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Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy Upper School Fall Play 2013, Romeo and Juliet. Staged in the Old Gym. Photos by Emily Isakson, Worcester Academy Class of 2013.
Stratford High School Assistant Principal Jeff Davis lowers a Kemmerer water sampler into J. Percy Priest Lake in Nashville, Tenn., to collect samples and check water quality. Members of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Water Management Section showed Stratford STEM Magnet High School teachers how to collect water samples June 17, 2013 as part of a teacher externship to help them develop project based learning curriculum. (Photo by Lee Roberts)
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy Upper School Fall Play 2013, Romeo and Juliet. Staged in the Old Gym. Photos by Emily Isakson, Worcester Academy Class of 2013.
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
When flight delays turn into sightseeing days! Harry's cancelled flight means he didn't miss out on a tour of the Hassan II Mosque - the 3rd largest mosque in the world!
Instagram photo by THINK Global School
© THINK Global School, 2017
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy Upper School Fall Play 2013, Romeo and Juliet. Staged in the Old Gym. Photos by Emily Isakson, Worcester Academy Class of 2013.
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy Upper School Fall Play 2013, Romeo and Juliet. Staged in the Old Gym. Photos by Emily Isakson, Worcester Academy Class of 2013.
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy Upper School Fall Play 2013, Romeo and Juliet. Staged in the Old Gym. Photos by Emily Isakson, Worcester Academy Class of 2013.
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy Upper School Fall Play 2013, Romeo and Juliet. Staged in the Old Gym. Photos by Emily Isakson, Worcester Academy Class of 2013.
The Educational Technology Training Center at Valdosta State University hosted a conference for students in surrounding counties to present their PROMOTE GA websites.
Alumni from near and far flocked to the Hilltop May 6&7, with many special activities for the Class of 1966 and others. Included among the events were recognitions for Outstanding Alumnus, Young Alumna, Hall of Fame, and the Cole Porter Worcester Academy Class of 1920 Award, as well as opportunities to go back to class. A dinner was also held at Tatnuck Country Club for the Class of 1966, while a dinner for all reunion classes was held in the Rowe Court, Daniels Gymnasium. Alumni, students, families, and others also attended a special concert by Broadway and Law Order star Jessica Phillips '89 in celebration of the new Worcester Academy Performance Center. Look for more photos to come!
One of our grade 11s Helen, from Guatemala, comes all the way to Essaouira to try a tenon saw in a local artisans workshop!
Instagram photo by THINK Global School
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Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Some of the summer events I go to seem to be filled with people sporting belt pouches. Usually they’re leather, and the style is attributed to Burning Man, but I have no interest in going to the desert. But, it was a good project to try out. So, I figured out a pattern with some help from a pattern in my collection, and I made four using some fat quarters in my fabric collection. I put buttons on them this afternoon, and made them closable/button-able today.
One of the things I love about projects like this, though, is that I learn something from making a belt pouch that I can then apply to other projects. I’d always wondered how to put a fancy bit of trim onto a shirt or a jacket sleeve or hem. But I couldn’t ever figure out how to do it. The red trim on these belt pouches, and the instructions in the Butterick pattern, though, helped me figure it out. Essentially, it’s a bias-cut piece of fabric that is folded in half, with its fibrous edges tucked inside of that fold. The whole assembly is wrapped around the edge of the flap of the pouch, and sewn into place with a single stitch.
The insights keep going, of course. The cording on the pouches was produced using either a kumihimo technique or a lucet cord-making technique. The way the straps are produced for hanging from the belt was new to me, as well, but not hard to figure out. And the way to produce bags with both liner fabric as well as external fabric was also pretty cool.
The bag on the lower right was my first (I think — I made two exactly the same), while the blue bag with the koi pattern was my last. In each iteration of the design, I made two or three new mistakes even while correcting old ones... and as I did so, it felt like a got a lock on how this pattern works.
That, of course, is how magical training works. You do something enough times — such as, say, in daily practice — and sooner or later either the mistakes get ironed out, or the mistakes become part and parcel of the intention and the deliberateness of the practice, and the value of the practice. And the reward.
For me, I now have four or five belt pouches that I feel I could give away or sell (assuming someone wanted to buy them; they might not want my mistakes). But the real value is the the learning of the pattern, which is now implanted in me, in a sense, in a way that I need never let it go. All I must do is continue making one or two of them a month, getting better each time, and more accurate, and making better color and pattern choices. The result is an Unfolding.
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017
Worcester Academy's first Mountain Day in many years took the Upper School to the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton. What a wonderful first day back to school. August 30, 2017