Ms. Bomback’s fall 2022 women’s studies class attended an art installation at Hiram College titled “Women’s Rights Are Human Rights.”...
Women’s Studies Explores Art Installation
Ms. Bomback’s fall 2022 women’s studies class attended an art installation at Hiram College titled “Women’s Rights Are Human Rights.” Students explored a series of graphic design pieces that highlighted gender inequalities and acknowledged women’s roles in improving human rights for all people.
The purpose of the collection is to insight reactions in viewers and hopefully, propel them to action. Questions about societal expectations of gender and prevailing attitudes that sustain discrimination were depicted in a variety of ways and connected to cultures around the world.
Following the exhibition, students toured the fine arts building and saw what Hiram art students were currently working on. It was a thought provoking and powerful experience for students.
Multigrade Level Collaboration
Berkshire High School students enrolled in the life studies class met with Mrs. Maxwell’s kindergarten class at Berkshire Elementary School on Dec. 15. High school students Emma Czuprun and Sarah Bellieveau read the story “I Need My Monster” by Amanda Noll to the kindergarten classroom. After the book was read, the high school life studies class assisted the kindergarteners in creating an individual monster that they would like by selecting colors, shapes and details for each student. Then, the life studies students created felt monsters to match the descriptions using the kindergarten designs by cutting out felt and hand sewing them together, before stuffing them to complete the project. The life studies students have been studying child development milestones and the exercise is another aspect of the learning experience.
In addition to the project being fun, teaching skills and involving different grade levels, the life skills students took part in giving each student their creation once it was completed. The life studies class enjoyed the project and working with Mrs. Maxwell’s class. The project was a wonderful way to involve students from different grade levels within the new building.
Junior Places Second in Coding Competition
Congratulations to junior Emily Tessean on winning second place in Carnegie Mellon’s December CS Academy Creative Task contest for CS2. Emily is a student in Miss Mele’s Programming in Python II independent study class.
Carnegie Mellon’s CS Academy has several contests throughout the school year where teachers can submit their students’ creative task projects. Creative tasks allow students to design and code a program of their own choosing from scratch, focusing on concepts from the current unit along with other coding skills they learned in prior units. Emily wrote 378 lines of code in the programming language Python to create her program, Rabbit Race.
