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ORIENTATION FOR NEW SASA STUDENTS2011-2012 NEW STUDENT ORIENTATION ~ WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31ST, 6:30 P.M. Orientation for Returning StudentsOrientation for returning SASA students will be on Tuesday August 23 at 11:00 A.M. OR Wednesday August 24 at 5:30 p.m. 2011 High School Winners
Andrea Pugh – first place José Gomez – second place I-SWEEEP Participants
Jordan Drake José Gomez Kwaku Ofori-Darko National Merit Scholars
Dalton Allan Alexandriya Emonds Youth Policy Summit 2010Math/Science students John Bihn and Jose Gomez, as well as Global Studies student Jamine Gibbs participated in a week-long meeting of students from throughout Michigan. This Youth Policy Summit, held during last summer at Western Michian University, generated a presentation to policy makers and industry leaders, as well as a 61 policy paper that furnishes direction in the area of energy innovation in Michigan. Policy recommendations can be found here http://www.youthpolicysummit.org/yps-overview-topmenu-109/past-programs-/203-2010-michigan-summit.html 2011 NOBCChE Tournament & Science FairMiddle and high school science quiz bowl teams won the NOBCCHE National Quiz Bowl tournament this year in Houston TX. The middle school team also swept that organization's science fair. Chemistry and Engineering News has a great story about it here http://pubs.acs.org/cen/science/89/8919sci2a.html
Wahaj Ansari
Afua Ofori-Darko Kofi Ofori-Darko Varun Shanker, Captain John Smith NOBCChE Quiz Bowl National Champions – High School
Jordan Drake
Alexandriya Emonds Kwaku Ofori-Darko Brad Yurgens NOBCChE National Science Fair Winners – Middle School
Varun Shanker
Afua Ofori-Darko Kofi Ofori-Darko SCIENCE FAIR 2011
Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp 2010-2011Seven middle school students were awarded a scholarship to Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp based on their portfolio: Quaneisha Benton, Xian Boles, Cheyenne Couture, Holly Jones, Seneca Kuchar, Joshua Rhodes, and Aidan Wesel. In addition, one high school student Parker Bradford received an Alumni Scholarship in the amount of $500. He will be attending the arts camp this summer for visual arts. Zehnder's Snowfest Area High School Carving Competition 2011Eight high school students plus one alternate participated and won second place in the 20th Zehnder’s Snowfest at Frankenmuth River Place January 27-28, 2011. The winning team members included captain Vicki Wieland, Austin Kemp, Michaela Metiva, and Sarah Wallace. Also participating in the event were Shayla Gonsalves, Parker Bradford, Kyle Enwiller, and Tom Jones. Rahim Ervin served as an alternate. The team was directed by 3D Visual Arts teacher Sally Giroux. 24th Annual Saginaw County Art Show AwardsThe following Middle School students received purchase awards for their work: seventh grader Xian Boles received the Saginaw Intermediate School District Purchase Award Best of Show and eighth grader Joshua Rhodes received the School District of the City of Saginaw Best of Middle School. Sixth grader Makenzie Smith received the School District of the City of Saginaw Talisa Dixon Purchase Award.
2011 Higher Education Scholarship AwardsDonovan Webb from the 3D Visual Arts program earned $100,000 in college scholarships for excellence in his art portfolio and for academic achievements. (Sally Giroux, art teacher) Sally Giroux, 3D Visual Arts teacher and Meagan Bublitz, Dance Concentration teacher, were nominated for one of the All Area Arts Award hosted by the Saginaw Arts and Enrichment Commission. The parent of SASA students, Donyea and Dominique Freeman nominated them. Global Studies 2011Students spent four days visiting a plethora of places in Washington D.C., including the National Holocaust Museum, the National Museum of Health & Medicine, Arlington National Cemetery (including a wreath laying ceremony,) Ford’s Theatre & Peterson home, White House tour, Vietnam Veterans Memorial (along with many other memorials,) Mount Vernon, Smithsonian complex, Kennedy Center, Capitol Hill with a visit with Congressmen Dale Kildee and Dave Camp, a White house picture stop, National Archives, and much more. This is a culminating experience after learning about American History from the beginning of time through the Civil War during the 8th grade year. The SASA tradition started during the 1999-2000 school year and has continued for eleven successful years, led by Brian Feldman. Dance Concentration Top Achievements 2010 - 2011Ten dance students were chosen through statewide adjudication to attend the Michigan Youth Arts Festival on the campus of Western Michigan University, May 12-14. Students performed in a Saturday morning Dance Showcase concert, as well as take several master classes with well-respected instructors. While at the festival, junior Shatarea Simms, was chosen for a scholarship to attend a dance intensive in Chicago, Illinois this summer.
