Sports Recap, Week of September 4

Last Thursday (9/6), The Academy’s JV coed soccer team lost a close away game to Four Rivers by a score of 4-3, playing from behind for the entire contest. Atticus R had two goals (one of them assisted by Anna P-C) and Charlie P scored once.  Emmy P-C and Nick F played well on offense, […]

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Classroom Close Up: Environmental Science

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.

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Team Naming and Rafting – First Friday Traditions at The Academy

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 […]

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Hilltown Youth Theatre Summer Workshop

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.

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Enabling the Future

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 […]

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Work Bee Thanks!

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 […]

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