By Stella Maclean, Jaya Kolluri, and Ezra Lee Winsor’s December senior spotlight is on field hockey athlete Ally Kennedy ’23. Kennedy was one of three captains of the Varsity Field Hockey team this fall. The team had a fiery season, making it all the way to the New England Preparatory School Athletic Council (NEPSAC) quarterfinals. …
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Club Spotlight: Quantumplaters
By Julia Bae For the many students interested in STEM at Winsor, clubs are an opportunity to continue exploring their interests outside of the classroom. Quantumplaters, which is co-headed by Lily Levitzky ’23 and Natalie Pan ’23 and advised by Ms. Cohen, is only in its second year. However, Quantumplaters has quickly become known as …
Smaller Compost Bins with Larger Environmental Benefits
By Liana Min and Kelly Yin On Halloween, the Winsor dining hall made a radical decision. The wooden trash can holder disappeared, replaced by six buckets. The buckets labeled “Slush” are intended for liquid waste from lunch: soup, tea, coffee, miscellaneous flavored waters. The buckets labeled “Compost” are for food waste from sandwich crusts to …
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Waste Management During the Holiday Season
By Zoe Vittori-Koch, Annie Fisher, and Aidan Lee For many, mounds of wrapping paper and endless food leftovers have become as much a staple of the holiday season as any other seasonal tradition. A Stanford University question and answer article stated that “Americans throw away 25% more trash during the Thanksgiving to New Year’s holiday …
Winsor’s Inaugural Action Research Cohort
By Gia Bharadwaj and Natasha Dalziel The Banner is excited to announce the commencement of Winsor’s first action research cohort, or W.A.R.C.! Denise Labieniec, a scientist and institutional researcher, introduced this cohort to the Upper School in September 2022 after years of wanting to bring an action research opportunity to Winsor. The cohort’s advisors, Ms. …
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