Six Gateway students visited two cancer research laboratories at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute as part of Boston PIC's Groundhog Job Shadow Day. Three of our students were hosted by the lab group of Dr. Pascal Braun, who visited our Biology I classes back in October, while three other students visited the lab group of Dr. Constantine Mitsiades.
All of the students enjoyed hands-on explorations of biomedical research techniques and materials, including gel electrophoresis, bacterial cultures, lab rats and nematodes!
A big thank you to all of our supporters at DFCI: Pascal, Stuart, Ryan, Matija, Anne, Constantine, Dr. David Hill, Dr. Larry Shulman, Robert Amelio, Candace Burns, Alicia Garcia, and Karen Burns White. Special thanks go out to Terry Alleyne for welcoming our Gateway freshmen into her O'Bryant Job Shadow Day preparations this year. We look forward to getting many more of our students into job shadowing in the LMA in the near future!
Job Shadowing at DFCI
Gateway Term 2 Honors
Congratulations to the following honorees at today's Gateway Term 2 Honors Assembly:
Amazing Aces (highest course grades):
Katherine Brea (Biology), Pierline Durand (History), Annie Moy (ELA and Geometry)
Busy Beavers (highest homework grades—4 core courses):
May Bumar, Manny Rios Alers, Wadea Sakhta, Brendon Tan, Tai Tang
Courageous Climbers (greatest course improvements):
Tiara Amarante (Biology), Anthony Antonelli (ELA), Pierline Durand (Geometry), Obinna Ndugba (History)
Students Who Made a Splash (“Golden Duckies”):
Maya Copeland, Marleah Cummins, Obinna Ndugba, Brendon Tan
Cum Laude (3.00—3.49 GPA)
Kishma Andrew, Vicmarys Brito, Jasmine Campbell, Maya Copeland, Salma El-Behaedi, Shelby Jean-Michel, Angellica Meng, Sindy Ortiz, Gjergji Prifti, Manny Rios Alers, Wadea Sakhta, Brendon Tan, Tai Tang, Tiffany Wu
Magna Cum Laude (3.50–3.89)
Katherine Brea, Pierline Durand, Annie Moy, Claribel Rosa, Christelle Salomon
Congratulations to these students on your excellent work this past term, and thank you to all of the family members, classmates and teachers whose support helped make these successes possible!
Trip to the Aquarium!
Today, all of Mrs. Shields' Biology I classes visited the New England Aquarium, which currently is running a spectacular special exhibit on jellyfish. The students "scavenged" for facts about marine life and got their hands wet in the "Edge of the Sea" exhibit.
While all of our students displayed true O'Bryant dedication to their field trip assignments, a few also found time to make funny faces at the fish:
Congratulations to Our "Rocket Men"!
Congratulations to Tai Tang, Karuna Um, and Kevin Herman (in absentia) for their impressive showings in the first annual Machine Science citywide rocket-building competition. In the single-launch competition, Tai's rocket placed third and Kevin's placed fourth, against competition from other O'Bryant students, the Madison Park Robotics Club and Burke HS.
Stay tuned as our Gateway "Rocket Men" move on to participate in other engineering/robotics competitions this year, including the prestigious US FIRST Competition! For any other students who are interested in getting involved with robotics, please see Dr. Wu or Dr. Chiamaka Porter in the Boston Community Science Workshop on the first floor of the O'Bryant.
Gateway Biology I Welcomes Dr. Eva Guinan!
This morning, the Gateway Biology I classes welcomed our second visiting researcher from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Dr. Eva Guinan. Dr. Guinan provided our students with a detailed look inside the complex process of cell transplantation, from the physician's perspective. The students all got a close-up look at the needles used to extract bone marrow, although for safety reasons we could not permit them to handle the needles themselves!
All Gateway students now know the best place on the human body for extracting bone marrow - is the illustration in the photo correct? (The inset photo is taken from a computer simulator for bone marrow extraction from children.)
We hope that Dr. Guinan will return to visit us many times, to share with us other fascinating stories from her career in medicine.
