Spring Parent Teacher Conferences 2012

PARENT – TEACHER CONFERENCES
Thursday, March 29, 2012 from 5:30-8:00pm
Friday, Friday, March 30, 2012 from 1:00pm-3:30pm

Here are just a few reasons WHY COMING TO PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCES IS GREAT FOR YOUR STUDENT:

• You will learn about your students’ current academic standing.

• Learn about what happens when students fail classes for the semester, have incomplete milestones or need to be enrolled in Summer School.

• HELP YOUR STUDENT PREPARE TO PASS THEIR JUNE REGENTS!

• Parents and guardians that are in the “KNOW” about upcoming projects, grading systems and final exams can help their students PASS!

• Come to PARENT TEACHER and help your student stay on grade level!

• Attending Parent Teacher conferences will help your student SUCCEED!

• Complete the NDHS School Survey – meet with Dr. Scott Conti and all NDHS staff!

• Help support New Design High and your child’s success.

• BECAUSE WE NEED YOU TO HELP US HELP YOUR CHILD MAKE THE BEST ACADEMIC CHOICES POSSIBLE!

Marcus Rocks It

Congrats to 11th grader Marcus O and his coaches John and Avi from the English Department.  Marcus scored second in the NYC Finals of the English Speaking Union Shakespeare competition.  NYC schools are allowed to enter one student each into the competition.  Marcus beat students from top NYC area schools including private school giants Trinity School, St. Ann's, Hewitt as well as 59 other schools.  He earned $250 dollars for this finish. 

Fight for Survival LES

Check out the trailers for Fight for Survival from our Mediastorm class.  The film, from the Goonies Production Team, explores the continuing gentrification in the Lower East Side.  The film will premier in May in the New Design High School film festival.  To keep updated about this film check out the Goonies Production Twitter site or email the team at fightforsurvival@newdesignhigh.com.

You can follow along with developments in the class at the  Mediastorm class blog or on the class Twitter site.

Coming Soon: POP Up Shop Poster Campaign

The 11th Graders will be back to work on their Pop Up Shop poster campaign next week, cant wait to see the results, this is one still in the works

Paris in the 20's

google doodle sketches

some sketches for the google doodle contest by 11th graders

11th Grade Typography Self Portraits

Pop Up Shop logo

The NDHS Pop Up Shop logo is now complete after numerous rounds of revisions, stay tuned for the Pop Up Shop poster Campaign from the 11th grade

Community Service Club Rocks!

NDHS Community Service Club students helped volunteer at Material for the Arts in Queens! MFTA is an awesome organization that provides thousands of NYC’s arts and cultural organizations, public schools, and community arts programs with the supplies they need to run and expand their programs. MFTA gathers materials from companies and individuals that no longer need them and makes them available, for free, to the artists and educators that do. MFTA is a great resource to NDHS Design staff as we always have an annual trip at the start of our school year! Great work to all the girls that helped organize the warehouse materials!

Identity Sculpture

Based on the work by master sculpture Robert Arneson, Year one students produced several drafts and studies before creating their final piece. The students were asked to place objects on their "heads" that told the viewer about their personality and interests. They used recycled materials, glue, tape, and acrylic paint to create their masterpieces. Way to go 9th graders!

Repeat Pattern Design

Eloina Flores's organic repeat pattern design marketed on an ipod skin.

Brittany Reeves's geometric repeat pattern design marketed on a bed set. 

Shartell Moran's organic repeat pattern design marketed on swim wear.

Melody Dunbar's organic repeat pattern design marketed on a bed set.

10th grade students have been studying repeat pattern design. They studied and created geometric and organic repeats. They then had to solve the problem of how to market their repeat patterns on specific products. Student's also learned about target markets and merchandising. 

Junior Lighting

Junior and Sophomore designers were asked to create table top lamps. The design theme was kept open but all the lamps were variations on the simple cube.