Bag requirements for graduation at the Ryan Center.
The top performing Wind Turbine Teams, including EWG's Wacky Inflatable Windmen and Seagull Engineers, shared their accomplishments with US Secretary of Energy Graholm, Governor Dan McKee, and WindWinRI. What an exciting day!
Students from the EWGHS Wind Turbine Team and Offshore Wind CTE attended the State of Education on June 1st at the Rhode Island School for the Deaf. Students could present their work to Gov. Dan McKee, Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green, and other educational leaders from throughout the state.
Exeter-West Greenwich Junior/Senior High School Library, in partnership with the Rhode Island Computer Museum (RICM) and several other schools from Rhode Island and Massachusetts, participated in the Greenpower Electric Car Challenge. This hands-on STEM project encourages students to explore aspects of design and teamwork. Students built the electric car from kits and raced them at Ninigret Criterium Track. EWG took top times in all categories!
The Greenpower Electric Car Challenge was founded in 1999 in the United Kingdom (“UK”) by the Greenpower Education Trust to enhance the teaching and learning of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) through a highly engaging and inspirational design-build-race competition. With an emphasis on sustainable, multi-disciplinary, and cross-curricular applied learning, the Greenpower Challenge has categories covering the entire range of education.
Happy Salad Eve! The garden club’s mini cold frames have produced lovely greens; tomorrow, we may have to celebrate with salad! We will be growing a wider selection of vegetables soon.
Amy Biagioni, a high school science teacher, has been named a State/Jurisdiction Finalist for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST)! The PAEMST Team invites you to join us virtually to celebrate Amy at the PAEMST State/Jurisdiction Finalist Celebration on May 11th at 4 pm ET.
You can live stream the event via this public streaming link if you want to attend. Feel free to share widely with your school and district. There is no need to register and no attendance limits for the public streaming link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=882bBB0OMHY
The program should last about a half hour. The program will be recorded and shared after the event.
It is shaping up to be a fantastic show!
Congratulations to the following EWG FFA members who received recognition at the 75th RIFFA Convention on May 29th. Madison Rathbun-2nd place Extemporaneous Public Speaking, 3rd place Employability Skills, State Degree and Alumni Scholarship. Rebecca Kilday-State Degree and Alumni Scholarship. Bryan Jones- 1st place Employability Skills. Clare Titus-1st place Creed Speaking and 1st place Greenhand Illustrated Talk. Alayna Chipman-1st place Greenhand Demonstration. Olivia Hathaway- 2nd place Greenhand Demonstration and 3rd place Creed Speaking. Clare and Bryan will represent RI and compete at the National FFA Convention in Indianapolis this November.
Our Horticulture students have been working hard this semester learning about plants, IPM, soils, and more. They are ready to show you their hard work! Our EWG Horticulture Plant Sale will be on Saturday, May 6th and Saturday, May 13th, from 8 am -12pm at the EWG High School Greenhouse. We have grown a nice selection of annuals, perennials, vegetable starts, herbs, hanging baskets and containers. All proceeds go back into running our class for the following year. Thank you as always for your support to our program!
Due to rain this weekend, the Class of 2025 Classic Car Show has been rescheduled to May 27.
Congratulations! Science teacher, Gwynne Millar, receives the Presidential Innovation Award for Environmental Educators. The award recognizes outstanding kindergarten through grade 12 teachers who employ innovative approaches to environmental education and use the environment as a context for learning for their students. Nine individuals were chosen Nationwide and will travel to Washington, DC, in August to receive the recognition at EPA headquarters.
https://www.epa.gov/education/presidential-innovation-award-environmental-educators-piaee-winners
The 2023 Excalibur Yearbook is now for sale! Purchase the yearbook online using the link below. The Excalibur costs $45 until May 8th. Prices go up after that, so buy now!
https://link.entourageyearbooks.com/YBStore/YearbookStoreMain.asp?yearbook_id=61693
CONGRATULATIONS!! Summer Blair won Best of Show this year in the
Duck Stamp competition. Her artwork has been sent off to national judging this week to compete with the Best of Show winners from every other state. We should hear more in a few days! Although Summer takes many art classes, she was not enrolled in Drawing or Painting last semester. However, she still wanted to compete, so she completed this fantastic colored pencil drawing on her own time, such dedication!
