MPA sends art from four students to competition

The Scholastic Art Awards are a National Exhibition of student artists in grades 7-12.  Four of our Menlo artists have submitted artwork to the exhibition this year.  If selected, their works of art will be on display at the Cleveland Institute of Art, with the chance to be awarded a national prize, moving their art to NYC for the National Exhibition.  We will know next week whether any work was selected.

 

Congratulations, and best of luck to all of our artists!

by Nick H., 8th grade:

by Emily C., 7th grade:

by Alex W., 7th grade:

by Lexi H., 7th grade:

 

Lego Olympiad results

A big thanks to all the parents, volunteers, and teachers who made the LEGO Olympiad not only a success but also an extremely fun and exciting day! We had 86 students attend the event, and 8 teams won awards in the Open Build Division. 




Please join me in congratulating the following Menlo students who placed in the event:

1st Place, PreK-Grade 1
Team 5
Katie Love
Olivia Schauss
Linsay Homolka
Claire Coleman
Eliza Wegner

3rd Place, PreK-Grade 1
Team 4
Bradley Hofstetter
Maura Ingraham
Lilly Ross
Michael Smith

1st Place, Grade 2
Team 7
Ben Dawson
Jakob Syracuse
Stavros Ananiadis
Isaac Hubbard

1st Place, Grade 3
Team 11
Gabe Payne
Matt Harrington
Sam Peacock

Ryan Sluder

3rd Place, Grade 3
Team 12 (pictured at right)
Kelsey Watson
Carolyn Homolka
Elizabeth Coleman
Taylor Heckel
Noelle Harrington

1st Place, Grade 5
Team 17
Zasca Ristianto
Kehley Coleman
Teresa Szczecinski
Alexandra Harrison
Delilah Stack

2nd Place, Grade 6
Team 23 (WWII-Era Tank)
Nicholas Hiti (Euclid - pictured at right)

1st Place, Grade 7
Team 20 (Amusement Park with Shooting Gallery)
Quintin Kovach (Westlake)
John Antolik (Cleveland Heights)
Aidan Harrington (Avon)
Fox Milenski (Lakewood)

Cleveland Area Student Wins First Place in Worldwide Youth Art Competition

Experts from around the world gathered from April 11-15th at the International Academy of Astronautics Humans in Space Symposium to examine current human space exploration knowledge, plan future human space flight goals, and discuss working together to create the “Next Golden Age of Human Space Flight.”

In conjunction with this event, children ages 10-17 from every country were invited to submit their ideas about the future of human space flight and why it is important via visual, literary, musical or video art.

Ten year-old, Kehley Coleman, was awarded the Humans in Space Symposium Youth Art Competition Award for her literary submission entitled “The Journey to Space”. She was awarded first place in her age group in the Short Story subgenre and second place in her age group overall. Her short story was selected from 550 entries from around the world and was announced at the Humans in Space Symposium opening ceremony at NASA-Johnson Space Center.

Coleman is a 5th grade student at Menlo Park Academy in West Park and resides in Avon. She stated, “I really enjoyed writing the story. I just took what I know about space and what I know about writing and combined the two.” Her story can be seen at the Youth Art Online Gallery at www.humansinspaceart.org.