February 25th
GUS Students Win Prestigious Art Awards
Six GUS students were awarded Gold and Silver Keys at the 55th Boston Globe Scholastic Art Awards annual competition this year. More than 3,500 Massachusetts students in grades 7 through 12 entered the competition. An estimated 100,000 submissions are made to the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards nationwide. At both the regional and national levels, entries are blind judged by an esteemed jury of professional artists and writers ranging from fine and 
multimedia artists to poets and novelists. The competition’s most prominent prize, the Gold Key, was awarded to 150 students. There were also 291 Silver Keys and 459 Honorable Mentions. Student winners from Massachusetts were hosted to a dinner and awards ceremony on Sunday, February 14, 2010, and the art and writing will be exhibited publicly in the Transportation Building in Boston from February 1–March 19, 2010.
The students competed for awards in twelve different categories: animation, ceramics and glass, computer art, design, digital imagery, drawing, mixed media, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and video and film. Some of the winning entries can be seen at the boston.com website.
GUS Gold Key Awardee: Phoebe Weissblum
Silver Key Awardees: Alex Demarjian, Jacob Fucci, Ian Malabre, Jorge Piccole, and Elliot Thomas
Honorable Mention: Kate Miller
Gain at GUS is an academic enrichment program for scholastically talented, underserved students in the fourth and fifth grades at local area public schools. Tuition will be provided at no cost to the students thanks to a matching grant from the North Shore United Way. The program will take place at Glen Urquhart School in [...]
Fifth grader Jack Norton was one of 6 students in grades 5-8 chosen from over 400 nominees around the country to take part in the Mark Twain Young Authors Workshop in Hannibal, MO, for a week this summer. The program is co-sponsored by the HATS (High Achieving Talented Students) Program at Stetson University in DeLand, [...]
Upper schoolers enjoyed an exciting presentation on Monday by The Weather Man, NECN’s Matt Noyes. He answered many burning questions about the weather, lightning, and his job. Watch out for GUS on NECN this week, or on Matt’s web page. http://www.mattnoyes.net/
The first grade will start collecting books after March break for their annual book drive. Over vacation, if you happen to be doing your spring cleaning, look for slightly used children’s and young adult books. We will be providing you with dates soon.
