From the Diocese of Knoxville: Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, the former president of Google China and a leading expert on global artificial intelligence, returned to East Tennessee on Monday, May 6, to visit the Catholic school in which he once learned, St. Mary School in Oak Ridge. Dr. Lee, the author of the recent New York Times bestselling book, “AI Powers: China, Silicon Valley, …
SMS Golf Team Excels in Regional Tournament
The St. Mary’s School golf team competed in the Regional Tournament at Avalon Country Club on Monday, May 14th, concluding an exceptional year. The Boys team tied for 1st during the District 1 Tournament at The Greens of Deerfield in LaFollette. They ultimately took 2nd place after losing on the third hole of a team playoff. The Girls team took 1st …
Time Capsule for Future Generations
To conclude St. Mary Parish’s 75th anniversary celebration, a time capsule has been created that will be blessed, buried, and secured with concrete, with the plan for it to be unearthed by parishioners during the parish’s 100th anniversary. Inside the capsule will be signed messages describing how life is experienced in the parish today, as well as predictions about how life …
St. Mary’s Takes 4 out of 5 Top Places in Algebra Competition
The 62nd annual statewide High School Mathematics Contest was held on April 10, 2018, at various testing centers across the state. The Tennessee Mathematics Teachers’ Association sponsors the annual contest in six divisions: Algebra I/Integrated I, Geometry/Integrated II, Algebra II/Integrated III, Statistics, Pre-Calculus, and Calculus/Advanced Topics. Four St. Mary’s 8th grade students completed the Algebra I test at Roane State …
Another Great Year for SMS at Regional Science Fair!
Twelve of the St. Mary’s Science Fair winners participated in this year’s regional Southern Appalachian Science & Engineering Fair (SASEF). Of the sixty-four projects in this year’s middle school science fair at St. Mary’s on February 22, fifteen received awards, making them eligible to enter SASEF at the University of Tennessee on March 27-29, 2018. Projects were divided into two categories, …
St. Mary’s Award-Winning Teacher Travels to Promote Literacy Through Her Young Adult Novel
St. Mary’s School Spanish teacher, Danielle Y. C. McClean, a recent recipient of the Canadian Organization for Development through Education (CODE) Burt Award for Caribbean Young Adult Literature, traveled with three other Burt Award winners to meet with students, teachers, librarians, and young people in Trinidad and Tobago from November 9-13, 2017, as part of the Read with Me Caribbean Author …