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Please help us to celebrate our outstanding Spring athletes. We will be honoring US Baseball, MS & US Softball, and the Golf and Tennis teams on Tues., June 1 at 6 pm. Long Trail will provide the main dish, dessert, and beverage. We ask that each family brings a side dish to share. For more information, please contact Courtney Weir at 802.867.5717 x203 or cweir@longtrailschool.org.
Friday, June 4, 2-5 pm
Spiral Scoops (next to Northshire Bookstore)
Please join us for cake, ice cream, favors, and a festive good time!!
Long Trail student ambassadors and members of the junior class enjoyed an action-packed long weekend in Ocean City, New Jersey last weekend. Courtney Callo, Beckey Pollard, and Patti Alexander chaperoned the fun-filled trip where the group took advanatge of all that the coastal area has to offer- kayaking, swimming, biking, and roller skating. Take a look at this video to get a taste of their adventures! http://animoto.com/play/TicfUR7izrvH2hRztJqKdQ?utm_content=main_link&utm_source=share&utm_campaign=animoto&utm_medium=email
Congratulations to David Spero, Scott Worland and students Noah Lowenthal, Oren Cook, and Asa Kuhn for writing a research paper – “The Composition and Abundance of Bethnic Macroinvertebrates in the Mettowee River: A Study of Water Quality in the Lower Lake Champlain Basin” – that was selected for publication in the Lake Champlain Research Proceedings. They have also been selected to present their research results at the Great Lakes Research Symposium in Burlington in June. Long Trail is the only secondary school presenting at the symposium, joining the University of Michigan, Cornell University, McGill University, University of Vermont, Middlebury College, US Geological Survey, EPA, and the VT Agency of Natural Resources. Kudos to both teachers and students for this impressive distinction!
At Long Trail School, we believe that diversity improves the educational experience. Never has that been more apparent than last week. Several different programs were happening simultaneously within the Long Trail community. The 8th grade students were on a 5 day trip to Washington DC where they experienced the very best that our nation’s capital has to offer. Visits to museums, memorials, the White House and a trip to the Capital to meet Senator Leahy were all on the agenda. Middle schoolers in 6th and 7th grades were involved in an intensive project studying water. Students in grades 9-11 participated in Connections, an in-depth look at immigration. Seniors were involved in a variety of internships outside the school. These experiences ranged from crab fishing in Puerto Rico to Harvard University archives and even an internship with reporter Benita Zahn at WNYT. A fun-filled, educational week was had by all.
Celebrating the Dance Teams – Basketball Teams – Rock Climbing Teams – Snowboarding Team
Please click to view pictures presented at the Winter 2010 Sports Banquet. Winter Sports 2010 PowerPoint.
March 12, 2010—Luke Krauss, a sophomore at Long Trail School, competed in the Vermont high school snowboard
Long Trail School's Luke Krauss in competition.
state championships this week.
Krauss, of West Rupert, tied with two other boarders for 18th out of 70 in halfpipe, which uses a smooth-surfaced snow trough for stunts.
He came in 12th out of 70 in slopestyle, a competitive freestyle event judged on the performance of tricks while riding over jumps. Krauss competed for Long Trail on the slopes last year as well. During this 2009-2010 season, Krauss had two second place finishes, one in boardercross and one in halfpipe. He had a 9th and a 20th place finishes in slopestyle during the year as well.
On March 20, Long Trail School is proud to host (for the sixth time!) the Vermont Regional One Act Festival. Students from 6 different high schools will be performing their one act plays, taking part in workshops, and having a wonderful day of celebrating theater and making new friends. Long Trail School has over 20 students participating in the acting as well as serving as hosts/student ambassadors for the visiting schools. For these students, the festival day begins at 8 am and doesn’t end until around 11 at night! There are 5 regional festivals being hosted throughout the state with a total of 30 schools participating. From each regional festival, 2 schools are selected to advance to the State Festival which will be held on March 26 and 27 at Randolph Union High School.
Block 1 (Mount St. Joseph and Mill River) – 10:15 am-12:15 pm
Block 2 (Thetford Academy and Twin Valley) – 3:30-5:30 pm
Block 3 (Long Trail School and Proctor HS) – 7:00-9:00 pm
Please be sure to arrive early because the doors will be closed exactly at starting time and will not be opened until the end of the performance. For more information, please contact Tracey Wesley at twesley@longtrailschool.org.
Long Trail School students Taylor Cockey, Rowan Rainwalker, and Taiga Lees pose with their awards and coaches Michele Farkas and Barb West.
The Long Trail School MathCounts team earned a berth at the State Mathcounts Competition at Randolph High School on Sat., March 13. Taylor Cockey ‘15, Taiga Lees ‘14, Rowan Rainwalker ‘15, and Kaitlyn Turner ’14 scored well at the regional competition on January 30. Taiga came in third and Rowan came in fifth in individual scores. As a team, they scored third overall. We congratulate the team for its past success and wish them all good luck.
Members of the group BloodDrumSpirit performed for Long Trail School.
March 5, 2010—BloodDrumSpirit spent a jam-packed day with students and staff at Long Trail School on February 25. BloodDrumSpirit is a quartet of jazz and world music musicians (drum, piano, bass and saxophone) who have been performing together since 1981. Dr. Royal Hartigan, the group’s leader, is a tenured professor of world music at University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth and a Fulbright scholar. The quartet has a lot of experience leading workshops in West African drumming, song and dance; Indian time cycles, original rhythmic concepts and practice, African American music, and jazz history and styles. The musicians worked intensively with choral and instrumental students in two 80-minute workshops and performed a show for the entire school. Their residency was funded by the Creative Connections Arts Fund of the Vermont Community Foundation. For more information, contact Melissa Chesnut-Tangerman at Long Trail School at mchesnut-tangerman@longtrailschool.org or 867-5717 x215.