Seventh Grade English Language ArtsIn April 2011, Alexis Vargas, a seventh grader in Miss Brenna Polzin’s Language Arts class, won a poetry contest offered by Creative Communication. Alexis’ poem will be published in a poetry anthology amongst other winners. Scholastic National 2010-2011
Scholastic Art and Writing Awards National Awards sponsored by: the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers
More than 185,000 art and writing submissions were entered in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards competition. Approximately 10,00 students from across the country earned regional Gold Key Awards, qualifying their work for national level adjudication. From these only 1,500 students earned National Medals. Others who have won these most prestigious awards in the past include: Andy Warhol, Sylvia Plath, Truman Capote, Robert Redford, Joyce Carol Oates, Zac Posen, John Currin, and Richard Avedon.
Awards Include: American Vision and Voices Medals Gold Medal Silver Medal
Congratulations to Sydney Veverka and her teacher Mrs. Becky Prine Sullivan, 2D Visual Arts Teacher at the Saginaw Arts and Sciences Academy, for earning a Silver Medal in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards National program. Both are invited to accept their medals at Carnegie Hall in New York City in June, 2011.
Sydney Veverka – Grade 11 – Oil Paint Title: Jack Knows What He Wants Teacher – Becky Prine Sullivan
Congratulations to Jessica Lalonde and her teacher Mr. Jared Morningstar 9th/10th Grade English language Arts Concentration Teacher at the Saginaw Arts and Sciences Academy, for earning a Gold Medal in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards National program. Both are invited to accept their medals at Carnegie Hall in New York City in June, 2011.
FirebirdI was born at the beginning of the end at the very dawn of the veracity of light in the heart of a wave, at the point where its salty soul is cresting and not yet falling, but flying in suspension. There I drew my first breath at the point where you lose track of weeks and hours are no longer a currency. There are age-speckled memories, like mountains, grinded down and spread smoothly over like sand on a newborn beach The days last a little longer, the sun lets out a great, deep belly laugh and shakes the whole earth with a thousand thoughts of carelessness, an extroverted pulse that unfurls like a phoenix jumping in bursts of purple flame. Dime-store guitars replace the golden trumpets and sound together, not alone in a lonely blast of judgment. Each chord humming and rocking to lovesick harmonies from the beginning of the end They please everyone and no one. We walk where we need to. We walk where we want to. If you go to the far side of the world you may not like what you find, but those who are born there do not fear the end.
Congratulations to Jacqueline Wieland and her teacher Mrs Reid 11th/12th Grade English Language Arts Concentration Teacher at the Saginaw Arts and Sciences Academy, for earning a Silver Medal in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards National program. Both are invited to accept their medals at Carnegie Hall in New York City in June, 2011.
Coming Home
The single working streetlight exposed the night, shadows dancing along the pavement. Colors were reduced to blacks and grays, blending in the dark. Alone in the corner sat a girl, hunched in on herself. The tattered clothes that covered her back barely kept the fallen chill out, raising bumps along her dirty skin. A weathered hat covered her gritty hair like a bandage hides a wound. Filthy clothes and scruffy hair told people passing by that she didn’t have a place to call home. All she knew was the tough life of the street, going days without food and nights without sleep. Her bare feet tapped the cement, the soles frozen and swollen, worn with the miles she had walked. Fear and pain marked sorrowful features on her face. Her body was tired, and her skin clung to her bones tightly. She stood up on shaky knees as the world spun around her. Losing her balance she fell to the cement, which caught her with carelessness. She remained motionless, eyelids sealed shut. Time escaped her like sand through open fingers, her thoughts twisting deep in her mind. She was only partially aware of the blue and red flashing lights. From deep rumbling voices came the words “This is the girl from the back of the milk carton.” Heavy steps approached her and strong, sturdy hands lifted her from the icy pavement. It was the strange rocking motion that pulled her from her tormented slumber, eyes wide as she peered into the face of the officer that held her. “Thank you,” she whispered, and fell into unconsciousness. The car surrounded her with warmth and comfort as she drifted in and out of sleep. Lights overhead flew by like shooting stars. Her body slowly thawed from its frozen state, the pain overpowered the numbness of the cold as it reached her nerves…
