Sam Auciello

• Age: 17.
• Home town: Warren.
• Prior schools: Warren Public School System.
• Interests: Music, Computers, Ultimate Frisbee, Sailing
• After graduation: Get a job programming via satellite whilst sailing around the world.
• What I like about Watershed: At the public schools I have gone to, I was taught how to be a consumer and encouraged to be just like everyone else. At Watershed, I am taught to think for myself and accepted for who I am.
• Favorite courses: Programming, Chemistry, English
• Instruments: Guitar, Piano, Saxophone, Voice, Anything percussive that I can find.
• Unique opportunities experienced through Watershed: I have created a telescope, A calculator, and an ordinance that was enacted in The City of Rockland.
• Great Watershed moments: Being awoken at 2am on my birthday during the annual Watershed canoe trip to have "happy birthday" sung to me. Sixteen times.
• Tremuloides membership: and proud.

Melody Marie Brink

"Life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself." ~Scott Ginsberg

• Age: 16.
• Home town: Royal Oak, Michigan.
• Prior schools: Oakland Steiner School in Michigan, The Bay School in Blue Hill, ME.
• Interests: dance, ultimate frisbee, travel, foreign languages, photography, art, knitting, macrobiotic food.
• After graduation: I plan on taking a year after high school do some sort of community work in a foreign country, maybe in the Peace Corps. I would also like to attend a dance school at some point.
• What I like about Watershed: I feel supported in my interests and there are unique opportunities. A few examples of this are the beginning of the year canoe trip, the Model United Nations trip to NYC, the whitewater rafting trip in Utah, and the all school trip to Quebec City. I feel so fortunate to be a part of this awesome school! Like Pete says, "the sky is the limit!"
• Favorite courses: Ballroom and Latin Dance, Metal Smithing, French, Physics, Literature of the Sea, U.S History, Math with Sherry. In the past: African Dance, Photography, French, Natural Observation, Western Civ, Ethics and Studio Art.
• Instruments: I am finally getting back into piano, and am going to start taking African Drumming.
• Shoe size: Well if you must know, 9.
• Ukulele: I own one, yes, but do I know how to play it? No.
• Unique opportunities experienced through Watershed: Masking everyone in the school, taking community trips and hiking together, all school meeting, sleeping outside under the stars on the canoe trip and the utah trip, meeting interesting and wonderful people including students from other countries, secret santa week, april fool's prank week, lunch snowball fights, movie nights, community get-togethers, and many, many more.
• Great Watershed moments: Transforming into a zombie and then dancing to the "Thriller", hiding easter eggs in Utah, laughing until tearful, feeding birds during observation, painting a classroom and knitting together to name just a few.
• What's the weirdest travel experience you've ever had: I threw up off the Great Wall of China 3 years ago. Good times...
• Blurb: At some point in my lifetime I will live in New Zealand.
• Tremuloides membership: bien sur.

Harper Alexander

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." -- Albert Einstein

• Age: 15.
• Home town: South Thomaston.
• Prior schools: Ashwood Waldorf School, Home school.
• Interests: Music, Magic, Fencing, Snowboarding, Ultimate Frisbee.
• After graduation: Tour the world with my blues/rock band.
• What you like about Watershed: Everything. Especially the awesome students and enthusiastic teachers.
• Favorite courses: Music, Writing for School, Algebra.
• Instruments: Guitar, Piano, Ukulele, Bass Guitar.
• Shoe size: 2,299,456 (or so I’ve been told...).
• Ukulele: yes (Concert Uke).
• Unique opportunities experienced through Watershed: Project Week, Fencing, and Ultimate Frisbee.
• Great Watershed moments: Any of Charlie Packard’s classes.
• Odd Ball category: I was once a baby model. Woohoo!
• Tremuloides membership: Absolutely.

