Forensics Team Competes at Central High

Congratulations to the ECS Forensics squad (speech, debate, student congress) for placing 3rd in the small schools division at the Central High tournament on March 1.  Special congratulations to Adrianne Owings for qualifying for the state Tournament of Champions in all three of her events! 

Visual Artist Award Winners

Congratulations to Senior

 Courtney Ross for an Honorable Mention

 for her fashion design titled- Butterfly

Little Girl Dress Titled- Butterfly

In 2014, more than 255,000 works were submitted to The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards nationwide and only the top 40% receive some level of recognition (Gold Key, Silver Key, or Honorable Mention). 

Link: http://www.artandwriting.org/

Congratulations to Senior

 Nicholas Simmons for his Fourth Place Award in the Art Competition.  

The Theme of the show was Vision- the special sense by which the qualities of an object, person or idea rea perceived.  Elements of vision include light, perception and reflection- both internal and external.  

The competition and exhibition was sponsored by the Little Rock Eye Clinic and The J. Forrest Henry Trust.  All the art will be on display at the Little Rock Eye Clinic until June.

Percussion Classes Welcome Guest Artist Mike Vercelli

This week the percussion classes welcomed back to campus Dr. Mike Vercelli, Director of the World Music Center at West Virginia University.  Mike’s first visit to ECS was in the Spring of 2010.  This visit featured Mike working with our students on recreational music of the Dagara people of northern Ghana.  Students learned the song To Me Na on gyil (African xylophone) and various African drums and rattles, along with the lyrics and social dance that accompany the music.  You can see the students perform To Me Na in chapel on Wednesday, March 12th, and on the annual percussion ensembles concert that evening at 7pm.  Many thanks to Mike for making a return trip to ECS!