Michigan Youth Arts Festival MAEA 2010 - 2011
Michigan Youth Arts Festival (MYAF) 2011– State Level Adjudication Over 250,000 students entered the MYAF competition, with approximately 1,000 students invited to attend the festival. High school students who have work selected are invited to attend the MYAF at Western Michigan University in May. This is an arts extravaganza featuring: master classes taught by college professors, exhibits, performances, and networking social events for the participants to attend. Students live on campus for a pre-college experience during the 3-day program. Visual Arts - The Michigan Art Education Association allows art teachers to enter up to 5 pieces of art for each level taught (elementary, middle and high school). They are judged at the regional and state levels each school year. The pieces selected are considered the finest pieces of student art produced in the state for that school year. The preliminary adjudication leading up to MYAF is the Region 11 exhibit at the Saginaw Art Museum. Awards Include:
travels around the state for one year to corporations and school districts
Sydney Veverka–Grade 11 Hannah Riebschleger–Grade 11 Alex Weber–Grade 11 Top 18 in State Top 18 in State Governor’s Traveling Show Governor’s Traveling Show Governor’s Traveling Show MYAF Exhibitor & Participant MYAF Exhibitor & Participant MYAF Exhibitor & Invitee Region 11 Award & Exhibitor Region 11 Award & Exhibitor Region 11 Award & Exhibitor Teacher – Becky Prine Sullivan Teacher – Becky Prine Sullivan Teacher – Becky Prine Sullivan
Jessica Walker – Grade 12 Region 11 Award and Exhibitor – SAM Teacher – Becky Prine Sullivan
Michigan Art Educators Association Region 11 and State Level Award WinnersPreliminary judging for middle school students also takes place at the Region 11 exhibit at the Saginaw Art Museum. Middle school students who have work selected at the state level will have their work exhibited in the Rotunda Area of the State Library/Museum in Lansing from June 5 – 11, 2011. Awards Include: Top 15 in the State Top 100 in the State Region 11 Award and Exhibitor – Saginaw Art Museum (SAM) Kayla Hernick-Grade 6 Joshua Rhodes-Grade 8 Paige Neuwirth Top 15 in the State Top 15 in the State Top 100 in the State Teacher- Sally Giroux Teacher – Becky Prine Sullivan Teacher – Becky Prine Sullivan
Maia Wiederhold Region 11 Award and Exhibitor – SAM Teacher – Sally Giroux
The Saginaw Arts and Sciences Academy Dance Concentration was selected through statewide adjudication to perform at Michigan Youth Arts Festival 2011 on the campus of Western Michigan University. The dancers to perform are Kamahria Crittle(10), Domonique Freeeman(12), Starletta King(10), Jaden Moten(12), Imani Roberts(9), Alyssa Sauvie(11), Raven Simmons(9), Shatarea Simms(11), Maureen Sullivan(12) and Erica Thomas(12). The piece is titled, Urgente Vagabondaggio, and is set to the music Decode performed by the Vitamin String Quartet. The piece is choreographed by Meagan Bublitz. Instrumental Music AwardMusicians are adjudicated at the local level. Students who receive a “1” or superior rating move on to be judged at the state level. Alexandriya Emonds – Rating of “1 “ or Superior at the local level Nominated soloist for soprano and alto saxophone - MYAF Invitee Teacher – Matthew Corrigan
Language Arts MYAF adjudication results: In the Creative Writing category at Michigan Youth Arts Festival, over 1,000 entries from across Michgan were entered into the contest. The highest honer for MYAF is to recieve a Certificate of Merit and the next honor is Honorable Mention. This year Saginaw Arts and Sciences Academy received 16 Certificate of Merit Awards in Creative Writing amongst 13 students. Three SASA students received awards in: Poetry and Fiction. Students will spend three days at the festival, and stay in the dorms on Western Michigan University's campus. Students’ works will be published in the Festival Creative Writing Book and students will have the opportunity to work with other Merit winners, published authors and professors from around the state. Congragulations is in order for SASA's ELA Department.
