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March 2011: SCDS Alum Receives Filmmaking Honor

Ben Kadie, an SCDS alum from the class of 2009, has been making movies since third grade and has a knack for incorporating green screen and other special effects into his films. Seattle-based youth film festival NFFTY has featured Ben's uber-creative films in every one of their festivals the past four years.

Ben's most recent accomplishment, receiving a Scholastic Art & Writing Award from the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, can be viewed at Seattle Art Museum. There, his three-minute film noir, "Sparks in the Night" is being shown with the traveling exhibit ART.WRITE.NOW, which showcases select winners of the national writing award. The event is free and open to the public at SAM until April 24, 2011 during regular museum hours.

Be sure to catch Ben's latest film and other youth made movies at this year's NFFTY from April 28 - May 1, 2011. You may stumble upon the next Spielberg, Kubrick, Lynch or Shelton! 

August 2010: SCDS Class of 2006 Reunion

On Friday evening, August 13, the (28-member) SCDS class of 2006 convened on campus for a barbecue, a trip down memory lane with a tour through the school, and a chance to say goodbye to friends before heading off to college. At right, we captured some of them for a photo on the very same jungle gym they played on as kids.

In reflecting upon what they valued about SCDS, alum comments centered around a theme of quality education and, according to one attendee, "how excited everyone was to learn, including the teachers!" Others mentioned "preparation for high school, college, and life,"  "the fundamental skills of learning," and "intensity and rigor."

The class of 2006 attended an array of high schools including Holy Names, Lakeside, The Northwest School, Interlake High, University Prep, Seattle Academy, Bishop Blanchet, and The Bush School. The list of colleges and universities they'll attend follows:

University of Chicago, Claremont McKenna College, Cornell University, Duke University,  Evergreen State College, Georgetown University, Harvard University, Mount Holyoke College, Rice University, Scripps College, Seattle Pacific University, Stanford University, University of Southern California, Tufts University, University of Washington, Wellesley College.

We wish them luck in the next step of their educational journey!


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