Grass Mountain Day: Today was Grass Mountain Day for the 2009-10 school year. Students found out first thing this morning. The weather is ideal, and the wildflowers are incredible. See highlights on the Grass Mountain Day page on our website soon!
Art Education: Martin Kersels and
Mary Collins, parents of Kirby Kersels '13, were on campus Tuesday and
Wednesday. Martin, who is an artist and co-director of the program in
art at California Institute of the Arts, showed his own work and spoke
about careers in art and art education in the Library for a club on
Tuesday night. On Wednesday he met with the freshman Foundations of
Visual Arts class and showed video footage of and discussed his
sculpture, Tumble Room. He enlisted the class to help make objects to
fill the Tumble Room for its next showing at Museum Tinguely in
Basel Switzerland at the show Under Deconstruction. "Web Design": The freshmen took a break from writing research papers in Midland 102 to
do some team building on a 3D web Rob Hopkinson set up in Middle Yard.
The goal: to get every classmate through without touching the ropes.
- Horse Camping Trip: Martina Svennungsen and Gillian Kinnear '04 took the experienced Midland horse riders for an overnight camping trip at The Spanish Ranch last weekend.
- Support Midland's First Yearbook: This student led project will be hardcover,
printed on 30% PCW recycled paper, 80 pages, and created using InDesign
CS4. Please help support the yearbook by purchasing an advertisement
for your business that will be a part of the book. Ads/messages can be
business card
sized to full page sized; please view the advertising form for sizing
prices. Unfortunately, there isn't a lot of time before the yearbook
is supposed to go off to printing, so please e-mail Mariah Chen '11 ASAP regarding any interest or questions. Mariah
would be happy to work with you; all you need to do is provide a
direction. Thanks for your consideration.
Solar Power: The new solar array installed by sophomores is now fired up and
producing beautifully. Following the installation in February with Gary
Gordon from Santa Ynez Valley Solar, the array required a series of
inspections - the county, the fire department, and finally PG&E,
which have now all been completed. PG&E installed a new meter,
programmed for net metering, which measures both the electricity pulled
from the grid for the well pumps and the electricity produced by the
array. As soon as Lise Goddard and Tom Rogowski were given the go-ahead
to turn the system on, it caught the afternoon sun, and the meter
started spinning backwards. Based on the electricity demands of
Midland's well pumps over the past several years, five such 3-kW arrays,
installed one each year for the next four years, will meet 100% of
Midland's well pumping needs.
Installation Art Project: To wrap up the very successful installation art project, three freshmen
gave brief presentations to the student body. Miguel Provencio, Emma
Drury, and Zachary Dib described both the how and why of their
particular projects: Miguel made a tri-colored rock dome in the
creekbed; Emma a ring of willow twigs in one of the garden's pecan
trees; and Zach a wooden sculpture next to the bridge meant to mimic the
flow of Alamo Pintado. The foundations of visual Arts teachers all
proclaimed this year's pieces to be among the very best they've seen in
all the years they've been doing this assignment. Click here to see a
video.
- Athletics:
Lacrosse: Varsity Boys played Laguna Blanca and Girls played Dunn on Wednesday. Although both teams lost, Shue Him Lau (aka Boom Boom Lau) had a hat trick.
See the sports schedule and updated sports photos.
- Travel Plans: All students' travel plans for Spring Break should be finalized. Please contact Jill Brady with your child's plans.
Reminder: All students must be back on campus before 6 PM on Sunday, April 11th.
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