Mes Amis Spring 2011 - Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart

campuS update
seventh-grader visits ethiopia, works with Water 1st
Giuliana Sercu ’16 traveled to Ethiopia with her mother this winter
to work with Water 1st, an organization that works to bring safe,
sustainable water supplies to the world's poor. While on this
February trip, Giuliana and her mother met with field staff from
Water Action (Water 1st’s local partner organizaton) for an overview
of their program and the progress being made. They also participated
in a work project in a community building a water system and
interacted with community members, joining them in carrying water
from their traditional water source to their home. Guiliana had the
opportunity to tour and meet with students at a local Ethiopian
school. “Giuliana learned about Water 1st during Global Days at
Forest ridge last year,” explained her mother, Susan Sercu. “What
affected her was that girls around the world are not going to school
because they are walking to get clean water for their families.”
science and engineering fair winners
Nivu jejurikar '14 placed second in the microbiology category at
the Washington State Science and Engineering Fair on April 1 in
Bremerton. Her project was titled “Spices as Antimicrobials.” Earlier,
Nivu was awarded second place overall for her project in the second
annual Central Sound regional Science & Engineering Fair for high
school students, held at Bellevue College in march. Also at the
regional competition in Bellevue, C.j. Shouraboura ’14 and Shanthi
Shanmugam ’12 won a $200 cash prize from Intel for the best
computing and physical sciences project. Their project was on
cloud computing.
Nivu Jejurikar '14,
above, placed second;
C.J. Shouraboura
’14 and Shanthi
Shanmugam ’12 won
a cash prize.
10 Mes Amis Spring 2011
Across
senior exhibits work in gallery show
In march, the Fine Arts Department
presented a gallery showing featuring
the selected works of ji yoon Ahn ’11.
The event included a special opening
evening reception. ji yoon has created
a vast body of work during her high
school years.
Ms crowns spelling, geography champs
Congratulations to middle School Spelling Bee champion, seventhgrader
lilli Thiel. lilli represented Forest ridge in the regional
Spelling Bee at town Hall Seattle in mid-march. justina Wu ’15 was
the alternate. Earlier in the winter, Chloe jammes ’15 was crowned
champion of the middle School Geography Bee after the final round
went through several tiebreakers.
new hs theater director, lively shows
What do wicked witches, ruby
slippers, tense courtroom dramas,
dancing london orphans and
plucky young, turn-of-the-century
girls have in common? They were
all part of productions in middle
and high school drama this year.
In the fall, the High School Drama
Department presented Twelve
Angry Women, while the middle School
Players brought Anne of Green Gables to life on the lee Theatre stage.
In may, the middle School will present The Wizard of Oz. In march,
the High School performed Oliver! That popular musical was under
the director of new high school theater director Ben Sherman. Ben
comes with a long and diverse background in student activities,
live entertainment and theater. His theater life began during his
student years at Chapman University. later, as a manager at
Disneyland, he was a
founder of the Disneyland
Drama Club. For 10 years,
1999–2009, he was
president and artistic
director of Next Step
Theater, a local theater
production company.
Welcome, Ben, and
congratulations, thespians.