AP Highlights

Averill Park has a brand new Unified Bowling team and the team won its first match! Good luck to everyone this season!

Congratulations to senior Arianna Verardi for scoring her 1,000th career point! Arianna is currently the 6th all-time leading scorer in Averill Park Girls Basketball history.

Congratulations to senior Jacob Hanlon for collecting his 150th career win!

On this episode of the Every Student Every Day Podcast Superintendent Dr. James Franchini welcomes members of the AMS Cares program, including Principal Rob Messia, Barbara Glasser, Jaclyn Costello, Barbara Schielke, and Linda Bille. Listen here or find us wherever you listen to podcasts, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and more. Just search for "Every Student Every Day".

In honor of Black History Month, the Underground Railroad Education Center visited Averill Park High School! The Center explored the true stories and powerful voices behind this crucial period in history, delving beyond common myths. A huge thank you goes out to the presenters for sharing their knowledge and inspiring our students!

Sixth grade Literacy students at Algonquin Middle School raised over $3,400 for Ronald McDonald House Charities in Albany through their reading and donations! Students were treated to an ice cream sundae party because they exceeded their goal!

At the Section 2 Championships, Jacob Hanlon (1st - 131 lbs.), Reese Bunney (2nd - 152 lbs.) and Alex Salsbury (2nd - 215 lbs.) all advance to the NYSPHSAA Championships at MVP Arena. Hanlon was also named Most Outstanding Wrestler!

At the Section 2 Championships, Amelia Banker won the title in her weight class to advance to the inaugural NYSPHSAA Girls Wrestling Championships at the MVP Arena! Banker, seeded No. 2, won all 3 of her matches by pin.

Congratulations to sophomore Marley Hanlon for qualifying for the NYSPHSAA Championships in the pole vault after placing 3rd (9’6”) at the Section 2 State Qualifiers! Marley will compete on Saturday, March 8 at Ocean Breeze.

Averill Park High School students visited the Underground Railroad Education Center in Albany, where they learned about local Black abolitionists such as Stephen and Harriet Myers.

Sixth Grade Science students participated in a virtual escape room! In the escape room, they had to work their way from the inner core through all the layers by answering questions and solving puzzles. Students that successfully escaped through the volcano got to take a picture to celebrate their success!

Mrs. Ferlito‘s class had a special visitor on Valentine’s Day! Superintendent Dr. Franchini was challenged a very important game of Memory.

February was CTE Month, and we want to take a moment to recognize the students that attend Questar III BOCES programs!

Fourth Grade students at West Sand Lake Elementary School benefitted from STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Math) Enrichment programs brought to them by the Cornell Cooperative Extension through a grant funded by the Averill Park Education Foundation!

Recently the AMS Student Council and AMS Entrepreneur Club teamed up to help provide Cornhole as a recess opportunity. Thank you to Mrs. McAvoy, who inspired this great idea for indoor recess!

The APHS Angler Club had an awesome time fishing at the Grafton Lakes ice fishing tournament!

Third grade students at Poestenkill Elementary School created a "quilt" for black history month. Great job, everyone!

Students in 3 Guyer at West Sand Lake Elementary School have been learning about fossils! They started with dinosaurs and were able to put dinosaur puzzles together so they can relate the bones structures to some animals students are familiar with today.

The Algonquin Middle School Builders Club thanks everyone for donating 166 hygiene products. They will be donating the items to Joseph’s House in Troy!

It is a pleasure to list the 443 students who qualified for the Algonquin Middle School Honor Roll for the second quarter of the 2024-25 school year! View the full list here.

Registration is open now through May 31 for a summer baseball camp

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