SEVEN HILLS The Buzz

May 30, 2013

A Brief Word from Chris Garten

Inside this BuzzNine Stingers headed to college teams 2Upper School News 3Middle School News 5Lotspeich News 7Doherty News 9

Coffee House 2013 celebrates Upper arts, artists

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Over the last few weeks at Doherty, I’ve been watch-ing the progress of Unit II’s economics unit. In this simulation, students earn “dollars” by completing agreed upon classroom tasks, tracking their progress on individual spreadsheets. At the end of the unit, they can redeem their accumulated earnings, in goods or services, provided at one of three “businesses” that their classmates have designed and executed.

Each group has to create a business plan: maintaining an inventory, scheduling service clients, leasing space (in their own classrooms!), and paying for marketing and advertising.

The spreadsheet keeps students focused on exemplary classroom behaviors in the closing days of the year; the project requires students to apply their mathemati-cal skills to a business project. Pretty cool!

Chris GartenHead of School

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More Coffee House 2013!

Coffee House 2013 featured an amazing range of visual art, a slide show of DAC artists, poetry by teacher Erich Schweikher (at right), and crowd-pleasing improvs by several Upper School actors.

Congratulations to members of the Class of 2013 who committed to play sports in college: (at left) Rachel White, who will play volleyball for Hope College; Jasmine Cline-Bailey, who will play volley-ball for Centre College; Ellen Coombe, who will play squash for Williams College; Carly Harten, who will swim for Hamilton College; John Larkin, who will play tennis for Swarthmore College; Henry Head, who will play soccer for Claremont McKenna College; Brandon Malofsky, who will play baseball for Worcester Polytechnic Institute; and (above at center, pictured with his parents) Pauley Gosiger, who will play golf for University of the South/Sewanee. Zoë Pochobradsky (above at right) signed last year as a junior to play soccer for Div. I Rice University.

Nine Stingers headed to college teams

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A look at what’s happening at Upper SchoolSee page 5 for Middle School, page 7 for Lotspeich, and page 9 for Doherty

National French Contest 2012

Students shared poetry during a Poetry Slam, sponsored by Paper Noise, during lunch on the deck on May 17. Readers included ninth grad-ers Nia Page (left) and Kate Coley.

Congratulations, National Spanish Exam honorees

Gold Medals (95th percentile or above)Level 2Ben Chung (97)Kate Coley (95) Level 3Ellie Pasquale (99)Alayna Choo (96)Holly O´Neal (95)

Level 4Miguel Alemany—2nd in the StateAndrew Ligeralde (99)—3rd in the StateRoshni Bagli (98)

Bilingual categoryMiguel Alemany—2nd in the Ohio Buckeye Chapter

Bronze Medals (75th-84th percentile)Level 2Joanne Li (83)James Scheurer (76)

Level 3Adam Buford (81)George Karamanoukian (81)Nicole Malofsky (78)

Level 4 Zach Abraham (81)

Honorable Mention (50th-74th percentile)Level 1 Jared FisherMike NazzaroSteven PaulClaire Stewart

Silver Medals (85th-94th percentile)Level 1Chas Gregory (85)

Level 2Anqui Li (92)Brandi Bryson (89)Andrei Savu (89)Tziporah Serota (87)

Level 3Arjun Dheenan (87)Stefan Antonsson (85)

Level 4Marissa Steele (93)—2nd in the StateMiguel Alemany (91) Caroline Linne (85)

Jeff WelchLeigh Wilger

Level 2 Anna DavisStuart EdwardsElliot GlumClaire PiorkowskiDavid Morad

Level 3 Chris ShoemakerClarke WaskowitzTessa Woodall

Level 4 Devin GarrettTess Renusch

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For the latest Upper School news, check out the online student publication, Canvass, at

http://7hillscanvass.org/.

Outstanding Spring Concerts!

Congratulations to Upper and Middle Music Directors John Rising and Tina Groom, choral accompanist Lynne Miller, and their talented musicians!

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A look at what’s happening at Middle School

In February several Middle Schoolers par-ticipated in the Math-ematical Association of America’s (MAA) American Mathematics Competition (AMC) de-signed for high school students. Seventh grad-

er Michael Barresi and eighth grader Matisse Peppet have both been awarded Certificates of Achievement for their scores of 90 or above on the AMC 10. This is the test that ninth and tenth graders take. Congratulations!

Our thanks to Thomas Kilcoyne for shar-ing this great news about daughter eighth grader Rosie: “Since tennis ended in October, Rosie has been rowing six days a week with the CJRC (Cincinnati Junior Rowing Club), a high school rowing club, so she was allowed to start a year early. First-year rowers are novices, so up to two

weekends ago, Rosie rowed novice eights and/or fours. Her boats included high school students up to a senior. All first-year rowers. Over four or five regattas, they were undefeated. “The weekend of May 18–19 was the Midwestern Championships hosted by the CJRC at East Fork Lake. Teams from all over—St. Louis, Minnesota, Chicago, Wisconsin, Detroit—400+ kids, 31 clubs, 27 cities, 10 states. Certain varsity boats could advance to the na-tionals June 7-10 in Tennessee.

