Honored scholar

Mount Holyoke College student Molly Archambault of Pomfret was recently accepted by the Academic Administrative Board as a Sarah Williston Scholar for the Class of 2016. The title is conferred on those students whose cumulative averages based on 64 credits at the end of their sophomore year place them approximately in the top 15 percent of their class.

 

 

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WOODSTOCK — The Woodstock Middle School honor roll for the second quarter includes:

Grade 6

HIGH HONORS: Riley Chapuis, Grace Gronski, Emma Hovestadt, Kaily LaChapelle, Emily McClure, John Peabody, Heather Schofield, Eli Werstler

HONORS: Livia Armstrong, Emma Auker, Sierra Bedard, Ethan Bove, Matthew Brady, Rachel Canedy, Stefan Chervenkov, Sydney Cournoyer, Cody Currie, Julia Dearborn, Ethan Dinges, Eva Farutin, Huck Gelhaus, Dominick Kollbeck, Brynn Kusnarowis, Hanna Longwell, Evan Lundt, Samuel Massey, Marissa Mayhew, Lucy McDermott, Ella McMahon, Karissa Minkema, Ashley Nunes, Evan Odorski, Megan Preston, Connor Quinn, Maxwell Racicot, Elijah Saine, Peyton Saracina, Meghan Slate, Sarah Tavares, Maeve Taylor, Rockwell Valentine, Alise Yonush

RECOGNITION: Hunter Anderson, Timothy Billings, Liam Blanchflower, Zachary Brody, Emmalyn Bunker, Jason Butts, Sydney Couture, Andrew Dilko, Riley Douglas, Eliza Dutson, Guerin Favreau, Keegan Kelleher, Cassandra Leighton, Mackenzie Leveille, Colin Liscomb, Jason MacDonald, Nathaniel Majewski, Marco Maluf, Christina Mark, Alina Michalski, Carly Millette, Salwa Naveed, Aedan Noel, Molly O’Connor, Avery Pajak, Alyssa Patel, Gillian Price, Damien Schofield, Quinn Schuler, Alyssa Sharrow, Benjamin Sivertsen 

Grade 7

HIGH HONORS: Cai Bohanan, Nathan Craig, Emma Durand, Allison Faist, Christine Faist, Jessica Farrell, Anya Farutin, Tessa Houlihan, Rachel Lambert, Vivien Mark, Emma Redfield, Hallie Saracina, Ashley Smith, Caitlyn Sroczenski, Daniel Suitum, Grayson Walley, Aleya Wesler, Evan Wood

HONORS: Nicholas Bedard, Alison Blair, Sarah Blake, Elise Boisvert, Jordyn Brousseau, Corinne Child, Jonathan Conover, Chandler Creedon, Hannah Dean, Tarryn Desrosiers, Josephine Dlugosz, Zia Donais, David Fleck, Joseph Fleck, Megan Gohn, Hannah Kipp, Joshua Lavitt, Madelyn Lecuyer, Audrey Ledbetter, Nicholas Majewski, Victor Maldonado, Justin Marcotte, Tristan Monahan, Teagan O’Hara, Sophia Randolph, Sean Readen, Haylee Renaud, Emma Rhynhart, Emily Ross, Julia Theriaque

RECOGNITION: Sabrina Bastien, Keith Brousseau, Zachary Collins, Reagan Couture, Shawna Cudworth, Karina Errichetti, Rebecca Jarvis, Abigail LeBlanc, Jocelyn Mayotte, Anna Millix, Morgan Mowry, Jacob Starr, Chloe Veilleux, Gregory Weber, Evelyn Withers, Brian Woz

Grade 8

HIGH HONORS: Kathleen Boshka, Summer Chaponis, Heather Converse, Olivia Duncan, Rachel Durand, Erika Helmetag, Ethan Holcomb, Jack Hovestadt, Liam McDermott, Emily Menard, Rebekah Wesler, Hannah Wotton

HONORS: Owen Borski, Dominic Bove, Killian Braegelmann, Spencer Collins, Kolton Dehler, Caleb Feen, Olivia Golbranson, Jenna Gormley, Madeline Gronski, Nathan John, Justin MacCormack, Kathryn Mason, Samantha Mowry, Amanda Nowak, Samantha Orlowski, Eric Preston, Nathan Price, Mariangela Ruggeri, Adam Sanderson, Derek Thompson

RECOGNITION: Harmony Barna, Olivia Burrell, Jasmine Charland, Lucas Couture, Ivy Gelhaus, Aria Gianfriddo, Lauren Hovestadt, Natalie Humphrey, Hailey Jaques, Sofia Jendrewski, Parker Kalafus, Spencer Kalafus, Nicole Katinas, Emma Kelleher, Blake Kollbeck, Elliot Lawrence, Jacob Ledbetter, Jarod Martin, Leah McFarlin, Sarah Naveed, Lauren Neely, Orion Newall-Vuillemot, Sean Seabold, Olivia Stanikmas, Codi Staveski.

 

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WOODSTOCK — Woodstock Academy’s Construction class built six feral cat shelters for Our Companions, a local volunteer animal rescue organization in Ashford.

Our Companions works with local farmers and landowners to control the feral cat over-population and provides the animals with a warm, safe place to sleep during the winter. Eleven Academy construction students built six shelters.

“Throughout the first semester the students learned many new skills and practiced designing and building different objects for the school, their homes, friends, or families,” said Vocational Technology teacher Keith Landin. “It was very gratifying to give my students a real-world design problem and just stand back and watch as they ran with it.”

The students had one week to reserve engineer a sample cat shelter that Our Companions loaned the class. Each student drew up a set of plans before breaking up into teams of two and building. “Five of the six shelters are already out in circulation in our managed feral colonies,” said Program Manager Caroline Gaetano. “We posted a picture on our Facebook page and have had many people contact us looking for a copy of their plans so they can build their own. The students did an amazing job on the project, their efforts are having a far-reaching impact!” 

The project was a great practice of reverse engineering, getting maximum yield from one sheet of plywood and more challenges.

“When Woodstock Academy’s Construction class, under the direction of Keith Landin, offered to build the feral cat shelters as a class project, we were delighted,” said Our Companions Chief Executive Officer, Susan Linker. “The shelters were expertly built and it is our pleasure to provide them to those people within the community who are doing the compassionate work of sterilizing, vaccinating, and providing daily care for feral cats.”