It all adds up

Story, photography by Earlene Ward

Yosemite High School district

Tina Torres, a senior at Ahwahnee High School, is hard at work on her picture, which she calls “Where Your Dreams Are At.”

Students at Ahwahnee High School combined several lessons recently with the final result being sidewalk art in front of their school.

They used mathematics and art to create the finished pieces, according to teacher Brenna Neely.

Instructional aide Carolyn Campbell adds that the students also learned about cooperation through working as a team and they learned about personal development.

During the week-long activity, the students saw a project through from beginning to end. They worked all morning one day drawing on the asphalt in front of the school with chalk. Earlier, they had made grids on paper and drew their pictures that were then enlarged and drawn outside.

Kelly McCoy, senior, and Ramzie Cooks, junior, with their painting called “Fire Sprite.”

Kenny O’Brien, junior, and Nick Boggis, also a junior, with the mouse they drew.