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Viewpoint’s 2019 FILM IV Production is Category Winner in Academy Award -Qualifying Indy Shorts International Film Festival We are honored to announce that CAT, Viewpoint s 2019 Film IV film, has been selected to the prestigious Academy Award -Qualifying Indy Shorts International Film Festival presented by Heartland Film (July 21-26). Only 4% of submitted films were selected for the program and CAT was selected to be the Narrative Winner in this year s High School Film Competition Program. CAT won $500 for being a category (Narrative, Documentary, Animated) winner, and the film is one of only 12 high school films that will compete for the juried $2,500 Summer White Lynch Memorial Grand Prize. Read More Upper School Students Offer Virtual Summer Activities to Primary and Lower School Families In the month of May, sophomore Zach Samuel mobilized a team of Upper School students to help support their teachers during the school day by engaging with their young children online through the Student-Teacher program. The program was so successful that they are extending it into summer and offering the service to our Primary and Lower School families as well. Read More Viewpoint Community Gathers Online for “Viewpoint at Home” to Support the Patriot Community Fund Saturday, May 23 was a historic night for Viewpoint School. An untold number of people from around the world, using nearly 2,000 registered devices, gathered to watch Viewpoint at Home, the School s first online benefit. Through their generosity and enthusiasm for the School we raised more the $500,000 for the Patriot Community Fund! Read More Join Us for a Fun-Filled Online Evening Event in Support of the Patriot Community Fund! Please join us for an amazing online event on Saturday, May 23 starting at 6:30 p.m. to benefit the Patriot Community Fund! We are planning a fantastic evening hosted by actor-comedian Ken Jeong and Head of School Mark McKee, with performances by music legend John Fogerty and other special guests, as well as a celebration of Viewpoint s Class of 2020. All funds raised will be used to help provide temporary need-based financial aid to our families, in the hope that financial hardship and disruption do not prevent students from accessing a Viewpoint education. Read More Isabella A. ’21 Makes Face Masks Designed for the Hearing Impaired Isabella A. 21 has a longstanding interest in helping the hearing impaired. A few years ago, she taught herself American Sign Language through classes online and has raised money for The Hearing Aid Project, which provides hearing aids to those who cannot afford them. She is also aware that many people with hearing impairment rely upon reading lips to communicate, a challenge during the COVID-19 crisis, when people are required to wear face masks Read More The Call to Action Spreads Across the Country Photos of healthcare workers wearing the PPE that Viewpoint School has made and messages of thanks to our community are being sent from far and wide. Haley Zylberberg from New York wrote, Please extend my personal thank you and a thank you on behalf of the Mount Sinai Internal Medicine Residency Program to the Viewpoint Class. With the help of Viewpoint School s Shipping and Receiving Department, they were recently sent face shields and N95 masks from across the country. Read More Encouraging Notes from our Primary and Lower School Students Please enjoy some of the letters that were shared with our First Responders in our local hospitals from our Primary and Lower Schools. Read More Watch Ivy League Esports Club Charity Stream to Raise Fund for COVID-19 Relief Organized by Viewpoint Alumnus Ethan Williams ’17 This Saturday, April 25, the Ivy League Esports Club Charity Stream will feature 10 collegiate League of Legends teams competing to win donations for COVID-19 relief. Organized by current Yale student and Viewpoint alumnus Ethan Williams 17, this day-long event brings together eight Ivy League teams plus Stanford and MIT, for a double-elimination styled tournament, which will be streamed on twitch.tv from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. PST.https://www.twitch.tv/yaleesports/ Read More Please Join us for a Special Cello Performance by Daniel. K ’20 On Thursday, April 23 at 2:00 pm, cellist Daniel K. 20 will perform the first movement of The Cello Concerto in D Major by Franz Joseph Haydn as part of his Independent Senior Project. This performance is the culmination of 8 years of serious dedication and many hours of practice to the cello. Daniel has distinguished himself as both a scholar and a musician, and we are so pleased to share this performance with our community. Read More Viewpoint Teachers Featured on KTLA for Initiating Community-Wide Effort to 3D Print PPE Technology teachers Alison Steelberg Corneau 97 and Lisa Kessler were featured on KTLA s nightly news for a story about Viewpoint School s community response in the COVID-19 crisis. We are incredibly proud of the program they put in place, which now involves teachers, students, and their