Class Trips: Grade 7
The 7th grade class trip focused around electricity generation. Students toured Berkshire East’s wind turbine and solar array, learned from a former employee of Yankee Rowe Nuclear, stopped in the Northfield Mountain visitor’s center before hiking to t …
Read more »Academy Senior Sam Z-A Creates EP
For Sam Z-A’s senior project he created an EP of five original songs. It’s a mix of music inspired by Hip Hop and Smooth Jazz, and he is deeply grateful to his project advisor, Music Director Scott Hoffman for his support, including in the areas of pro …
Read more »Sports Recap, Week of May 8: ULTIMATE SUCCESS
The Varsity Ultimate team had a great showing at Wednesday’s RVAL tournament, winning three games and losing one. As a result of the strong play from all team members, the team finished third out of sixteen teams in the league! The JV team also perseve …
Read more »Community Service Day
On Tuesday, 5/2, Valley Gives Day in our region, Academy students, faculty and staff members gave a full day of service to our neighbors from Brattleboro to Charlemont, and from Greenfield to Shelburne Falls. Academy teams planted at the I.N.S.P.i.R.E. …
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Intro to Representational Drawing Celtic Band Digital Photography In the Garage: British Invasion
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7th grade students present their Climate Connection projects for Spring Exhibition. 03
Read more »Sports Recap, Week of April 28
The JV Ultimate team lost to Four Rivers middle school team 15-3 on Tuesday. Patrick O scored twice and Will D scored once, while Will, Saraphina F, and Tucker B had assists. Overall, the team played well against a very challenging young team. On Tue …
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Mr. Miller’s 9th grade Biology class experimented with leaf discs in lab this week.These experiments were done to study photosynthesis rates under different conditions. Innovative use of cell phones was a feature!
Read more »Sports Recap, Week of April 21
The Academy-Mohawk Girls’ Lacrosse team had their first win of the season on Wednesday, 12-6 over Amherst Middle School. Sarah H had eight saves in goal and the team was lead offensively by her sister Lizzie who scored a career high seven goals! Riley …
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9th grade students embarked on a many month cross-curricular project in Humanities and Art, in which they studied Greek vases (in imagery and in person at the MFA in Boston), and then designed, built, decorated and glazed their own. Students took inspi …
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