Academy juniors volunteered on a recent Saturday to assist alumna Laurie Wheeler, ’82 at the Arms Library in Shelburne Falls, along with Sra/Madame Valdez.

Learning to throw in Advanced Ceramics with Christy Knox.

2/20: President’s Day. School closed. 2/21: Stokely Carmichael’s “Black Power.” Full text here. 2/22. A speech by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor called “How We Get Free.” Full text here. 2/23. Excerpt from Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah. Excerpt here. …

Sculptural Feltmaking with Fafnir Adamites.

Latin Jazz with Jon Weeks. 22

The Originals with Scott Helander – students working on their first original song of the semester.

Artistic Human Anatomy with Andrae Green.

Computer Coding with Marco Almeida.

Audio Collage and Composition with George Langford.

Seventh grade students in Climate Connections class study whether temperature affects the rate of chemical weathering. Each of the five groups of students had a single beaker of water, ranging in temperature from 5 to 45 degrees Celsius. They timed the …