By Caroline Gentile ‘13, News Editor. The 2010-2011 school year is the last in which “Intro to Programming” will be a mandatory elective. John Carriero, the current programming teacher, will be leaving the school at the end of this year.

By Jordan Komnick ‘11, Copy Editor. In the newest releases in the series, entitled Pokémon Black and White, this satisfaction was doubled when, upon leaving my in-game house, I was greeted with an entirely new set of Pokémon and a more urban, dynamic world. Nintendo is both becoming more aware of their older fans and trying to make the series feel fresh, and it definitely shows.

By Amanda Young ‘11, Co-Editor-in-Chief.Thirteen students won 28 awards for their artwork in the 2011 regional Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, large numbers for an Upper School of only 250 students.

This year Multicultural Morning focused on foreign films. Students offer their perspectives on the six films shown.

By Jordan Komnick ’11, Copy Editor, and Kevin McSwiggen ’11, Contributor. At 12:30 pm on January 9, 2011, CCDS senior Grant Hesser sent The Scroll a collection of confidential and classified communications between departments, claiming that he “could not hide the truth any longer.”

By Amanda Young ‘11, Co-Editor-in-Chief. Ten members of the Class of 2011 have been named National Merit Semifinalist. The Semifinalists make up 18.9 percent of this year’s seniors, the highest percentage of Semifinalists in any senior class in Cincinnati.

By Victoria Mairal-Cruz, ‘12, Contributor. No CCDS students were in attendance at the TechOlympics Expo 2010, held at the Millennium Hotel downtown from Friday, March 6 to Sunday, March 8.

By Amanda Young, ‘11, News Section Editor. According to a recent New York Times article, the average American youth (ages eight to 18) spends more than seven and a half hours in front of a screen, an hour and a half texting, a half-hour on a cell phone, and another hour with some other form of electronics, for a total of eleven hours daily of use.

By Rebecca Miller, 12, Contributor. Today we added lighting to the scenes. This play uses lots of partial lights and spotlights, so at times it was tricky. We also added sound effects, so we had to work out the timing for those. Juniors Jordan Komnick and Mick Abrahamson will be running lighting and sound, so they had to stay late with us today, which was incredibly nice of them.