Schools
An Irish flag hangs next to the chalkboard of Elaine Weintraub’s history class at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School.
Chinese lanterns dangle from the ceilings, Buddhist banners drape the walls and the faces of civil rights leaders adorn a sign that reads, “Positive history: Without black history there would be no history.”
The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School has announced its honor roll for the first quarter of the 2012-2013 academic year.
Twelfth grade high honors: Nicholas Costello, Amy Fligor, Alice Greene, Fionnuala Howell, Alayna Hutchinson, Kyle Joba-Woodruff, Kent Leonard, Clara Maynard, Jack O’Malley, Katherine Smith, Katherine Stewart and Kylee Willoughby.The Oak Bluffs School has announced its honor roll for the first quarter of the 2012-2013 academic year.
Eighth grade high honors: Taber Caron, Karn Datta, Lily Davey, Lucas DeBettencourt, Aivaras Gedvilas, Andrea Guyther, Emma Hall, Julia Hart, Caroline Hermann, Danielle Hopkins, Matt Luce, Nayson Peres, Shelby Regan, James Robinson, Colby Scarsella, Sarah Thomas, Olivia VanDerlaske, Liam Weiland and Tessa Whitaker.Never mind building a better mousetrap. Students in the regional high school’s December engineering challenge were concerned with the cats.
Participants in the monthly meet-up work in teams of two or three to complete a design challenge in 45 minutes. The December challenge asked students to build a functional shovel using metals and rivets. Competitors then had to scoop kitty litter, carry it across the room and deposit it into a container. The shovel that transported the most pounds of kitty litter won.
The march to the postseason continued this week with split results; the boys’ basketball team secured an easy victory on Tuesday while the girls took a hard-fought loss. Both basketball squads need just one more win to clinch a spot in the postseason tournament. Meanwhile, the fledgling swim team, hampered by illness and injury, hosted Sacred Heart in a close meet on Monday, but ultimately came up short.
On one of the calm, unseasonably warm early December days we had last month, my husband Isaac took our three-year-old son Emmett and me scalloping