West Newsmagazine 11-27-19

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Sixth grade students from Andrews Academy helped pack meals for St. Louis World Food Day. [Andrews Academy Facebook photo]
clothes to the social workers and they pass
it on.”
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BY BONNIE KRUEGER
Andrews Academy
tackles hunger
The November character education
assembly at Andrews Academy in Ballwin
focused on the theme of hunger relief on
both a local and global scale.
Circle of Concern’s Senior Director of
Resource Development
Juliet Holden
gave a presentation
to students about the
work that Circle, a
food pantry in Valley
Park for low-income
families and individuals,
does for the community.
Students then
prepared themed boxes
of food for Circle and
created special cards or
poems to enclose in the
packages.
Board of Directors
Vice President Luz Rooney of United
Nations Association of Saint Louis also
Mary Beth and Payton Brown work as a
dynamic duo for P’s Traveling Closet.
[Rockwood Facebook]
spoke at the assembly about ways to further
pursue global relief initiatives. As
part of that mission, sixth grade students
participated in the St. Louis World Food
Day at John Burroughs High packaging
rice protein meals to help feed the hungry
locally and abroad.
P’s Traveling Closet
continues to grow
Payton Brown and her mother, Mary
Beth, are a force to be reckoned with as a
two-person charitable movement. Lafayette
High junior Payton started P’s Traveling
Closet, a clothes collection effort
that distributes gently used clothing to
Rockwood residents in
need. Now, as winter
sets in three years after
its creation, they find
they have a surplus of
winter clothes available
for people who
need them.
The “closet” is in
Payton’s parents’ basement.
“We pick clothes out
of several storage bins
we have and drop them
off at schools, according
to what social
workers tell us people need,” Payton said.
The clothes are collected in bins and
sorted by season, gender and size.
Multiple individuals have already
reached out to Payton and Mary Beth for
help. The duo specifically recalled one
high school girl they became aware of who
needed two dresses for a special occasion.
“We didn’t normally carry formal
dresses,” Mary Beth said. “But this was
such an honor – we wanted to be able to
help.”
They released the student’s request into
their network of helpers and received
donations in the form of physical dresses
and monetary contributions.
“I asked my escadrille team members
for donations,” Payton said. “If we each
donated five dollars, the girl would have
enough to buy two dresses, or jewelry or
shoes. In the end with all the donations we
got 15 dresses for our inventory. Plus, we
were able to give the girl some money so
she could figure out what she wanted and
pick it out … I hope people can open up
and see how good it feels to help others
out. It opened my eyes to learn I go to a
school where some people are in need. It
feels good to help out.”
Mary Beth says families in need or
people with clothes to donate should reach
out to the social workers in Rockwood
schools. They are aware of P’s Traveling
Closet.
“Then we will see what they need and
help as best as we can,” Mary Beth said.
“It’s very anonymous. I deliver the bag of
Best in the West
The Pathfinder, Parkway West High’s
digital publication, was selected as a
digital news and magazine finalist for the
Crown Award. Only 18 high school digital
publications were chosen as finalists for
the Columbia Scholastic Press Association
[CSPA] Crown Awards to be presented in
March 2020 at ceremonies in New York
City. The digital publications were published
during the 2018-19 academic year.
The Crown Awards honor top student
publications chosen from CSPA’s members.
Crowns are selected for overall excellence
in a head-to-head comparison against other
publications. Student publishing in news,
magazine, yearbook or digital [online]
formats are all eligible. During Crown
consideration, publications are judged on
design, photography, concept, coverage
and writing. A total of 1,100 publications
were eligible for judging.
Crown Awards are the highest recognition
given by the CSPA to a student print or
digital medium for overall excellence.
ITEF grants support learning
A recent grant from the Innovative Technology
Education Fund [ITEF] supported
two learning opportunities at The Fulton
School at St. Albans.
Upper School students received a weeklong
lesson in trees from faculty member Dr.
Josh Mantooth, who taught students how to
identify native tree species on the school’s
campus and at Shaw Nature Reserve. They
measured tree size using diameter tapes
and collected tree cores using manual
increment borers. Obtaining the equipment
for the opportunity was made possible
through the grant. The students were able
to learn from coring trees why some trees
are “hardwoods” and others “softwoods.”
Students then mounted the cores on wood
blocks to prepare them for sanding and
analysis of growth and age.
Back in the classroom, Upper School students
have also experimented with Makerspace’s
new Artec Eva Lite, a 3D scanner