School news
9th grader leads origami workshop
Ms. Piana's level I Drawing class took a break from working in 2D to take an origami workshop with 9th grader Dexter Namkung. Dex walked the students through his very own diamondback fighter design, a "simple" 26 step process! After completing at least one origami figure the students arranged them alongside found objects to create a still life to draw using soft pastels.
Recycle your plastic film for Earthbeat!
Our very own Earthbeat environmental club is participating in a NexTrex recycling program, for the purpose of recycling plastic films which would otherwise be discarded in landfills. From now up until the end of the school year, the club accepts all plastic films from ziploc bags to bubble wrap. Once our school collects 500 lbs of plastic film, it will be delivered to NexTrex and transformed into a bench. There are currently two drop-off locations in the WUHSMS school building, one in the main lobby and one next to the senior solarium. Thank you in advance for any contributions!
Skill Building for Innovation students present prototypes
Skill Building for Innovation students presented final prototypes to National Park Service staff and received feedback with offers for future internships!
Turdus migratorius: the scientific name of the American Robin, as identified by a smart birdhouse designed by Skill Building for Innovation students. They also designed a water wheel and foldable collection device to monitor and record stream water flow.
These projects were in response to challenges set forth by staff members from the National Park Service’s Northeast Temperate Network who were looking for better ways to gather and analyze data from the variety of natural resources that they monitor across eleven national parks n the Northeast. To culminate a semester-long project, students presented final prototypes to NPS staff and received feedback and offers for future internships! (Take a peek at an in-progress website for Spybird.)
WUHS students show work at AVA Gallery
The Art Department would like to congratulate several WUHS artists for having their work represented at the AVA Gallery in the upcoming annual High School Artist Show.
The students whose artwork represents our school include: Daphne McDermott, Logan Sudol, Ariana Winawer-Stein, Kyra Tarleton, Dillon Moss, Annie Hauze, Levi Halley, Delia Morgan, Kamryn Yuengling, Kiara Nestler
This is a high school invitational art show which represents many public and private high schools in our area. The art faculty nominate works by students who show exceptional promise in a variety of creative disciplines. The student work includes seven categories: Ceramics, Drawing, Multiple discipline, Painting, Photography, Sculpture and Wearable art. The awards will be chosen by artist Matt Necker.
The Awards Ceremony and Opening Reception is Friday Jan 20th, 5-7 p.m, and the show will be open until February 10th. Both the show and the ceremony are open to the public—the artwork tends to be AWESOME!
AVA Gallery and Art Center
11 Bank Street
Lebanon, NH 03766
Middle School Book Club reads Katherine Arden's Small Spaces
Tuesday was the first meeting of the Middle School Book Club! We are reading Katherine Arden's Small Spaces in preparation for her upcoming visit to our school. The publisher's note describes the book as "...a deliciously creepy and hair-raising adventure."
Prior to writing the Small Spaces quartet for middle-grade readers, Arden wrote The Bear and the Nightingale for adults which was on The New York Times bestseller list. Publishers Weekly described it as "stunning" and Booklist called it "utterly bewitching." We have Arden's debut novel in our library along with the second book in the Winternight Trilogy titled The Girl in the Tower.
The Middle School Book Club meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12:00-12:30 pm and Katerine Arden will be visiting later this month or in early February. The Young Adult Diverse Books Book Club will be meeting on January 24 at 11:00 am to discuss Black Birds in the Sky and the Faculty/Staff Book Club will be meeting on January 30 at 3:15 pm to discuss Solito: A Memoir.
If you are interested in joining any of these book clubs, please stop by the library. If you have overdue books, please return them and pick out some new titles for your winter reads.