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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=241 BGCOLOR="#A6CAF0" TEXT="#080000" background="09ae4603.jpg"> <div> <IMG SRC="101e4610.png" border=0 width="228" height="97" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Meridian Academy"><U>Home</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mission"><U>Mission</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Curriculum"><U>Curriculum</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Admissions"><U>Admissions</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id24.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="FAQs"><U>FAQs</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="student.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Student Information"><U>Student Information</U></A></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">News and Information</B></div> <div> <A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Us"><U>About Us</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Us"><U>Contact Us</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="How to Help"><U>How to Help</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id28.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Directions"><U>Directions</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Employment"><U>Employment</U></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> News and Information</div> <bR> <div> Parents and students, please consult this page for schedules, forms, events, and other information. </div> <bR> <div>  <A HREF="http://www.meridianacademy.org/MACalendar2006-7.pdf" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.meridianacademy.org/MACalenda"><U>Meridian Academy Calendar 2006-7</U></A></div> <div>  <A HREF="http://www.meridianacademy.org/StudentHandbook.pdf" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.meridianacademy.org/StudentHa"><U>Student Handbook</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Upcoming Events</B></div> <bR> <div> Wednesday, September 13, 2006 - All day team building and ropes course at Camp Wing, Duxbury, MA</div> <div> Friday, September 15 - Parent/Teacher Potluck</div> <bR> <div> <B>Past Events </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>2005 - 2006</B></div> <bR> <div> Thursday, September 8, 2005 - Meridian Began! Parents and Students toasted our beginning at a bagel breakfast gathering.</div> <div> Tuesday, September 13 - Team building and ropes course at Hale Reservation.</div> <div> Wednesday, September 14 - Step dancing with our sibling school, Neighborhood School.</div> <div> Monday, September 19 - Students studied Greek art and culture at the Museum of Fine Arts.</div> <div> September 22 - October 20 - Metalsmithing classes.</div> <div> October 7 - Engineering class's snail-paced vehicle run.</div> <div> October 19 - Architecture Scavenger Hunt - field trip to downtown Boston.</div> <div> October 21 - A Mayan weaver from Guatemala visits Spanish class.</div> <div> October 25 - The juggling craze hits Meridian. Grab your beanbags!</div> <div> October 31 - Haunted House with Neighborhood School.</div> <div> November 2 - Day of the Dead celebration in Spanish class.</div> <div> November 3 - More Ultimate Frisbee (weather permitting).</div> <div> November 22 - Field trip to the Museum at MIT to study robotics and the mechanical sculptures of Arthur Ganson.</div> <div> Friday, December 16, 2005 - Urban Nutcracker. </div> <div> December/January - Robotic miniature golf course project.</div> <div> Tuesday, January 17, 2006 - Trip to start-up company Kiva Systems' state-of-the-art Robotic Warehouse</div> <div> Friday, January 27, 2006  - Greek Theatre Festival (7:00 PM).</div> <div> Wednesday, February 1, 2006 - "seamless: computational couture." High tech fashion show at the Museum of Science. </div> <div> Tuesday, February 14, 2006  - Cross Country Skiing.</div> <div> Friday, February 17, 2006 - Manana Flamenca - demonstration of flamenco dance, song and music with Roberto, guitarist, La Lyra, dance and vocals, and Isabel Rios, dance.</div> <div> January/February - Tap Dance classes with Jai.</div> <div> March 16 - Trip to the Art Institute of Boston for the exhibit <I>Drawing Breath: A Retrospective Whisper from Ralph Steadman</I>.</div> <div> March 24 - Trip to the MFA's <I>Degas to Picasso</I> exhibit.</div> <div> March 30 - Visit to the Tufts University School of Engineering machine shop to do Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM).</div> <div> April 6 - Community Action Project (CAP) research day. Data collecting at schools and study sites.</div> <div> April 27 - Field trip to the Holocaust Memorial</div> <div> May 6 - Table at "Wake Up The Earth!"</div> <div> Wednesday, June 7 - Spanish Field trip to Hyde Square.</div> <div> Friday, June 9 - Student exhbition of final art, humanities, and engineering projects</div> <div> Monday-Wednesday, June 12-14 - Trip to Maine - mountain hiking.</div> <div> Thursday, June 15 - Last day of school.</div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>