FALL & WINTER HIGHLIGHTS
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STEM During a signing ceremony on Wednesday, November 12th, senior Kelsey Mendell committed to play field hockey next year at Providence College in Rhode Island. Kelsey signed her National Letter of Intent at the Sanford Sports Center, as her family, teammates, and faculty looked on.
The Sanford community came together for our annual Caroling in the Quad celebration. Highlights of the event included our
The members of the Sanford Punkin Chunkin Team—and their pumpkin-slinging machine—took first place in the “Youth Long Arm Trebuchet” division at this year’s Last Fling Pumpkin Sling in Long Pond, Pennsylvania. Upper School Math Instructor and team advisor Ensign Simmons, along with team advisors and Upper School faculty members Jamy Moreno and Laura Stefanik, prepared the group for the competition, held at Pocono Raceway from October 17th to 19th.
Vocal Ensemble leading everyone in song, and community members donating hats and mittens for children served by an area day care center.
Sanford community members share the joy of the season with each other, as well as with those in need.
On October 25th, Sanford seniors Samantha Stevenson and Rebecca Goodier led the MOE (Miracle of Engineering) 365 Robotics team to a first-place finish at the annual girlPOWER competition at Mt. Saint Joseph’s Academy. Sixteen teams from the midAtlantic region competed in the event, which required all members of the robot’s “drive team” to be female. The “EliMOEnator,” MOE’s 2014 robot, is designed to compete against other robots in a series of games in which the robots pick balls up off the floor and catapult them into the air.
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