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Robotics and Collaboration: A Symbiotic Relationship
By Seung Jae (Ryan) Lee, V Form
At our Gray Colloquium Day on March 27th, we were fortunate to have Don Bossi, president of FIRST Robotics, as our morning keynote speaker. FIRST, For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, seeks to inspire young students to take an interest in robotics and encourages collaboration and cooperation. St. Mark’s has developed an intricate and intimate relationship with FIRST over the last four years. Thanks to the generous support from the school, the St. Mark’s Robotics Team with the team name Gone Fishin’ and a team number 3566 has finished its fourth season. Every year, the robotics team competes in the FIRST Robotics Competition (more…)
AP French: Capturing the Plight of the Homeless in Paris (SDF)
By Griffin Starkey, VI Form and Aly Skelly, VI Form & Mary Lane, VI Form, Anya Harter, V Form, and Riona Reeves, VI Form
From Dr. Stephen Lynch: the assignment for my AP French class was to create videos that captured the plight of the homeless (SDF = sans domicile fixe) in Paris. They could create a documentary — a journalist interviewing the homeless of Paris about their challenges and what they hoped for OR a conversation between homeless people talking about their difficult lives. We read articles about the homeless problem in France and watched and discussed YouTube videos from French news about this growing problem — the economic, human, social factors. (more…)
Seeing Is Believing: Learning to Draw in Studio I
By Barbara Putnam, Art Faculty
An Interview with Our Resident Poet
Julie Geng, V Form, Interviews Sarah McCann, English Faculty
Q: Hi Ms. McCann. Thank you for letting me interview you. To start off, could you please talk a little bit about when and how you discovered your passion for poetry?
A: Sure. I actually love words always, and my parents read to us. And we told stories to each other, and all sorts of things. But I didn’t really know anything about poetry until I was forced to write a poem in fifth grade. And it was really my teacher that opened up that territory for me because I needed that encouragement. And he wrote (more…)
A Piano Recording of Debussy’s “First Arabesque”
By Emily Brown, VI Form
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Debussy is my favorite composer. The music that he writes is original and engaging. Whenever I have the opportunity to choose the next piece that I study on the piano, I aim for his collection. I recorded Debussy’s (more…)
Presenting and Communicating STEM: St. Markers at Regional Science Fair
Article Organized and Collated by Julie Geng, V Form & STEM Fellowship ’13-’14
On the Friday before spring break, eleven St. Mark’s students in the STEM Research Fellowship class participated in the annual Worcester Regional Science Fair held at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. All eight projects were able to go on to the Massachusetts State Science Fair in May at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (more…)
“Ordered Chaos” in Port-au-Prince
By Finnegan Schick, VI Form
Stepping into ninety-degree Caribbean sunshine from a cold, New York blizzard is not unlike diving headfirst into an enormous vat of hot chocolate. First the heat covers every inch of your skin, then it fills your lungs. Within seconds you are covered head to toe in sweat, and the only sound that comes to your lips is “Waahhugh.” (more…)
Three Two-Minute Speeches About Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying
By V Formers Alex von Campe, Luke Chiasson, and William D’Angelo
Alex–
You’re at the hospital. Your mother, lying on her deathbed. She’s been sick for over a week now. The doctor went in to treat her just moments ago. He comes out, and his face says it all. The treatment didn’t work. She’s dead. Well, she was dying anyways. It wasn’t the treatment that killed her, right? She would not have lasted much longer, at least the good doctor tried. But your mother is dead and you can’t help but place some (more…)
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