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This year’s student-run TEDx symposium is rapidly approaching! The event will take place Sunday, Nov. 3, from 2-4 p.m. in The Zalik Theater. For the first time ever, the afternoon will feature an all-student lineup including students from all three divisions.

Speaking at TEDxPaceAcademy, Living with Love, are fifth-graders Graeme Buffenbarger and Anika Singh, eighth-graders Sam Halpern and Roman Pace, sophomores Madeleine Ganz and Paige Vadnais, and juniors Harriet Blaha, Bennett Cummings, Teah Charkawi, John Hardesty and Nekhi Stover. The event will also include two short videos produced by sophomore Alex Eachus and Kitty Lubin and a musical number arranged by seniors Caleb Amar and Livie Lynch. The entire Pace community is invited to attend this inspiring, free event.

The National Merit Scholarship Corporation has named seniors Enrique Alvarez, Kate Cunningham, Kate Grice, Megan Klingler, Van Muller, Drew Park, Olivia Resnick, Davis Trimble and Stephen Yang National Merit Semifinalists, placing them among the highest-scoring PSAT test takers in Georgia. These seniors are now eligible to apply for National Merit Scholarships, which will be awarded beginning in March 2025. Join us in congratulating these Knights!

Get your Aqua Net hairspray and acid-washed jeans ready, because the Middle School fall play is taking us back to the 80s with the sci-fi/action/comedy Aliens vs. Cheerleaders. Performances will take place Wednesday, Oct. 9, at 7 p.m. and Thursday, Oct. 10, at 2 p.m. in the Fine Arts Center’s Zalik Theater. Admission is free.

It’s the Isdell Center for Global Leadership’s (ICGL) Year of Food, and next week, the Pace community will welcome 2024 ICGL Visiting Scholar Dr. Shauna Downs, associate professor at Rutgers School of Public Health. 

Over the course of three days, Downs will spend time with students and faculty in all divisions and, in age-appropriate ways, will discuss her research, which has focused on the design, impact and implementation of interventions aimed at promoting food and nutrition security. Downs has traveled the world while exploring food environments in low- and middle-income countries and their influence on sustainable diets, and she is particularly interested in examining the links between climate, food systems, diets and nutrition.

Downs is a former Hecht-Levi Fellow with the Global Food Ethics and Policy Program at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and an Earth Institute Fellow at Columbia University. She received her Ph.D. in public health from the Menzies Centre for Health Policy at the University of Sydney and has a master’s in nutrition from the University of Alberta, Canada. Please join us in welcoming Dr. Downs to Pace!

Junior Jon Soren UyHam and senior Anna Kate Howell have been selected from hundreds of students nationwide to participate in The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History’s Student Advisory Council (SAC), a cohort of high-achieving students in grades eight through 12 with an interest in history. These students provide guidance as to how The Institute can better serve students through its outreach. Congratulations to these history buffs, who will be invaluable to the SAC.