Tonight is the Festival of the Arts!
Art students from the senior and junior high and Metcalf will showcase some incredible work in the Art Loft Gallery and the hallway leading to the library.
We also have a Post-it Art Auction. The post-its are displayed in the gallery, and each auction item has a QR code. The post-its will be numbered and ready for bidding by PLT time tomorrow, and the auction will run through next Tuesday.
Also part of the festival is The End of Winter Chorus Concert in the Library at 7 PM.
On March 16th, eight FFA members competed in statewide leadership development events (LDEs) at Ponagansett High School. Madison Rathbun and Bryan Jones competed in Employment Skills, Madison Rathbun and Rebecca Kilday in Extemporaneous Public Speaking, Olivia Hathaway, Olivia Smith, Madison Paul, and Alayna Chipman in Skills Demonstration, and Clare Titus in the Illustrated Talk LDE. The results will be revealed at the RIFFA awards banquets on April 29. All the students did a fantastic job and represented EWG well.
EWG's Wind Energy CTE and Wind Turbine Team, as a part of WindWinRI, was featured in Revolution Wind's recent Hometown Heros Video. Take a look!
https://revolution-wind.com/revolution-wind-2
Our EWG Horticulture Class just started planting the hanging baskets and seeded the herbs to get them ready for our Annual Plant Sale in May. It feels like Spring!
This Saturday, March 11, 2023, the EWG HS Band will be partaking in a very rare experience: EWG is one of four schools from New England (2 from RI, 1 from ME, and 1 from NH) chosen to participate in a clinic with the United States Coast Guard Band. While nationally there are many US military music groups, there are only 5 groups considered to be "Presidential" ensembles, and the Coast Guard Band in New London is one of those esteemed groups. This is equivalent to working with an MLB, NBA, or NFL team!
The workshop and Coast Guard Band concert are open to our community, and you can find a schedule here https://docs.google.com/document/d/15YQRG-3o9Z74apDOwSlNoewSYUMgzGQf96V8NmWzzmo/edit We have enough chaperones for our buses, but if you would like to join us for the ride, you are welcome too!
The Rhode Island Art Education Association Anchor Award results are in; nine EWG artists were among the winners!
From the Junior High, the winners are:
Olivia Legault, Anchor Award, Best in the category- Drawing
Ady Kocab, Anchor Award- Mixed Media and Wave Award- Self Portrait
Leah Lincoln, Anchor Award- Painting
Zoltan Libertini, Wave Award- Abstract/Experimental
From the Senior High, the winners are:
Sydney Daigle, Anchor Award- Painting
Kailey Brooks, Anchor Award, Best in Category- Painting and Wave Award- Self Portrait
Fiona Brand, Anchor Award- Photography
William Kuprevich, Wave Award- Abstract/Experimental
Lydia Geuss, Wave Award- Social Justice
We are so proud of these hardworking artists and grateful the support they received in cultivating some of the ideas and perspectives reflected in their award-winning artwork!
The attached flyer has information about the exhibition and award ceremony at RIC this Saturday if anyone is interested in attending.
EWG students had the opportunity to tour France and live with French families in an international exchange, from February 22nd to March 3rd. The toured the Louvre, Versailles, and Centre Pompidou. They’ve walked more than five miles a day many days and taken every type of public transportation available. They’ve visited the medieval cities of Rennes and St. Malo. They've been to the top of the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe, just to name a few! They visited the landing sites at Normandy and toured the American cemetery. A student put a flag on the grave of a fallen RI soldier whose family had never gotten to visit the cemetery. They learned to live with another family in a foreign country and have gotten to learn firsthand about life in a place that is very different from home.
