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St. Teresa’s Academy hosts KCTV5 cool school event

Spirited students and faculty members showed up to school at 5 a.m. Jan. 15 as STA took the spotlight as the first KCTV5 cool school of 2010 and the first all-girls’ school to be featured as a cool school. For those who attended, the morning consisted of Chris Cakes and dancing and racing to be the first students to arrive, in order to collect the ‘special gift’ (found to be a STA headband) given to the first 115 students in the gym. The live broadcast highlighted several of STA’s ‘cool’ non-athletic achievements and programs during each of the nine live segments. Although the remainder of the day consisted of endless complaints of sleep deprivation, according to marketing and public relations Diane Wilmot, principal for academic affairs Barbara McCormick overheard one of the KCTV5 anchors mention how STA ‘set the bar’ for cool school events.

To view the live segments from the event, click the bolded titles below.

Brief summaries of the video clips:

St. Teresa’s Offers Helping Hands To Community: Senior Kayla Kratofil talks about helping the dear neighbor; senior Anne Marie Whitehead tells how STA spelled out ‘STA is cool’ on the gym floor with the 3,500 canned goods collected for Operation Breakthrough; junior Emily Strickland shares some of the ways STA helps the women of the community and how STA is working with Heart to Heart to collect money for Haiti.

St. Teresa’s Has Spirit, Yes They Do: Senior Becca Sommerhauser tells how Spirit Club is keeping everyone awake while the girls chant the popular school chant ‘We Are St. Teresa’s’ in the background.

St. Teresa’s Gets Cool Schools Award: Senior class president Caroline Thompson and President Nan Bone accept STA’s cool school trophy presented by Wendy’s and KCTV5.

Stars Dance Team Shows Their Moves: Senior Rebecca Oyler, captain of the dance team, talks about the dance team; the dance team performs one of its routines.

St. Teresa’s Shows Acting Chops: Drama teacher Shana Prentiss talks about the theatre group; the theatre group performs a piece from ‘Greater Tuna’, a production they are taking to Edinburgh, Scotland this summer as part of the International Fringe Festival. (click here to read “Musical cast to attend Edinburgh Theatre festival”) 

Students Share History of St. Teresa’s Academy : Junior “Emily Strickland talks about the history of STA; senior Taylor Irwin and sophomore Paige Wendland tell why they nominated STA as a cool school. (click here to read “St. Teresa’s Academy recognized as a ‘cool school’“)

St. Teresa’s Journalism Class Award-Winning Bunch: Seniors Sydney Deatherage, editor-in-chief of DartNewsOnline, and Rosie Hodes, editor-in-chief of The Dart, talk about the school newspaper and seniors Jessica Ann and Allison Pericich, co-editors-in-chief of the Teresian, talk about the yearbook and why they think STA’s publications are so cool.

St. Teresa’s Students Offer Aid Through Medical Missions: Junior Riley Uecker talks about the Medical Missions Foundation and how important it is to STA to help their dear neighbors all around the world.

Students From St. Teresa’s Share Voices: Senior McKenzie Miller talks about the STA choir; the choir sings the school song.

E-mail sent to administrative assistant Kelly Drummond from KCTV5 reporter Iris Hermosillo:

Hey Kelly,

I owe you a big thanks! The girls were wonderful. If they were nervous, they certainly did a good job of hiding it. Please, let them know that they did a great job. Also, once again thank you so much for raising so much in donations for Heart to Heart. You should have seen how excited everyone in the newsroom was after hearing about it.

Take Care,

Iris Hermosillo

KCTV5/KSMC

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