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RE's middle school celebrates the Mid-Autumn Festival
Ransom Everglades celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival with a student presentation, Chinese arts and crafts, performers from Beijing Normal University, and traditional fare prepared by SAGE Dining. The festival, which took place during the mid-day break on Sept. 17, allowed students to immerse themselves in the rhythms, colors, cuisine and traditions that surround the Chinese harvest moon festival.
Students and faculty members sampled "mooncakes," crafted lanterns and learned how to write Chinese letters, and they enjoyed "Ancient Tunes and New Melodies," a show performed by the Beijing Normal University Art Troupe that featured traditional instruments, martial arts and a Chinese ribbon dance. Several students – Hannah May '29, Daniel Hyde '29, Emily Chen '29, Kaiya Xu '31, Nina Shah '30, Olivia Pollock '29 and Ruth Newton '29 – shared information with their peers about the history and traditions of the festival. Many members of RE's Chinese Parent Committee supported the event, which was organized by faculty members Karina Buhler and Vanessa Lopez.
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Founded in 1903, Ransom Everglades School is a coeducational, college preparatory day school for grades 6 - 12 located on two campuses in Coconut Grove, Florida. Ransom Everglades School produces graduates who "believe that they are in the world not so much for what they can get out of it as for what they can put into it." The school provides rigorous college preparation that promotes the student's sense of identity, community, personal integrity and values for a productive and satisfying life, and prepares the student to lead and to contribute to society.