families producing essential PPE (Personal Protective Equipment). In less than two weeks of producing 3D printed face shields, they have already delivered over 160 completed face shields to local healthcare workers. And they are committed to continuing to produce face shields until there is no longer a need for donations from outside sources. To see the report: click here. Read More Viewpoint Continues to Answer the Call to Action It has been less than two weeks since we started producing 3D printed face shields for healthcare workers. We now have over two hundred shield pieces printed and we have added two new Lulzbot Workhorse printers to the production line. We have delivered over one hundred and sixty completed face shields to our local healthcare workers. Read More Viewpoint Families and the Local Community Answer the Call A lot has happened in the first week of Spring Break. The Instagram Call to Action post has the Viewpoint Community and some of our neighbors helping local healthcare workers in a variety of ways. The machines continue to hum along in the Corneau, Didden, Kessler, and Rush faculty homes, where all of the family members are jumping in to assemble face shields and make sure the printers stay busy. 3D printed face masks, face shield pieces, and door openers are all being fabricated on Viewpoint s Lulzbot 3D printers. Read More Viewpoint School is Using 3D Printing to Help Our Local Healthcare Workers On the first day of Spring Break, Viewpoint teachers stepped up to answer a call to action for the need for personal protective equipment for local hospitals. Five of Viewpoint s Taz6 Lulzbot 3D printers are humming all day long in the homes of seven of Viewpoint Schools teachers. Read More The Conservatory of Theater Presents The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) Please join us for the Conservatory of Theater's presentation of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged). Friday, March 6 and Saturday, March 7, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. and Sunday, March 8, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. All 37 plays in 97 minutes! An ensemble of madcap actors weave their way through all of Shakespeare s comedies, histories, and tragedies in one wild ride that will leave you breathless and helpless with laughter. Read More Students Celebrate First Black History Month Festival The Upper School students celebrated Viewpoint s first Black History Month Festival with a rousing performance by the School s new Middle and Upper School Step Team. The students, led by Step Coach and College Counselor Jamon Pulliam, have been practicing for months and the results were amazing! Read More Parents and Children Celebrate and Create Together at Second Annual MAKERFEST! For the second year, the students in Primary and Lower school celebrated Valentine s Day with Makerfest! a two-day festival of creativity and ingenuity. Once again, the children invited their parents to try out many of the maker activities that they do as part of their regular K-5 program in Technology and in the Innovation Space, but with a Valentine s Day twist. Read More Viewpoint’s Fourth Annual Diversity Leadership Day On February 5, Viewpoint held the Fourth Annual Diversity Leadership Day for the students in the Middle and Upper Schools. The day included inspiring performances, speakers, 45 student-led workshops, and a skill-building workshop for having difficult conversations. Read More On Friday, January 24, Viewpoint started celebrations for the first Winter Homecoming in the School s history. The event featured a packed Paul Family Athletic Center and sidelines at Ring Family Field on Saturday afternoon for two basketball and two soccer games. Read More State of the School Meeting: Tuesday, January 28 Tonight is the State of the School meeting in the Carlson Family Theater at 6:30 p.m. If you are unable to join us in person, please join us online at www.facebook.com/viewpointschool. The feed will begin a few minutes before the event starts. Read More Viewpoint School is a welcoming, vibrant, and collaborative community that offers a challenging and enriched college preparatory education in a nurturing environment for students in Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade. The School embraces students and families from diverse cultures of the world and teaches the history and wisdom of these traditions.Read More Viewpoint Students come from 90 different zip codes and represent 75 countries. Students of Color represent 41% of the school s population. Viewpoint School is committed to enrolling a diverse student body. The School admits students of any race, color, gender, religion, or national or ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the School. The School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, sexual orientation, religion, or national or ethnic origin in the administration of its educational policies, admission and tuition assistance policies, and athletic, or other school-administered programs.

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