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Green Street Academy eighth-grade students attended a performance of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet at The Chesapeake Shakespeare Company. 

Dr. Sedrick Smith, principal at Fallstaff Elementary/Middle School, had a guest op-Ed in the Baltimore Sun about fostering community in his school. You can read it here. 
 Students in Ms. Diallo’s first-grade class at Empowerment are learning about the life cycle of a butterfly. As part of their lessons, they created origami butterflies.  
 High school juniors in the Building STEPS program had a STEM exploration day at global diagnostic tech giant Becton Dickinson. They toured the facility in addition to attending career panels and discussions. 

Over Spring Break, Mr. Jeffries from Walter P. Carter Elementary/Middle School took some students to the Y’s Second Annual Boys & Young Men of Color Retreat (BYMOC) at Camp Puh’Tok. This two-day retreat was filled with conversations about mental health, mentorship, careers, connections and team building. 

European travel was the theme of some Mervo students’ Spring Break as they traveled to Croatia, Italy, Montenegro, and Slovenia.  

College acceptance news keeps rolling in for our City Schools seniors! Congrats to Eboné from Western High School. She was offered the Fanny Jackson Scholarship to Coppin University. 
 
Holabird Middle School students in Ms. Unger’s Nature Explorer Class are preparing for spring by planting seeds! Watch the hands-on learning experience over on Instagram. 

Fifth and sixth-grade students from Hamilton Elementary/Middle School are actively engaged in Southwest Airlines' Adopt-A-Pilot program. Fifth-grade students learned how to plot coordinates with their designated pilot Captain Isenstadt. The program offers STEM-focused activities and experiments to help foster an interest in aviation careers. 

The Belmont Elementary Family Science Fair highlighted students' science projects from quarters 2 and 3, reinforcing lessons and involving families in learning. Exhibits from vendors like 3D Pen Print, The Science Guy, and B360 offered interactive STEM/STEAM activities for parents and scholars. The event fostered collaboration and exploration, uniting families and the community to celebrate science. 

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