Our Wildwood, Volume 51

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Dr. Ann Marie Macara UPPER SCHOOL BIOLOGY TEACHER

Julian Sachs ‘24

Billy DuMone ATHLETICS DIRECTOR

Julian was honored by DownBeat, winning the magazine’s 2024 student awards in the audio engineering category for his work on his recently released album Locations, on which he collaborated with artist Isaiah Brody. Julian was previously honored by the magazine for his original composition “Gentle Bird,” a song he composed on the piano at Wildwood. Julian will be attending the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester next year, with a focus on Jazz Studies and Contemporary Media. He received the Eastman Artist Tuition Scholarship, the highest amount of merit-based scholarship that Eastman awards.

Wildwood School’s athletics program is regarded as a model for K-12 athletics for its focus on character development and sportsmanship. Building upon our partnership with Punahou School of Honolulu and nonprofit organization P/ATH, and funded by the E.E. Ford Foundation, Athletics Director Billy DuMone will begin taking Wildwood’s athletics ethos on the road, promoting Social Emotional Learning (SEL) via athletics in schools at conferences across the country.

Dr. Ann Marie Macara has just been awarded the Chevron FAB STEM Fellowship, created by the Chevron FAB Foundation. The fellowship recognizes Ann Marie’s commitment to equity, inclusion, and the advancement of STEM education. Ann Marie is one of just four fellows awarded the fellowship, out of 75 nominated educators from the United States, Latin America, Africa, Europe, and Asia. Over the course of the 2024-2025 school year, they will travel around the world, visiting multiple FAB Labs across its international network to collaborate on developing inclusive STEM practices and K-12 lesson content.

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