Recaps & Good News May 28, 2020
Dear SSA Community,
The last days of school at SSA revolve around important celebrations, reflections, farewells, and good wishes for the summer months. Over the course of the next week or so, students and faculty will punctuate the end of this most atypical school year through various community assemblies and gatherings, highlighted by tomorrow morning's Senior Drive-Thru Celebration at the Senior School.
Bart Griffith '93
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Senior School Service Learning Club T-Shirt Sale Raises Nearly $1,700 for Food Bank The students raised $1,693.74 by selling SSA "Together Apart" T-shirts, with all proceeds benefiting the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank. Student-Produced WSSA-TV Video Wins Regional Student Emmy Award A team of eight Senior School students won a NATAS 2020 Mid-Atlantic High School Production Award, also known as a Student Emmy, for the short-form video "Grateful for Our Teachers." Ten Seniors Honored Virtually by Fox Chapel Rotary Club The students were recognized for academics, citizenship and service, and Aaliya Aga won the Service Above Self Scholarship. Junior School Canned Food Drive and Teacher Parade Yields 75 Boxes of Donations Families were invited to drive up and drop off their donation at the school while waving hello to teachers lined up around the traffic circle. Junior School Fourth Graders Collect Seven Carloads of Donations for Humane Animal Rescue Despite distance learning, fourth graders found a way to carry on the class' annual service project to support local animal shelters. Senior Wins Morehead-Cain Full Scholarship to UNC Senior Maya Groff is the first SSA student to win the prestigious scholarship, a four-year, fully funded educational experience for students of the highest caliber at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Freshman Accepted Into All-American Model UN Program Nichole Poltinnikov will attend three of the Model UN's Virtual Summer Academies, participate in numerous conferences, and travel with the team domestically and internationally. Junior School First Grade Poetry Jam Students wrote and shared different poems they wrote via Zoom. Country Day School Second Grade Wax Museum Anne Shelby and her students re-imagined the annual Second Grade Wax Museum to be a video project this spring during distance learning. Students dressed as famous people and made videos telling their stories. Junior School Second Grade Virtual Fairy Tale Parade Second graders studied classic fairy tales and chose a character to become for the virtual video parade. Junior Completes Westinghouse Science Honors Institute The free Saturday program is for high school juniors who demonstrate a strong interest in science and engineering and who are of high scholastic standing. Senior School Glass Class Virtually Visits Pittsburgh Glass Center As part of the PGC's pilot program for next fall, SSA art students and senior school art teachers were invited to watch a live glass blowing demonstration via Zoom, which was narrated by professional glass artist, and veteran PGC instructor, Jason Forck. Senior School Virtual Music Performances The Jazz Combo, The Intonations and the Senior School Band shared virtual and socially distant performances this May. Junior School Pre-K Alphabet Parade PK students celebrated learning all of the letters of the alphabet with a celebration on Zoom. Junior School Kindergarten and Third Grade Students Share Expertise Kindergarteners published "how-to" books to share their expertise, and their third grade buddies were challenged to do the activities described in the books. Senior School and Junior School Students Learn Together Via Zoom Older and younger students have met virtually to learn and discuss topics related to science, music and more. Guest Speaker Virtually Visits Senior School Pre-Med Club to Speak About COVID-19 Dayan Alvarado, a project coordinator at FIMRC Alajuelita, a nonprofit medical clinic in urban Costa Rica, spoke about COVID-19 and its impact in developing areas.
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