It was a win-win last week at Briarcliff Middle School.

Students across all grades donated food to Feeding Westchester and in exchange, received tickets to spend on items and food or to participate in fun activities at the after-school Thanks & Giving Boutique.

Predicting weather patterns, looking at single-cell organisms and separating a mixture of substances…

Those are all subjects of state-mandated labs that students at Briarcliff Middle School are working on.

Briarcliff Middle School eighth graders have been learning about the mass immigration to the United Stated during the Gilded Age, and about the complexity of the immigration process.

In order to help create an all-encompassing experience of the process on a deep level, the eighth-grade team came up with an interdisciplinary project that highlights the different phases of the immigration experience using multiple subjects and activities.

Briarcliff Middle School’s recent Blue Ribbon recognition has been garnering attention from local politicians.

“I want to congratulate you, and the principal and her team, all of the teachers and their great work they do, and all of the support teams at the school,” said New York State Senator Pete Harckham during a recent visit to the school. “I am very excited to be here.”

Senator Harckham visited the school to issue a proclamation from the State Senate, which he delivered to Principal Amy Gladstone and Assistant Principal Kristen Bizenza.

Chimichurri is an uncooked sauce used both as an ingredient in Argentinian and Uruguayan cooking and as a table condiment for grilled meat; Vallenato is a genre of music used by Colombian farmers who used music as a form of language to deliver messages from town to town.

These are just some of the interesting facts Briarcliff Middle School students are learning during Hispanic Heritage Month, which runs from September 15 through October 15.

Aeronautical engineer…cartographer…meteorologist…what do these all have in common?

They are STEAM-related careers. STEAM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math.

Sixth graders at Briarcliff Middle School recently researched about STEAM-related careers in an enrichment class called STEAM Careers with science teacher Julie Gallagher.