May 20, 2009 Ten students from this year’s Entrepreneurship and Marketing classes
celebrated the end of first phase of The Global EcoLearn Project™ by
attending the Affiliated Chambers of Commerce of Greater Springfield
annual Business Market Show.
The Global EcoLearn Projecttm updatenews article February 19, 2009 The last of the trees to be harvested as part of the WMA forest
management efforts are on their way to the mill to begin the final leg
of their journey...
The Global EcoLearn Projecttm Receives Grantnews article November 19, 2008
The project is a collaborative effort between the Academy’s Center for
Entrepreneurial & Global Studies (CEGS) and science program
evolving from a forest management project on campus. The grant will be
used to cover the start-up costs associated with manufacturing the
end-products that the CEGS students are creating from the forest:
baseball bats, picture frames, and maple syrup.
Entrepreneurship Class and Website Design Class listen to guest speaker Jan Reynolds, Graphic Designer photos Now
that the project is well underway, students in the Web design class are
contributing by designing a logo and a page on WMAcademy.org to
highlight the project. Gayle says, “In my ten years of teaching
Entrepreneurship, I’ve never seen an idea or a project ignite
excitement in students and the community in so short a time as this one
has.”
The
Global EcoLearn Projecttm has been a way for the students to get
first-hand experience in establishing and maintaining a business and to
learn that nature and commerce can co-exist. In early November,
entrepreneurship teacher Gayle Hsiao applied for a $3000 grant from the Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education that she received at the group’s annual conference in Austin, Texas.
Students in Mr Ekness’s biology classes are preparing pretreatment
forest product inventories on two study sites on Wilbraham & Monson
Academy property. Each of the two study sites will have timber
harvested in two different ways. One section of each site will be clear
cut and another portion of each study site will be selectively cut.
Mrs. Hsiao’s entrepreneurial studies students are evaluating the timber
products that can be made from the various types of woods that will be
harvested. Students are given an active role in assessing and
determining possible management options and how to use the school’s
resources.
This fall entrepreneurship students and biology students have been collaborating on The Global EcoLearn Projecttm. 
