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Thanksgiving Roundup

St. Clare of Assisi Elementary School in the Bronx fed more than 200 families at its annual “St. Clare’s Cares Event: Feeding Our Neighbors.” Student volunteers partnered with the Home School Association, the Kiwanis Club of Morris Park
and local Girl Scout troops to distribute Thanksgiving meals to families in need on Nov. 21. 

The Ursuline School in New Rochelle conducted its “Second Annual Turkey Train” on Nov. 18. The school-wide community service activity benefits the HOPE Soup Kitchen in New Rochelle and the food pantry at St. Peter’s parish in Yonkers. Students brought in 248 frozen turkeys.  At 8:15 a.m., all students and most of the teachers lined up throughout the school, as a conductor’s whistle was blown to begin the event. The turkeys were passed from one person to the next through the school halls, ending with the turkeys being loaded into a donated Bartlett Dairy refrigerated truck for delivery. 

elementary School 

Fifth-grade students from Our Lady of Mount Carmel School in the Bronx reacted to the recent terror attacks in Paris with a compassionate project called “Prayers for Paris.” The students made cards and essays showing their love and support for French schoolchildren. The students mailed their cards to students at Ecole Notre-Dame du Mont Carmel located in Perpignan, France, at the end of November.

High School 

Thirty-nine high school students from Westchester and the Bronx spent Nov. 14 at Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains learning about career opportunities in medicine and health care. 

The daylong medical symposium drew students from The Ursuline School in New Rochelle, School of the Holy Child in Rye, Fordham Preparatory School in the Bronx, Preston High School in the Bronx, Stepinac and more, including public schools.  

Topics discussed included careers in medicine, medical ethics, emergency medicine and medical research. The program provided students with real medical research case studies and enabled them to participate in simulations.

A group of computer science honors students from The Ursuline School in New Rochelle took a field trip to the IBM Watson Global Headquarters in Manhattan’s Silicon Alley. The trip was made possible thanks to trustee and 1994 alumna Liz Healy, IBM partner, Global Business Services.

The girls were the first high school students to meet Watson at the Astor Place location and visit the IBM Interactive floor and team. IBM Watson is a cognitive technology platform, famously known as the supercomputer that played on the game show Jeopardy. While there, the students visited the “immersion room” where they could feel as if they were inside Watson’s brain. 

Send school-related news to Juliann DosSantos at jdossantos@cny.org.