On Tuesday, March 12, 150 MLWGS seniors attended a matinee performance of a theatrical adaptation of Pride and Prejudice at the Quill Theatre at the VMFA. The MLWGS Foundation provided a grant of $1000 to offset the cost of tickets for every student.
On Monday, January 28, twelve of Mr. Benesh's math modeling students will be participating in the Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications' Mathematical Contest in Modeling. This is a college-level competition that will include about 20,000 teams competing worldwide. A grant from the MLWGS Foundation covered the registration fees for all students participating. We'll be rooting for them!
Dr. Christine Anderson was kind enough to write up the following report from the Women & Gender Studies Conference at GMU for us. A grant from the Foundation covered the cost of bus transportation for all students attending. "I just wanted to let you know how well our students performed at the Women & Gender Studies Conference at George Mason University on November 16, 2018. The theme of the conference was the “ Politics of Gender &
A grant from the Foundation covered the cost of bus transportation for Dr. Anderson's students to attend the Politics of Gender & Justice Conference at GMU. Here's more information about the field trip the school's blog: "On November 16th, MLWGS’s Dr. Christine Anderson took students from her Gender, Politics & Consumerism in a Global Context VCU/Dual Enrollment class and other select students to a one-day conference at George Mason University. At the conference, hosted by the Women and Gender
Sometimes our enhancement grants pay for 3-D printers, and sometimes they pay for a nice bunch of pizzas. The Foundation provided a grant to cover lunch for summer booster camp students so that they could have a chance to reconnect with each other and check in with the faculty members who run the camp for incoming MLWGS freshmen. We raise a slice to all of our annual fund donors who helped make these pies possible!
MLWGS welcomed three great new music teachers in the 2018-19 school year. One of those teachers is Michelle Graham, who is teaching chorus. Michelle requested a Foundation grant to cover the cost of a subscription to SightReadingFactory.com in order to enhance her instruction. "I can generate sight reading exercises at SightReadingFactory.com that are aligned with the VCDA ensemble assessment criteria as well as the Virginia All-State Choir audition!" Michelle says. "Sight Reading Factory took great
One of the things that makes MLWGS a unique place to learn is the foreign language class offerings. As technology changes, language instruction changes as well. In 2016-17, the Foundation purchased 32 webcams to facilitate online exchange programs that pair native speakers of various languages with MWLGS students to cultivate conversational skills. This year, Chinese teacher Sharon Meng applied for an enhancement grant to purchase a subscription The Chairman's Bao, an online resource for Chinese language learners.
MLWGS welcomed three great new music teachers in the 2018-19 school year. Nicholas Merillat is teaching Jazz Band, while Michelle Graham takes on Chorus, and Christina Sienkiewicz, Orchestra. The Foundation purchased software requested for shared use to aid in their instruction. PhotoScore & NotateMe covert music handwritten on a surface or laptop into digital scores. It can also read, transpose, and extract parts from handwritten music or PDFs. The Foundation also purchased Sibelius, a software program used to create and edit musical scores. Sibelius
Diverse and unique course offerings are part of what make MLWGS such an exceptional place to learn. One great example of this is the photojournalism senior seminar offered by Georgianne Stinnett. Ms. Stinnett developed this course to instruct students in the technical aspects of capturing photojournalistic images, the history and ethics of the field, and to allow them to interact with contemporary photojournalists. Students both prepare a portfolio and present a topic of research. Past students have
MLWGS librarian Wendy DeGroat is working this summer to refresh the school's library space. She is working based on data collected from student focus groups that included students who utilize the library frequently, sometimes, and not at all. She will be creating a new student seating area with poufs, floor pillows, accent rugs, and more. The process has only just begun, but she sent us an update on phase one just the other day. The