Chagrin Falls High School senior Mitchell Chapic has been selected as the December Chagrin Valley Rotary Student of the Month.
Rotary Student of the Month
Chagrin Falls High School senior Mitchell Chapic has been selected as the December Chagrin Valley Rotary Student of the Month. Chapic was chosen based on his leadership and service qualities he has displayed in the community.
Chapic has been the recipient of several awards during his high school career. These include AP National Scholar Award, Eagle Scout Award, Ohio Seal of Biliteracy for Spanish, and High Honor Roll for ninth, 10th and 11th-grades.
In his time at CFHS, Chapic has been a member of club baseball, Boys Scouts and Order of the Arrow. He also has done 505 hours of community service. Further, he is the senior class president, the president of the Engineering Club, a Link Leader, an Extemporaneous Speaking Squad Leader, a Write Place writing intern and is on the CFHS baseball team.
Outside of school, Chapic does stock trading, welding, rocketry and has a power washing business.
His accelerated classes include Honors Geometry, Honors Algebra 2, Honors Pre-Calculus, Honors Chemistry, Honors English 10, Honors English 11, Honors Spanish 3, Honors Spanish 4, AP Physics, AP Government, AP Computer Science Principles, AP Calculus AB, AP Microeconomics, AP Macroeconomics, AP Environmental Science, and College Credit Plus English 1010.
After high school, Chapic plans to attend the University of Virginia with an undecided major within the business field.
Brackett’s Book Bistro
In celebration of Non-Fiction November, fourth-grade students at Chagrin Falls Intermediate School received formal invitations to “dine” at Brackett’s Book Bistro and have a special tasting of nonfiction books. They were so excited to see their library tables transformed with tablecloths, flowers and platters filled with delicious nonfiction books.
Students completed a five course book tasting, where they spent four minutes on each course exploring a book of their choosing. Then they rated each book on their menus.
“So many of the children found many books they loved and everyone left the library with a new book and a list of other non-fiction books they might check out in the future,” said Kristen Brackett, who teaches library at the school.
CFIS Tiny Art Show
The Chagrin Falls Intermediate School Art Club created their own “Tiny Art Show” based on a movement started by an art educator.
Art educator McKay Lanker Bayer started the “Tiny Art Show” in which she curates extremely small work by artists who are local to the area of the show. These shows are not publicized ahead of time and there are no awards for the pieces on display. They are meant to be stumbled upon and found with a sense of delight at the spontaneity of it all.
Along with the art pieces at the show, Bayer will also provide tiny cookies and tiny brochures with artist statements and information about them. Near these tiny objects and art pieces is a magnifying glass for viewing.
The Intermediate School Art Club created their own “Tiny Art Show” with very small canvases displayed on popsicle stick easels in the art room. Many other students saw the canvases and wanted to join in the movement. Post It notes were then handed out and over 100 small drawings were added to the display. The artwork can be viewed in the Intermediate School office for a limited time.
