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SLA Baseball Storms Back to Beat King 8-5 on Opening Day

Posted by Douglas Herman on
Great Opening Day for SLA as they got revenge with 3 huge runs in the bottom of the sixth for a come-from-behind win over MLK. Shout outs to Nick Manton for knocking in the winning runs with a huge 2-run HR, and then closing out the final inning to secure the win. 

Freshman upstart Kevin Courtney ripped a clutch triple in the gap, and threw 3 scoreless innings to keep the game knotted at 5. Jeffrey Schwartz crushed a 3-0 pitch for an Utley-esque triple to help the Rockets erase a 3-0 deficit in the 2nd, and made solid plays in Center and at Short. 

Freshman Mike Ostrowski made 2 key defensive plays out in Left to keep the game close in the middle frames, and reached base repeatedly. Ethan Reese struck out 6 in 3 innings, threw out 2 guys trying to steal at 2nd once he went behind the plate to catch Kevin in the 4th and also hit 2 doubles.

Of course the players mentioned aren't the only ones responsible for the win. Abe Musselman used his bare hand to knock down a hot shot down the 3rd-base line, keeping it to a single, and SLA got out of the inning without any further damage. Mike Sanders sped down the line on a hard hit infield single and eventually scored the tying run. Stephen Eager-White played a solid 2nd Base and was a nightmare on the bases. 

Raekwon Smith was a rock at first, and hit a monster shot but King's Center Fielder tracked it down. Varsity Coach Douglas Herman kept his cool and didn't let the loud and "Dedicated Coach" from King get under his skin, and made solid moves managing his pitchers to ensure all would be eligible to pitch again this week. Major respect goes to Lulu Nhan for braving the whipping wind and bone-cold conditions throughout the game to keep score and manage the spirit of the team. 

SLA's baseball program is off to a strong start, and will have their Home opener against Freire at their new field in Mt. Airy on Thursday. 

Come on out to support. Rockets on 3- 1...2...3, ROCKETS!!! 

as reported by Ethan Reese and Coach Herman

2013 Carver Science Fair Winners

Posted by Timothy Best on
Congratulations to the following students for their awards at the 2013 George Washington Carver Science Fair:

Warda Abuali - Honorable Mention, Chemistry
Nikki Adeli - Honorable Mention, Medicine/Health
Kenny Nguyen - 3rd place, Botany
My Truong - Honorable Mention, Chemistry
Mingxue Zheng - 2nd place, Environmental Science

Mingxue and Kenny will advance to the Delaware Valley Science Fair on April 3rd. Congratulations everyone!
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Teen Pregnancy Process Paper-Isabela Supovitz-Aznar

Posted by Isabela Supovitz-Aznar in English 3 - Pahomov on

My group's campaign topic was teen pregnancy. As a group, I think we worked fairly well. Morgan and I did a majority of the work, as I was in charge of filming and putting together a meaningful PSA, and Morgan put together ads with a catchy slogan, and worked on finding plenty of information.

We used the catch phrase “Worth the weight?” in many of the photos that morgan put together as campaign ads because they provoke thought at the dual meaning in that question. The point is to emphasize that waiting to have sex until you are ready, (“worth the wait?”) is something that should be taken into deep consideration, because the question could end up turing into was having sex unprepared, worth the weight, and price, of a child.

In the PSA that I made, I tried to channel a little bit of everything. It was important to me to make sure to adress adults and make them aware of what they can do, as well as teens. I provided shocking facts about teen pregnancy, and then went on to talk about the ways it can be prevented. I tried to add in a little bit of humor too, by filming a scene at the end of a teen mom unable to control her baby, as a way to emphasize the responsibilty that having sex and getting pregnant can come with.

Dalena and Sterling were in charge of our social media, and promoting them. I feel as though because these were much simpler jobs, they could have done a better job, and I ended up promoting our PSA along wit morgan too. Besides this, I feel as though we all worked well and did a great job at putting together a campaign and mostly just an information base on social media sites for teens and parents to help them be educated about teen pregnancy.