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Vol. 2 No. 11
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January 1, 2012
Off to Nationals They Go!
Going Outside to Learn Millis Outdoor Pursuits Class Tackles Building an Ice Rink BY J.D. O’GARA While some Millis teens might sit in class taking notes on a given weekday, there’s a growing group who open the doors and head outside for a hike, a bike ride, to build a fire or create a lean to. These students are Millis High School upperclassmen taking an elective called Outdoor Pursuits, and the class is like nothing most adults would have imagined taking in high school. Their latest project this year has them building an ice skating rink, which other students will be able to use. According to one of the Outdoor Pursuits instructors, Scott Kendrick, the school’s Physical Education Department added Outdoor Pursuits a couple of years ago. It’s goals were to give students an outdoor experience in a physical way, doing activities such as rock climbing, ropes courses and whitewater rafting while building leadership and encouraging a team experience. One student leader is Daniel Gonzalez, 18, who’s a senior. Gonzalez says he took the Outdoor Pursuits class again this year, because “you can go to
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17-year-old Rachel Bolton takes charge of some power tools in putting pieces of the rink’s structure together.
school and actually go outside in the woods and build a fire. It’s different from an average school day,” he says. “At the beginning of the year,” says Kendrick, “we teach the
We teach them wilderness skills and prepare them for wild conditions. This year it was in October that we slept out. It got pretty
cold,” he says. “There’s a lot of leadership in this class,” says Junior Rachel Bolton, 17, who says she really
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The Medway Varsity Cheerleaders are back at it and better than ever. They began the season by once again taking the “Champions” title in the Tri-Valley League competitions, enabling them to compete at the regional level for a bid to the State Cheerleading Competition. At the Regional Competitions held at Dartmouth High School, they placed second, letting them move further up to the state level for a bid to the National Cheerleading Competitions in Orlando, FL. The State Competition held at Shrewsbury High School on November 20, 2011 turned out to be another success. The girls competed against all the regional winners for Division Three and came in third place overall. Their exciting season left them with their desired bid to Florida.
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