Keep It Wild, Hot, and GORGEOUS

By Katherine Benjamin

Have you ever wanted to star in a fashion show? Do you love dressing up? Do you want to look gorgeous in full make-up and beautiful, homemade gowns? Do you want to use a sewing machine to create fantastic clothes to have them shone off to an audience? Well, you can at the newly constructed Cormier Youth Center behind Doherty Middle School. Andover Youth Services is offering a new activity to please many students-- Fashion Club Open Studio. It’s taught by one of the workers for the Center and a girl in high school who can work wonders with a sewing machine. They both are there to help you and get your feet wet with the magic of sewing.

The theme is called “New Beginnings” meaning you can create whatever you’re comfortable with. Want to create new up-and-coming fashion or movie star looks? Sure! Want to create animals? Christmas in July in June? Go ahead! “New Beginnings” can be interpreted into whatever you like!

This group activity meets Wednesdays after school from 2:30-5 p.m. If you want to join, don’t be afraid. If you think you’ll be the one of the only Woodchuck, Hillian, or Wood Hill-billy there, don’t worry! During the last session there were four students from Wood Hill at the open studio. Boys, who cares if you want to come and model or even design clothes? This is a judgement free zone! Be sure to check ays.recdesk.com for the details and to sign up. Fashio Club Open Studio rolls out the runway for all to see the designs in June, date to be determined.

Other programs available are:

• Cooking with Tony: Full Course Meal- Learn what it takes to plan, shop for, and prepare a full meal with Tony
• Girls: Venture Out- Try a new activity for only girls! It includes DIY Day, Shop + Skate, Jewelry making, and Snow Tubing.
• Free Running- Feel free to run around the CYC and have fun practicing parkour and challenging others to do cool moves!
• The Sweet Life- One of AYS’s most populars, and each week you get to make sweet treats!
• Open Gym 7th and 8th Grade- Open gym for the seventh and eighth grades!
• Middle School Basketball 7th and 8th Grade- Pickup basketball for everybody in seventh or eighth grade!
• 6th Grade Spectacular- As long as you’re in 6th grade you can come to the Youth Center to use the gym, lobby, and Phillips Room to play whatever!

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First school dance welcomes students back to Wood Hill

Eighth graders Katie Benjamin and Solace Lockheardt having fun at the dance.  

Solace Lockheardt and Mrs. Sullivan 

A group pose by sixth grade boys at Wood Hill. 

Katie Benjamin enjoys a night off from homework. 

Olivia Dionisio, Danna Mejenes, Ella Brockleman, Lizzie Hart enjoy the dance. 

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Wood Hill students excel at Academic Bowl

by Lekhya Sathi

Thursday March 12 was the last Academic Bowl meet for the 2014-2015 school year. This year the Wood Hill team has won four of the five meets. The team from Wood Hill, made up of nineteen selected students from sixth, seventh and eighth grade competed with middle schools from Andover and other neighboring cities, such as Methuen, Lawrence, and North Andover.

Each Academic Bowl competition is divided into two parts. The first challenge is to as a team, simultaneously complete a fill-in-the-blank worksheet, followed by a building challenge, and a scrabble challenge in a given amount of time. After this is the buzzer round, which is played jeopardy style, with the teams being asked questions and having to press the buzzer to answer. 

In an interview right before the final meet, eight graders Nicole Papageorgiou and Allyson Care said the Academic Bowl is a really fun experience.

Each academic bowl competition is divided into two parts. The first challenge is to as a team, simultaneously complete a fill in the blank worksheet, a building challenge, and a scrabble challenge in a given amount of time. After this is the buzzer round, which is played jeopardy style, with the teams being asked questions and having to press the buzzer to answer. 

In an interview right before the final meet, Nicole Papageorgiou and Allyson Care, two eighth graders who participate in this said the Academic Bowl is a really fun experience. This year, the Wood Hill team has won 4 of the 5 meets which is really good.

Students Mix-It-Up at lunch

Dan Ivanovich, Sona Chaudary, Emma Azzi and Jackie Hemman.

 By: Vincent Candela

On Wednesday, April 29, Wood Hill Middle School held a Mix It Up Lunch run and organized by the Student Ambassadors. At this lunch students were assigned to tables at lunch, instead of choosing where to sit. This forced students to sit with different people.

The cafeteria was decorated, including a balloon at each table. Icebreakers were also at each table, these were questions that were meant to “break the ice” or start a conversation at each table. Some examples include: what's your favorite food or what's your favorite Mexican restaurant. 

At the start of the lunch, everyone was given a question card filled with Wood Hill trivia, then at the end the answers were revealed. If you got a certain number of questions correct then your group got free ice cream on Monday. 

Sixth graders switch up their seating during Mix It Up Lunch. 

Most people interviewed disliked the event, explaining that it was uncomfortable being with people that they didn’t know. Others liked it because they got to meet new people.