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Each year the Andrew Clayton Elkins Memorial Fund for the Creative Arts enables Newman to invite a performing artist to the school to share their creative work with our students through performance or creative workshops. This year, the school invited Mondo Bizarro Productions, a New-Orleans based company that has been creating interdisciplinary art and fostering creative partnerships in local, national, and international communities for over twenty-one years.

Isidore Newman School was pleased to welcome Distinguished Alumnus and author Walter Isaacson '70 to campus to speak to our Upper School and sign books at the annual Newman Book Fair.

In 1997, in honor of their father’s 80^th birthday, Mr. Moses’s sons made a gift to Newman to establish an annual lecture on World War II. Each year, a speaker with significant insight into World War II addresses the Newman community. We were honored to be able to invite child Holocaust survivor, educator, and activist Anne Levy to campus for the 24^th annual Warren G. Moses History Lecture.

Author, entrepreneur, and activist Robert Jones was invited to speak to Newman Middle school about justice and the importance of making good decisions in life.

Newman seventh graders had the rare opportunity to speak with a historical “primary source,” a veteran of World War II.

On Sunday, January 22 the Lower School robotics team competed at the First Lego League (FLL) Louisiana State Championship. Read through to see how they fared in the state competition!