CLEARLY BEAUTIFUL; THIS STUDENT GIFT WILL KEEP ON GIVING.Byline: John Sanders John Sanders is the name of
Visual arts visual arts npl → artes fpl plásticas visual arts npl → arts mpl plastiques visual arts npl → students at Almondale Middle School are taking on a teaching role, training their classmates Classmates can refer to either:
Bearing a fantasy scene of a jaguar - the school mascot MASCOT - Modular Approach to Software Construction Operation and Test: a method for software design aimed at real-time embedded systems from the Royal Signals and Research Establishment, UK. - perched in a tree, the project is led by teacher Brenda da Silva. The project started during the last school year, and four of the 16 panes have been completed. Da Silva said students on Track A - the visual arts track - will be teaching classmates from other tracks how to stain glass so the entire student body will be involved. ``They will be teaching those kids how to do it so that, hopefully, the majority of the kids on this campus will all have contributed to a piece of the memory,'' da Silva said. ``So when it's finished the whole school will have been involved, so it's kind of neat.'' Almondale received two grants - $2,100 from the state and $800 from the Keppel Foundation - to help finance the project. Students at the school are very excited about working on the window. ``It's cool because we get to show people what we do as kids and make other people think more of us,'' said Leroy Patterson, a seventh-grader. ``It's hard. It takes time and patience.'' Other students as well think highly of the project. ``I think it will look neat,'' said Elisha Castanon, 12, another seventh-grader. ``Then when everybody sees it they'll think that's nice.'' In addition to the school window, students are making their own individual stained-glass projects depicting dolphins, crosses, butterflies, swans, boats, footballs, coyotes, parrots and teddy bears. CAPTION(S): 4 Photos Photo: (1--2--Color) At right, Christy Feliciano, 14, puts pins in her stained glass stained glass, in general, windows made of colored glass. To a large extent, the name is a misnomer, for staining is only one of the methods of coloring employed, and the best medieval glass made little use of it. to hold it for soldering soldering Process that uses metal alloys with low melting points to join metallic surfaces without melting them. Tin-lead solders, once widely used in the electrical and plumbing industries, are now replaced by lead-free alloys. , as Robert Araiza, 13, solders his piece. Both are eighth-graders at Almondale Middle School. Above, eighth-grader Priscilla Henriquez, 13, uses a miniroller on her project. (3--Color) Almondale seventh-grader Kyle Haus, 12, holds up the school project, a stained glass pane A rectangular area within an on-screen window that contains information for the user. A window may have many panes. See menu pane. for the main office window. (4--Color) Leroy Patterson, a seventh-grader, made a cross for his mom. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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