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Zinn poses in front of a German flag that hangs in one of the German classrooms.

Zinn lives the American Dream through a year-long stay at WA

Nylah Gaudreau, Co-News Editor May 5, 2025

Through the hustle and bustle of the hallways in WA, it can be difficult to identify every person who fills the building. However, many have the ability to become a familiar face along the way. With his kindness and personability, junior Noa Zinn has quickly become one of those people for the students...

WA students waiting at the airport for the German students to arrive in 2019. 
Provided by Herr Welch

2022 German exchange to run with minor modifications

Erin Cragg, Staff Writer Feb 8, 2021

For the first time in the forty-two years of the exchange, the Americans will be visiting Germany before the Germans travel to America, due to COVID. Applications for the 2022 German Exchange Program opened on Monday, Feb. 1, allowing freshmen and sophomore students to start applying for the upcoming...

Amelie Lopez in the WA cafe.

Lopez travels back to Germany

Penny Joyce, Staff Writer Apr 30, 2020

After traveling 3,644 miles from her home in Germany, exchange student Amelie Lopez was excited to arrive in Westford. Lopez would have been spending a whole year in America with the Granger family and attending WA as a junior. Unfortunately, her stay in America is cut short due to the COVID-19 outbreak....

Picture of Herr Welch and his class when he went on the exchange in 2001-2002.

German Exchange Program Celebrates 40th Anniversary

Penny Joyce, Staff Writer Oct 4, 2019

Going into this year, the German department at WA is celebrating the 40th anniversary of their exchange program with the Gymnasium Corvinianum school in Northeim, Germany. The German exchange students arrived on Saturday, September 21, and are here for 3 weeks. WA will travel to their school at the beginning...