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Modern Language Students Excel
6/3/2010
Congratulations are in order for our Spanish and French students, who have achieved national recognition for their performance on the recent National French and Spanish exams: Allegra Lorenzotti (4th place, Spanish Level 01), Krystal Molina (5th place, Spanish Level 01), Diana Lopez (4th place, Spanish Level 2), Maya Kauffman (honorable mention, Spanish Level 2), Anna Jacobson (5th place, French Level 01), Olivia Herrington (5th place, French Level 1), Danielle Cohen (3rd place, French Level 1), Solveig Gold and Asprey Liu (tied for 5th place, French Level 2), Katherine Harris (5th place, French Level 3), Beatriz Stix-Brunell (3rd place, French Level 4), Stephanie Wisowaty (4th place, French Level 4), and Emily Ferguson (5th place, French Level 4). Well done, Nightingale!
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 | 7/8 Track Wins AAIS Championships, Sets Records at Gotham Games!
5/19/2010
The 7/8 track team finished their stellar season with outstanding showings at their meets last Friday, May 14 and this past Monday, May 17. At Friday's AAIS Championships, the team battled the intense heat and humidity to come away with a stunning victory, winning six out of ten events and placing runners in the top four spots in eight races. On Monday, the Nighthawks followed up their championship win with a great day at the Gotham Games, where the team came away with loads of medals and two meet records. Individually, Anna Jurew won the 1500 in 5:18.44 and Isabella Beroutsos came in 4th in 5:27.87—both breaking the previous meet record. Later, the 4x400 relay won with a record-breaking time of 4:35.18. Congratulations to the team and to Coaches Wangdu, Mumford, and Milazzo!
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Elizabeth Niemiec '00 Gives 2010 Cum Laude Address
5/10/2010
Below is the text of the 2010 Cum Laude Address, given by Elizabeth Niemiec '00.
Good morning. It’s a great privilege to be asked to help honor the new cum laude inductees. I received an e-mail from Ms. Hutcheson in early December asking if I would speak at this assembly. At the time I was interviewing for residency (the clinical training that comes after medical school), traveling all over the country, Detroit, Denver, Charleston, New Orleans, Louisville, Kansas City. I received Ms. Hutcheson’s e-mail when I was in Nashville, interviewing at Vanderbilt and staying with my sister Margaret '04, who is an accountant in Nashville. I immediately wrote back to Ms. Hutcheson saying YES! I would make sure to be in New York to participate in the assembly. I told her that I would be finished with my medical school requirements by April and would in fact find out earlier, in January, where I would complete my residency in ophthalmology. It was a wonderful moment. I felt great about the number of interviews that I was offered. I felt confident that I would come to Nightingale, a doctor (though not yet holding a diploma), with an admirable four-year plan. I'd be able to tell you about my successful journey to becoming, Dr. Niemiec, the almost ophthalmologist. It felt incredible to be thought of by Nightingale. One thing that is very hard to accept after spending 13 years of my life here, nurtured by this place, is that each class is replaced by the next. Life goes on behind the blue doors with out me. Being asked to come back, being remembered, felt fantastic.
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 | Nightingale Art Teacher Exhibits In Two New York Galleries
5/3/2010
Maggie Tobin, a member of Nightingale's Art Department, is currently exhibiting her beautifully ethereal paintings at the Michelle Rosenfeld Gallery in Manhattan as part of a group show entitled, Modern and Contemporary Masters, which includes pieces by Matisse, de Kooning, and Picasso. Additionally, Ms. Tobin's latest work will also be on view at Rico, an art and design store in Brooklyn. For more information on Modern and Contemporary Masters, please click here; for more on Rico, please click here.
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 | Sixth Annual Robo Expo at Nightingale
4/27/2010
On Saturday, April 24, Nightingale hosted the sixth annual Robo Expo. Robo Expo was created by New York City teachers as an opportunity for students to share the projects on which they have been working and engage in challenges in a non-competitive environment. This year, nine schools brought students ranging from grades three to eight.
During the hour-long showcase portion of the afternoon, students, parents, friends, and guests had an opportunity to visit displays created by each school. Following the exposition, students partook in challenges in which their robots collected cans from a playing field, traced the perimeters of various shapes, escaped from boxes, and tossed balls into targets.
Students from Nightingale?s third and seventh grades attended to share the robots that they have been creating in classes and clubs. Class III students worked together to build a Lego village to contextualize the Lego WeDo robots with which they have been working this year. Class VII students made robots using a variety of touch, light, and ultrasonic sensors, some of which included Bluetooth technology. These students wrote programs for their robots using sophisticated coding tools, such as loops and switches.
We were very pleased with the success of the day and are proud of all the students involved!
On Saturday, April 24, Nightingale hosted the sixth annual Robo Expo. Robo Expo was created by New York City teachers as an opportunity for students to share the projects on which they have been working and engage in challenges in a non-competitive environment. This year, nine schools brought students ranging from grades three to eight.
During the hour-long showcase portion of the afternoon, students, parents, friends, and guests had an opportunity to visit displays created by each school. Following the exposition, students partook in challenges in which their robots collected cans from a playing field, traced the perimeters of various shapes, escaped from boxes, and tossed balls into targets.
Students from Nightingale?s third and seventh grades attended to share the robots that they have been creating in classes and clubs. Class III students worked together to build a Lego village to contextualize the Lego WeDo robots with which they have been working this year. Class VII students made robots using a variety of touch, light, and ultrasonic sensors, some of which included Bluetooth technology. These students wrote programs for their robots using sophisticated coding tools, such as loops and switches.
We were very pleased with the success of the day and are proud of all the students involved!
