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'f\ VolufYie IX Nun^er 3 The North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics November 21,1988 it :.-v* > V Posey and Wu in Art of Science Exhibit Top - Celeste Pose^ 's hand-pamted phote of a daneTion seed Bottom - Sue Vu’s photo of a crystal formation by Ross Little S&M students Celeste Posey and Sue. Vu recently won special merit places m the National Science Foun dation's Art of Science competition. This national art competiton challenges students to create original artwork that shows the relationshp between art and science. Posey and Wu were part of the 50 out of 200 students picked for their work. Both girls submitted electron micrographs. Posey won with a hand-painted photo of a dandelion seed, and Wu won with a crystal formation of potassium dichromate. "The school figured at least one of us would win,” said Posey, "since micrographs really tied together art and science. INSIDER DEBUTS THIS ISSUE This issue of The Stentorian contains a bonus: Insider, a new national magazine for high school students. Starting this fall, 500 high schools in 27 states will offer the free magazine as a supplement to their regular student newspapers. The Stentorian will carry the magazine three times a year. The first issue includes articles about teenage char acters on TV shows, what to wear to college interviews, and how to snowboard and skimboard. Insider also has a questionnaire about after school jobs. Students who return the questionnaire are entered in Insider's trp-to- London sweepstakes. Fred Bernstein, the editor of Insider, fashioned Insider as a high school version of Parade, the Sunday magazine distributed in newspapers all over the United States. Because bisider whi reach 500 thousand stu dents, it can get interviews with national figures. Also, he said, "we can provide a country-wide perspective on issues of interest to high school students." On of the ways Bernstein keeps with teenagers' interests is to read high school newspapers, including The Stentorian. "More than 400 newspapers pour in to my office every month," he said, "and I read every one of them." While he's reading, he clips out the most interesting articles, which will appear in futire issues of Insider. "Every issue will contain excerpts from at least 20 high school newspapers," said Bernstein, who encourages students to submit articles, letters, photographs and cartoons for publication — and promises to read everything he gets. Bernstein spent two years creating Insider. "A lot of people told me it wouldn't work," he said. "They said that the only magazine that could get past school administrators would have to be so boring that no student would want to read it. But I don't think that's true." For Bernstein, one of the hardest parts of this project has been selliig enough ads to pay for the cost of printing the magazine. "Getting advertisers interested in a new pub lication is tough," he said. "But according to one study, high school students spend $34 billion a year." "Obviously, olass ring companies and review book publishers are interested in advertising in the magazine," said Bernstein. "But so are companies like Campbell's." The American Institute of Foreign Study is the sponsor of the sweepstakes in this issue. Entries must be received by Insider on or before Dec. 10. The great thing is that Sue and I both won!" Art teacher Joe Liles knew of the Posey s love of photography and offered her the opportunity to work with Dr. Peter Ingram, a proffessor at Duke who also works at the Research Triangle Institute. "I'd ahvays wanted to use an electron microscope," said Posey, "so I jumped at the chance when Mr. Liles asked me about it." "Celeste told me about working with the microscope," commented "y/u, "and when she asked me if I'd like to work with her, I said sure!" Vu and Posey prepared about 14 slides of various items, from plant seeds to gold chains. "Mr Liles suggested things like plant leaves and seeds, while Dr Ingram oot on the track of crystab," Celeste said. "Vo know bugs woro out right away,' she said. "Every b«ly who does electron micrographs messes with bugs " The two girls spent about an hour and a half lookit^ at all their different slides and deciding which ones would make good pictures. "Dr. Ingram was really great, and we thank him a lot for his help," said Wu. When the results of the competition were released last February, both girls were surprbed. "I simply felt shock when I read a note on my door that said I'd won, ’" reflected Posey. "Neato!" was all V/u could think to say when she found out. Now both girl's works are being exhibited outside the art studio until Dec. 9, when the exhibit moves on to another part of the country. 4 a Ann Lutz Grants Benefit by Dana Sius The NCSSM math department recently re ceived two large research grants for pioneering work in math education. Math teacher John Goebel will utilize a $20,GOG National Science Foundation grant and work with Duke University professors to explore possible ways of redefining the Calculus curricukim. If the research goes well, a larger grant at the end of the year is possi>Ie. Jo Ann Lutz, head of the math department, is in charge of using the Carnegie CaL. I CM Corporation's $20,DGD grant to expand the use of the school's innovative Intro duction to College Math course. Currently, Lutz is working to get the ICM textbook publbhed. "Ve're excited that other teachers want to teach ICM," Lutz said, "and we hope that finding a publisher will help them to do it." In addition to publishing the book, the grant money will also be used to distribute the text materials to teachers across the country who ask for it.
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