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February 25, 2019

Posted at 11:24h in Counseling, Parents by

Hartford Area Career and Technology Center is welcoming current and prospective students and their families, community members, business partners, and others to visit the Center on March 5. This community event will showcase HACTC faculty, students, and programs, and feature student presentations, refreshments prepared by HACTC Culinary Arts students, and a robotics demonstration by FIRST Robotics Team 95. ...


February 25, 2019

Posted at 10:53h in Counseling, Parents by

The Champlain College Young Writers' Conference is coming up! "If you are an emerging writer; if you've dreamed of studying the craft with celebrated authors; if you've longed to meet others who share your passion for story, drama, and song; this conference is for you." Application deadline is March 8, 2019 - interested students should sign up today at champlain.edu/write. ...


February 24, 2019

Posted at 16:57h in Arts, News, Parents by

The next two Thursdays, February 28 and March 7, at 7:00 p.m., Thetford Academy Drama students will perform “Who Am I This Time?” in the MJR Theater. Students are taking the play to the Vermont One Act Play Competition in March and to help them prepare, the actors will be requesting audience feedback at these performances. The play is based on a short story by Kurt Vonnegut and adapted for the stage by Christopher Sergel. The publisher describes the story: “Harry Nash [has] a real-life personality as blah as the leaf rakes in the hardware store where he works, and...


February 24, 2019

Posted at 15:50h in Athletics, News, Parents by

Nearing the end of basketball season is always bittersweet for the Thetford Academy Panthers, as it comes time to celebrate and send off our senior athletes. This year, the Panthers honored standout Girls' Varsity players Abby Berard, Lily Brown, and Kiana Johnson at the February 7th home game v. Randolph (56-29). The Varsity Boys honored seniors Carter Blain, Seth Boyce, Jake Colby, Ethan Steingas, Owen Deffner, Tony Pippin and managers Ally Perry and Skyra Coulter on Wednesday at their home game v. U-32 (58-53). Seniors Kiana Johnson and Jake Colby--both former Chelsea Red Devils who transferred to TA this year--hit...


February 19, 2019

Posted at 08:01h in Athletics, News by

By Charlie Buttrey The Thetford Academy boys indoor track team made history on Saturday when, in just its second year as a varsity sport, they finished a very close second in the Division II meet.  The girls also had a great meet, finishing in a tie for 5th, just one point out of 4th place. The boys scored points in 12 different events, including individual state championships by Knute Linehan whose leap of 39' 3 1/4" in the triple jump was a school record, and Owen Deffner, who won both the 1500 (in 4:33.34, the school's second-fastest time ever) and the 3000...


February 15, 2019

Posted at 10:00h in Head of School, News, Parents by

On Friday, Feb. 8, Thetford Academy turned 200 years old! Students celebrated the school’s birthday in style, with an all-day Founders’ Day and Founders’ Night extravaganza. Other posts describe the school's Bicentennial Gala on Feb. 9 and Vermont Historic Marker dedication on Feb. 8. Chico Eastridge ’05, Studio Producer & Education Outreach Coordinator at CATV in White River Junction, VT, produced an outstanding Founders' Day film for Thetford Academy. Click here for the YouTube video. Despite a weather-related late start, Founders’ Day—200 years to the day of the school's founding on Feb. 8, 1819—was successful in every way. To begin, seniors Abigail Berard and Alden Nichols narrated a story of the school's history,...

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