Student-Teacher Spotlight

ARMS students and teacher Jennifer Welborn are featured in the summer issue of Teaching Tolerance, a national publication of the Southern Poverty Law Center.  The article describes how students examine issues of social justice in the science classroom.

ARHS Science teacher Sharon Palmer has been awarded the 2013 High School Teacher Award by the Connecticut Valley Section of the American Chemical Society.  The regional award is given annually to a high school teacher who has made an outstanding contribution to chemical education at the secondary level.

ARHS senior Shohini Kundu is one of 11 Massachusetts students to be named a semi-finalist in the Intel Science Talent Search for 2013 for her presentation on the use of sedimentary analysis to reconstruct geologic history.

Annie Baker, ARHS class of 1999, has been honored with the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and the Horton Foote Writer's Retreat.  In 2010, Baker won an Obie Award for Best New American Play .

On March 1st, the Fort River School Community celebrated the 109th birthday of Dr. Seuss by having members of our community come into the school to read their favorite Dr. Seuss story.

At the 29th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Community Breakfast and Awards Ceremony, ARHS seniors Ana Sofia Semedo and Regina East received the Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarships, while ARHS staff members Mary Custard and Momodou Sarr were honored with the Norma Jean Anderson Civil Rights and Academic Achievement Award. 

Three ARHS music students have been selected to participate in the 2013 All-Eastern Honors Ensembles from the National Association for Music Education. This biennial festival is made up of top music students from Maryland and D.C. to Maine.

The College Board has selected Amherst Regional Public Schools for the 3rd Annual AP District Honor Roll, in recognition of the district's success in simultaneously increasing access to Advanced Placement course work while also increasing the achievement of students on the exam.

Congratulations to the ARHS Future Business Leaders of America club. FBLA will be receiving an award as Outstanding Young Philanthropist/Fundraiser of Hampshire County. Read about this great honor for our students and their advisor Missy Shea.

Update:

On Wednesday, November 14, FBLA received the award at a ceremony at The Log Cabin. Here ten members of the group and adviser Ms. Shea throw their hands and glasses up in a toast to their success.

First in the Nation! A team of eight ARHS junior engineers scored at the top of their division in this year's JETS competition.