Woburn Public Schools receive $12K for livestreaming initiative
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The Woburn Public Media Center board of directors recently approved a $12,000 donation to the Woburn Public Schools for their livestreaming initiative.
This donation was used to purchase speakers and microphones for classrooms to help with a better quality experience for classroom livestreaming to students at home. The speakers and mics allow teachers to move about the classroom and still be heard by those students learning remotely.
Overall, the result was nearly two-thirds of the high school staff was either teaching students through livestreaming or as a result of students being added to cohorts allowing them to be physically in school four days a week. The goal was to allow for smoother delivery of instruction and progression through the curriculum, which was achieved because for these teachers asynchronous assignments no longer took place.
Woburn Memorial High School seniors named Commended Students
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Woburn Memorial High School students Sameera Jangala and Kathryn Juliuson have been named Commended Students in the 2021 National Merit Scholarship Program.
A letter of commendation from the school and National Merit Scholarship Committee, which conducts the program, was presented by Principal Jessica Callanan to these seniors.
About 34,000 Commended Students throughout the nation were recognized for their academic promise. Although they will not continue in the 2021 competition for National Merit Scholarship awards, Commended Students placed among the top 50,000 scorers of more than 1.5 million students who entered the 2021 competition by taking the 2019 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Qualifying Test.