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|  | Assembly with Arn Chorn-Pond
Posted on: 5/17/2012
Arn Chorn-Pond and Patricia McCormick spoke to all of the the 8th - 12th graders at an assembly on May 14, 2012 about their book NEVER FALL DOWN, based on Arn's experiences in forced labor camps and as a child soldier during the Cambodia genocide in the 1970s. The book has just been published and was reviewed on p. 25 of the NYTimes Book Review section for May 13; they will also be featured on Scott Simon's NPR program Weekend Edition on May 19. Following the assembly, Arn and Patty (plus former Watkinson Head of School Charley Todd and Cambodian Living Arts staffer Michelle Prevost) spoke with the Creative Arts Program and the Global Studies Program diploma students. This picture is of those groups at the end of the master class, near Watkinson's Peace Pole, which says "May Peace Prevail on Earth" in numerous languages, including Khmer, Arn's native tongue.
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 | Andrew Angle Recognized by United Technologies Corporation
Posted on: 5/14/2012
Andrew Angle of West Hartford has been selected as one of only six teachers for the 2012 United Technologies Corporation, (UTC) /National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Summer Externship. Angle, a chemistry and physics teacher at Watkinson School in Hartford, was accepted for this paid six-week summer externship to learn current research methods and develop curriculum with the team made up of mostly Chemistry and Physics high school teachers.
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