It is common to find that certain enormous high schools have been subdivided into several smaller ones, all housed within the same building. At one such site in the Bronx, I saw these Track and Field awards for a competition that had been held at the University of Pennsylvania. If you zoom in, you can see that these relay runners are completely nekkid, and they seem to be coming up to say hello to Ben Franklin. I know that during the ancient Greek Olympics the athletes were naked, but during the American Revolution too?
Some Honor
15 Aug 2017 Leave a comment
in 176X, Bronx, Physical Education Tags: award, Ben Franklin, naked, runners
STEM at Stuy
14 Aug 2017 Leave a comment
in STEM Tags: proofreading, STEM, Stuyvesant
I just got back from a 3-day STEM institute at the new Stuyvesant high school (yes, I know it has been in Battery Park City for 20 years already). It ran from August 8-10. Hundreds of others attended, there were dozens of workshop offerings, and even the chancellor herself was there. The keynote speaker was none other than Neil deGrasse Tyson of Hayden Planetarium fame. Clearly a lot of time and hard work went into pulling it off. In fact, my workshop, “We Are having Molecules for Dinner” was superb (more on that later).
My point is, there were so many coordinators and administrators putting together this event, so why did no one catch this mistake on the agenda?