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I'm a STEM Concentration student
focusing on engineering.

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My concentration is Performing Arts
with an emphasis in technical theater.

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Integrated Studies with a focus in Humanities.

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Through the Academic Concentration Program,

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students are essentially able to
take charge of their own learning.

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What they're doing is they're going above and beyond

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the graduation requirements,

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and they're going to get that special
designation on their transcript.

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They are really diving into
those inquiry questions

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and finding answers to the thing
that they're most intrigued about.

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I'm doing a STEM Concentration,

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and my concentration is becoming a certified doula.

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I was able to actually discover that I wanted to be an OB-GYN

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and learn what I wanted to do with my future.

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They can look into being involved,

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They can look into being involved,

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not just in our School community,

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but even where they live.

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Over the summer, I interned at Andy’s
Summer Playhouse in Wilton, New Hampshire.

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I assistant directed, I stage managed, and I did sound.

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And then I was in a show, which is really
exciting because I don't normally do that.

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Where I really see students grow is in
their levels of confidence and resiliency.

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Essentially, they are navigating all the
inevitable changes in the direction of their work

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For my concentration project, I designed
and built a playhouse for my niece.

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I have learned that writing a plan or proposal

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is a lot easier than getting out in the
real world and executing a vision.

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Things will not go as planned,

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and you kind of have to just roll with
the punches and keep on going.

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My concentration is in the STEM area.

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It's focusing on post
traumatic brain injury recovery.

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I have learned how to plan and organize my ideas

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and then actually turn them into reality.

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Being able to stay passionate, determined,
and have grit through this whole process is really important.

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Everyone's concentration
experience culminates in this finale

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that we hold at the end of the school year,

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where all of the students that are seniors,

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they pull together the work that they have been doing

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throughout their concentration
into a community presentation.

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I'm planning on having
a really impactful project,

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and I really want everyone
in the community to learn from it,

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and I want to challenge how everyone thinks
about the subjects that I'm talking about.

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I wanted to do a concentration
because I'm super passionate about theater

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and it's something that I am
considering doing professionally.

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It lets me really focus in on the thing that I love!