Sunday's ice storm left us in a tough place, with impossibly slippery walkways and immense snowbanks piled up by a huge, rented Caterpillar front loader. By now, walkways are all sanded; North Street is gutted with ruts, and a trip to Jake's is an adventure--due to deep puddles.
To be blunt, it's kind of harsh outside, so let's enter the warmth and safety of Shirley Hall and see what's up.
This is a chemistry class that is calculating findings from a lab in which they treat the ninth most abundant element in the universe (by mass), magnesium (Mg) with acid.
They're working in small teams.
Walker provides some advise to Kayla.
Now, we step outside and enter the first floor of the same building, where George Emeny is teaching algebra 1.
Just down the hall, Patty Pond is introducing some of the novel approaches to proving the Pythagorean Theorum, with students employing puzzle-like pieces of construction paper that can be positioned differently, while demonstrating what we all know: A-squared, plus B-squared, equals C-squared.
Just across a rutted North Street, in Slocumb Hall, Jackson is one of several students putting finishing touches on highly-personalized chairs.
Just off a muddy, icy, village road, we can go beyond the looking glass:
