Chardon High School art teacher Erik Hauber submitted a significant compilation for Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon 50th Anniversary Animated Video Competition earlier this year...
Animated “Eclipse” Music Video
Chardon High School art teacher Erik Hauber submitted a significant compilation for Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon 50th Anniversary Animated Video Competition earlier this year. The file represents months of work completed by Mr. Hauber and 16 of the school’s art students.
Students chose the Pink Floyd song “Eclipse” to develop a frame-by-frame, hand-drawn music video, which comprises 721 pencil drawings that incorporate rotoscoping techniques from reference footage of one of the art students playing the song on the bass guitar.
Mr. Hauber stated, “I’m really proud of the class — the students for sticking through this, seeing the vision and keeping that goal in mind. In my mind, I want this to be a good teaching moment that great things do come. It takes time and hard work, and it’ll pay off. Really, what it is, is a celebration of art.”
The CHS “Eclipse” video compilation, as well as a list of the student contributors, can be accessed at the news page at chardonschools.org. Winners of the global contest are expected to be announced on March 29.
Family Literacy Night
Chardon Middle School’s Family Literacy Night, hosted at the school on the evening of March 7, was jam-packed with engaging, hands-on reading and writing activities followed by a highly anticipated presentation by keynote speaker Malcolm Mitchell.
Each student received a free copy of his book “The Magician’s Hat”. Mitchell is a retired New England Patriots Super Bowl champion turned children’s book author and founder/CEO of Share the Magic Foundation. He shares his success story of rising above his literacy challenges later in life.
Community partners leading the Literacy Night activity stations included Geauga County Public Library, United Way Services of Geauga County, and Dillon Stewart, Cleveland Magazine’s editor-in-chief.
Key event organizer and CMS English language arts teacher Cher Culliton stated, “It was an amazing night seeing students enjoying all of the literacy activities throughout the building and then gathering to hear Malcolm’s message. He tossed the football around with the kids in the gym before his presentation and stayed after to sign autographs for every kid.”
Literacy Night was made financially possible by funds from the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce’s Reaching All Students Through Language and Literacy grant awarded to Chardon Schools in 2022.
Science Olympiad Advances to States
Chardon’s award-winning Science Olympiad Division B and Division C teams are holding fast to their multi-decade streak as state qualifiers. Chardon B and C teams, which collectively encompass students in grade levels 6-12, emerged from the Northeast Ohio Regional tournament at Baldwin-Wallace University on March 2 as state qualifiers.
Division B and Division C achieved fourth and seventh overall team placements, respectively, with B also earning 12 individual medals and C garnering six.
Qualifying for this year’s state tournament marks the 28th consecutive year of such attainment for Chardon Division B and the 26th year for Chardon Division C. The 2024 state competition will be held April 27 at The Ohio State University.
Congratulations to both teams and head coaches Emily Tusick and Gordon Burgess, assistant coaches and parent volunteers on their continued success.
For a full listing of Chardon recent individual placements, visit the district news page.
District Science Fair
Chardon Middle School seventh-grade student Addison Fabian participated in the Ohio Academy of Science District 5 Science Day Fair at The University of Akron on March 16 where she earned an excellent rating for her project, Molecular Gastronomy, just two points shy of a state qualification.
Molecular Gastronomy, the culmination of months of research and testing, first debuted at the CMS third annual Juried Science and Fine Arts Fair earlier this year. As a finalist in the school’s juried science event, Addi qualified to participate at the district level.
Seventh-grade science teacher Jackie Brown described Addi’s project, stating, “For Molecular Gastronomy, Addi made an alternative type of tomato-based pasta and in a blind taste test, had test subjects see if they could tell the difference between the alternate and traditional pasta. She wanted to see if there was an alternative pasta for people with gluten issues.”
