Spectrum, the literary magazine for the Upper School, has received an award from the National Council of Teachers of English. The magazine was selected to receive a rank of Recommended for Highest Award in the Program to Recognize Excellence in Student Literary Magazines.
The magazine is created under the direction of Mrs. Beverly Hannett-Price.
Editors-in-chief were Anusha Mamidipaka and Sophia Zhang.
Associate editors were Amanda Bradley and Lorraine Yuen.
Last weekend, the following students had work on display at The Community House in Birmingham for the 28th annual Student Art Town. Student artwork was selected by their teacher and all students were recognized at an award ceremony for this accomplishment.
A special congratulations to Jared Freeman '18 for taking home the 3rd place award for high school and Kate Parambo '23 for winning honorable mention for the middle school category.
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Congratulations to John Barnwell Jr. and Isaiah Johnson for receiving offers to continue their athletic pursuits at the college level. John will play baseball at University of Florida A & M and Isaiah will play football at Darmouth College.
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The play is rated PG13 and runs about 2 hours. Tickets are reserved seating and $15 per person and may be purchased by credit card using the link below. For the day of the show remaining tickets will be sold at the box office one hour before show time using cash, check, or student account. NO CREDIT CARDS at box office. No returns or exchanges.
There are two casts - view cast list and performance dates.
Show dates and times are as follows:
Fridays - March 2 & 9 at 7:00 PM
Saturdays - March 3 & 10 at 7:00 PM
Sundays - March 4 & 11 at 2:00 PM
Congratulations to Megan Chariakolu '19 who took first place in the local Optimist Club Essay Contest in Bloomfield Hills. Chariakolu will receive $250 for her winning essay. Abhay Paharia '19 took second place in the contest.
In the Birmingham Optimist Club essay contest, Amanda Bradley '18 came in second place.
Several students representing Detroit Country Day Junior School recently competed in the WordMasters Challenge™—a national vocabulary competition involving nearly 150,000 students annually.
The following fourth grade students participated in the Gold Division and earned top scores. Congratulations to the following:
The students were coached in preparation for the WordMasters Challenge™ by Mrs. Angie Charlton.
Two of our Upper School students participated in the Michigan History Day Regional Competition at the Macomb ISD Educational Service Building. Michigan History Day is a year-long educational program where students choose a topic related to an annual theme, research and analyze their findings, and draw conclusions about their topics’ significance in history.
This year’s theme was Conflict and Compromise. Robert “Bobby” Metz '20 won for his research paper entitled, Cuban Missile Crisis, and Jocelyn Chu '19 for her research paper, Conflict and Compromise: The Philippine-American War. These two award winners have now qualified for the Michigan History Day State Final Event to be held on Saturday, April 28, at Bay City High School, Bay City, MI.
Congratulations to the Friends of the Rouge Poster Contest winners! Akash's artwork will be displayed on the promotional materials for the Rouge Education Project this spring.
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Congratulations to the following student artists! These artists will have a piece artwork on display in the children's section of the Baldwin Public Library in Birmingham for the month on March.
8th Grade
Avery Appleby
Demi Baston
Evelyn Chang
Lana Haddad
Nicole Houston
Alek John
Aidan Khaghany
Rosalyn Li
Kristine Ma
Marissa Malleck
Lauren Mocur
Marc Meltser
Maria Nona
Ava Petrucci
Akash Raman
Saira Rao
Emily Rits
Sejal Sharma
Safia Siddiqui
Nicole Spizizen
Vivian Williams
Marggie Yang
Jacquelyn Yoo
Sonya Zhang
7th Grade
Aya Alomari
Sophie Endrud
Om Jaipati
Evan Larsen
Dylan Lepkowski
Sophie Liu
Silvia Negrut
William Schueller
Aaryn Sherman
Jiu Won
Valerie Yang
Andy Zhu
6th Grade
Meilan Antonucci
Quinn Appleby
Javi Aviles
Casey Beckley
Arrshia Bhanot
Prachi Gupta
Elizabeth Hennessy
Megan Kenney
Lucy Lepkowski
A.J. Moutzouros
Ryan Nielson
Coen Nystrom
Raj Rao
Christian Sanders
Alessia Sessa
Sophie Sohrab
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Grace Wang
Cynthia Xia
On Wednesday, February 28 the Flaming French Fries learned that their hard work and dedication to coding paid off! They will be among the 50 selected robotics teams competing worldwide in the 6-8 years age group to advance to the Invitational Round and contend for a $5,000 STEM grant.
Students have been working diligently every Friday afternoon since September to complete Missions and Challenges with the school’s Dash and Dot Robots. Evidence of their success was loaded to a virtual site and compared with over 1,000 other teams. Coding is a new language for our students that encourages 21st –century learning, helps develop computational thinking skills, builds teamwork and community spirit, and it is FUN!
Members of The Flaming French Fries are: (Back) Jordan Williams '28, Jack Bellware '28, Cody Buchzeiger '28, Noah Galle '28, and (Front) Zoe Batts '28
Congratulations to our Lower School Robotics Team!
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Each year, the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation chooses students from across the country who exemplify a passionate and positive change agent in their school and community. Katharine Shao '18 was named a Coca-Cola Scholar for the Class of 2018; she is one of 150 scholars selected from over 90,000 applicants, and more than 1,900 semifinalists and 250 regional finalists to receive a $20,000 college scholarship.
Katharine will be recognized for her exceptional achievements at the Coca-Cola Scholars Banquet in Atlanta, Georgia, the weekend of April 19-22. Katharine has demonstrated academic excellence and intellectual rigor combined with leadership and service, which embody the values of this long-standing scholarship.
Katharine was also recently conferred a Certificate of Excellence for The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards. This signifies Katharine was among the top 10 percent of all applicants from the state of Michigan. Also based on the number of volunteer hours, she has qualified for the President's Volunteer Service Award. This award recognizes Americans of all ages who have volunteered significant amounts of their time to server their communities and their country.
Congratulations Katharine!
Congratulations to our men's hockey team for their D3 state championship win on Saturday. This is the second DCDS men's hockey state championship. The first came 37 years ago in 1981.
Congratulations to our instrumental ensembles for their efforts and success at the recent MSBOA Regional Festival. The ensembles receiving First Division ratings qualify to participate in the State Festival in the spring.
Upper School Instrumental Ensembles
Middle School Bands
Middle School Orchestras
Congratulations to Lower School fine arts faculty member, Melissa Parks, for being named a 2018 Oakland County Leader of Leaders Award Winner. As stated on the Leadership Oakland website "Melissa T. Parks is recognized for excellence in Personal Leadership. She is the founder of Art&Soul of Oakland County, AKA Art&Soul Dreams, a non-profit dedicated to helping 3,000+ children in Michigan’s foster care system in need of adoption. This traveling photography exhibit features portraits of children between the ages of 11-17 taken by award-winning Michigan photographers, all who donate their time and talent. The genesis for Art&Soul came from Melissa’s professional development experience in 2016 with Leadership Oakland. She is also the Curriculum Coordinator for the Arts from Pre-K through 12th Grade for all of Detroit Country Day School in addition to acting as the Elementary Visual Arts Educator at the Lower School Campus." We are thankful for Melissa's many creative and artistic talents and salute her for using these talents for a very worthy cause!
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