Local Students Make CD For Charity

Cat Lauricella & Luke Fahy

Cat Lauricella & Luke Fahy

At Renaissance High in Franklin, the students are using their artistic talents to give back.

As part of a Project-Based Learning assignment, the Senior class decided to make a CD, with the proceeds benefiting Blood: Water Mission.

For the second consecutive year, students at Renaissance High participated in Project-Based Learning.

“Our students look for needs in their community or world and create a solution or product to meet that need. We have incredibly empathetic students with huge personalities and even bigger hearts. Our seniors decided to take their artistic and musical talents and create a compilation album that showcases their diversity and unity in the love of the arts and for the good of others,” said Josiah Holland, teacher.

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Maggie Medley in the studio

This students set aside 3 hours a week for their project-based learning assignments.  “At Renaissance, we want project-based learning to require the 4 C’s of creativity/innovation, critical thinking, collaboration, and communication. We use the acronym EDICTS: Empathizing needs in the community (or nation, world); Define the problem; Imagine a solution, Create a prototype, Test and Refine, and Showcase. It’s important that all PBL at Renaissance High culminate presenting their products for an external, “real world” audience. Given those parameters, the seniors came up with this idea on their own,” said Principal Brian Bass

Due to the Senior class’s love of music and their diverse talents, making a CD seemed like a no brainer.

Auditions were held and the senior class picked the best quality music and have spent their time recording and producing the songs. All the songs on the CD are original songs.

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Evan Boutte

The CD will have a “a little something for everyone” on it says senior Dylan Childress. “Every student has a different style of music. We have people who are killing the music game. People who would play some abstract, electronic dance music, then we have people who you’d find at a jazz club singing smooth sounds that just blow you away, and then we have some Van Halen types who shred the guitar,” Dylan added.

The students will have a free event on May 1st where the CD will be sold. All proceeds will go to Blood: Water, Mission.

“All seniors were asked to find and research a charity of their choosing and write or create something to persuade everyone to want to give to said charity. We then chose our favorite presentation/charity and decided that we wanted to give to them somehow,” said senior, Kaylee Skinner.

“Evan Boutte introduced most of us to Blood: Water Mission and after taking a field trip there, we were sold,” added senior, Tristin Jackson.

No word yet on how much the CD will cost but The Williamson Source will keep you informed of when you can purchase the CD.