This blog focuses on sharing important information, classroom and cocurricular work, as well as photos throughout the week.
Upcoming Events
BFA THEATER Presents...
Addams Family House
The play is underway with shows on
Friday evening at 7 pm and two shows on
Saturday at 1 pm and 7 pm!
Purchase tickets here!
Winter Coat Drive
Turkey Drive
Rotary and Rotary Interact are supporting the SLAM THE VAN event this Sunday (11/20) from 11:30am-12:30pm at St. Paul's Methodist Church, 11 Church Street, St. Albans, Vermont. All turkeys will be distributed by our local food shelf, Northwest Family Foods (5 Lemnah Drive). Traditionally this event yields around 60 turkeys, we need to triple that number this year due to need. Please contact Stephanie Hodgeman if you want to make a donation and can't make the drop-off.
BFA Experience
Monday, December 5th
Save the Date: Dec 8th
BFA Fine Arts Night
More details to follow.
SAC Scholarship Event Dec 14th
Seniors, Need help with your VSAC scholarship application? Join your school counselors and VSAC in the library on December 14th during enrichment. Let us help you get started.
Check out the current scholarship guide at: https://www.vsac.org/sites/default/files/uploads/pdf_resources/Scholarships_Booklet.pdf
Check out the current scholarship guide at: https://www.vsac.org/sites/default/files/uploads/pdf_resources/Scholarships_Booklet.pdf
Jay Peak Season Passes
REDUCED PRICE PASSES AND DAILY TICKETS
BFA will be a part of the Founder's Program again at Jay Peak. They are offering discounted daily tickets for students at $50 a day and also discounted season passes. Please see the rates below. There will be a raffle for season passes at BFA. Students have been sent an application to their school emails on 11/17. Please see that email for eligibility guidelines.
Student Town Hall with
Bernie Sanders
The Mercury
Check out these awesome articles recently published in The Mercury:ESPs: “Advocates for Students” but Staff Shortage an Issue - Reilly Babinski
Last Total Lunar Eclipse for the Next 3 Years Happened on Nov. 8 - Nick Bosley
Music Has A Place In The School Ecosystem - Brendan Conley
You can also read Elora Menard’s (‘23) Veterans' Day speech in The Mercury here: What We Can Learn from Veterans
And, after that, you can read this article covering the ceremony:
2022 Veterans Day Parade and Ceremony - Rachel Ledoux
Journalism Class
Messenger sports writer Ruthie Laroche visited Mrs. Hebert’s journalism class this week!
Skills Building PotLuck
Chef Ginsburg Building Relationships
Congratulations!
NCTC students traveled this weekend to the Cosmetology in Action Hair Show and competed in the Fantasy and Classic competitions. Congratulations to the following winners:
Macie Boudreau took 1st Place in Fantasy
Gabby Depot took 2nd Place in Classic
Ella Reynolds took 3rd Place in Classic
Citizen Science in Physics
Physics students completed a Citizen Science Data Classification for their first Quarterly Project. Using the platform Zooniverse.org, students select a project to help scientists in their efforts to draw scientific conclusions.Projects ranged from looking at Rhesus macaque blood samples with the University of North Carolina to projects about wildlife activity in Wisconsin to help the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to helping NASA learn more about Asteroids. As a whole, the Physics students classified more than 11,000 pieces of data.
Veterans' Day Aerial Photos
taken by Armand Messier
Thanksgiving Break
Reminder: No school for students November 21st-25th.
