Extracurricular Activities

 

Nativity “Build Guild” Robotics Team Competes 

Nativity Preparatory Lego Robotics is back in full swing this year with a seventh and eighth grade team and a coed 5th and 6th grade team.  We had 13 students who competed with 22 other teams on Saturday, November 14th at McQuaid Jesuit in the “Lego Robotics Challenge.”  Ms. Geniviva, their coach, worked many long hours to prepare both teams for the competition.  The theme for this year’s competition was “Food Factor”.  Students needed to design and build their robot and complete a series of “missions” related to food contamination. This terrific enrichment activity has provided wonderful learning opportunities as well as team building and problem solving skills for our students. This year the team received the “Perseverance Award” for teamwork and persistence in solving unanticipated problems.  Way to go “Build Guild!”.

 

Chefs Show Students “Cooking Matters” and Can Be Fun!

Monday afternoons find the hallways of Nativity saturated with the most mouth watering aromas.  For two six week time periods this Fall, Foodlink is sponsoring a course for our girls and boys entitled “Cooking Matters”.  Every week Nativity students work with local chefs and Foodlink nutritionists.  They discuss a variety of topics around healthy eating. They also prepare and try new recipes.  After class students take the recipes home to encourage their families to participate in healthy eating.  One of the most interesting recipes the students prepared and really enjoyed (despite some initial hesitancy) was a blueberry and spinach smoothie. The Cooking Matters course is sponsored by Foodlink through a Community Health Foundation Grant.

 

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