* On March 29, seventh grader Sragvee Atluri participated in the state Geography Bee. After eight preliminary rounds and two tiebreaker rounds, Sragvee made it to top 10 and eventually finished 7th in the state. He received a $5,000 scholarship from IUPUI.

 

* On Saturday, April 13, Coach Courtney Whitehead took the Park Tudor baseball team to First Baptist Athletics to conduct a baseball skills clinic with young players.

* As President of the Indiana Council of Teachers of English (ICTE) and the 2019 Conference Chair, Upper School English teacher Laura Gellin spearheaded the planning and execution of the inaugural ICTE state conference at Park Tudor School on March 16, 2019. The conference brought together approximately 125 English educators - from university-level to pre-service teachers - to learn best practices in literacy classrooms and to be inspired by authors and experts. Conference highlights included a keynote by Thomas C. Foster, author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor, craft talk from State Poet Laureate Adrian Matejka, over 20 workshop offerings, tons of free books for attendees, and Indiana's own Future is Now Roundtable session that featured over 25 pre-service teachers and their research.

* Upper School Band members had the chance to work with Dr. Caroline Hand from Ball State University yesterday. Many thanks to Dr. Hand for sharing her talent and knowledge with our students!

* Park Tudor students have work featured as part of an exhibit at Newfields (formerly the Indianapolis Museum of Art). Life and Legacy: Portraits from the Clowes Collection will examine the many portraits and artist self-portraits that Dr. George H.A. Clowes - one of the IMA's greatest benefactors - collected over his lifetime. ​The exhibition will offer a fresh look at his interesting life story, his art collection, and the development of portraiture over the span of several hundred years. The student artworks will be one of several ways that guests can engage with the exhibition. The exhbition will be on view from May 4 - August 18. Pictured below clockwise from left: Digital Illustration, "Ben," by Alex Morgan (12); Pencil Drawing, "Unloading the Day's Stress," by Sela Larman (7); painting, "Blueberry Ideas," by Pemberton McGuire (12).

* Fifth graders Darcy Brady and Lilly Quirey earned Honorable Mention in the Letters About Literature Writing Contest, and were celebrated this past Saturday as part of 2019 Youth Literary Day. Letters About Literature is a reading and writing contest for students in grades 4-12. Students are asked to read a book, poem or speech and write to that author (living or dead) about how the book affected them personally. Letters are judged on state and national levels. Tens of thousands of students from across the country enter Letters About Literature each year.