District Names Its Teacher of The Year
Teaching team leaders in conjunction with administrators at Beecher Road School chose second-grade teacher Joseph DePalma to represent them in the state Teacher of the Year competition. “The individual must possess excellence in teaching, must inspire a love for learning in students and must be a disti...
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Robosapiens Take Lego League State Championship
The Robosapiens include Beecher Road School and Amity Middle School students: Henrietta Hall, Lucy Jiang, Alex Klee, Jacob Klee, Mihir Nandy, Jacob Richards and Xander Shavers. They won the FIRST Lego (FLL) League State Championship. FLL is an international science and robotics team competition. Tea...
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Mirror Mirror on the Crater
My crew has a commander, pilot, mathematician, engineer, biologist, physicist and computer scientist. We are smart and curious and work well together. We are leaving big mirrors along the craters to melt the ice by reflecting sunlight onto the ice. We need water to drink, grow food and turn it into r...
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Xander Shavers Becomes State Merit Winner
Sixth grader, Xander Shavers, is the State Merit Winner from CT in the 3M Young Scientist Challenge 2021. For his project, he built a thermal camera to detect ticks which have a lower temperature than humans. His Technology Prize Pack includes an Amazon Fire Tablet.
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Amity Academic Hall of Honor and Athletic Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
The 2021-2022 Amity Academic Hall of Honor and Athletic Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will be postponed with the new date of April 28, 2022. Due to new covid concerns, we have decided to wait until the spring. The event will still be held at Grassy Hill Country Club in Orange, CT. Please save the ....
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Rotary Rewards Those Who Find Meaning In Service
The Woodbridge Rotary Club recently awarded three $1,000 scholarships to recent local high school graduates. Natasha von Beeden, Madison Grieger and Rose Parady were the 2021 recipients. The winning graduates were chosen from a pool of candidates who had submitted an essay on the Rotary motto, “One pr...
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Return To ‘New Normal’ At Beecher Road School
Monday, August 30 was scheduled to be the first day of school for Woodbridge students, with all the hopes and concerns that day carries with it. For many elementary students it is a return to the new normal, for a second year of learning under pandemic conditions. Students (and teachers) will be maske...
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Student News – September 2021
Dean’s/President’s List Bates College Lewiston, ME – The following Woodbridge students have been named to the dean’s list at Bates College for the winter semester ending in May 2021: Austin Gilbride, the son of Matthew T. Gilbride and Maria C. Asis, is a 2019 graduate of Amity Regional High Schoo...
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Acts Of Hate Have Defined My Amity Experience
Students, Parents Urge Amity Board to Embrace Diversity A group of current and former Amity students and parents addressed the Amity Board of Education at its June 14 meeting to impress upon board members, the administration and the public at large how many students struggle with a lack of acceptance an...
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Woodbridge Rotary Club Amity Student of the Month
Woodbridge Rotary Club completed its 2020-2021 Student of the Month program in spite of the limitations of COVID. Meetings were held the last Friday of the month from January through May. All meetings were held via Zoom and well attended by Rotarians, Amity staff, students, and parents. Rotarian Neel...
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