During your time at Choate, you’ve probably become used to the various acronyms students use to communicate both for convenience and easier understanding. Here is a condensed list of some of the acronyms that Choate students frequently use:   The SAC: The Student Activities Center / St. John Hall St.Read More

You are probably aware that a number of Choate’s post-graduate students are athletes who play on varsity teams, but for PG Ashley Wang ’19, athletics extend far beyond the WJAC.  Wang is a student from Los Angeles, California who is on the National U.S. Figure Skating Team and represented theRead More

Four or five years ago, the Children’s Department of the Wallingford Public Library began hosting what it calls Story Walks. “The Story Walk is a way for children to enjoy reading and sharing a book by walking along a designated path,” explained Ms. Alyssa Johnson, a Children’s Librarian at theRead More

On Saturday, September 30, the Kohler Environmental Center (KEC) Sustainable Food Project held an exciting, educational event for the Choate community, promoting the project’s core goals and values. As it is harvest season, students were invited to participate in cooking and baking opportunities using freshly picked produce from the KEC.Read More

The home of Choate’s cutting-edge environmental research and education program, the Kohler Environmental Center (KEC), was awarded the 2017 AIA/CAE Educational Facility Design Award of Excellence by the American Institute of Architects on Wednesday, April 26. AIA’s awards committee chair wrote in a letter, “If you believe, as I do,Read More

Choate campus is surrounded by nature — yet students seldom get the chance to study  the environment directly. This term, 14 juniors embarked on their research methods experiments at the Kohler Environmental Center (KEC). Students came up with a list of questions they wanted to study in the fall termRead More

In the 2017-18 school year, students will have a new daily schedule that includes 70 minute class blocks, lunch blocks for all students, and the possibility of after school activities being pushed back. With these alterations, many of the special academic programs offered at Choate will be affected, particularly theRead More

Imagine Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony come to life: the colorful opening translated into rustling autumn leaves, the vivid interplay between strings and woodwinds morphed into larks soaring over a bounty of harvest, and there you have it — Paddock Farm, an area near the Kohler Environmental Center (KEC) with a facultyRead More

Choate will be constructing a 10-meter tall weather tower near the Kohler Environmental Center (KEC) within the next fiscal year. The weather tower will record valuable ecological data such as temperature, precipitation, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, radiation from the Earth and atmosphere, soil temperature, and soil humidity. ThereRead More