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Poetry Slam Fest!
Submitted by hfeldman on Mon, 06/04/2007 - 8:11pm.Last Wednesday, a poetry slam fest was held in the SLA Café. Two of Mr. Lehmann’s former Beacon students and b-ball team members, Denice Frohman and Elizabeth Acevedo, came down from NYC to participate. Both have performed at the Bowery Poetry Club and the Nuyurican Café. Elizabeth was on the New York City Youth Slam team that won the National Slam Competition, and Denice did a one-woman show at Dowling College. They performed a few of their numbers, and some SLA students got to show off with compositions of their own. The ballroom club did a tango, and Dan and Josh played some music.
Molly Tsongas and An Inconvienient Truth!
Submitted by acampbell on Thu, 05/24/2007 - 9:19am.On May 9th 2007 Molly Tsongas came to SLA to give Al Gore's Slideshow of An Inconvienient Truth to the whole SLA community. This was a follow up activity to the showing of the movie. Molly is one of 1,000 people who got trained by Al Gore to give the side show based on the documentary in the US. Everyone seemed to really enjoy her talk and asked some great questions! Afterwards our Newpaper team had a chance to talk to Molly. Here is our Q and A: Q: What got you interested in Global Warming?
2007 Philadelphia Primary Elections
Submitted by hfeldman on Mon, 05/21/2007 - 4:15pm.Last Tuesday, May 15, was the Primary Election Day! Democrats and Republicans came out to vote for their candidates in the November Final Election. Although turnout wasn’t so great (about 30% citywide), the election went on. In the end, the Democratic candidate for mayor, which was the hotly contested race this election, is Michael Nutter. He will run against the unopposed Republican, Al Taubenberger.
SLA Gets Ready to Dance Again!
Submitted by adunn on Tue, 05/15/2007 - 9:10am.SLA's third and final dance will be held on Friday, May 18th in the Cafe. We are hoping for wonderful attendance at our final social event. There will be FREE food (yes, that is FREE food), great tunes, and good times. Tickets are $3 for SLA students, $5 for SLA guests (limit one guest per SLA student) and will be on sale in the Cafe this week.
Dr. Steven Squyres visits SLA
Submitted by acampbell on Tue, 05/01/2007 - 2:31pm.SLA was very fortunate this past Thursday, April 26th 2007, to host a lecture by Dr. Steven Squyres. Dr. Steven Squyres won the Benjamin Franklin award for Earth and Environmental science this year. He came to talk to SLA as part of the Franklin awards week. He gave a great power point show explaining how the robots that are on Mars now were built, what they are doing there, and what some of the challenges were during the mission. After Dr Squyres did a question and answer section where we got to ask him a lot of great questions.
Meet the Scientists
Submitted by hfeldman on Mon, 04/30/2007 - 3:18pm.On April 24, twenty-five SLA students attended “Meet the Scientists” at the Franklin Institute. At the event, five scientists from the top of their fields spoke at a panel discussion. Schools from all over Philadelphia came to meet the scientists and ask questions. Included on the panel were:
Broughton Hall High School Visits SLA
Submitted by eduarte on Mon, 04/16/2007 - 2:05am.On Thursday March 29th, some seniors visited us from Broughton Hall High School in Liverpool, England, UK. They were here because they want to remodel their school. They came to Philadelphia to see four schools. Student Government had an opportunity to speak to them during lunch. It was a great experience; they really enjoyed their stay here. When they were about to leave they got very upset. After SLA they were going to go to High School of the Future. Student Government said that they were going to stay in touch with them.
Change Your Clock
Submitted by jthomas on Mon, 04/09/2007 - 7:07pm.SLA's service leadership learning group took an extrodonary trip on March 9th. Service leadership learning took part in a great program called "Change Your Clock" that happened in the city of Philadelphia. Taking a trip to a senior citzen home in South Philadelphia SLA students took part in passing out flyers on fire safety and changing your smoke detector battery every six months. SLA students got to hear some really wise words from Philadelphia's fire commissoner as well as do some community service.
Earth Day
Submitted by acampbell on Mon, 04/09/2007 - 4:15pm.EARTH DAY APRIL 22nd!!! What are you going to do to celebrate?
Congrats
Submitted by hfeldman on Mon, 04/09/2007 - 4:08pm.Congrats to Jay Mukhtar and Alison Campbell for placing at their sports events over break! Jay attended a squash tournament, where his team placed fourth! Alison went to the Interscholastics for orienteering, where she placed fifth individually, and her team got third! Yay to them both!
Edutopia
Submitted by hfeldman on Mon, 04/09/2007 - 4:03pm.The Science Leadership Academy was again highlighted in a national spotlight. April’s Edutopia magazine features SLA as the ‘cool school’ of the month! It’s a great article, so go check it out at Edutopia's website .
SLA Updates for April
Submitted by adunn on Mon, 04/09/2007 - 3:39pm.Happy Spring, SLA! Now back from Spring Break, we are moving full-throtle into the 4th Quarter. Here are a few updates you might like to know:
Elgg Newspaper
Submitted by hfeldman on Mon, 03/19/2007 - 5:52pm.Hey guys! If you haven't been reading our newspaper blog on Elgg, you can take a look at what we've done there. Just go to the newspaper on Elgg! There are teacher interviews, school updates, and more!


