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Education

  • Serving solar baked pizza

     Making pizza ovens doesn’t sound like a typical project for first graders but that’s what several classes at Saddlewood Elementary School did recently.

    Working in pairs, the first graders turned a pizza delivery box into a solar oven and then made their own individual pizzas, under the watchful eyes of John Linhoss, community sustainability extension agent for Marion County, and their teachers.

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  • Life underwater enjoyed

    There are two immediate goals for West Port High School student Shelby Bradshaw.

    One is achieving her master’s status in scuba diving and the other is attending the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe Festival this August.

    She first learned to snorkel dive when she was nine but that wasn’t enough. The youngster wanted to swim like the fish. Her father told her scuba diving would give her that opportunity.

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  • Program helps with future plans

    One junior at West Port High School thinks working at Disney World would be magical.

    Ariana Maruca would love the opportunity to be a Bella character actor at the popular attraction.

    She’s getting practice for such a role.

    Last week, she was in the school’s production of The Diary of Anne Frank. Before that show, she was Beatrice Chick in Hairspray.

    When she isn’t in school, she enjoys spending time with family, friends, her two dogs and attending Meadowbrook Church.

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  • Sound man plans for the future

     

     

     

    Sound and music are important items in the life of Ignacio Scannone.

    So important, that one day, he wants to major in sound design and studio technology at a Florida school.

    Scannone is a junior at West Port and is in his third year of the drama program.

    He enjoys his involvement with the drama program because of the opportunities to meet and work with a group of   “interesting and talented” people.

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  • Monologues bring awards

    March 16 will be a big day for West Port High School senior Julio Chavez.

    As the winner of the Best of the Best Performance award in the 2010 District 12 Thespian Festival he is part of the opening ceremonies, March 16, for this year’s state thespian festival.

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  • Students involved in fund raising efforts

     

    The field of pharmacy is calling Teneal Barwick in her future plans.

    For now, she’s a 10th-grader at West Port High School.  She’s involved in both the drama program and medical programs at the school and she’s an honor student.

    You won’t find Teneal on stage.

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  • 'Interesting life' to figure into future

    In the orchestra, Reid Shelley plays the violin. In drama, Reid Shelley operates the sound board.  

    He also writes plays. He wrote The Taste of Broadway musical revue produced last weekend at West Port High School.

    Shelley, a senior at West Port High School, wrote two plays for district competition. His entry last year was rated “superior” by judges at district and was forwarded to the state level for competition.

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  • Theatre a way of life for student

    The old adage “the acorn doesn’t fall far from the tree” holds true for one sophomore at West Port High School.

    Since she was a young child, Corinne Proetto has enjoyed stepping onto a stage.

    “I have been acting for as long as I can remember due to the fact that my mom, Rita Proetto, is a drama teacher,” she said.

    For the younger Proetto the stage is now at West Port High School and her drama teacher is Janet Shelley.

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  • Senior rolls with the show

    When this spring’s production of “Diary of Anne Frank” goes on stage at the Marion County Center for Arts in April, Cody W. Spencer wants to be front and center.

    He envisions himself in the role of Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank, but tryouts aren’t over with.

    If he doesn’t get that particular role, he’ll take on production duties or other tasks that need to be done on stage or behind the scenes. Most recently, he was the camera man for the group’s production of Hairspray.

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  • Acting, singing puts senior on stage

    Yancey Reeder’s first role on stage was that of a disgruntled ladybug in a musical “Going Buggy.”  As the first grader stood on stage singing “that’s no way to treat a ladybug” she was bit by the acting bug.

    Reeder is a junior at West Port High School, enrolled in the Marion County School for the Arts program, now and acting is still her “first love.” 

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