Brooks Middle Matters News
The Brooks team, which was led by head coaches Tom Kennedy and Sule Kivanc-Ancieta and parent volunteer Victor Ancieta, competed against 19 other schools in 23 events and earned three medals.
Under the direction of new coach, Brian Shinners, the team grew overall, increased the percentage of girls participating, and took part in more competitions than ever before. Plus two of our teams, Muppets and Hydra Resurrection, took home top awards from the VEX Robotics State competition!
In 2015-16, students and teachers will become digital creators who will use the rare items from the Ernest Hemingway archives in conjunction with project-based digital learning lessons to get a unique look at Hemingway, his local ties and his literary contributions.
The Festival takes place in Atlanta Georgia, and was attended by 4,500 people representing 104 schools from the United States, Canada, South Korea and Australia.
The terrorist attacks at the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris on January 7 prompted students in Ms. Lohman’s French classes at Brooks to create a shrine to honor those who were killed in the attacks.