Seekonk High School News

Hopefully you have been able to enjoy seeing the talented students as they performed at the winter concert and opened up their basketball, swim, cheerleading and indoor track/field seasons. The halls are filled with meaningful activity before and after school each day as practices are mostly held indoors for the season.

Seekonk High School Quiz Bowl Advisers, Jennifer Borden and Michelle Salisbury learned that Seekonk Quiz Bowl team has qualified for the 10th season of the WGBH Boston Quiz Bowl!

The group of talented students qualified based on their impressive performance at the preliminary trial. The students will travel to the WGBH Studio on January 19th to film the episode to be aired later. The team consists of students: Thomas Ciolfi, Eli Morrison, William Ott, Aditi Patel, Pritesh Patel and Abby Tenreiro. We wish the team well, go Seekonk!

The students and faculty continue to impress us with their thoughtfulness and generosity. There was a very successful toy drive lead by senior Victoria Cabral. Piles of toys were brought by Tori and her family to Hasbro Children’s Hospital to be distributed to children that will spend the holidays in the hospital. The Students Promoting Equality and Kindness group, SPEAK, collected and donated to several families. Items for the famlies including household goods, cleaning supplies and boxes of food for the holidays. Fundraising was done by the Key Club right before vacation hosting Ugly Sweater Day.

After the vacation students will be gearing up for midterm exams. The 2 hour exams are scheduled to begin on January 14th and run through January 17th. Students complete two exams each day with a breakfast break between exams. Students are dismissed at 12:00 on exam days. This will close out the first semester and second semester classes begin on January 18th
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Two teams from Seekonk High School Science Club participated in the 16th Annual Women of Science Competition at Bedford High School on Saturday, December 8th. Thirtyeight teams had to compete in 4 events: 1. A pre-built mouse trap powered tram car 2. Trivia related to the theme of Space 3. General science trivia 4. An onsite tower build. The team of Lillian Birch, Erin Broadmeadow & Bethany Smith came in 13th overall for the competition. The team of Libby Dyson & Aditi Patel came in 4th for the pre-build competition. Congratulations to both teams for a fine performance!

On Wednesday, December 12th, students from AP Biology and Biology II presented their research of the Runnins River and Burr's Pond at the Seekonk Land Trust Meeting at the High School Library. The research has been ongoing for many years and is generously supported by the Seekonk Land Trust. This experience continues to be led by Mrs. Cunard, Mr. Bonneau and Mr. Wills.

Congratulations to the following senior student-athletes who signed their letters of intent to play on the collegiate level next year: Cammy Garabian-Harvard University (Track and Field), Hannah Desmarais-Molloy College (Field Hockey), Trinity Cloud-Wheaton College (Soccer), Adam Horowitz-UMass Dartmouth (Baseball), Logan Casala-Mitchell College (Baseball). Athletic Director, Fred Crippen, organized the event for December 17th. It was a special morning with students, families and coaches watching.