Friday, May 9, 2008
TEEN AND KID NEWS
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Through singing and playing, fifth-graders at the Baton Rouge Center for Visual & Performing Arts are stretching their musical knowledge for their upcoming production of “101 Dalmatians.”
A writing assignment in his English class at St. Jude the Apostle School that earned Patrick Tangney an “A” has also been named the top essay in a state patriotic essay contest. “America’s Most Wanted” host John Walsh reminded Louisiana teens that the same Internet that brings them MySpace and YouTube can be a dangerous place. Do Baton Rouge students know jazz, or what? THIS WEEK
Matthew Adler of Baton Rouge, an eighth-grader at St. Jude the Apostle Catholic School, is one of three Louisiana students of the year for 2008 chosen Wednesday. Two Baton Rouge students —Hartman Brunt and Jeremy Herbert — were among the eight Young Heroes honored Wednesday night by Louisiana Public Broadcasting and the Rotary Club of Baton Rouge. Matthew Adler loves math, considers it “fun,” and is currently taking algebra as an eighth-grader at St. Jude the Apostle School. Even so, to challenge himself in another area, he reluctantly dropped out of Math Counts this year after competing the last two years. Cody Webb’s favorite school subject is science — with its myriad subdivisions. Rocks and snakes and pond life, all generate more than just a passing interest for the fifth-grader at Copper Mill Elementary School. Typical 11-year-old boy, you say? The art of six North Corbin Middle School students is in a record-setting online exhibit sponsored by the National Art Education Association. For her science fair project this year, Lauren Petrosh experimented on herself. Petrosh, a 13-year-old eighth grader at St. Mark’s Cathedral (Episcopal) School in Shreveport, has an extremely rare genetic disorder that can cause brain damage if she eats regular food such as pizza or a hamburger. |
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