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Mandible gathers for a promo shoot in the woods.

Graduating on a high note: seniors host courtyard concert

Marika Kanayama, Staff Writer May 16, 2024

Most senior capstones involve internships at workplaces, painting murals at WA, and helping teachers at the elementary schools. However, seniors Sammy Waterhouse, Teddy Nordhougen and Ryan de Mars have taken a particularly unique approach to their senior capstone: organizing a concert in the courtyard...

Gianna Furia poses for a photo outside of Westford Academy.

Gianna Furia enters the Army after High School

Mackenzie Adam, Staff Writer Apr 16, 2022

As the school year ends and summer starts, seniors begin to leave Westford Academy and move on to a new part of their lives. While they wrap up their classes and figure out their paths in life, many commit to college. Others are choosing a different path that strays away from the rest. For senior...

Senior Nikita Ang takes care of the bunnies and the alpacas at Westford's Good Pickin' Farm during a typical day during her senior capstone.

Ang and St. Sauveur take on Good Pickin’ Farms for senior capstone

Sophia Keang, Editor-in-Chief Apr 16, 2022

Growing your own garden is a difficult task for anyone, let alone managing a whole farm. The responsibility of making sure animals are properly fed, maintaining healthy crops, and collecting food or animal products take time, patience, and interpersonal skills, which for many farmers, takes years of...

Seniors saying goodbye for internships

Seniors saying goodbye for internships

Hannah Thomas, Staff Writer Apr 5, 2019

The seniors left for their Capstone Internship on Thursday, April 5. During Capstone the seniors will do an internship in their field they are interested in and to get a first-hand look at what career path is going to be like. On December 7, 2018, the seniors were introduced to the program. The seniors...

Nick Awada:
“[A friend and I] are partnering together with a scholarship fund for school, and we will be making t-shirts and wristbands and sell them to anybody in Westford. We’ll send any profit we make to the fund. I’ve known this fund for a while because of soccer, and I thought it would be a good idea to keep its legacy going.”

Seniors give insight into their capstone projects

Srinithi Raj and Divya Sambathkumar Mar 23, 2019

With senior Capstone projects approaching quickly, the Ghostwriter asked a few seniors what their plans were during this time. In place of attending classes in the fourth quarter, seniors spend the majority of April and May working on Capstone before presenting about their experiences in early June.

Sneha Prasath (left) and Avni Agrawal (right) pose for a photo.

Capstone to help hearing impaired children

Chloe Morbelli, Arts and Entertainment Editor Mar 19, 2018

Each year, senior year for WA’s twelfth grade is cut short. At the start of the fourth quarter, this year April 9th, the option to go on internship or do a capstone project becomes available to seniors. Projects can range from at home experiments, to shadowing professionals in the workplace, to painting...

A preview of the spring rec ball jerseys.

Spring rec ball returns

Mar 13, 2015
Spring rec ball is back. After a successful spring season last year, seniors John Deveraux, Peter Conway, Eashan Jani, and Connor Burke are bringing the league back as part of the Westford Academy capstone experience.