Eighth graders ace Capstone Night

Greenhills families turned out in force Thursday evening to cheer on students making presentations on their capstone projects. 

Capstone Night ran from about 5 to 7 p.m. and included presentations in the Campbell Center and individual classrooms. Sustainability Action Projects and Memoir Projects were featured, as were performances of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. A gallery of eighth-grade art greeted visitors as they entered the building.

For their projects, the eighth graders tackled tough subjects like hunger, GMOs, carbon dioxide emissions, geothermal energy, the Flint water crisis, and much more. One project on “Deforestation and Lumber Reform,” by Johnny Ellsworth, Melissa LoCicero, and Zoya Uzzaman, included an online petition that has already garnered more than 9,000 signatures.

Art, science, and English department teachers helped guide the presentations, which also were supported by other eighth grade teachers.

A reception organized by the eighth-grade GPO reps rounded out the evening.