Congratulations to the following students in Grades 3-12 whose essays were accepted for publication by Creative Communication: Sam Anthony “Day of the Turtle,” Samuel Chang “A Boy and His Dog,” Lena Harnish “Practice Makes Perfect,” Molly Harnish “Not Just a Bruise,” Jacqui Hofstetter “A Time for Everything,” Nathania Hofstetter “Hustle to Hershey,” Eli Holmes “Not Bungee Jumping or Sky Diving,” Samantha Ludlum “Birthday Bologna,” Hannah Master “My Brother Nathan: Oh, Boy!,” Nathan Master “Homework: Blah, Blah Blah?,” David Matej “Baseball Cursed: Lemonade Blessed,” David Null “Learning the Basics of BASIC,” Laura Null “Battered, Bruised, and Broken,” Sarah Null “Helping with Hair and Hats,” Ace Robinson “The Strength to Change,” Harry Robinson “A Place for Hate,” Josiah Wells “A Splashdown into San Diego,” and Molly Wells “Three States, One Country, Five Schools.”

TAA students in grades 5 and up were treated to a stimulating Foreign Policy Research Institute lecture last week at the Union League: the Rocco Martino annual lecture on Innovation, a Book Talk on Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It, by Richard A. Clarke.  A summary from the FPRI website:

Cyber War is a powerful book about technology, government, and military strategy; about criminals, spies, soldiers, and hackers. This is the first book about the war of the future — cyber war — and a convincing argument that we may already be in peril of losing it. Cyber War goes behind the “geek talk” of hackers and computer scientists to explain clearly and convincingly what cyber war is, how cyber weapons work, and how vulnerable we are as a nation and as individuals to the vast and looming web of cyber criminals.