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Grade 8 Design
By Matthew McEwen
MYP Design Teacher Students have been working on their first Design Project “Getting Organized” in which they created and printed a 3D model to help organize themselves better. Students needed to find a location or items that needed organizing or sorting at their home or in their room and design a custom product to fit their needs.
Grade 8 is
in Design Class
They researched how to use Autodesk Fusion 360 in order to learn how to create 3D models and learned about the 3D printing process. Students created their models, went through the printing, assembly and finishing process and then presented and evaluated their projects with family and peers. Students held a small exhibition in the flag pavilion to show off their design. Here’s to getting organized Grade 8s!
Middle School
Student Council Association
By Michael Wooten
Integrated Humanities Teacher
This is the first year that the middle school (Grades 6-8) has elected their own Middle School Student Council Association (MSSCA) separate from the high school Student Council. This marks a big shift for our middle school grade level representatives, as they now embark on a role in student leadership that is much more self-reliant and much less dependent on the high school students for direction. We would like to extend a big congratulations and good luck to our inaugural cohort of MSSCA representatives.
6th Grade MSSCA Representatives Elodie Hoffman Lily Woodcock Aisyah Rasyidin
7th Grade MSSCA Representattives Freya Olson Paidi Ward Laiba Shah
8th Grade MSSCA Representatives Kiara Kuwahara Dewei (David) Zhang Muhammad Shaikh
Water is
Life
By Beth Lincoln
Secondary Teacher
Tranquility, respect, and harmony are the central tenets of the Japanese tea ceremony. Tea ceremonies play an important role in the novel Memory of Water by Emma Itäranta, studied in the Grade 12 HL English Language and Literature unit, “The World Without Us”. The novel, set in a future where water is the most valued commodity, plays with ideas of tradition, ritual, and the connection between humans and their environment.
The students welcomed to their class KG teacher Mayu Suzuki, who graciously shared her mastery, matcha, and mochi as she taught us the principles, history, and function of the custom. Students learned of the importance of the purity of the water in the ceremony, an idea that permeates the novel and underscores water’s crucial role in achieving a sustainable future for our world.
