Unified classes connect special education teens to art, peers
AGAWAM — Many high schools have created inclusive or unified sports programs that pair special education students with their general education peers. Agawam High School, however, is one of the few in the area that has gone beyond sports by adding two unified academic...Well-versed: Last year’s top AHS poetry performer repeats
AGAWAM — Abigail Drumm was left almost speechless after her winning performance for the second consecutive year in an annual poetry performance contest at Agawam High School. “I don’t have words to describe how excited I am that I won this year’s contest,” said the...Robotics teams introduce teens to engineering, tech careers
The 2024 robotics season kicked off in January with student teams for Rosie Robotics at Agawam High School and Mechatronic Maniacs at West Springfield High School ramping out work to design and build their newest robots for the first round of competition in late...Westfield science fair has ideas for baby health care, art
WESTFIELD — When Luke Bulan volunteered at Baystate Medical Center’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, or NICU, for a week last summer, he noticed he couldn’t do anything to help with half the babies in the unit, because they were confined to incubators.