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olbert Elementary School has taken its integrated arts curriculum on the road.

Students' art projects, which reflect the program's curriculum, are on display this month at the Museum of Discovery & Science in Fort Lauderdale and the Hollywood Art and Culture Center in Hollywood.

Sara Marc, the Hollywood school's art teacher, said students displayed their art at the Hollywood center last year, but this is the first time at the museum in Fort Lauderdale.

The science museum was interested in Colbert's program because Marc integrates science in students' art curriculum as part of the school's math and science magnet program.

``Children learn the same themes in art as they learn in science,'' she said.

Marc and her students are excited about exhibiting their work at the Fort Lauderdale museum.

``It's a big museum,'' Marc said.

The exhibit is called Integration of Art & Science and explores iteration, template, code and balance.

Iteration means to repeat. Code is a set of signals for sending messages. A template is a pattern for making an exact copy and balance is the harmonious proportion of elements in a design.

The exhibit, on the museum's second floor, uses art to explore these elements and how they relate to the different ways children learn, Marc said.

``Children are bombarded with information on all different levels,'' she said.

The exhibit shows how students learn codes from life experiences. For example, a traffic light is code: Red means stop. Green means go. Students learn that simple code from riding in a car.

Students reflect codes, iteration, template and balance in their art, which includes 3-dimensional projects, drawings, paintings and written material.

Colbert's exhibit at the museum is an expanded version from the display at the Hollywood center, Marc said.
ROTC student honored

The Hollywood chapter of the Retired Officers Association will honor this year's recipient of the ROTC medal on Wednesday during the Hollywood City Commission meeting.

Hollywood Mayor Mara Giulianti will award the medal to this year's recipient, Hervey Calderon.

Calderon is a junior in the Army ROTC program at South Broward High School in Hollywood.

The association each year honors a ROTC cadet who shows exceptional potential for military leadership.
`Popeye' on stage

South Broward High School's drama students will present Popeye the Sailor this week as their spring musical.

Performances will be at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday in the auditorium at South Broward High, 1901 N. Federal Hwy., Hollywood.

Tickets cost $4. For more information, call the school at 926-0800.

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