The school mascot "Centaur" won the vote by our students over "Mannatee's" around 2007. I designed the Centaur inspired by Picasso's "Don Quixote" and was thrilled to see logo on the new building entrance in 2014.
Mann students contributed clay bones to the 2010 One million bones project on the Washington Mall raising awareness to ongoing genocide. We also shared our kilns with the organizers!
Friendship Place is a local organization in support of the homeless getting back on their feet. Handmade bowls were made as a fundraiser for Friendship place in 2008.
Hearts for Haiti project in 2007 involved the student body creating heart pins as a fund raiser. We priced the heart pins at $1.00, but students raised over $1,000.
2nd graders designed felt heart pins
1st graders made glazed clay hearts embellished with shiny decos
3rd graders made wood & wire heart pins with colorful paints & beads
4th graders designed metal pins with tooling and deco's
"Painting the Past" a 5th grade project illustrating the memories of senior residents at Grand Oaks. This cross-generational experience for 10 years now has shown our youth the power of community, history, listening & collaboration.
Painting the Past is an annual 5th grade community project. Students interview and illustrate the memories of the residents at Grand Oaks while connecting our life experiences across generations. Here the love of piano lessons and playing the piano.
Struck by many stories of this senior, the students chose to illustrate the loss of the gentleman's brother with an angel of the brother watching over him.
Finding love on her first job, the student thoughtfully illustrates this couple right in front of the factory.
Back in the day was a "Ladies Day" at the ball park. This senior pulled a fast one in his youth by being too young to go on his own and with no money, dressed up as a lady and got right through the ticket booth!
Fifth Grade Graduation Tile tradition from 1996-2011. The tiles were preserved and reinstalled in the new building 2015.
Cyrus paints a Cherry Blossom sculpture for Japan's tsunami fundraiser 2011
