Best of the Week 2019-2020: Teaching to the Future
ST. ED'S PARTNERS WITH UPCYCLE PARTS SHOP FOR SECOND SEASON OF THE YOUNG INNOVATORS' INSTITUTE To further our opportunities for prospective students interested in innovation, St. Ed's launched a second season of the Young Innovators' Institute, inviting sixth and seventh grade boys from around greater Cleveland to participate in a nine-week design challenge. Having access to our Ideation and Maker's Labs in the Lowe Institute for Innovation, students are empowered to imagine
Best of the Week 2019-2020: Excellence in College Prep
ST. ED'S ENGLISH DEPARTMENT WELCOMES GREAT LAKES THEATER COMPANY FOR WEEK-LONG OTHELLO WORKSHOP This week, St. Ed's English Department welcomed actors from Great Lakes Theater, northeast Ohio's professional classic theater company, to engage in a week-long workshop with sophomore English students as they read Othello. The workshop allowed students to work with local actors three to four times throughout the week to learn different acting techniques and skills, read through
Best of the Week 2019-2020: Holy Cross Values
ST. ED'S CELEBRATES ITS COMMUNITY AND MISSION DURING CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK This week, St. Ed's celebrates Catholic Schools Week, a national, annual celebration of Catholic education in the United States. As a Holy Cross school, St. Edward High School's mission calls for the "formation of young men in a faith-based tradition that is God-centered and emphasizes the acceptance of each person." It is that foundation for religious education that all students are exposed to at St
Best of the Week 2019-2020: Teaching to the Future
EDSMAN WORKS WITH PENSOLE TO CREATE SNEAKER DESIGN INSPIRED BY CLEVELAND A few months ago, Van Weinmann '23 (photographed far right) entered a high school sneaker design competition hosted by Pensole Design Academy, which specializes in prototyping and concept-making functional footwear and apparel, and was selected as one of nine finalists in the country to present his design in Portland, Oregon. Through new programming and partnerships, Pensole has launched a competition s
Best of the Week 2019-2020: Excellence in College Prep
PROGRAMMING STUDENTS DESIGN AND CODE INTERNAL CLIENT PROGRAMMING SOLUTIONS Mr. Anthony Mortimer's Computer Programming students have been working on internal client programming solutions for their end-of-year Internal Assessment as part of the IB program. After finding a client of their own (any individual who would find utility in the application they're implementing), students have been spending the last few months researching, designing and coding their projects and two s
Best of the Week 2019-2020: Holy Cross Values
IB STUDENT HOSTS ELECTRONIC SAFE DISPOSAL & RECYCLING DRIVE TO RAISE ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS Garret Cowdery '20 has been passionate about raising awareness on climate change and environmentalism and decided to bring more attention to these topics through his IB Diploma Creativity, Action and Service (CAS) project by hosting an Electronic Safe Disposal and Recycling Drive at St. Ed's. Through the IB curriculum, St. Ed's challenges students to better understand the impact of t
Best of the Week 2019-2020: Teaching to the Future
ENTREPRENEURSHIP STUDENTS END THE SEMESTER PRESENTING SALES PITCHES FOR THEIR INNOVATIVE CREATIONS Since the beginning of the semester, Mr. Bob Schenosky's Entrepreneurship class has been working on creating their own products and sales pitches for the end-of-semester Layden Entrepreneurship Contest to determine the winning product idea. "The goal of the project is to help the students understand innovation in a business context," says Mr. Schenosky. "There are a multitude
Best of the Week 2019-2020: Excellence in College Prep
FILM STUDENT TAKES CREATIVE INITIATIVE IN DRAWING HIS OWN ANIMATED FILM Ms. Lydia Munnell's Digital Cinema 1/Animation class is underway with their final film projects for the semester. With most students choosing to create stop-motion films using Legos, one student decided to go outside the box and tackle 2D animation using a pro-grade program called Adobe Animate to produce and hand-draw his own film. Mitchell Tomsik '20 is in the process of creating an animation about a s
Best of the Week 2019-2020: Holy Cross Values
ST. ED'S AWARDS DIANNE AND TIM NEEDLES '78 WITH 2020 MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. AWARD This week, the St. Edward community gathered together for a prayer service to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. While mindful of one of Dr. King's most famous quotes, "Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?," students, faculty and staff took time to reflect on how we, as members of the St. Edward community, can do more to help and serve those around us,
Best of the Week 2019-2020: Teaching to the Future
HISTORY AND ENGLISH TEACHERS CREATE INTERDISCIPLINARY UNIT ON IMMIGRATION After comparing the time period between their course's content, English teacher Mr. Garrett McPartland and Social Studies teacher Mr. William Van Why '13 recognized common areas of study within their curriculum to develop an interdisciplinary unit on immigration for their students. "We realized that we both focus on immigration and workers' rights during the first two weeks of this semester," says Mr.
