Shakespeare Festival: Photo Gallery
May 3, 2022
The Shakespeare Festival took place on April 20 and 21, 2022, which included many activities to help freshman better understand Shakespearean literature.
Here is a quick summary of the event:
Abhi Badia plays the role of president in the "TJ Improv Workshop". The game of "President" is when one person goes into another room, and then the class make up a law and act as the press towards the president, as the president returns, the press start asking questions to give the president clues on the law they supposedly made.
![Seniors Sarina Saran, Aafreen Ali, and Jack Baisch and junior Gabriel Ascoli rehearse for their performance Wednesday Apr. 27. Saran plays Matilda as she confronts her family, the Wormwoods, played by Ali, Ascoli, and Baisch. [Matilda]s really smart ... she is mistreated a lot but she likes to stand up for what is right, Saran said.](https://www.tjtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-03-at-4.38.24-AM-475x357.png)
![Seniors Sarina Saran, Aafreen Ali, and Jack Baisch and junior Gabriel Ascoli rehearse for their performance Wednesday Apr. 27. Saran plays Matilda as she confronts her family, the Wormwoods, played by Ali, Ascoli, and Baisch. [Matilda]s really smart ... she is mistreated a lot but she likes to stand up for what is right, Saran said.](https://www.tjtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-03-at-4.38.24-AM-300x225.png)
![Student outreach representatives from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) visit Jefferson to talk about career paths involving STEM in the CIA and student opportunities. “[Another CIA representative] invited me to join her because this is a STEM school and both of my degrees are in computer science and systems engineering. If any questions about CIA fields [arise] that contain those sciences, I could answer them,” CIA officer Michelle said.](https://www.tjtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/cia-600x380.png)
![I had three team members working on [the finance tracker]. It creates a pie chart to show you your expenses and where you should cut down on costs. We also had a [tool] to recommend stocks to invest in, and an AI chatbot to ask [additional questions] about finances, freshman Kamel Elshaer said.](https://www.tjtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/430737706_1197841344513170_8186491334261173802_n-600x400.jpg)
![Running for over 34 years, the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation has awarded a total of $73,800,000 in scholarships to students around the nation. “It was pretty cool [to receive the scholarship.],” senior Brian Zhou said. “Its a great honor to be one of the few from TJ.”](https://www.tjtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Screenshot-2024-03-03-at-4.35.08-PM-600x337.png)