D15 students' artwork recognized in PTA Reflections

Posted January 08, 2012 10:00 pm

Tim Waldorf

District 15 students recently received 66 Reflections arts education program honors awarded by the Northwest Suburban Council (NWSC) of PTA/PTSA.

Reflections is a national PTA program that asks students to create works of art based on an annual theme. This year's theme was “Diversity Means … ,” and students created works of art to reflect that theme in six different categories: visual arts, photography, musical composition, literature, dance choreography, and film/video production.

The program has several levels. Judging first takes place within individual schools' PTAs, and then within the Northwest Suburban Council of PTA/PTSA, which represents District 15. It then advances to the regional level, where Illinois PTA District 37 reviews nearly 1,500 projects and selects about 65 of those works of art to be judged in the state Reflections program in February.

Students whose works were selected by the NWSC of PTA/PTSA will be recognized at the Reflections Showcase on Monday, January 30, at 7 p.m. at Carl Sandburg Junior High, 2600 Martin Lane, Rolling Meadows. Those students are:

Literature

• Sean Forman, Kindergarten, Virginia Lake School PTA, Diversity for My Taste Buds

• Ian Bray, Grade 2, Kimball Hill School PTA, Diversity on Bugs

• Nethra Senthilkumar, Grade 2, Pleasant Hill School PTA, Diversity Means Treating Our Differences With Respect & Being Nice

• Anika Veda, Grade 2, Pleasant Hill School PTA, Animals Are Diverse and Snowflakes are Diverse

• Kevin Forman, Grade 2, Virginia Lake School PTA, Train to Everywhere

• Siddharth Hegde, Grade 3, Hunting Ridge School PTA, Interesting World

• Gina Barto, Grade 4, Pleasant Hill School PTA, Diversity Means Lots of Things

• Benjamin Grossman, Grade 4, Virginia Lake School PTA, Animals

• Gabriela Malysa, Grade 4, Virginia Lake School PTA, People

• Fausto Cisneros, Grade 4, Virginia Lake School PTA, Kids are Different

• Desiree Thompson, Grade 4, Virginia Lake School PTA, How Families are Different

• John Williams, Grade 4, Winston Campus Elementary PTA, Diversity Means

• Emma Forman, Grade 4, Winston Campus Elementary PTA, Vegetable Visions

• Will Ferry, Grade 5, Hunting Ridge School PTA, Diversity Means … Equality

• Joey Runde, Grade 5, Kimball Hill School PTA, Musical Instruments

• Vaishnavi Vembar, Grade 6, Hunting Ridge School PTA, Diversity

• Shruti Agarwal, Grade 6, Pleasant Hill School PTA, Diversity is You

• Nabeela Syed, Grade 7, Walter R. Sundling Junior High PTA, Diversity Means …

Photography

• Sarah Fell, Kindergarten, Stuart R. Paddock School PTA, Diversity is Sweet

• Lily Fell, Grade 2, Stuart R. Paddock School PTA, Diversity Means Colorful

• Gentry Mabry, Grade 2, Stuart R. Paddock School PTA, Diversity Means … Five Worlds Combined

• Edward Nieman, Grade 2, Gray M. Sanborn School PTA, Pumpkin Power

• Kacey Batke, Grade 3, Hunting Ridge School PTA, It's great to be able to choose your own backpack

• Nicholas Pitzaferro, Grade 3, Hunting Ridge School PTA, Having a choice of fruit to eat and enjoy

• Jackson Wiegold, Grade 3, Hunting Ridge School PTA, Diverse Dogs

• Samantha Nieman, Grade 3, Gray M. Sanborn School PTA, The Bird Bath

• Emily Labno, Grade 4, Hunting Ridge School PTA, How does your garden grow?

• Stacey Mau, Grade 4, Hunting Ridge School PTA, Reach and Look

• Ally Sheehan, Grade 4, Hunting Ridge School PTA, Beautiful Trees and Wild Flowers

• Thomas Novak, Grade 4, Pleasant Hill School PTA, Hat-Tas-Tic

• Zubin Havewala, Grade 4, Pleasant Hill School PTA, Eating Diversity

• Griffin Maloney, Grade 6, Hunting Ridge School PTA, Diversity

• Pierce Allord, Grade 6, Pleasant Hill School PTA, Diversity Means … A Safe Harbor

• Maggie Scovic, Grade 6, Winston Campus Elementary PTA, Diverse Converse

• Aidan Busch, Grade 7, Walter R. Sundling Junior High PTA, Diversity Means: All the Colors of the Night and Looking at the Familiar with a Different Perspective

Visual Arts

• Ryleigh Grossman, Kindergarten, Kimball Hill School PTA, Cupcakes

• Rhett Allord, Kindergarten, Pleasant Hill School PTA, Diversity Means … Colorful Handprints

• Shivani Kumar, Grade 1, Pleasant Hill School PTA, Diversity

• Andrea Kulpins, Grade 2, Hunting Ridge School PTA, Happy World

• Aubrey Horbach, Grade 3, Central Road School PTA, People Around the World

• Emma Milligan, Grade 3, Hunting Ridge School PTA, So Many Snowflakes

• Isabella Lekas, Grade 3, Hunting Ridge School PTA, We are all different

• Marisa Chalmers, Grade 3, Hunting Ridge School PTA, My Garden

• Shannon Trenkle, Grade 4, Stuart R. Paddock School PTA, Patterns

• Christiana Kirchner, Grade 4, Gray M. Sanborn School PTA, A Basket of Choices

• Sarah Zhou, Grade 4, Marion Jordan School PTA, Everyone is Different

• Allison Kao, Grade 3, Stuart R. Paddock School PTA, Butterflies

• Danielle Sauerland, Grade 4, Winston Campus Elementary PTA, Unity of Color

• Bailey Dean, Grade 5, Pleasant Hill School PTA, Diversity Means Acceptance

• Peri Kasanders, Grade 6, Lincoln School PTA, How many butterflies

• Vanshika Ramesh, Grade 6, Pleasant Hill School PTA, Rhythm-Unity In Diversity

• Chris Schmit, Grade 6, Pleasant Hill School PTA, Tiki Means

• Shruti Agarwal, Grade 6, Pleasant Hill School PTA, Each Country Is Separate But Together We Are United

• Jennifer Sobkowiak, Grade 7, Walter R. Sundling Junior High PTA, Life in the Ocean is a Reflection of Life on Earth

• Ananya Bhattacharya, Grade 8, Winston Campus Junior High PTA, Unity in Diversity

Film/Video Production

• Christine Rollinson, Kindergarten, Virginia Lake School PTA, Chrissie's Diversity Show

• Kirsten Juskiewicz, Grade 7, Walter R. Sundling Junior High PTA, Originality

• Braden Kobeski, Grade 8, Walter R. Sundling Junior High PTA, Diversity Goes to the Dogs

Musical Composition

• Rebecca Duran, Grade 8, Walter R. Sundling Junior High PTA, Despaired to Hope

• Ryan Jannak-Huang, Grade 8, Walter R. Sundling Junior High PTA, Etude: A Journey Through World Music History

Dance Choreography

• Zen Wang, Grade 1, Pleasant Hill School PTA, My Super Golden Dragon Dance

• Anna Selleck, Grade 5, Virginia Lake School PTA, Black & White by Anna Selleck

-- Story submitted by Community Consolidated School District 15

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