Our Wildwood, Summer 2019, Volume 45

WOLVES MAKING WAVES Students, alumni, and faculty making us proud Our Latest Wave-Makers

Mia R. ’24

Henry C. ’20

Mia R. is one of 70 teens from across the U.S. admitted to the highly competitive William P. Lauder Junior Internship Program at USC Shoah Foundation this summer. The week- long intensive program provides a dynamic and unique learning opportunity for students in grades 7-12 to engage with testimonies from survivors and witnesses of genocide and focuses on the causes and impacts of injustice and the ways an individual can respond.

Henry C. received the Brentwood Art Center Julian Choji New Scholarship Award. It recognizes and supports talented teens who aspire to study art after high school and who share the artistic vision of the New/Kaplan-New Family. The award consists of a $500 college scholarship and three portfolio

development sessions. The committee selected three high school students in recognition of their demonstrated commitment to the visual arts. Each student was required to submit artistic samples, personal statements, and letters of recommendation.

Ian N. ’22

Honor D. ’23

Ian N. received a Student Travel Award from the Research and Education

Honor D. is the first-place winner in the middle school Sustainable Resource Use

Cooperative Occultation Network (RECON) to

category of the World of 7 Billion 2019 student video contest sponsored by Population Education. She decided on the topic of sustainable resource use because it’s something she practices in her day-to-day life. But she didn’t want her video to focus on something people already know about like reusable water bottles, so she explored rechargeable batteries. There were nearly 3,000 submissions from 47 states and 43 countries!

attend its 2019 meeting in Boulder City, Nevada. RECON is a citizen science research project aimed at exploring the outer solar system. Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences, the project involves teachers, students, amateur astronomers, and community members from across the Western United States.

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