BCA UPDATES
October 2016 - Issue #3
20 YEARS AND GOING STRONG!
Congratulations to Bill Mendelsohn, Betty Casarico, Carol Zepato,s and Joe DeFalco who recently celebrated 20 or more years in the District.
We recently hosted David Levin the Co-Founcer of KIPP schools for a discussion and tour of BCA. In 1994, David co-founded KIPP with Mike Feinberg and established KIPP Academy. In 2000, the KIPP Foundation was founded to help train school leaders to expand KIPP by opening more KIPP schools. Today, KIPP is a network of 183 high-performing public schools around the nation. Following his visit, he sent us this email…
"Wow! We left today inspired beyond belief and challenged to raise the bar with the kids we worked with. You are building an incredible institution and your kids and families are deeply fortunate to have you in their lives. I fear that we are going to test your hospitality as we will want to visit again to try and help others experience what the bar of excellence can be for kids. There is simply no way that words can do it justice." – David Levin Co-Founder KIPP
BCA Friends and Family 20 Years of Excellence Gala
Friday, Oct. 28th, 7-11pm
Wood-Ridge, NJ
Come out and celebrate BCA's 20 years of excellence at this wonderful gala. Join your fellow faculty members, former alumni and their parents in celebrating our wonderful school. The proceeds from the ticket sales will go towards enriching programs here at BCA. You can purchase tickets via personal check or by using the Paypal feature at the following link: http://bcaff.org/?page_id=99 . Join us! There is no doubt this will be a night to remember.
Carrie Chen's Experience in Spain
I would like to share with you an email I recently received from Carrie Chen's parents.
"We are very happy to share with you the great success that Carrie had in the music festival she participated from September 19 through 23. The VI Festival International Peregrinos Musicais was held in Santiago de Compestela in Spain. The festival invited dedicated young musicians from different cities of Spain, Russia, Holland and the USA. Carrie was the only one from America... We would like to share the slide show of her trip and her performances there...We hope you will enjoy Carrie's music work...We are so grateful for the encouragement and support Carrie got from you, the school staff and her teachers in BCA for her trip. "
Rachmaninoff Etude op. 39 no. 5 - https://youtu.be/2xxb29SpHrs
Liszt Transcendental Etude no. 12 "Chasse Neige" - https://youtu.be/2m1Wgp2aCVQ
Dr. Donald Sebastian - NJIT
Recently, Rich Panicucci invited Dr. Donald Sebastian the Sr. Vice President for Research & Development at NJIT to speak at a recent Professional Development Day. Dr. Sebastian's presentation, "Information is the New Electricity" makes the case for the Internet of Things representing the same transformational force as that of electric power generation and distribution in the period from 1880 – 1920. If you did not get a chance to see his presentation you can view it here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D70aCKvvQTQ
Sharon and Scott Robinson
Recently Deb Rick and her husband went to Jazz at Kitano to see the Scott Robinson Quartet. Scott invited his talented and lovely wife...."She makes all my clothes, "...he always tells the audience, to join him for a new piece that he wrote for his father titled "The Weaver."
Opportunity for our Students
The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, a nonprofit organization dedicated to recognizing the most talented teen artists and writers in the United States and Canada, has issued a call for entries for the 2017 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Creative teens in grades 7-12 are invited to submit work in any one of twenty-eight categories of art and writing, including film and animation, video game design, sculpture, photography, fashion design, poetry, journalism, humor, dramatic script, and science fiction.
Deadlines for submission vary by region over the winter months, with National Medalists to be announced in March 2017. For complete program information, entry guidelines, and regional deadlines, see the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards website.
http://blog.artandwriting.org/2016/08/23/be-seen-be-heard-be-original/
Agnes Chung - Class of 2005
Recently Agnes Chung class of 2005 visited our campus to discuss the possibility of creating an expert series here for our students on journalism. Agnes is a graduate of NYU and has enjoyed a career in journalism with NY1, a 24 hour NYC news program, as a host for Foodable, a WebTV network and as a part of the Foodnetwork. She describes herself as a "Reporter, Host, Eater and Writer." Recently married to celebrity chef Dale Talde (Bravo Network), Agnes is constantly traveling and figuring out what the next rising food trend is. We look forward to working with Agnes in the future.
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