Our high school art class enjoyed a visit to the famous Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art!

Our students are powering up their understanding of energy—literally! This week they explored wind energy by designing and testing their own wind turbines. Each group built two different turbine models, then used the wind to lift a small mass and timed how long it took to raise it to a set height.

Our biology students are diving into genetics in the most delightfully spud‑tacular way—by creating “spudoodles”! This annual favorite turns inheritance patterns into hands‑on fun. Students start by randomly selecting alleles to determine each trait’s phenotype, then team up to “cross” their DNA and discover what kind of little spud their pairing will produce.

Let’s take it back a few decades! Before everything was streamed, music lived on CDs, cassette tapes, and—going even further back—record players. In physics, we’re exploring circular motion, and those old-school turntables make the perfect real‑world connection.

High school science students have been having fun during our first semester!