Classroom Instructional Activities

Grant Spotlight: World Religions field trip

By |2018-05-03T11:53:13+00:00May 3rd, 2018|Spotlight - Grants|

This year, the MLWGS faculty has applied for nearly $25,000 worth of Foundation support in the category of classroom instructional activities.  Funding in this category is available for supplemental activities or materials that teachers would like to use to enrich their instruction.  In March, World Religions teacher Kinsey Hall accessed some of that funding to pay for 31 students to tour Satchidananda Ashram (aka Yogaville) in Buckingham County, VA.  Yogaville is a fascinating site that

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Grant Spotlight: Yoga for Sophomores

By |2022-03-02T18:44:16+00:00May 2nd, 2018|Spotlight - Grants|

Every spring for the last few years, Paige Hawkins has arranged for Becky Eschenroeder to teach yoga to MLWGS sophomores during PE for the month of April.  Becky is one of the most beloved instructors in the Richmond area, and spent four years as a certified YoKid Facilitator Trainer responsible for training adults in ways to incorporate yoga into children’s lives.  Becky is always looking for new ways to connect people in the community to

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Grant Spotlight: Music Department Trip to New Orleans

By |2022-03-02T18:45:42+00:00April 27th, 2018|Spotlight - Grants|

Every spring, orchestra and band teacher Karl von Klein organizes a trip open to any student taking a class within the music department.  This year, he is chaperoning students on a trip to New Orleans for the first weekend of this year's Jazz and Heritage Festival (aka Jazz Fest).  The Foundation provided a grant to reduce the cost of the trip for every student and provided additional financial aid to four students. Your support of

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Grant Spotlight: Guest Speaker Chris Hanusa

By |2018-02-15T17:20:11+00:00February 15th, 2018|Spotlight - Grants|

In February, math professor and mathematical artist Chris Hanusa visited MLWGS, where he worked with students in the Math & Art Seminar, Discrete Math classes, and the Multivariable Calculus class, where he held a Mathematica & 3D Printing workshop.  He also gave a presentation entitled “Using Random Numbers to Create Art” to more than 30 students in the Forum after school.  Professor Hanusa's work at the intersection of two disciplines allows him to program computers

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Grant Spotlight: AxiDraw

By |2022-03-02T19:08:04+00:00February 12th, 2018|Spotlight - Grants|

The Foundation recently purchased an AxiDraw pen plotter for use in Ryan Webb's "Explorations in Mathematical Art" seminar.  The AxiDraw can work with computer code to make digital art come to life as "hand-drawn" ink on paper.  Ryan has a long-held interest in the intersection of math and art, as his creative work with 3-D math modeling has demonstrated.  We already love the first piece of digital art produced by the AxiDraw! Contributions to the

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Grant Spotlight: Student Solo Art Shows

By |2022-03-02T19:19:54+00:00January 17th, 2018|Spotlight - Grants|

Some of the enhancement grants we give out are for little things that add something extra to a project, lesson, or classroom.  For example, art department chair Jeff Hall applied for $225 worth of funding to print invitations and provide vinyl lettering for the solo art shows his Art 5 students put on throughout the year.  These art shows are an impressive undertaking that give students experience exhibiting their work.  Yesterday, Kenan Potter ('18) opened

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Grant Spotlight: Art Department Trip to DC

By |2022-03-02T19:21:32+00:00December 6th, 2017|Spotlight - Grants|

Every year, art teachers Jeff Hall and Kori Mosley take art students to Washington, DC for a day of guided visits to museums around the city.  Last week, the group visited the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery.  The Foundation was able to offset the cost of this trip for all students and to cover the remaining costs for one student in financial need.  It's experiences like these,

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Grant Spotlight: Frontier Culture Museum field trip

By |2022-03-02T19:32:57+00:00November 20th, 2017|Spotlight - Grants|

On November 13, 2017, social studies teacher Hana Voight took a group of her AP Human Geography students to the Frontier Culture Museum located in Staunton, VA.  The museum tells the story of the thousands of people who migrated to colonial America, and of the life they created here for  themselves and their descendants.  The students saw firsthand the varieties of materials and methods used in constructing folk housing around the world, from the US

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Grant Spotlight: Physics Modeling Equipment

By |2022-03-02T19:34:59+00:00November 16th, 2017|Spotlight - Grants|

In October of 2017, the Foundation purchased physics modeling equipment for use in classroom instruction.  The equipment allowed honors physics students to model various scenarios involving force, mass, and acceleration.  In one set of experiments, small groups constructed scenarios dealing with different constants and variables.  For example, one group kept the force constant while increasing mass, while another kept the mass constant and varied the force.  The students collected and graphed their results, which Mr.

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Grant Spotlight: 2017 Senior Art Show

By |2022-03-02T19:50:26+00:00June 12th, 2017|Spotlight - Grants|

"Flourish," the 2017 Senior Art Show, opened at Art Works on the evening of Friday, June 9.  The show features artwork in a wide range of styles from 21 seniors.  Each student also submitted an artistic statement along with their pieces and learned from Jeff Hall how to display their work in a gallery setting. The Foundation covered the cost of promotional posters for the show along with show invitations, prints, and lettering. Congratulations to

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