THE FAMOUS (INFAMOUS) BACCO CERTIFICATE OF AWESOMENESS
The BACCO Contest Award has grown over the years -- first, as a simple sketch on a sheet of copy paper, all the way to the current "PS5" digital version.
The goal of the end-of-class contest isn't about competition. Instead, it's about creativity and imagination, as well as effort. The "best" artist doesn't always win. In fact, the students who aren't the most skilled artists in class, who focus more on formulating a great idea rather than showing off ability, usually wind up the multiple winners. These contests double as a life-lesson for kids, that comparing yourself to others is less valuable than understanding your own strengths, and working with what you have to achieve a goal. In this case, a BACCO award.
Over the past few years, the award has morphed (as time progressed), into something representative of what's been going on over the course of the semester: Things we've been discussing, current events, memes, video game characters... really anything that's made it into our zeitgeist, might also be included on the award. The record for versions of an award is 10, courtesy of the 2020 "Napoleon" award, and the over-zealous class that kept suggesting (code for "demanding") additions.
The Old Class (TOc)
The Old Class ran from 2014 right up until the outbreak of the pandemic in March of 2020. The Cartoon Division (as we called our three classes at the campus) were a rowdy bunch always getting the furrowed-brow treatment from the administration, as well as those who found the classes nothing more than "after school child care". We were anything but.
Each student imparted their own lore to the Old Class, with some of those tales extending to the online class like ancient tales passing from generation to generation.
Click on whatever pic you'd like to see bigger-er, and it shall be bigger-er (the kids always tended to correct me when I said "funner", screaming "That's not a word!"... my response: My class, my vocabulary).
