Thursday, June 20, 2013 Eighteen performers battled for supremacy during the inaugural Sunwood senior’s talent competition.
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Education
Class builds Titan A vice-principal calls a 15-foot metal project educationally sound.
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learning how to work with metal – going from using a hacksaw backwards, Harmon said – and then in the spring, they make their own projects, for example, a toolbox. by Maria Rantanen This time, the final project was one mrantanen@mrtimes.com giant piece. The students worked in groups Problem-solving, teamwork, and on different aspect of the structure, some mathematical calculations, starting with a simple concept to put combined with metal fabrication has together the final product. resulted in a giant metal Titan that Metalwork student Matt Tremblay will adorn the outside wall of Samuel said the Titan was “hard to visualize Robertson Technical Secondary in at first,” and that everyone had to Albion. The school’s metalwork class, under “pull their weight” with the project. “They’re leaving their mark on the the tutelage of teacher Ryan Harmon, school,” Harmon said about the metal was tasked with making the metal sculpture. structure after their vice-principal Not only have the students made encouraged the project-based learning a permanent piece method. “They’re leaving their that will enhance the As an example of school building, they cross-curricular learnmark on the school.” are walking away from ing, it’s an educationRyan Harmon the class with practical ally sound experience, skills that will help reported the school’s them get jobs after high school. vice-principal Adam Stanley. All the students in the class have “Kids learn more starting from a big plans to go into the trades and a idea and moving back through the handful have already been accepted details,” said Stanley, who made a into the BCIT post-secondary apprengrant available for Harmon’s class to make the giant, metal sculpture which ticeship program offered at the school. measures 15 feet in height and weighs On successful completion, the students will have the first year of their 400 pounds. Red Seal. “You are kind of tricking them into Quinn Alford, who is just comlearning,” Harmon added. pleting Grade 11, is one of these Harmon, who has been teaching at students,and he said there’s always the school for eight years but is being money and work in the trades – and redeployed to Westview Secondary it’s fun. this fall, said this project brought “It’s a fast way to make money right together so many educational eleout of high school,” Alford said. ments – problem solving, teamwork, Another student who worked on the creativity, and math, in addition to Titan, Matt Mellins, has already got a metalwork. job with a local metalwork company. Normally students spend the fall
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Ryan Harmon’s (front, right) metalwork class built a lasting monument for Samuel Robertson Technical as a class project.
Arts
Emerald Pigs hope to find home to call their own An award-winning production lost money. by Maria Rantanen
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The head of a community theatre group would like to pose the question: “What is the value of community theatre to this community?”
Sharone Malone, president of the Emerald Pig Theatrical Society, is appealing to council next week to help them find a home for community theatre. For their productions, Emerald Pig uses parks and leisure facilities as well as other public venues. But costs are rising for its rehearsal space, which
Malone, said will “be a significant barrier to community theatre.” And although The ACT is a “lovely facility,” she added, it’s not an appropriate space for small intimate productions that are done by groups like Emerald Pig. Malone said Emerald Pig needs a small standalone community theatre space,
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which could also host other events and meetings. Malone doesn’t believe this type of venue would take away from The ACT. Their recent production of Trying won several awards at the Fraser Valley Theatre BC competition this year and will be part of the provincial Mainstage competition in Kamloops this summer, but
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it still lost money, Malone pointed out. Ironically, the fundraising event for the Emerald Pigs’ trip to Kamloops will be held in Langley at the home of their sister community theatre company, the Langley Playhouse, because they can’t afford to rent space in Maple Ridge.
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