Traip Academy yearbook achieves Gold Level Award: Seacoast education news
Kids connect with water through science projects and poetry
CONCORD – Fourth grade students, inspired by their questions about the world and a desire to solve real problems, competed in the New Hampshire 4th Grade State Water Science Fair May 3 to 6. Students explored a wide variety of topics, including erosion, ocean salinity, water science and water/energy conservation solutions to address climate change. Despite Covid-19 limitations, students from eight schools from the following communities participated in this annual event: Gilsum, Hampstead, Harrisville, Keene, Dover and Manchester. Students presented their science projects to panels of judges virtually.
Fourth Grade Water Science Fair results:
First Place: Ava Laffond and Julia Clark, Gilsum, for the project “The Water Cycle”
Second Place: Dominic Heath, Keene, for the project “Pollution on the Ashuelot River”
Third Place: Valiant Tran, Dover, for the project “Effects of Water Quality on Germination”
Additionally, 161 classroom and home schooled third through fifth grade students composed and submitted poems for the fourth annual Water Poetry Contest. Poems focused on the theme “Water and Me.” Entries were thoughtful, funny and moving, and were perfect examples of our physical, emotional, and for some, spiritual connection to water, which made it very difficult for the judges to select the most worthy poems.
Water Poetry Contest Results:
First Place: Remy Foucher, third grade homeschooler from Newton for “Imagining the Ocean”
Second Place: Jasper O’Shaughnessy, fifth grader from Concord for “Blue Copy”
Third Place: Reno Honda, fourth grader from North Hampton for “I Am”
Honorable Mention: Alexis Peterson, fourth grader from Chester for “The Peaceful Blue”
To read student poems and learn more, visit NHDES on Facebook or Twitter and the event website at https://nhwaterfestival.org/.
Traip Academy yearbook achieves Gold Level Award for second year
KITTERY, Maine — For the second year in a row, Jostens, the leading producer of yearbooks and student-created content, today announced that Traip Academy’s yearbook program has achieved the Jostens 2022 National Yearbook Program of Excellence award at the Gold Level. The National Yearbook Program of Excellence recognizes engaging yearbooks that reflect a broad representation of the student body while helping students develop 21st century skills such as communication, collaboration, and information and communication technologies literacy.
Fewer than 2.5 percent of the 15,000 yearbooks published received the Gold Level Award. Principal John Drisko noted: “This level of excellence is due to the dedication of the Yearbook’s Advisors, Mr. Brandon Farmer and Mr. Peter Cathey. In addition, the Publications class that creates the yearbook is run like a business, giving students tremendous opportunities to do authentic work.” Kudos must also go to the student editors: Editor-in-Chief Nora Gilbert, Business Manager Maggy Johnson, and Creative Director Emma Dawson-Webb.
The award was presented to The Ranger Log Yearbook for achieving defined criteria in one or more of the following categories: creating an inclusive yearbook, generating school engagement, and successfully managing the yearbook creation process. This year’s theme was 375, celebrating the 375th anniversary of the founding of Kittery.
In addition, Traip Academy's 2021 yearbook, the Ranger Log, has been recognized for excellence and is featured in the Jostens Look Book 2022, celebrating the best-of-the-best in yearbook design and inclusivity. The Jostens Look Book is a collection of outstanding yearbooks and their creative themes, cool covers, beautiful designs, relevant coverage of school events, meaningful storytelling, and stunning photography. Along with design excellence, the annually published Look Book honors the work of the students who create the yearbook over the course of 6-12 months. Through it, they chronicle the experiences, stories, and achievements most relevant to students and to that academic year.
Farmer and Cathey noted that: The 2021 Ranger Log was the first edition of our newly redesigned yearbook. We redesigned the yearbook to be more inclusive of student experiences and their stories, which is why the theme of the 2021 yearbook was Our Story. We are very happy that Jostens recognized the Foreign Exchange Student page for its design, uniqueness, and inclusivity. We are very proud of the students' hard work and the efforts that went into the redesign.
Farmer and Cathey and their yearbook staff received a copy of the Jostens Look Book 2022 with a plaque and banner from Jostens to recognize their outstanding achievement.
This article originally appeared on Portsmouth Herald: Traip Academy yearbook achieves Gold Level Award: Seacoast education news