Certificate of Merit Awards for the 9 th/10 th grade SASA Students – Teacher - Jared Morningstar include:
POETRY
“ So-Called Glorious Youth” – Madison Veverka – Grade 9 “Why Do I Pick Up This Pencil?” – Autumn Reed – Grade 9 “Letting it Be” – Vada Lewis – Grade 10 “Springtime” – Carly Sawatzki – Grade 10 “Kitchen” – Jessica Lalonde – Grade 10
FICTION
“The Richest Man in Town” – Jessica Lalonde – Grade 10
Certificate of Merit Awards for the 11 th/12 th grade SASA Students - Teacher - Rachel A. Reid include:
POETRY
“An Ode to Insomnia”- Carly Veverka- Grade 12 “ Technophobic” - Philip Bernstein – Grade 11 “Dear (Madam) Missus” - Brittany Wright – Grade 12 “Hello” - Jacob Gorski – Grade 12 “ Dreamride” - Benjamin Beltran – Grade 12
FICTION
“She's with the Band” - Jacqueline Wieland – Grade 11 “The Church that Fell” - Tiffany Lydia Lee – Grade 11 “Memories of the Candy Shop” - Kristine Turner – Grade 11 “And She Told Me It Was about Fun” - Katharine Pope – Grade 12 “Complaints and Consequences” - Jacob Gorski – Grade 12 “Trumpet Played the Piano” - Benjamin Beltran – Grade 12
Excerpt from SASA’s MYAF Certificate of Merit in Fiction winner Kristine Turner (Grade 12), “Memories of the Candy Shop.”
There was this cute little candy shop down the street some years back. The air inside smelled of cotton candy and happy childhood memories, and there were jars full of rainbow colored goodies on every shelf. Children and adults alike would always come in there with a dollar or two to spend on their favorite sweets. There was even a little soda bar inside, where you could get an ice cream float or a milkshake if you were having a bad day. Everyone would leave the store with a little brown bag full of candies or with a lollipop in their mouth, always radiating a newly refreshed feeling of happiness…
Excerpt from SASA’s MYAF Certificate of Merit in Fiction winner Jacob Gorski (Grade 12), “Complaints and Consequences.”
JCPenney’s has a plasticky scent when you first get inside it. It’s not a common scent among department stores, unique to JCPenney’s and this makes me think that something is up. It just smells weird, like I’d imagine embalming fluid to smell like. Then again, maybe it’s all in my head because I hate it so much. The intercom sounds and a robotic voice, speaking down from the sky, informs the shoppers that it’s fifteen minutes to closing. I take my name tag off – “Paul Welcomes You to JCPenney’s: Where It’s All Inside!” Just reading that makes me feel like dying. The fact that I am much older than seventeen and am still being employed by “ JCPenney’s: Where It’s All Inside!” makes me feel like dying. It’s really a shithole. From the register I can see Eunetta walking through Young Men’s just itching for a Newport. Eunetta is the only person I can stand working with. She’s been here forever so she gets away with a lot of stuff like smoking inside the building and swearing at customers and she carries around this big McDonald’s cup of Hi-C and peach schnapps and when you’re having a real crap day she lets you have a few sips. Like a mother feeding her baby or something, I don’t know but she’s a trip…
Excerpt from SASA’s MYAF Certificate of Merit in Poetry winner Philip Bernstein (Grade 11), “Technophobia.” Fingers tapping too many times on the cold keys – “come to life, little machine.” I want to watch passively, as my mind flows out onto the harsher-than-life digital blank page.
I can't make it happen on the luminescent screen, though. You crazy kids and your computers; it's too manufactured, when my writing has its own emotions, and a soul that feeds on pens and paper.
So I scribble, while you highlight and delete, and while you save your poems as . docx or text or .rtf files in numbered, ordered folders on a fragile drive in a server, somewhere far away, my notes and jots are safe, secure, crumpled snugly in the bottom of a backpack.
Excerpt from SASA’s MYAF Certificate of Merit in Poetry winner Autumn Reed (Grade 10), “Why Do I Pick Up This Pencil?”
As I look at the structure Of my lords blessing, And enter what I once Remembered years before This life. Before I shed My first tear, Before the world gave me, Something to fear, Before sorrow or pain, And when I would Only listen to what The sane had to say I ask you, why do I pick up this pencil?
Excerpt from SASA’s MYAF Certificate of Merit in Poetry winner Carly Sawatzki (Grade 10), “ Spingtime.”
Paintbrushes dipped in lilac blossoms orange peel and cranberry, paint the buttermilk sky.
My fingers grasp for rays of sun lassoing the horizon and pulling it close letting my toes feel their way over cobblestone and grass.
EXXON MOBIL PROVIDES $750 GRANT TO SUPPORT MATH/SCIENCEOn October 22, 2010, sixth grade math and science students gathered to accept the generous donation of $750 received in a grant from the Exxon Mobil Corporation, courtesy of our neighboring Mobil Gas Station on West
Genesee St at Niagara. SASA ranked FIFTH in Michigan on State's 'Top to Bottom' Schools ListCongratulations to SASA Faculty, students and parents -- you deserve the ranking for your hard work and dedication!!!
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