FMS cadets take part in review
Tuesday was a nervewracking day for cadets at Fishburne Military School, who were under the watchful eyes of cadets from Virginia Military School for Regional Formal Inspection.
The reason for the nerves: RFI is, for all intents and purposes, “the beginning of the culmination of their school year,” said Susan Johnson, assistant superintendent at FMS.
A group of VMI cadets led by Maj. Charles Beirne conducted the review, which began bright and early at 8 a.m. and included a dress parade late Tuesday morning. Read more
The FMS Advantage: Personal touch guides cadets on college path
A group of young men in military fatigues are amassed outside Dan Baranik’s office. He has test scores to share.
“I got a 90?” one said in obvious surprise.
His comrades didn’t do as well. One said he “still has some work to do.” The others focused their energies on the cadet with the high score.
“This is every day for me,” said Baranik, the guidance director at Fishburne Military School, whose mission, as the job title would suggest, is to guide cadets at FMS on to a path to a successful, productive adulthood.
The advantage that Baranik has over counselors in public-school settings is part and parcel to the culture at Fishburne. Read more
Caissons finish 16th in state cross-country meet
The Fishburne Military School cross-country team finished 16th in the Nov. 11 state meet held at Woodberry Forest.
“I am very pleased with the work ethic of the runners over the course of the season. For the most part they manned up and ran hard every day with minimal excuses. As a coach all you can ask for is for your athletes to show up every day, on time, listen, and give their best effort,” coach Mike Anson said.
Individual Results (278 total competitors)
- Chip Collins, 28, 19:00 (18 seconds off being all-state)
- Travis Knapp, 64, 20:04
- James Park, 106, 21:07
- Nolan Vance, 143, 21:53
- Sean Mega, 234, 25:43
String art
Hands-on learning has endless possibilities when it comes to geometry. A new teacher on campus, Ms. Miller, is incorporating as much hands-on learning as she can into the geometry curriculum that she teaches.
In addition to identifying different types of angles around the campus that the students divided into a coordinate plane, her classes have also completed a project of string art. With interactive use of their iPads, cadets chose and downloaded patterns of designs that they would create on a 6″x6″ block of wood. Students were to identify very specific measurements, create the pattern on paper, and then transfer the design onto their wood.
The pattern was then identified by the students placing nails into their wood. With using symmetry, measurement, patterns and shapes, the students used string to make their designs unique and an appealing piece of art. The metric positions at which the strings intersect is what gives the string art its unique appearance.
Frying pickles for science
Cadets fry pickles in the name of science in chemistry class. Photo by Kevin Blackburn.
