Game Theory, Football, and Finding Your Passion: Alumni Spotlight with Danush Chelladurai
When people talk about football, it often leads to discussions about home teams, player stats, and, more recently, who will be making the playoffs. But sometimes we take for granted the immense thought process that goes behind every play, draft, and decision on the field. Danush Chelladurai, Mass Academy Class of 2020, admits that after […]
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FRC Team 190’s Offseason Competitions
FRC Team 190’s v2 robot “Redundancy” in action at N.E.R.D. 2025, Billerica Memorial High School With Mass Academy’s FIRST Robotics Team (Gompei and the Herd) attending its last off-season event prior to build season at the beginning of November, here’s a recap of what Team 190 has been up to. The team saw their V2 […]
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Mass Academy Community Service Club Semester Recap
MAMS students at Community Harvest Project The Mass Academy Community Service Club (MACS) is a student-led organization that organizes volunteering events in the community. These events help the community while also providing ways for Mass Academy students to fulfill the 100-hour community service requirement for the school. We started off our year of volunteering events […]
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The First of Many: The Journey of One of Mass Academy’s First Students
In 1992, Mass Academy opened its doors to its inaugural class of students. We recently had the opportunity to speak to Sarah Adams, a professor of Mathematics and Electrical & Computer Engineering at Olin College, who was a part of that first graduating class. She took the time to meet with us and talk about […]
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Math Team Captains on Why They Love Math
With the sound of 50 students’ buzzing excitement as they huddle over a problem in groups, it’s clear that the Mass Academy’s Math Team is the most popular after-school activity. But why? I decided to take a deep dive into understanding the club’s popularity and success by first approaching its captains. Captains Jared Rosen, Erica […]
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SISP Spotlight: Abhinav Sharma and Sasha Nandyala
As students enter their senior year at Mass Academy, they shift their attention to one of the most integral parts of the year: the SISP, or Senior Independent Study Project. As part of this requirement, seniors have to spend 100 hours of work on any passion project of their choice. Mass Academy has this requirement […]
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Projects range from machine learning models to school-wide web applications to solve real world problems
The Computer Science class is beloved at Mass Academy, teaching students HTML & CSS for their personal websites and Java to those new to programming. But for those that already have computer science experience, they have the unique opportunity of developing software for an independent project. Students choose what they create, from web-apps to games, […]
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Junior Tarun Eswar runs a Japanese Language & Culture blog
While students at Mass Academy enjoy STEM, they all have other hobbies and interests. For junior Tarun Eswar, his hobby has grown into an award-winning blog. His blog, 365 to Japan, details his journey about learning the Japanese language and culture. The same skills that allow him to read and write technical literature also help […]
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Student government organizes Pizza Fridays
One treat Mass Academy students look forward to every week is Pizza Friday, a tradition that has been occurring at the school for over a decade. Student government members sell pizza in the mornings when students come into school and hand it out during lunch, providing a nice change of pace and giving the student […]
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The wide variety of gym classes at MAMS
Much like the rest of Mass Academy, our gym classes are far from ordinary. Since the grade is so small, there are only two gym classes. Each term, each of the gym classes alternates between two activities. In A Term, the activities were Zumba and a traditional gym class, both taught by teachers from WPI. […]