Mr. Miller’s Environmental Science students have been discussing the local food movement. They harvested a crop of potatoes from our garden, planted by last year’s class, to be used in our kitchen as a way to reduce our school’s carbon footprint and encourage awareness of the benefits of eating locally grown food.
Read More »Keeping with tradition, on our first Friday of the school year, students completed the process of choosing team name themes for the year, in a town meeting format. Categories were Cardi B lyrics, Santa’s rejected reindeer, and movie names with agricultural puns. Individual teams chose their names prior to boarding buses on our way to […]
Read More »Kudos to rising 9th grader Juliet C on being published by the Washington Post today with an op-ed piece entitled “The lonely world between the hearing and the Deaf”.
Read More »We did it – and then some! Thanks to the generosity of over 350 donors – alumni/ae, families, and friends of The Academy – we raised a total of $281,738 in 2017-2018, far exceeding our goal of $250,000!!
Read More »Hilltown Youth Theatre Summer Workshop has moved! The program is still on for this summer, but is now operating at Hawlemont Regional Elementary School and Berkshire East. To register, or for more information, visit hilltownyouth.org or call (413) 387-8783 for more information.
Read More »In The Practice of Painting class Sophia C refines her masterpiece with Mr. Green.
Read More »The 7th grade art classes made mixed media monster sculptures.
Read More »Earlier this year, Junior Liam N brought to our attention an organization called Enabling the Future, dedicated to pairing 3D printers with people in need of a prosthesis. Pictured here is the first successful output of a prosthesis called Raptor Reloaded, printed here at school. Hardware needed to make the hand fully functional is on its […]
Read More »A hearty thank you to all of the parents and students (current and future!) who worked hard on a hot Saturday to clean and paint and garden and build and make the campus pretty in advance of graduation. It was a wonderful day of coming together to use many hands to make light work, and […]
Read More »Students in the Environmental Science class have been working in the school garden periodically this year. On their final day of planting and weeding in the hot sun they planted carrots, beets, fennel, tomatoes, potatoes, broccoli, butternut squash, cucumbers, and other late season crops for the school to harvest in the fall.
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