STUDENTS SHINE BEYOND THE RED DOORS

STUDENTS SHINE BEYOND THE RED DOORS

Maggie Turner

Maggie Turner OPC '21

Maggie Turner earned four honorable mentions from the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards for two mixed media works and two paintings. A senior, Turner completed these works in AP Studio. Turner’s painting Cathedral Basilica appears in the feature about PC’s Virtual Art Show, penncharter.com/visualartshow.

Amani Rivers

Amani Rivers, Class of 2022

Amani Rivers, a junior, is a participant in the Acel Moore High School Journalism Workshop, a competitive program for students to hone their writing skills and dive into the world of journalism. Rivers’ blog post for Acel Moore, picked up by the Philadelphia Inquirer and run as an opinion piece, was well received. Titled “Wake up. Eat. Zoom. Repeat: The Daily Struggle of Virtual High School,” the post details the difficulties of virtual learning, including the toll on students’ mental health.

Michael Hartman

Michael Hartman OPC '21

Senior Michael Hartman’s documentary Potatoes, Famine & Irish Immigration was accepted into the Bridge Film Festival, a competition for high school students organized by Brooklyn Friends School. Created for his film class with Eva Kay Noone, Hartman’s film covers a historical topic, uses historical footage and employs the Ken Burns editing technique, as required by Noone’s assignment. Hartman narrated his film with a script he researched and wrote himself.

Nicole Gilbert

Nicole Gilbert, Class of 2023

Nicole Gilbert, a sophomore, earned a Gold Key in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards for her original dramatic script and is a 2021 National Silver Medalist. The work, Misconceptions, was selected based on its originality, technical skill and strength of voice. A competitive program, students’ entries undergo blind reviews by national leaders in the visual and literary arts.

Madison Brooks

Junior Madison Brooks was selected to be a member of the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association District 12 Band. Madison was selected to represent Penn Charter on the trumpet after extensive hours of practice and preparation followed by an online audition. Madison joins Nicholas Djerassi OPC ’19, Jonathan Lewis OPC ’17 and Olivia Brody-Bizar OPC ’17 as recent selections to this prestigious musical ensemble made up of students from public, private and parochial schools in southeastern Pennsylvania.