Friday, February 18th, 2022—In honor of Black History Month, Syracuse Academy of Science high school's art department shares with you its collaborative piece featuring the Syracuse Academy of Science (SAS) Choir and artwork from students in Art 8, Printmaking, Creative Arts Drawing, and Painting.

This month, Ms. Carlson's music class has studied music theory, singing, and recording techniques to perform the award-winning song "Stand Up" by Cynthia Erivo. "Stand Up" is featured in the Academy Award-nominated movie Harriet. In this video, you will hear the impressive vocal and percussion performance from SAS Choir, as the Atoms sing, stomp, and create a beat and rhythm to the song "Stand Up." The Atoms selected the song "Stand Up" for its powerful, positive message and contemporary resonance.

The musical recording is accompanied by moving masterpieces from Mrs. Merrithew's art classes such as Art 8, Creative Arts Drawing & Painting, and Printmaking. Students submitted works in different art mediums ranging from dry-point printing to large mixed media portraits. Atoms in Creative Arts drew inspiration from the works of Aaron Douglas, who is often called the 'Father of African American Art.'

We want to thank all of our students and teachers, Ms. Carlson and Mrs. Merrithew, for their incredible talent, hard work, and creativity. The students' and teachers' efforts and achievements have certainly not gone unnoticed. 

Friday, February 11th, 2022—Syracuse Academy of Science middle school Project-Based Learning (PBL) 6^th and 7^th-grade students had an opportunity of a lifetime to create an interactive game to teach students about becoming strong money managers. Each grade was responsible for designing and pitching to Empower Federal Credit Union, their game that demonstrated their understanding of the importance of saving, spending, and sharing money.

The 6^th-grade students created a game that teaches students about the importance of sharing, saving, and spending on items that are needs and not wants. Meanwhile, the 7^th-grade students created a game teaching students how to spend money responsibly. 

Each grade presented their games to Empower Federal Credit Union's Financial Education Officer, Cheryl Welles. Cheryl will select a winning team from each grade and will use their game to help teach elementary school students about the importance of saving, sharing, and spending.

Monday, February 14th, 2022—The Syracuse Academy of Science elementary school students in Ms. Fogarty's 2^nd-grade class spread a little love, kindness, and adjectives to their classmates on Valentine's Day. Instead of passing out valentines day cards, students passed out compliment adjectives that best matched the personality of their classmates. Some of these adjectives include friendly, kind, hard worker, rockin' reader, and math whiz! Atoms walked around the room and placed their adjectives in their classmates' heart cutouts. These kind words and adjectives certainly put a smile on all the students' faces. We hope everyone had a happy Valentine's Day!

Saturday, February 12th, 2022—Early Saturday morning, the Syracuse Academy of Science high school Robotics Team attended the First Tech Challenge (FTC) Qualifying Tournament at Clarkson University. This tournament inspires students to learn like engineers. Participants must design, build and program their robots to solve challenging missions. 

The FTC mission this year required robots to detect the scoring element, collect the cubes and balls, and deliver them to the shipping hub, as well as bring the ducks into the field. To compete, the Atoms prepared a robot that can collect and lift and drop the debris to the desired level of the shipping hub!

We invite you to click here to watch the Syracuse Academy of Science Robotics Team practice for the FTC Qualifying Tournament. Please click here to watch an additional video of the Robotics Team practicing for the FTC Qualifying Tournament.