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Woodstock represented at the Women Can Do! conference
Our Center of Community Connections (C3) organized a field trip to the annual Women Can Do! Conference and Expo in Randolph, Vermont on Thursday, October 5th.
Our Center of Community Connections (C3) organized a field trip to the annual Women Can Do! Conference and Expo in Randolph, Vermont on Thursday, October 5th. Women Can Do is an annual, statewide career exploration conference for high school girls and gender-expansive youth.
At Women Can Do, hundreds of students from across Vermont explored careers through hands-on activities and conversations with Vermont employers. WUHS students who attend Hartford Area Career and Tech Center were out in force and leading exhibitions on welding, auto body repair and building trades.
Woodstock students who attended the conference as participants had the opportunity to interact with professionals from a variety of STEM-related careers such as aerospace, medical technology, engineering and more.
Tenth grader Quinn Eckler attended the conference for the second year in a row. Quinn shared, “It was amazing to be surrounded by so many women from all over the state. We were all excited to learn about a wide variety of different jobs, careers paths, and opportunities with a bunch of hands-on stations and lots of information about options for after high school.”
Ninth grade class explores old growth forest
Students were lucky enough to visit Gifford Woods State Park in Killington at peak foliage to explore the one remaining stand of Old Growth forest in Vermont.
'I never thought about how forests can provide answers for us" remarked one ninth grader as they gazed upward through a leafy canopy on a brilliant October day.
Students were lucky enough to visit Gifford Woods State Park in Killington at peak foliage to explore the one remaining stand of Old Growth forest in Vermont. They noted characteristics of bark and topography, measured girth and height, responded to a piece of text and engaged in a conversation with park staff about how to manage different groups of trail users like mountain bikers and hikers.
These activities are grounded in a unit of study about forest biodiversity in students' Integrated Environmental Science class that are a natural extension to students' more local exploration of our 3.5 acre forested parcel of land across the Ottauquechee River.
The making of garden focaccia
Students in Ms. Jimerson’s Middle School Studio Art class made “garden focaccias”.
Students in Ms. Jimerson’s Middle School Studio Art class made “garden focaccias”. Using dough prepared from a King Arthur Flour recipe: students shaped their dough, brushed it with olive oil, and carefully created their “gardens” atop the dough using sliced vegetables, herbs, seeds, olives and capers.
Their creations were baked by Ms. Jimerson and WUHS senior Charlotte Nunan, Ms. Jimerson’s TA for this class. When the students sampled their creations, they all concluded that they were not only pretty but really yummy!
This was a fitting conclusion to their recent study of botanical illustrations, which included a multi-day visit from Susan Sawyer, a renowned botanical illustrator.
Gardens and greenhouses learn about all things pollinators!
Thirty-three students went and spent part of the day at Billings Farm learning, viewing and tasting all things pollinators.
Thirty-three students went and spent part of the day at Billings Farm learning, viewing and tasting all things pollinators. Students explored the bountiful pollinator gardens, made pollinator smoothies with pedal power, and viewed and identified flower parts in a microscope.
They also had fun exploring the amazing sunflower house which has 100 varieties of sunflowers. At school, students have been learning about our native pollinators, doing pollinator observations, netting bees, and growing herbs!
Start of 2023-2024 Yoh Theatre Season
Yoh Theatre Players will present Argonautika by Mary Zimmerman on October 20 and 21 at 7 p.m.
Yoh Theatre Players will present Argonautika by Mary Zimmerman on October 20 and 21 at 7 p.m.
We are proud to present our first Vlog episode documenting our work, created with the help of our new Assistant Director Claire McKey Berkman.