Silver Springs Native Brings Light to SSES

Hannah King, a junior at Silver Stage High School and a product of Silver Stage Elementary and Middle Schools, is the artist of the new sun you can find on the school's blacktop.  King has been an artist since she was young and says completing the project was both tough and easy.  The vision was there but it was a very large project that required her to do geometry on a very large scale.  The sun has a ray for every class at SSES to line up.  It took her 25-30 hours to complete, but she got the job done and got it done in time for open house earlier this week.

It is tradition at SSES to start the day off with a whole school gathering of students, teachers and the duo of Mindi Hammill and Erin Korf - the elementary principal and dean. 

The day starts with the playing of Happy by Pharrell Williams, which signals all students to head to the sun.  Mindi Hammill says the students love to hear the song come on over the speaker and they come running in!  Prior to Hannah's masterpiece the blacktop just had a circle of dots for each class to line up at but it was still known as the sun.  

Hammill says she loves the tradition because everything they do is positive, it is a chance to see everyone and it encourages kids to be happy and dance.  

After everyone is gathered, they do the pledge, a moment of silence, a patriotic song and Ingrid Karges, SSES kindergarten teacher, leads them in a song.

Hammill says it was awesome to be able to use local talent to complete this incredible project that has brought so much color to SSES playground.

The following are this morning at SSES: