Tom Wessels, author of Reading the Forested Landscape and several other important forest ecology works, visited the Environmental Science class on Thursday morning and toured several sites on campus to share his knowledge and perspective about land use history and the record of natural and anthropogenic events shown in the trees and landscape. His expertise will help […]
Read More »Academy students participated in the annual Model United Nations conference held at Dartmouth College April 5-7. Students debated international politics, humanitarian causes, and more. Congratulations to sophomore Eli C who was awarded Best Position Paper by the Historical Crisis Committee.
Read More »Mr. Almeida’s Pre-Calculus students practice comparing and evaluating logarithms by playing a variation of the card game War.
Read More »The work of Academy at Charlemont artists will be on display, along with that of students at other area schools, at the 2019 MASS MoCA Teen Invitational. Works will be on view April 26 – 27 from 11 AM to 5 PM. An opening reception will be held April 26 (7 – 9:30 PM), with […]
Read More »In a story that aired on NEPR, Pria Nadkarmi Green brought our attention to the latest community project that she’s working on with her artistic collaborator and husband, our own Mr. Andrae Green. Both are heavily involved in the Springfield Cultural Partnership’s work to transform the city. Pria spoke about the murals she and Andrae are working […]
Read More »Associate Head of School and Director of College Counseling Neale Gay has worked with Academy students for many years as both a teacher and a College Counselor. He has great insights into the process, the system, the scandal, and the importance of helping young people find the right fit as they continue their education. He […]
Read More »The Hall-Mayer family is sponsoring a 19-year-old asylum seeker from Honduras. “DN”* will be living with them for 6 months to a year once she is released from the detention center where she is currently held. A GoFundMe campaign has been set up to provide for her commissary and telephone funds, and her transportation from the detention […]
Read More »Many hands and big hearts made light work during an impromptu, student-initiated effort to clean up trash found in Grinnell field. In the same spirit, the Community Service Council facilitated an all-school deep cleaning, getting ready for spring.
Read More »During Spring Break, a group of French students embarked on a trip to Montreal. They stayed in Old Montreal, visited the historic sites around them including the Basilica Notre Dame for both a guided tour and a special evening light show. They went swimming in a pool in the Olympic Park, visited the Planetarium where […]
Read More »The Academy at Charlemont’s Inter-school Relations Council has begun working to create 2-West, a bi-annual, student-run literary magazine that aims to connect Western Massachusetts high schoolers through poetry, prose, and visual art. We are looking for submissions and student editors for our June 2019 issue. Please visit our website to submit (by April 22nd, please), to join our […]
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