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 …
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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. …
The Winsor Solar Panel Project
By Elina Suri If you happen to be flying over the roof of Winsor’s Lubin O’Donnell Center (LOC), you might see a massive span of about two-hundred solar panels glittering in the sunlight. Winsor’s solar panels are only the beginning of our community’s journey to reduce our overall carbon footprint and become more eco-friendly. The …
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