Tag: interdisciplinary

BWSI CREATE Challenge: Build Real Technologies That Make a Difference

Want to make an impact while learning exciting new skills? The BWSI CREATE Challenge is your chance to collaborate with high school and college students from across the country to design and build real assistive technologies that help people with disabilities. What is the CREATE Challenge?This virtual program (October–April) empowers students to brainstorm, design, and …

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MIT “Girls Who Can” STEM Program

See below for info about the Girls Who Can STEM program from MIT. Many of our students have taken advantage of their offerings.  We’re excited to announce that applications are now open for the Fall Girls Who Can Program — a free, hands-on STEM experience for high school girls in grades 10 and 11. This …

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Camp Wa-Ri-Ki Overnighter ’24

We started a new, every other year tradition this fall by doing an overnight camp at the Kiwanis’ Camp Wa-Ri-Ki on the Washougal River.  Some 65 students grades 9-12 and five MST staff made the trip. We had a blast playing games, doing a scavenger hunt, tie-dying, eating s’mores, and generally just enjoying each other’s …

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MST Artists Strut Stuff at ESD Showcase

We are pleased to announce that a couple of MST student artists recently won awards at this year’s ESD 112 Art awards ceremony. Congrats to Laura and Ryan and all the CHS/MST students who were recently honored! CHS/MST Senior Laura Wang won an ESD 112 Regional award for her graphite portrait of her family. Her …

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A Portrait of the Artists as Young Sophomores

MST sophomores recently finished their reading of Lord of the Flies and were challenged as part of their final assessment to create an artistic “sketch” or interpretation (colored, penciled, digitized, etc.) that blended both universal and constructed symbols from the book to show their understanding of symbolism and how the author used these to convey …

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Welcome to the 2021 School Year!

Things are off to a running start at CHS and in the MST Magnet Program. How nice it is to have all of us back under one physical “roof”, reveling in each other’s presence and basking in the glory of in person school. This feeling was no more underscored than it was during our annual …

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Clark County Food Bank Service Night

This past Tuesday would’ve been one of our MST group’s annual “nights of service” where we would have gone as a group (staff, students, and families …) to the  Clark County Food Bank and help repack donated food for distribution to local families.  Sadly, we were unable to keep this appointment due to Covid restrictions, …

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MIT Beaverworks Fall Zoom Institutes for Girls

Our friends at MIT (yes, that MIT …) are hosting a series of Saturday institutes for girls interested in learning about robotics, cyber security, and programming. Check it out: Who/What: High school female students in grades 9-11 interested in learning about 1 of 3 opportunities (see the PDFs  below for details on each)! Beginners encouraged! …

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Staying Engaged: Freshmen, Sophomores, Staff

I’ve been checking in with freshmen and sophomore students and staff this past week about how they’ve spent some of their time given the extraordinary turn of events we’ve all experienced in the last couple of weeks. Not as many responses from them as I had from juniors and seniors, but they are staying busy. …

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Staying Engaged: Juniors and Seniors

I reached out to our juniors and seniors earlier this week to see how they’ve spent some of their time given the extraordinary turn of events we’ve all experienced in the last couple of weeks. I asked each student in that group the following question(s): “What have you been doing to stay “engaged” in your …

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