“Rosie beat out at least one high school rower to row on the Varsity Light Weight Eight in the Midwest. Rosie rowed seat five. Seats five, six, and seven are consid-ered the engine, for the strongest rowers in the boat.They won their heat Saturday by a half boat length. They won Sunday by two-tenths of a second. They quali-fied for Nationals.”

Level 1 (Eighth grade)Ohio and National ranking Andres Antonsson 1 perfect score Callie Jacks 2 Charlie Goldsmith 3 Rosie Kilcoyne 4 Emily McLennan 6 Wil Morriss 7 Elizabeth Bohinski 8 Alex Halonen 10 Grace Greenwald 10

Ohio ranking Harper Duncan 14 Vaibhav Vagal 12 Anjali Gupta 12

Level 01 (Seventh grade)Ohio and National ranking Alex Kreines 5, 13 Ohio ranking Garrett Reich 13 Curtis Sun 14

Top rankings on National French Contest

Hair Fair 2013!

Our thanks to the students and teachers who par-ticipated in Hair Fair 2013, benefiting Locks of Love and Pantene Beautiful Lengths: Emily McLennan, Kelly Pan, Abby Smith, Mary Grace Ramsay, Juliana Yip-Ono, Piper Spooner, Leanna Yuan,

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Hair Fair 2013 continued from page 5

Ellie Pasquale, Abigail Clark, Danielle Toms, Delaney Ra-gusa, Emily Waskowitz, Tziporah Serota, Amisha Mittal, Annabel Stanley, Nora Donovan, Danielle Necessary, Carri Haskins, Kristina O’Connor, and Theresa Keller. The volunteers had their long hair cut to donate to Locks of Love, an organization that creates hair prosthetics for financially-disadvantaged children who suffer from long-term medical hair loss, and to Pantene Beautiful Lengths, which provided free, real-hair wigs for women with cancer. The very successful event is organized each year by teacher Theresa Keller. Our thanks to volunteer stylists Michelle Beamer and Team from Identity Salons.

Middle School musicians shine at Instrumental, Choral Spring Concerts!

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A look at what’s happening at Lotspeich

Kindergarten teacher Karen Martin said, “One of my favorite activities is the unit on Greek Gods and Goddesses. Children at this age are very interested in the pop culture superheroes. It is fascinating to present to them the ‘original’ superheroes. The unit focuses on the Olympian gods and goddesses with stories, pictures, art projects and many activities that involve all the senses (even tasting a variety of olives in honor of Athena’s gift of the olive tree!). All aspects of the kindergarten curriculum are inte-grated into this unit: language arts, geography, history, science, and math. The unit culminates with the children dressing up as deities, walking in a procession and presenting their information to their school colleagues, faculty and staff, and sharing their excitement and knowledge during a feast shared with their parents.”

On the annual Japan and China Day, second graders performed songs and folktales from Japan and China, one entitled Momatoro, Peach Boy, and the other called The Bright Pearl. Earlier in the day, students participated in an origami workshop with the help of parent volunteers. This, along with the Japan and China Webquest project pre-sentations, culminates second grade’s study of the two countries.

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The fifth grade musical, Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears, A West African Folktale, was a total delight and showcased the students’ talents in the arts. They sang, acted, danced, and played Orff instruments. Each animal group designed its own choreography—all before a back-drop of beautiful artwork by students in all grades. Congratulations to the fifth graders and their teachers!

It was a great hands-on learning experience for the fifth graders, when they traveled to Dearborn, MI, to Greenfield Village and the Henry Ford Museum. This is the 74th year for the Lotspeich trip to Dearborn!

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A look at what’s happening at Doherty

Regina Daily’s math students created a fun and challeng-ing Estima-tion Carni-val for all students.

The fourth graders visited the Wright Dunbar Interpre-tive Center in Dayton. They had to scavenger hunt through the center museum where they learned about the personal histories of Paul Dunbar and the Wright Family. Looking at the displays in the bicycle shop helped the students understand how the Wright broth-ers conceived the idea of building a flying machine. A visit to the Wright family home site concluded with a walk through the historic neighborhood. The students were also excited to see the replica of the Wright flyer and asked the rangers many questions.

The fifth graders spent an informative morning at the National Underground Rail-road Freedom Center. The students visited the Stephen Marcs exhibit entitled, ”Pas-sage on the Underground Railroad.” Through this cre-atively-presented exhibit and a cooperative learning activ-ity, they got an insight into the places and people of the Underground Railroad, especially those in Ohio.

Students in the After the Bell Enrichment Program’s Robotics class tested their robotics and presented demonstrations for par-ents. The class was taught by U.C. Professor Dr. Mike Richardson. The students’ robots had two sensors that guided them on the course. Dr. Richardson said, “It is harder to program a robot with only two sensors.” The students also installed the pro-gram on their robots. In the future, Dr. Richardson plans to teach a robot programing class as well as a robot building class.

Third graders enjoyed a wonder-ful trip to Findlay Market and the Urban Garden where they had the opportunity to lend a hand in the garden as part of their community service.

Beginnings students enjoy the new ECO Garden and release of but-terflies.

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Sarah Roberts’ second and third graders performed two plays, The Emperor’s New Hair and The Tale of the Unhoppy Bunny, for their classmates and parents to rave reviews. Congratulations!

Pre-Kindergarten Mini Pig 2013!

Just a glimpse of the fun in P.E. on Doherty’s annual Olympic Day