St. Agnes H.S. Students Learn To Build and Program Robots

 

The sophomore honors class of St. Agnes A.H.S., College Point, attended a robotics workshop at Queensborough Community College. St. Agnes students worked alongside the Queensborough students to learn the basics of building, programming and controlling robots. This hands-on experience was coordinated by the Service Learning Office of Queensborough and helped the young women of St. Agnes learn more about careers in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics).

Visiting Artists Return to Holy Cross H.S.

 

This year is the second year since the establishment of the Visiting Artists program at Holy Cross H.S., Flushing. The artwork was completed by 20 students in collaboration with Brandon Friend and Jason Griffin, known in the art world as Gentleman’s Game. Friend and Griffin have had their work exhibited throughout the world, and their most recent exhibition Fantastic Planet includes more than 50 art pieces at One Art Space in TriBeCa.

Friend and Griffin spent a day working with the group of students, teaching them their unique method of art making, which entails using found patterns and computer printouts, and a transfer process that adheres colors and images to the wood blocks used as their canvas.

Students were given their own block to experiment with this technique. Once students had blocked in their background patterns or images, the next step involved recreating the entire image, tile by tile. During this phase, students were required to work closely with each other, ensuring that the individual canvases would match the neighboring panels and create a unified composition.

The completed image created was inspired by the school’s mascot, and depicts a knight and his horse. As a result of the layering process, certain elements of the completed artwork disappear while others gain prominence based on the area one chooses as the focal point.