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SMS Gymnasts Show Their Skills

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The gymnasts of Suffield Middle School presented their annual exhibition in the school gym on April 4, with applause for notable performances from the proud audience of family and friends. For an hour and a half, the 32 students participating, singly and occasionally in pairs and small squads, demonstrated almost everything from somersaults and cartwheels to graceful floor events on the big mat and impressive feats on the balance beam, the uneven bars, suspended rings and vaulting horses.

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Suffield High School Aces Mary Poppins

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Wouldn’t it be great if every dysfunctional family could be harmonized by a magical visitor like Mary Poppins? That’s what Julie Andrews as Mary did for the Banks family in the 1964 film, and this reviewer remembers Dick Van Dyke and Julie Andrews well in that film and still occasionally sings the music to himself.

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Rotary Student

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Congratulations to Marissa Guzzo who was chosen as the Rotary Student of the Month for March. Marissa is a senior at Suffield High School and also attends The Greater Hartford Academy of Math and Science.

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Connecticut Affiliate NCWIT Award

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Congratulations to Amanda Litvak who was chosen as a 2018 winner of the Connecticut Affiliate of the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) Award for Aspirations in Computing. The award will be presented to Amanda at a reception on Tuesday May 8 at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford in conjunction with the Hartford Technology Forum, jointly sponsored by the Central Connecticut chapter of the Society for Information Management and the Greater Hartford Chapter of Women in Technology International.

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Science Fair Club Finals

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At the Connecticut Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), SHS had the highest participation ever with 17 projects from 24 students reaching the semi-finals. SHS had 6 students earn 2nd Honors (top 2% in the state) while 18 students earned 3rd Honors (top 3% in the state).

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Shop Rite Community Service Award

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Miriam Dugas is a senior at SHS and has been a member of the Suffield Regional Agriscience Program for the past four years. She has grown up on her family’s dairy farm, Smyth’s Trinity Farm in Enfield, Connecticut all of her life where she assists with milking the herd and working in the dairy processing plant and store.

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SHS Volleyball Marathon

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Organized by Suffield High School’s chapter of the National Honor Society, the Volleyball Marathon (VBM) was held again this year from Friday, March 23 until Saturday, March 24. The annual event is a tradition at SHS and students look forward to a night of competitive volleyball games with their classmates.

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Agriscience Update

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On March 29, our Suffield Agriscience Program hosted Accepted Student Day, where all accepted eighth grade students from various towns came for one huge shadow day. During the school day they learned about FFA, the student leadership organization, and had the opportunity to ask students on a panel about life at Suffield High School.

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Winning Programmers Honored

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Three Suffield students went to Washington, D. C., on their spring vacation, but not for a holiday. As reported in the March issue of the Observer, Marissa and Gianna Guzzo and their team-mate Alexandra Smith were the 2017 Connecticut Second District winners of the Congressional App Challenge, a national program now in its third year in which about 4,900 students participated last fall.

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Police Respond To Threat

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On March 9 at approximately 9:22 a.m., Suffield Police responded to Suffield High School located at 1060 Sheldon Street to assist the School Resource Officer and school administration with a distraught student.