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This past weekend a group of ACA students along with Mrs. Laida Alvarez and Mrs. Karen Holdaway participated in the WHAM Art Recycle Festival with the pieces they have been working on for weeks!
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Students used items that were seemingly "junk" and turned them into new works of art! They even entered into the competition at the festival.
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ACA students took 1st, 2nd and 3rd place at the festival this year! It was a sweeping win for ACA! The theme of the fesitval this year was "Where Creativity Goes Green" in connection with Earth Day.
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BIG congrats to all of the ACA students that participated! And thank you to Mrs. Alvarez and Mrs. Holdaway!
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