The Carrboro High School Parent Teacher Student Association will hold a meeting on June 3 for rising ninth-grade parents to learn about the organization and various volunteer opportunities. More »

Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools will host a Safe Schools Roundtable on June 3 at 7 p.m. in the Smith Middle School Auditorium.

The event will provide an opportunity for district administrators to share information about school-safety initiatives and to hear from parents about their school-safety concerns.

Several high school theater and music groups will perform concerts over the next week:

• Carrboro High School will hold its spring theater showcase tonight (Thursday). The showcase will start at 7 p.m. in the Carrboro High Café Commons.
• The East Chapel Hill High School chorus will present its spring concert tonight (Thursday) at 7:30 in the Main Stage Auditorium. The concert will feature performances by the concert and show choirs, treble and east ensembles, East Men, Alley Cats and Chiefs of Staff. Admission is $5. More »

Carrboro High School sophomore Lindsay Scott Barton has been selected to attend the Legislators’ School for Youth Leadership at Western Carolina University.

The one-week residential program for selected rising eighth- through 11th-grade students utilizes the resources of Western Carolina University and the setting adjacent to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Students will participate in leadership-skills training, outdoor recreation, educational sessions and community-service work.

Students arrive at Carrboro High’s first-ever prom at the Century Center Saturday. Photo by Kirk Ross.

Kristin Lengowski’s Children’s Theatre will present Miss Spider’s Tea Party and Stone Soup at Carrboro Elementary School this Saturday and Sunday.

The plays will be presented in the Carrboro Elementary auditorium at 3 p.m. both days.

Tickets are $5.

Seventeen string students from Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools represented the district at the North Carolina Junior All-State Orchestra Concert on May 3 at North Moore High School.

Chapel Hill-Carrboro All-State Orchestra students are: Chia Yen Sung, Forrest Li and Jonathan Dolan, Culbreth Middle School; Alice Huang, Cissy Yu, Sandhya Mahadevan, Tsai-Wei Cheng, Sirui Wang, Eric Chiou, Angie Edwards, Lewis Peel and Kyle Jordan, Phillips Middle School; and Oskar Marzalek, Chisung Cho, Paul Lee, Galen Kirkpatrick and Addy Rigdon, Smith Middle School.

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Three students from Frank Porter Graham Elementary School recently advanced to the national finals in the Storytubes Competition, in which students submit a video of themselves talking about their favorite books.

The students who advanced in the competition are first-grader Euniiq Harrell and fourth-graders Jacob Zinn and David Maffly-Kipp.

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Students participating in the 21st Century Community Learning Center program will hold a gallery exhibition of their photography on Tuesday from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Extraordinary Ventures on South Elliot Road.

The show, entitled “Through Our Eyes: Reflections on Social Justice,” will display the photography of Jonathan “Chuck” Beck of Carrboro High School; DeMario Farrow of Chapel Hill High School; and William Cook II, Quentin Lyght, Tracey McCauley Jr., Devante Riggsbee and Jonathan Smith of East Chapel Hill High School.

The Honors Chamber Choir of Chapel Hill High School appeared on WCPE’s “Great Sacred Music” show on Sunday from 8:30 to 9 a.m.

The choir received an honorable mention in the Triangle Youth Chorus Awards.

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The Coalition for Alcohol and Drug Free Teenagers of Chapel Hill and Carrboro will hold a spring lunch meeting at Squid’s Restaurant on May 22 at noon.

Members will provide an update regarding coalition initiatives and hear concerns and other input from participants.

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Allison Press, a freshman at Chapel Hill High School, was chosen on Monday as one of 40 finalists in Google’s nationwide Doodle 4 Google competition.

The Doodle 4 Google competition asked students in grades K-12 to design a Google logo inspired by the question “What if…?” The winning student’s doodle will be displayed on Google’s homepage on May 22.
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Burmadeane George, director of Phoenix Academy, was one of 30 educators from across the country selected to attend an Oxford Roundtable entitled “Child Poverty: Educational Initiatives and Consequences.”

The Oxford Roundtable is a nonprofit organization aimed at conducting gatherings that allow citizens of the United Kingdom and the United States to discuss public policy issues bearing on education. Participants are selected based on several criteria, including nominations of earlier attendees, courses taught, presentations and writings and professional involvement in a relevant area of interest.
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By Sean Umstead
Courtesy of the Carrboro Commons

When the Charlotte Bobcats began their inaugural season in 2004, they won a modest 22 percent of their games. Setting up one team clearly has challenges; setting up 20 new teams could be overwhelming.

That is what April Ross, Carrboro High School’s athletic director, has on her plate after taking over for Steve Reinhart, who resigned in December.
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Kindergarten students at McDougle Elementary School sell flowers as part of the school’s annual “Bunny Ville” event in teacher Karen Reid’s classroom on Friday. For Bunny Ville, students hosted their own businesses, including a pizza shop, ice cream shop, museum, hospital, flower garden and art jewelry shop, and classroom visitors received $10 in “bunny bucks” to spend on products and services at the students’ businesses. The activity is aimed at teaching students economics, community, cooperative learning and social skills. Photo by Lucy Butcher.