Gabriel See, a ninth grade student at the Renaissance School of Art and Reasoning, is one of four students nominated for the “TechFlash Youth of the Year,” a new award to be given at The 2011 Flashies, the annual TechFlash Newsmaker Awards.Gabriel was cited for his creation of a robot capable of such fine-motor movements that it might be used in medical research, at a cost far below similar commercial systems. As a result of this work, he was named as one of the country’s top ten high school inventors by Popular Science magazine. The Learning Channel named Gabriel as one of the 7 High Schoolers Who Are Changing the World. In October, Gabriel was also featured in a Seattle Times article titled, Educating Gabriel, 13, an off-the charts prodigy .

Gabriel has been doing biomedical research for the last four years at such institutions as the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the UW Department of Pathology. In 2009, Gabriel represented the BioEngineering Department in the UW iGEM 2009 Software Project and won a Silver Medal at MIT. In 2010, Gabriel was invited to spend the summer at MIT as part of the Research Science Institute (RSI).

To vote for Gabriel as the TechFlash Youth of the Year, visit the TechFlash website.

Lake Washington High School Presents: “The Music Man”

Seventy-six trombones lead the big parade…right to THE MUSIC MAN at the brand new Lake Washington High School Performing Arts Center, January 20-28.

The Music Man was the sensation of Broadway when it opened in 1957 and went on to score five Tony Awards, including Best Musical (beating out West Side Story). Grammy winning songs include, “Till There Was You,” “76 Trombones,” “Pick-A-Little,” and what started out as dialogue would become the show-stopping tuner, “Ya Got Trouble.”

Proud of his mid-western roots, Willson wrote that The Music Man was easily recognized as a tribute to his home state and he didn’t attempt to try to “rose-color up our Iowa-stubborn ways.” He also left a personal note on the inside of the script for all subsequent productions to guarantee his original intent. He simply stated that The Music Man was meant to be a valentine and not a caricature of the people of Iowa.

LWHS’s The Music Man plays in the new Lake Washington High School Performing Arts Center for two weekends. 

• Friday, January 20 at 7 p.m.
• Saturday, January 21 at 2 p.m. & 7 p.m.
• Thursday, January 26 at 7 p.m.
• Friday, January 27 at 7 p.m.
• Saturday, January 28 at 7 p.m.

For tickets call  425-936-1777 or email LWHSTheater@lwsd.org. All tickets $8. 

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