Meara Cafferata

"Paul: look, a cyclops! Ringo: It can't be a cyclops, it has two eyes. John: It must be a bi-cyclops." ~The Yellow Submarine

• Age: 15.
• Home town: Camden.
• Prior schools: Camden Rockport MIddle School.
• Interests: Photography, fine arts, all art really, music, knitting, Rollingstone, fencing, the ocean/water, ultimate.
• After graduation: I plan on attending an art school, (possibly Art Institute of Boston or Bennington) then going on to the peace corps, and end with a profession as a independent photographer/artist or a photographer for Rollingstone Magazine.
• What I like about Watershed: I love how different it is from any other school. Each teacher really cares about you, and wants you to do well. I also love how much freedom you have, you can walk downtown for lunch, and even have to walk a ways to get to some classes, even going into the woods for science, rather then looking at pictures from a book. But the atmosphere of the whole school really pulls it all together. It ends up being a much tighter knit group than you find at most schools.
• Favorite courses: I love photography, western civilizations (history), and the natural history part of observations has been lots of fun.
• Instruments: Mandolin and fiddle.
• Shoe size: 7-8.
• Unique opportunities experienced through Watershed: The class trips are great, with such a small school it makes doing things with the whole school possible, the canoe trip, Quebec trip, parties and other things of that nature.
• Great Watershed moments: All off the watershed parties are a lot of fun, and the Quebec trip was all around awesome.
• Favorite European Royalty: Marie Antoinette (she never said “let them eat cake”).
• Tremuloides membership: oh yes.

Josie Davis

“Where words fail, music speaks.”

• Age: 15
• Home town: Waldoboro.
• Prior schools: Ashwood, Miller Elementary School, Homeschooled.
• Interests: Classical violin and piano, doing well in school, cooking, reckless games of ice hockey, summer, sailing, the ocean...life!
• After graduation, I plan to attend conservatory and pursue a degree in music education.
• What I like about Watershed: I love that the student’s opinion is always considered every step of the way, I love how supportive and nurturing the teachers are, and I love the trips and gatherings that bring the students even closer.
• Favorite courses: Observation (especially astronomy), Western Civ., and ceramics.
• Instruments: Violin and piano.
• Shoe size: 8...do we care?
• Ukulele: I own one...
• Unique opportunities experienced through Watershed: The canoe trip, Quebec trip, project week, and exchange programs.
• Tremuloides membership: Nope.

Zofia Lamprecht

“Every rose has a thorn.”

• Age: 15.
• Home town: Rockland.
• Prior schools: CSAS (Children’s School of Arts and Sciences), Merriconeag Waldorf School, Montessori.
• Interests: Photography, sketching/painting, Horsemanship (riding, training...etc.), ballet, academic/creative writing, Celtic harp, environmental friendliness.
• After graduation: I’ll leave you in suspense.
• What I like about Watershed: Although the teachers guide your education, you are encouraged to voice your opinion and assist in all decisions concerning the school.
• Instruments: Celtic harp.
• Shoe size: 8 1/2—9.
• Ukulele: Sadly, no.
• Unique opportunities experienced through Watershed: Project week, Trip to Quebec, Coffee house...
• Great Watershed moments: The Watershed Coffee House was amazing. The trip to Quebec was the best time I have had all year!
• Odd Ball category: I’ve wanted to pierce my nose since I was eight years old and I used to think braces were cool.
• Tremuloides membership: Heck yah!

Calli Moore

"Do what makes you happy. Be with who makes you smile. Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live."

• Age: 14.
• Home town: Cushing, Maine.
• Prior schools: Riley School.
• Interests: My freinds, sailing, traveling, dance, shopping, doing well in school...
• After graduation: College then onto medical school.
• What I like about Watershed: I like that it is our school, the student's school. Watershed is special in that way.
• Favorite courses: Math, Science, Photography.
• Instruments: None.
• Shoe size: 6.
• Unique opportunities experienced through Watershed: The fact that Watershed can make it easy and possible for me to graduate early.
• Great Watershed moments: Quebec Trip!!!
• Feel free to contact me with any questions about the school!

Matt Snow

• Age: 15
• Home town: Spruce Head, Maine.
• Prior schools: Riley School.
• Interests: Ice hockey, hunting, lobstering, swimming, skiing, playing my xbox 360, and hanging out with my friends.
• After graduation: Undecided.
• What you like about Watershed: All the great teachers that care so much about the subject matter and the students, the freedom that normal schools don’t have, and the classes.
• Favorite courses: Meteorology and photography.
• Instruments: None.
• Shoe size: 11.
• Ukulele: no.
• Unique opportunities experienced through Watershed: canoe trip.
• Great Watershed moments: This is my first year so I haven’t experienced many, but I love the star parties for astronomy class.
• Tremuloides membership: no.