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| Margot Ehrenthrol |
All-Scholastic Awards
Congratulations to our fall season All-Scholastic Award winners.
Boston Herald All-Scholastic teams: Margot Ehrenthrol & Spencer Royal
Boston Globe All-Scholastic teams: Margot Ehrenthrol & Sam Randle
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| Spencer Royal |
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| Sam Randle |
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| Sarah Hutchinson |
Sarah Hutchinson
I had the privilege of meeting Sarah recently and was greatly impressed with her remarkable academic acumen, her perseverance, and her strength. I think you will be too. I wanted to share her story with the community, and she was gracious enough to take me up on the offer. In the not-to-distant future she will earn the Gold Award; the highest award a Girl Scout can earn. Impressive!
My name is Sarah Hutchinson, and I am a junior at CCHS. This year, I am leading a service project for a non-profit that works with families who have had an immediate family member die. My dad died when I was five, and my mom and I attended support groups at The Children’s Room (TCR) in Arlington—an organization that provides peer support, led by trained facilitators, to grieving families, teens, and children.
One never completely “gets over” the death of an immediate family member, and it is important to have support from same-aged peers in growing up. I also received this support as a camper at Circle Camps for Grieving Children, which offers an overnight camp for parentally bereaved girls from the Northeast. For the past two summers, I have been selected as a Counselor in Training (CIT) for the younger girls. This opportunity has allowed me to practice and understand what it is like as a teen to work with children who have had a parent die. I am combining my experience at The Children’s Room and as a CIT at Circle Camps into my Girl Scout Gold Award.
The Gold Award is the highest award a Girl Scout can earn, and consists of an independent, self-directed, service and leadership project in the community. I am leading others in order to address the root cause of an unmet need, and the project will continue after I have completed my work.
For my project, I am working with staff from TCR and Circle Camps to create the first training curriculum for teen volunteers at The Children’s Room. Many teens have wanted to remain connected with The Children’s Room and want to give back, but have not been able to because of a lack of a training. A training program is necessary because a death in the family is a sensitive issue, and it is important for teens to work with their own losses before they receive training for skills to effectively work with children.
Children often connect better with people closer to their own age than with adults. Being with teen volunteers allows children to feel more comfortable talking about and understanding their own loss. Through this training, I can use my experience, knowledge and values to help both teens and children through their grief processes. From the people who have helped me with my loss, I have developed a care for others, and a desire to do the best I can to make sure they are doing well.
Student Artwork
I wanted to share an impressive piece of artwork by Glyn Mardis (2019).
CCWS
By Elizabeth Rennert (2020)
The Concord-Carlisle Weather Services Balloon Launch went great, given the conditions. As the team arrived in Bennington, VT, the final launch site, it was snowing with 7 mph winds. The high school that was launched from, Mount Anthony Union High School, is also a home of the Patriots. When the tarps were unraveled, turf beads from the CCHS turf fields, left over from the tethered launch, spilled out. As one student put it, “We brought Patriots turf to Patriots’ turf.” The payloads sent up included instruments to measure altitude, humidity, temperature, pressure, spin rate among other measurements. The payload boxes also had cameras pointed at the horizons and one pointing down to monitor experiments and a GPS tracker so the search and recovery team could find it.
The balloon was launched around 10:30am and touched down around 12:15pm in Worcester. Soon after launching, the balloon began to increase in speed until it reached 120 mph. After about an hour and 40 minutes, the balloon reached its maximum altitude of 92,910 ft, then popped and began its descent to the surface. At one point in the balloon’s journey, the temperature dropped down to -40˚F! It landed in a tree but the search and recovery team was able to recover it. The balloon traveled over 81 miles from Bennington, VT to Worcester, MA. As Cooper Ernst said after packing up from the launch, “That was like, legit science!”
In the month and a half leading up to the launch, students worked to train themselves and other students in how to operate and pull off the launch. Upperclassmen went to the freshmen earth science classes and told them about the launch. The students in the earth science classes designed experiments, mascots, and flags to go up in the balloon. In addition to Facebook live sharing, many people, including students, parents, and teachers, both from the Concord-Carlisle area and in other states, tuned into the Mission Control page, https://tracking.stratostar.
This page had live data from the balloon and a map so people can track its progress. According to the mission page, over 3,200 people were following the mission! In addition to the actual launch, CCWS had a tethered launch. Originally scheduled to be on Tuesday, November 29th, it was rescheduled for Friday, December 3 due to poor weather and high winds. At the tethered launch, the balloon was sent up 100 feet with instruments, experiments, and the mascot, Cloud. It was a great dress rehearsal for the launch team, giving them the opportunity to practice sending the balloon up without any issues. Despite having to reschedule, the tethered launch had a great turnout with about 40 people, including students, press, CCHS Principal Michael Mastrullo, Concord-Carlisle Superintendent Diana Rigby, and a member of the Concord Ed fund, which graciously funded this project.
Thirty cloud necklaces were put in one of the payload boxes. They were taken up above the clouds to the top of the stratosphere along with the balloon. The necklaces will each be sold and the money will benefit Hurricane Matthew relief in Haiti. Eleven of the necklaces were donated by the jewelry artist who says, “This is definitely the coolest thing that has ever happened to the necklaces I’ve made.” She plans to donate all of them next year. If interested in purchasing a necklace, please contact faculty adviser, Theresa Ruggiero at truggiero@concordcarlisle.org
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Student Newspaper
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Hour of Code Comes to Concord
By Lynne Beattie
This week all K-12 students have the opportunity to participate in an Hour of Code. Fittingly scheduled during Computer Science Education Week, this year December 5-11, the global campaign provides easily accessible activities for children and adults of all ages to practice and learn the foundations of computer programming. Through engaging game environments, participants apply critical and creative thinking, problem-solving, and computational fluency skills that are necessary for success in all subject areas and in life outside of school.
At CCHS, students will be introduced to Hour of Code on Wednesday during their advisory meetings, and will have opportunities to participate in the Learning Commons during lunch blocks and after school as well as in some classes. Middle school students will code during 6th grade Digital Literacy classes throughout the week and in 7th and 8th grade math classes on Wednesday. Elementary students will participate with their classroom teachers over the course of the week.
Appreciation goes out to the instructional technology specialists, Terry Smolka, Kathy Talbot, Sue Howard, Genoveva Matheus, and John Peachey, for supporting and facilitating this exciting initiative. For more information about the Hour of Code campaign, please go to https://code.org/learn.
Student Health101
By CCHS Health & Fitness Dept.
The December issue of CCHS Student Health 101 is now available – check it out and enter this month’s drawing for $100: http://concordcarlisle.g
EFSG Recycling Initiative
By Anisha Chopra
Terracycling!- We have bins set up throughout the school where we collect shiny silver energy bar wrappers and the clear cereal bag liners. The bins are marked throughout the school, but please do not drop trash, or chip bag liners, in the bins since they must be sorted out by hand.
Also right now we are collecting broken/dried out pens, mechanical pencils, and dry erase markers. We have plastic collection boxes for these in most classrooms. Since the response is good we may make this a permanent program.
Lastly when you recycle, the recycled goods are terracycled into products that are then resold. The sales from these resold products is donated to a charity of our choice. We chose Charity Water since it has practically no overhead, and 100% of the donations fund clean water projects. Hopefully you can spread and circulate this information in ways you think would facilitate awareness!
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