Spring Break Montreal Trip
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 swi …
Read more »Announcing 2-West, a Literary Magazine to Connect Western Massachusetts High School Students
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 fo …
Read more »Student Art on Display at Green Fields Market Through April
The work of seniors Izzy B, Ethan B, Sophia C, and Leni S-F, and junior Solly C (photography and oil painting) is on display at Green Fields Market (Franklin Community Coop, 144 Main Street in Greenfield) through April. We’ll host a reception after …
Read more »Academy Students in the News
Check out The Recorder’s “Celebrating Our Youths!” supplement in the February 28, 2019 edition. Seniors Chessie and Kayla have an article in the issue – and the cob oven and greenhouse they built as parts of their respective Senior Independent Projects …
Read more »Studio Block Close-Up: Audio Collage
In Audio Collage, students learn about the world of composing with field recordings and found sounds. Sampling and sound design techniques are also incorporated.
Read more »Ukrainian Pysanky Progress
Students are learning to make Ukrainian Pysanky this semester, hand drawn creations on eggs using a wax resist method. This highly detailed process requires patience and attention to detail, and some works-in-progress are shown here.
Read more »Climate Connections Field Trip
The 6th/7th grade visited the Northeast Climate Science Center where they talked with researchers about their work to understand the effects of climate change on certain marine and terrestrial animals, on New England fisheries, and on Native Americans …
Read more »Classroom Close-Up: Biology
Biology students played the celebrated board game Evolution in class, to gain experience with the concepts of adaptation, predator-prey symbiosis, and natural selection driven by resource competition.
Read more »Sports Recap, Week of February 18
In the annual faculty-student basketball game, the faculty again pevailed! It was obvious the students had been coached well by Coach BZ all year, as they put up a good fight and the game remained close until the very end. Special thanks to Steve Z-A, …
Read more »Classroom Close-Up: Physics
Mr. Almeida’s Physics students apply their understanding of Newton’s Laws of Motion to an Atwood’s Machine setup, in order to experimentally determine the mass of found objects (in this case a spool of solder and an old tape dispenser).
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