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Welcome to the Achievers' Program Website for the 2020-2021 School Year!
Welcome to the Achievers' Program Website for the 2020-2021 School Year!
This year, we have a new group of talented, enthusiastic, and hardworking ninth graders in the Achievers' Program, which is the final year of the Idea Program in Darien. Students in the Achievers' Program create and pursue original projects focusing on their individual passions and interests. This year, with nineteen students in the program, we have an especially wide array of projects, from engineering to hockey, from hockey to surrealism, from surrealism to documentaries. It promises to be an exciting and fruitful year!
Over the course of the year, each student will regularly update their individual page so that you can be a part of their journey. Keep an eye out for their "Work in Progress" Presentations, which they will post regularly, as well as reflections, blurbs, videos, and podcasts that may pop up over the course of the year.
After visiting their pages, if you have a resource you would like to share with a student, please email me at ebosson@darienps.org. I will happily pass along the information to the student; we are always looking for ways to enrich our projects and our research.
Thank you for your interest & your support!
"...Probably some people can look at the grass at their feet and discover all the crawling creatures. I would like to know grasses and sedges— and care. Then my least journey into the world would be a field trip, a series of happy recognitions. Thoreau, in an expansive mood, exulted, “What a rich book might be made about buds, including, perhaps, sprouts!” It would be nice to think so. I cherish the mental images I have of three perfectly happy people. One collects stones. Another— an Englishman, say— watches clouds. The third lives on a coast and collects drops of seawater which he examines microscopically and mounts. But I don’t see what the specialist sees, and so I cut myself off, not only from the total picture, but from the various forms of happiness..."
-Excerpt from "Seeing" by Annie Dillard
ACHIEVERS' NIGHT WILL BE ON MAY 24TH, STARTING AT 6 PM.
ACHIEVERS' NIGHT WILL BE ON MAY 24TH, STARTING AT 6 PM.
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