whitfield school | At the 2022-23 World Wide Technology STEM Student Forum, the school’s team won a $1,000 award to support STEM initiatives. The forum is designed to encourage high school juniors and seniors to pursue careers in STEM fields. This year, teams were asked to consider how schools could use technology and education to create a more sustainable future. The Whitfield team chose to explore ways to improve the school’s Conant Café by interviewing administrators, parent volunteers and students. They opted to create a web-based mobile ordering app.
parkway west high school
Congratulations to English teacher and publication adviser Debra Klevens! She was named the 2023 National High School Journalism Teacher of the Year by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association. Klevens created the Convergence Media program by merging two Parkway West publications, the PAWESEHI yearbook and the Pathfinder newspaper. More than 130 students are currently enrolled in the program.
robinson elementary school
Fifth-grader Lillian Horrom’s artwork was selected as part of the Missouri Art Education Association/Missouri Alliance for Arts Education Missouri Senate Art Competition. Her art will be framed and displayed alongside other students’ work from across the state at the Missouri Capitol throughout the year to advocate support for the arts. State Sen. Andrew Koenig, R-Manchester, and representatives from MAAE and MAEA selected Lillian’s art as the winning piece to represent the region.
kirkwood high school
The high school’s boy’s and girl’s racquetball teams were named Overall Team National Champions at the USA Racquetball High School Championships for the second consecutive year. The boy’s team placed second, and the girl’s team placed first, giving them their first title in the school’s history. “Despite being in a new environment, they played with high intensity and poise,” Coach Dan Whitley says. “They supported one another and played as a team, exemplifying the players they have been all season. We are so proud of the way they represented Kirkwood High School and our community on a national stage.”
visitation academy
The school is hosting an exhibition featuring the work of Tennessee artist Anne Goetze called Pray to Love. The mixed media pieces focus on the Visitation Monastery in Annecy, France, as well as the lives of the Visitation Sisters who call it home. Selections from the Visitation Monastery and Academy Archives also will be displayed. The exhibit will be available to view from March 26 to 31 on the academy’s main campus. “We are excited to welcome this talented artist and share her beautiful and powerful imagery of life as a Sister of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary with the St. Louis community,” says Amelia Blanton Hibner, dean of mission integration. “The historical and spiritual significance of these works cannot be put into words.”