Congratulations to our varsity golf team who won the Friends Schools League Championship this spring! This small but mighty team’s hard work and dedication throughout the year led to this unforgettable victory. This marks the team’s 8th FSL title, and the first since 2017. Way to go, ‘Town golfers!
Several student-athletes made it into the record books this season. Here are some impressive stats for you!
Additionally, many Westtown student-athletes received Friends Schools League All-League honors at the end of the spring season! Join us in congratulating:
Varsity Baseball
Varsity Softball
Girls Lacrosse
Boys Lacrosse
Boys Tennis
Girls Track and Field
Boys Track and Field
Coed Golf
We are excited to share news about the newest members of Westtown’s Thespian Troupe! Recently, seven students joined the Thespian Troupe and four seniors received high honors from the program.
The International Thespian Society is the honor society for students who’ve engaged in over 100 hours of participation in our Theater program. Westtown’s troupe has 32 members and is self-governed.
The following students were inducted: Lena Johnson ’26, Shawn Sprott ’25, Terry Ma ’25, Jamila Burgos ’27, Emily Kessler ’25, Preston Morefield ’27, and Victoria Potts ’26.
The following seniors received high honors: Odina Achike ’24, Sasha Khalo ’24, Eric Li ’24, and Jess Schottland ’24.
One additional note: All new membership fees were paid for by student-organized troupe fundraising this year!
Congratulations to all!
The Senior Art Show, a long-standing Westtown tradition, opened on May 22. Students, faculty, parents, and community members gathered to celebrate with a reception and viewing. The exhibit was a showcase of senior artists’ creative expression and talents and represents a culmination of their artmaking. Well done, seniors! We invite you to enjoy the wonderful work of our talented senior artists in this gallery here!
Spring is concert season at Westtown, a time when students share their talents with the community. We are grateful for the joyful voices and instruments that filled the theater and the halls of our school. Below are links to images of our student performances. Enjoy!
Enjoy the gallery of photos of the Lower School concert here!
You can see more of the Middle School Concert here!
Enjoy more from the Upper and Middle School Dance Concert here!
Scenes from the Upper School Concert can be found here!
Finally, enjoy the Strings and Sings Concert!
The Upper School Spring Musical, Chicago: Teen Edition, was a smash! Featuring 25 students on and offstage, this was a spectacular production showcasing the many talents of our students. Our thanks to teachers Amy Grebe, Justin Baker, and Jack McManus for helping bring this to the stage! Well, done, everyone!
In case you missed the show, you can view the recording here. We also encourage you to check out the gallery of photos!
Westtown Middle School and the Westtown Arts Department welcomed Marek Bennett to campus as our 2024 Visiting Artist. Marek worked with our students on the fundamentals of creating comics and graphic novels and guided them as they created three-panel comics inspired by our Quaker values. Marek opened his visit with an assembly, where he shared details of his own work and began a sketch of the Meeting House inspired by feedback given by students. All students participated in Marek’s workshops. His visit concluded back in the Meeting House where he shared student work and the completed sketch of the Meetinghouse. Our thanks to art teachers Marta Willgoose Salo and Cindy Hodgson, as well asAlex Ates and the entire Arts Department for making this experience possible for our Middle School students! Enjoy more photos here!
Angela Wang and Jerry Huynh competed in the 2024 USA Biolympiad National Exam, sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Education. Both Jerry and Angela participated in the first round of exams on February 12. Angela qualified as a semi-finalist, the highest level that she was able to achieve (without being a US citizen).
Here are the happy recipients of their award certificates, along with science teacher Leslie Barr!
Outdoor Education in Middle School this year has been full of exploration, learning, art, and time in nature. Students learned how to build emergency shelters, safely build campfires, identify spring ephemeral wildflowers, carve their hiking sticks in the art studio, and work together. In April, Outdoor Education had a cookout at the fire circle where they cooked a feast of penne pasta with a pesto made from garlic mustard and ramps that were foraged on campus. The feast also included a color-changing lemonade made from violet flowers, homemade bread, and. of course, s’mores! Enjoy photos from their cookout here!
Recently, the Metal Moose robotics team hosted a Women in STEM workshop for female-identifying students in 5th through 8th grades. The workshop, spearheaded by Lucia Sanchez ’24, focused on three main activities: LEGO robotics, Python programming, and an introduction to Metal Moose and FIRST Robotics. Sanchez shares, “The LEGO robotics activity was for elementary-aged students, and Python programming was for middle-school-aged students. During the LEGO robotics portion, we taught students how to build and code LEGO robots step-by-step using Ev3 kits. The Python programming section consisted of the open-source Tech Girlz curriculum, which allowed us to teach students basic programming concepts by creating a digital Mad Lib and a number-guessing game. Lastly, we did a brief presentation for all of the students about what the Metal Moose does and how FIRST Robotics and the competitions we attend work. We then did a robot demonstration of our 2024 robot ‘Clio’ during which we explained the functionality of the robot and let students drive it.”
Sanchez says she was inspired to organize this event because she was first introduced to robotics in elementary school in an all-girls tech workshop. “It inspired me to further pursue LEGO robotics and STEM activities at my own school. So I wanted to run a Women in STEM workshop [here] for middle and elementary school girls to build coding skills and learn about robotics in a safe and supportive space.” Because the workshop was such a success, the Metal Moose team plans to continue holding free STEM workshops in the coming years.
