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    • Admissions
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    • Tuition
    • Scholarships & Tuition Assistance
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    • PreK Program
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      • First Grade
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    • Middle School Division
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      • Spanish
      • Art/Art Tech
      • Music
      • Library / Media Center
      • Physical Education
      • Computer Class
    • Resource Department
    • Academic Excellence >
      • Curriculum
      • Accelerated Reader Program
      • Read With Me
    • Wildcat Saint Teachers
  • Student Life
    • Handbook and Forms
    • Uniforms
    • After School Program
    • Spiritual Life >
      • All Saints Day
      • Catechesis of the Good Shepherd
      • First Friday Morning Prayer
      • JOY Soup Kitchen
      • Rosary Circle
      • Rosary Making Club
      • Service Learning
    • Athletics
    • Extracurricular Activities >
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      • Hoopsters
      • Junior Beta Club
      • Math Super Stars
      • Music
      • Strings Program
      • Robotics Team
      • Science Olympiad
      • Young Actors Workshop
    • Wildcat Nation Expectations
    • Wildcat Saints
    • Wildcat Spirit Rock
    • Prayer Partners
    • Supply and Reading Lists
  • Giving
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Atomic Videos and Cell Pillows

3/29/2023

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This week's student art features two interdisciplinary STEAM projects which reinforce science class concepts.  

Sixth grade art Art Tech students have recently been creating plant and animal cell pillows by using the running stitch and the whip stitch to sew their creations.  The pillow designs are based on students' drawings of reference illustrations.  The organelles of the cell pillows were affixed to the surface of the cloth with fabric glue.  Students stuffed their pillows with poly-fill.

The atom video project is a collaborative effort of the middle school Art Tech and Science classes.  With the Tinkercad computer-aided design app, students built virtual 3D Bohr models of atoms of elements they are researching in science class.  They created introductory pages in Google Slides.  The videos were created in iMovie. All of this work was done on students' iPads.
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Ivan Waters
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Bill Powell
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Sailor Godwin
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Jatin Pandya
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Allison Blum
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Lucas Fawcett
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Abby Alford
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Phoebe Balot
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Stations of the Cross, Butterflies, and Mini-golf

3/26/2023

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This week's student art is from the 1st grade symmetrical butterfly project, the 7th grade mini-golf design project, and the 8th grade Stations of the Cross project.

The grid method was employed by 8th graders to make free-hand pencil and ink drawings of illustrations by contemporary artist Shari Van Vranken.  Students photographed their drawings and colored their photos in the Sketchbook app on their iPads.

For the mini-golf project, 7th graders used only the the basic shape tools of Tinkercad computer-aided design software to create the complex forms in their virtual 3D models. This interdisciplinary assignment involves creative engineering and math calculations. It was developed and is taught by Mr. Bell and Mrs. Cvetan.

In art class, first graders have learned about symmetry by drawing half of a butterfly on a folded piece of paper, cutting it out, and then unfolding the paper.  Crayons were used to color the butterflies.  Flowers and other landscape components were made with cut colored paper.  Students used glue sticks to affix the butterflies and the other objects to a background paper.
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Natalie Reid
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Eliana Gonzalez
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Corina Perez
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Marshall Wingfield
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Maxy Morgado
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Victoria Castillo
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Adamaris Cruz
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Declan Hildebrand
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Lenna Alarcon-Lawrence
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Cathryn Crabtree
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Cassie Meadows
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Mary Roberts Eason
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Janai King
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Ava Walsh
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Jacob Sutton
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Katie Sconiers
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Sevvy Ludwig
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Jennings Vincent
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Benjamin Morse
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Lena Walter
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Andrew Johnston
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Piper Goodwin
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4th Grade Art Tech

3/17/2023

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Fourth grade art students have recently been working with Sketch Up for Schools Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software on their Chromebooks to create sailboats in an environment.  Many of the fourth graders' finished works are shown in this presentation.  Several of the fourth graders will continue working on their boat scenes next week.  

Sketch Up for Schools is a free cloud-based software that students access through their school Google accounts.  Sketch Up Pro is widely used by architects and structural designers.  The student and professional versions of Sketch Up are very similar. As Sketch Up for Schools is geometry-based, students are provided with an educational opportunity in math, as well as a stepping stone toward various professions which employ engineering and architectural 3D modeling software.

Our students make all of their forms with the tools of the program, and are never allowed to use downloaded or pre-constructed forms in their Sketch Up work. The tools the fourth graders have been using include line, rectangle, push-pull, select, flip, offset, rotate, move, scale, and bucket fill (for colors).

One of the photos below shows the steps that Muna Akubue of 4P used to create her boats.
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Muna Akubue
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Eva Bunn
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Kate Brockway
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Mili Genao
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Juliana Gonzalez
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Hughes Harris
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Julieta Wayar
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Joey Burgess
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Thomas D'Alonzo
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Muna Akubue
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Thomas I.
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Kate Loesner
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Mary Kate Connelly
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Gabi Dunn
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Driver Vincent
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Jesus Garcia
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Ava Blanchard
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Luke Walter
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Noelle Doggett
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Kayden Mitchell
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Putt-Putt Design

3/10/2023

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This week's student art is from the 7th grade mini-golf lane design project. The basic shape tools of Tinkercad computer-aided design software were used to make the complex forms in these virtual 3D models. This math-art assignment, which involves creative engineering and math calculations, was developed and is taught by Mr. Bell and Mrs. Cvetan.

The beautifully creative and innovative images produced by students for this project have been made entirely with Tinkercad software, except for the work of Austin Ju. He created a laptop computer model with the basic shape and text tools of Tinkercad. However, the images on his virtual computer's monitor are screenshots of his Tinkercad work for the mini-golf project, which he made on his iPad. He arranged photos of his mini-golf lane on a photo of his laptop model in the Sketchbook app on his iPad.  

In the world of Austin's image, the mini-golf design was created by the laptop computer. The laptop computer was created by Austin on his iPad. If we consider this image in the context of recent advances in computer technologies and artificial intelligence, we might ask ourselves who created the mini-golf design in Austin's picture. Was it made by Austin or by the virtual model of the laptop computer?     
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Austin Ju
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Jules Bowling
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Nathan Wright
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Alicia Baumgartner
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Brooke Owens
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Nate Coidan
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Nick Coggins
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Stelling Harris
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Raffy Balanay
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Ewan Kim
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Birds of Springtime

3/6/2023

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This week's student art features watercolor paintings by 2nd graders.  Students drew, cut, and assembled relatively simple paper shapes to make the more complex structures of the birds.  The watercolor shapes and crayon line patterns in the sky echo the shapes of the birds, thus helping to create compositional unity in the paintings. ​
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Jackson White
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Hadley Lewis
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Robbie Gottschalk
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Piper Burgweger
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Jesus Morgado
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Will Wilson
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Amelia Chriscoe
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Lennon Gibson
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Cullen Garner
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Charlotte Ju
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    Mr. John Bell, Art Teacher

    Mr. Bell focuses on an interdisciplinary approach to teaching and presented STREAM (Science, Religion, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics) workshops at the Diocesan Teacher Conference, as well as multiple workshops throughout his years in the Diocese.

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