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Nightingale Latin Students Ace National Exam
4/23/2010
Once again, Nightingale's Latin scholars have made us proud, as they collectively aced the 2010 National Latin Exams, sponsored by the American Classical League and the National Junior Classical League. More than 150,000 Latin students across the country sat for the exams. A grand total of 27 students in Nightingale's Class VII received recognition for "Outstanding Achievement in the Introduction to Latin Exam," while nine students received "Achievement" recognition. In Class VIII, 29 students received Summa Cum Laude certificates, while 18 Upper School Latin students received the honor. A special congratuations to the 13 Nightingale Latin scholars who received a perfect score on their exam!
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Model UN Team Brings Home Award
4/22/2010
This past weekend, Nightingale's Model United Nations society participated successfully in the Stuyvesant MUN debates. Students tackled historical, contemporary, and hypothetical debating situations, ranging from current United Nations committee discussions to past crisis scenarios. Our co-captain Hailey Huddleston won an Outstanding Delegate award for her stirring portrayal of the Secretary of the Treasury in the special historical simulation committee, American Civil War – Union Cabinet. Congratulations to all members of the MUN team!
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 | Earth Week Brings Education and E-Waste Drive
4/19/2010
Nightingale's student-run Environmental Board is celebrating Earth Week April 19–23 with a variety of awareness initiatives. The week will culminate in a one-day e-waste drive in which people from all over the community are invited to bring in old electronic devices to be properly recycled.
The week continues a long tradition at Nightingale of conserving energy, encouraging recycling, and transitioning internal operations to green-friendly practices. Work between students, faculty, and staff has led to the replacement of disposable dishes with reusable dishes in our cafeteria, the development of compost piles on one of our terraces, and the purchase of green energy for the school, among other programs.
For more information on the April 23 e-waste drive, please download this flier.
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Nightingale's Upper School Serves the Community
3/17/2010
On Tuesday, March 16, Nightingale's Upper School students teamed up with the Browning School to dedicate their day to community service projects throughout New York City. Service activities were organized by Nightingale's Director of Community Service Kristen Mulvoy. From clean-up duty in Van Cortlandt Park to helping to prep donations at the Pajama Program to meeting patients at the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, Upper School students and faculty alike spent the day focused on the great community we live in. Thanks to all who participated for making this such a successful event!
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 | Experts Teach Internet Safety to Nightingale Community
3/12/2010
On Thursday, March 11, noted authors and speakers Doug Fodeman and Marje Monroe came to Nightingale to talk to parents, students, and faculty about the dangers that their daughters and students may encounter on the Internet—as well as important tips on how they can protect themselves. Though it can seem a daunting task, Fodeman and Monroe urged parents to get tough and require that children wait until they are old enough to responsibly enjoy online privileges, such as Facebook accounts and IM. For more information on online safety and Fodeman and Monroe's new book, Racing to Keep Up, please visit www.ChildrenOnline.org.
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 | Art Teacher Designs Los Angeles Billboard
2/24/2010
Art teacher Kira Lynn Harris recently participated in How Many Billboards? Art in Stead, a large-scale urban art exhibit in the Los Angeles area. Sponsored by the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in LA, the initiative "highlights the interaction of pop, conceptualism, and architecture in Los Angeles since the late 1960s [and] addresses the environmental impact of billboards at a critical moment for city residents and officials."
"I'd wanted to do a billboard for a few years and have loved Felix Gonzales Torres billboards for ages," said Harris. "And it was to be in my hometown!" Her billboard prominently displays an image of the iconic Watts Towers. "I wanted my billboard to be both striking and beautiful and a reminder of the importance of the towers to the broader LA community."
More information can be found at howmanybillboards.org or the Los Angeles Times. The billboards will be displayed through March 2010.
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 | Class V Recreates Cave Paintings
2/8/2010
Class V has been studying cave painting as part of a unit on early man. The students decided to create their own cave and cave paintings, complete with images of woolly mammoths, bison, reindeer, and hunting scenes. They had a lot of fun constructing the cave and loved telling "hunting stories" inside it!
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 | C.A.F.E. Meeting Explores Cultural Context
2/6/2010
Mr. Geoff Hunt, from the Experiment in International Living, addressed Middle School C.A.F.E on the importance of traveling and cultural competency. The Experiment is a group that organizes foreign travel for high school students all around the world (many Nightingale girls have participated in the program over the years). Mr. Hunt began with an ice-breaker that illustrated different cultural norms around personal space. Then, he recounted a compelling story about a high school student from Manhattan who was faced with a cultural dilemma while visiting the Navajo Nation—inviting girls to contemplate how they might have responded given the cultural context. In closing, the girls viewed a video on Mongolia which chronicled the experience of an American group and illustrated the life-changing cultural lessons they learned from their Mongolian host-stay families and communities. Mr. Hunt was a dynamic and informative speaker, and our Middle School girls were impressively inquisitive and engaging.
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 | Debate Team Finds Success In Recent Competition
2/5/2010
Nightingale's Speech and Debate Team, which competes in the New York Catholic Forensics League (NYCFL) against stiff competition including Stuyvesant, Regis, Ursaline, and Marymount, recently competed at Convent of the Sacred Heart in Greenwich, CT. It was the first competition for Nadia Stovicek '13, Dani Frank '11, and Katie Harris '12, who competed in extemporaneous speaking, during which each girl picked one of three current events questions presented to her. The girls, equipped with news articles they've brought with them, then had 1/2 hour to prepare a seven-minute response (called an oral essay) to that question. Returning debater Sophie Barnett '11 also competed in extemporaneous speaking and her returning teammate Lydia Hogarth '11 took part in the oral interpretation of literature event, for which she prepared two ten-minute readings—one in prose and one in poetry, giving an introduction to each. Lydia's successful readings earned her a spot in the finals for the second year. Next up for the Speech and Debate Team is a President's Day weekend competition at Harvard University.
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