Page 44 The Dispatch/Maryland Coast Dispatch December 6, 2013 Students In The News Buckingham Elementary third-grade students Ziquase Duffy, Jamira Johnson and Emily Bowden are explaining their STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) project to BES Principal Dee Shorts. After reading about pilgrim houses, students re-created them within a team. They had to refer back to their readings in order to make them as accurately possible. A group of seniors from Worcester Preparatory School has created “Students Change A Nation” or “Students CAN” to help build schools in Cambodia. The group is working with the non-profit organization World Assistance for Cambodia. The goal is to provide the St. Paul’s School of Hope with an English/computer teacher, a low-energy computer network with Internet access, a Victory vegetable garden, a water filter, solar panels, and a library. Through fundraisers, the students have raised over $7,000 and have a goal of $15,000. Pictured, front from left, are Claire Stickler and Alissa Talbert; and, back, Razaak Eniola, Lucas Baier, and Daniel Rosa. Not pictured is Chris Klug. Submitted Photos Showell Elementary third-grade students Eva Kate Luzier and Hannah Tilton model the distributive property of multiplication. Lara Coyman and her daughter, Emma, celebrate American Education Week at Showell Elementary. In her third grade classroom, Emma is creating a fish to explain adaptations. Fourth-grade students Christian Miller, Imani Walker and Tia Scordo at Buckingham Elementary School participated in an arts immersion lesson cotaught by art teacher Mrs. Reid and general education teacher Ms. Bullock. Students transformed a plain piece of paper to replicate an animal hide that would have been used in the early 1800s to communicate important events of the Pawnee nation. The Spell of Sleeping Beauty was presented for parents and students grades Pre-Kindergarten through eighth grade by the Sixth Grade Players at Worcester Preparatory School. English teachers Geneva Sampson and Susan Godwin directed the show along with Student Director Caroline Lewis. Pictured, first row from left, are Devin Wallace, Alec Burbage, Molly Pugh, Maddy Shanahan, Korina Gjikuria Abi Plylar, Hana Miller, Audrey Stearns, Kyra Marshall and Saylar McGuiness; second row, Frank Carter, Quinn McColgan, Kelly Polk, Sierra Hall, Liza Moore, Abbi Nechay, Sami Repass, Rylie Carey, Madison Van Orden and Jordan Campbell; and, back, Karim Dahr, Kurt Leinemann, Sam Tinkler, J.P. Issel, Spencer Paquette, Hunter Selzer and Will Tinkler. Ashur Whitlow and Cash Cyburt, third-grade students at Showell Elementary, show their understanding of the distributive property of multiplication.