet Alptekin, Beatriz Amorosino and Josefina Perez Jimenez MIDDLE: Benjamin Debrosse, Mitch Herr and Eliza Knode BOTTOM: Allyson Milner, Bruna Piccin and Luana Tone MISSING: Liora Weisz
“Drama club isn’t just any club, it’s for special people, it’s for us.” - Beatriz Amorosino
TOP: Gu Hong Min, Min Kyung Shin, Michael Borger, Maria Isabel Guinle, Beatrice Lorencatto, Tatiana Curiati, Susie Park, Hyelin Lee, Hee Jun Yang, Kyu Yeon Shim, Andrew Chiang, Luis Wolfrid, Franco Torres and Hyo Sang Kil BOTTOM: Melanie de La Paz, Paulina Martinez, Dana Zamat, Faria Nasruddin, Hyun Jin Lee, Thiago Lee, Yejin On, Julia Lee, Fernanda Sayão, Julia Marangoni, Sabrina Carneiro, Julia Rodrigues and Seo Hyun Cho MISSING: Alex T
Varsity SOCCER Boys
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TOP: Ricardo Vieira (coach), Frederico Pires, Nicholas Regen, Michael Thomas, Lucca Della Libera, Lucas Espanha, Pietro Cavalcanti, Carlos Lopez, Matheus Abizaid, Guilherme Pires and Aldo Petrolino (coach) ~ BOTTOM: Franco Torres, Henrique Souza, Luca Seripieri, Luis Felipe Santos, Daniel Castano, Gabriel Andrade, João Ferraz, Leonardo Kim and Miguel Diaz
Coach
Captain
Varsity SOCCER Girls
TOP: Kristen O’Connor (coach), Giovana Mendes, Vivian Aidukaitis, Celie Ahn, Marielotte Van Ballegooijen, Catalina Berretta, Victoria Lutfalla, Ida Johansson, Mayu Kawahara, Julia Marangoni, Amanda Sue, Piper Conway, Enrico Pasquini (coach) and Andrea Laughlin BOTTOM: Fernanda Garcia, Mi Jin Kim, Sabrina Kim, Delfina Marin, Isabella Dias, Ashlyn Farnes, Isabelle Chang, Mariana Delacqua, Yejin On, Samantha Gistren, Dana Zamat and Maxine Peterson
MVP
Coach
“Gente, tem uma borboleta enorme aqui!”
“#IOGURT”
Captain
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Grade 3 :: burle marx & museu da imigração
Grade 4 :: Carroção
“I liked that I was able to see different animals that I have never seen before.” - Eduardo Choe 286
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“We liked the Indiana Jones since it was very misterious and interesting, since we really thought that the walls were going to close on us!” - Aislinn Marrón, Beatriz Vieira, Lara Siburu Poirier & Aakanksha Verma
“I liked that there were a lot of different activities and they were all very adventurous.” - Lani Goyert
MS Dance
MS Rollercoaster Project
“It was amazing, great music, and amazingly adapted to the theme.” - Guadalupe Perez Jimenez 302
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“It was fun to work with others and get to learn science in a new way.” - Juan Carlos Thomas Ibarra
“Inspite all the struggles, it was very fulfilling to see the results at the end.” - Clara Miranda
Wacky Week
WACKY Week
“People looked ridiculous. That was weird. LMA.” - Devan Gardner 308
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“I wore black on Wacky Week, it matched the color of my soul.” - Saniya Joshi
“It finally gave Lucile the excuse to dress up as a minion and paint herself yellow.” - Melanie De La Paz
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