Four Stone Ridge 4th Academics were selected to attend the 24th Annual Lecture Series on October 13, at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The theme of the conference was "Ecology of Rivers and Coasts: Food Webs and Human Impacts". Scientists Mary E. Power of UC Berkley and Brian R. Silliman of Duke University shared their research on the interactions between species and their environment in riparian and coastal ecosystems. Our student participants were Willa Riekhof ’17, Madison Boyle ’17, Amarachi Ibe ’17, and Katie Flynn ’17.
Mrs. Heidi Johnson
In the Middle School, we did something counter-intuitive during the Hour of Code week--we put away laptops to become teams of coders and robots! The girls used a tinkersmith activity to code using arrows as language. They “programmed” their robots to stack the cups in a specific way. This activity gave meaning to what debugging, coding, programming, and robotics really is. 
Meaghan Kilner ’20, competed in the IDTANA Southern Region Oireachtas (Irish Dance Competition) on December 3-4 in Baltimore, MD. She competed in three rounds as a solo dancer against 136 other girls in the U15 category, performing both hard and soft shoe dances including a Treble Reel, a Slip Jig, and a Contemporary Set piece. Meaghan placed 31st, making her a North American Irish Dance National Championship (Nationals) qualifier. She will compete at Nationals in New Orleans in July of 2017 with the goal of qualifying to compete in the 2018 World Championships in Glasgow, Scotland. She also competed on a 4-Hand Figures team that medaled, placing 11th of out 70 teams. Meaghan dances with The Culkin School of Traditional Irish Dance and began dancing when she was five years old.
