Qualifiers for St. Anselm School seventh- and eighth-graders participated in the annual Power of the Pen in January at Lake Erie College.
Power of the Pen
Qualifiers for St. Anselm School seventh- and eighth-graders participated in the annual Power of the Pen in January at Lake Erie College. Working both as individual writers and collectively as a team, students were critiqued by three judges in three rounds of writing.
Provided with an open prompt, the students had a limited time to compose a piece of writing showcasing their creative ideas, expression and composition as a whole.
Game Growers
St. Anselm students Emese Karetka and Shannon Shea participated in Game Growers, a NIKE and WNBA sponsored competition open to teams of two eighth-grade girls who wish to raise participation by females in sports. Under the motto, “girls who move, move the world,” Game Growers encourages girls to collaborate in their exploration and plan for inspiring females to participate in athletic programs as well as examine gender equity in sports. Emese and Shannon were recognized for their passion to extinguish barriers in participatory athletic programs and their creative plans to make a difference.
Makers and Bakers
Students became “makers” in a three-for-one manner in January. Using software design, they developed their own cookie cutters, which they printed on 3D printers. From there, they worked collaboratively in the school kitchen to bake cookies from their designs, which were showcased, along with their cutters, at the school open house. During the open house, guests “made” their cookie in the Makerspace, where they had the opportunity to select the design they wanted, add frosting, sprinkles and/or colorful sugar toppings.
