Waring School’s varsity robotics team. Wolfpack Machina, won the top prize (the Inspire Award) at the First Tech Challenge World Championships on April 22nd in Houston.
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World Champions! Waring wins top prize at First Tech Challenge World Championships
By Becky Schaeffer on 05/3/2023
Rebecca Reed wins Airtable award
By Becky Schaeffer on 10/25/2022
Congratulations to Waring's own Rebecca Reed, who is one of this year's winners of Airtable's Interface Designer Contest for the digital "Teaching Tool" she designed for curriculum planning and student information. Read more here - and brava, Rebecca!
Waring Robotics Featured on WBZ News Radio
By Francis Schaeffer on 09/23/2021
WBZ NewsRadio interviewed Waring's award winning FIRST Tech Challenge Robotics team. Check out the full interview here: https://wbznewsradio.iheart.com/content/waring-school-robotics-team-hopes-to-build-on-international-success/
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Three Waring Students Accepted into 2021 Massachusetts Art Educators Association Amazing Emerging Artists High School Recognitions Exhibition
By Rick Wilson on 03/22/2021
The Art Department is pleased to share the news that Ari Dimond-Putnam, Katharine Judy, and Yaqi Liu each had artwork accepted into the 2021 Massachusetts Art Educators Association Amazing Emerging Artists High School Recognitions Exhibition. This was a juried show, and only 94 students from across the state had work chosen for the virtual exhibit.
Waring Teacher Published in Boston University Journal of Education
By Rick Wilson on 02/11/2021
Our own John Wigglesworth recently had his work published in the Boston University Journal of Education.
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Waring Teacher and Alumnus Collaborate to Make 3D-Printed Face Masks
By Graham Pearsall on 04/30/2020
Waring's three 3D printers are rarely silent while students are on campus and have continued to buzz even in their absence.
Francis Schaeffer, Waring's STEM Coordinator and FLL Coach of the Brickwolves, has kept the 3D printers in Waring's makerspace busy the past few weeks making face masks. Each mask takes about nine hours to print and another 40 minutes to assemble using instructions supplied by Waring alumnus Bennett Ahearn '03.
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Brickwolves Featured by Carbon Leadership Forum for Developing Student Carbon Calculator Curriculum
By Graham Pearsall on 03/13/2020
While attending the Boston Youth Climate Strike in September, Waring’s FLL Robotics team noticed that while passionate about climate change, many of their peers knew little about embodied carbon, an enormous source of carbon dioxide emissions. In fact, embodied carbon, which makes up 40 percent of the world’s annual greenhouse gas emissions, wasn’t mentioned by the strike’s speakers at all.