The Academy of American Poets launched National Poetry Month in April 1996. It was inspired by Black History Month in February and Women's History Month in March. The purpose of Poetry Month...

Students attended the Dodge Poetry Festival on Friday, October 18th in Newark, NJ at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC). The students attended 2-3 poetry sessions featuring published poets who...

Who is Elvis? Well to put it simply, it’s me. Making art on the internet by the persona of Azooki has always been a passion of mine. When I was nine, I made animations on YouTube; now I’m 17 years...

It was a night of poetry and art at Newtown High School on Wednesday, May 1, 2024 where Rotary Club members, administrators, teachers, families, student artists from ACE, Danbury High School, and Newtown...

The Children's Literature class at ACE is run by English teacher Daniela Esposito. In the Children's Lit class, we go into children's books, look at the educational themes and fun ideas, and then eventually...

The Cultural Alliance of Western Connecticut awarded five thousand dollars to Brookfield Craft Center to give an opportunity to students at ACE to participate in an after school arts program. Anthony,...

“It's the not the destination, It's the journey.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance Since 2017, ACE students and teachers have been taking a twice-annual trek into the woods in Washington,...

On Saturday 14th of October, 2023, Anthony Hellmann took a group of five seniors from ACE to go on a tour of the Brookfield Craft Center. From noon to around 2:30, they walked around to all of the available...

Sisters Jazz, Amina, and Sophie Schmahl were a musical trio long before they officially began releasing music. The three were born in Hamburg, Germany, and spent much of their childhood singing together...

Following the Wellness Day event on Wednesday, April 26, ACE wrapped up the second half of the school day with the Creativity Fair. There were four different stations (rooms) with different creativity...

Meet our music teacher, Kyle! Kyle has a history of teaching in his family. His dad was a teacher at DHS, so he basically grew up there. He went to his dad's job often, making him familiar with Danbury...

ACE has a lot of unknown artistic talent. We have artists, muralists, sketch artists, painters, cartoonists and many others.  Here is a gallery of just a few pieces of ACE art that can be seen around...

Students and staff members of the ACE community alike have a wide variety of hobbies outside of the building. For a select few, it’s music. Though a music program currently exists within the school,...

  Brooke Hogan, daughter of famed WWE wrestler Hulk Hogan, could best be described as an early pioneer in the age of social media stars and children of nepotism alike releasing their own musical...

To explain the show without spoiling things is highly difficult. But the show follows the odd happenings going on in the small town of Hawkin’s during the 1980’s. The show follows Mike, Will, Dustin,...

As of November 2022, TikTok is one of the most widely-used social media sites worldwide. Users on the app post short videos, often with music playing in the background. While a song going ‘viral’ on...

I guess all I am really saying is ~ I promise to see you as you are real and strong and weak quiet and loud happy and sad good and bad but most of all perfect in your own individuality.   You...

It all starts with pen and paper. As you walk across the hallways of your local high school, you might not stop to notice all the kinds of talents your fellow student have. One of the most hidden of teen...

Were you ever interested in playing an instrument?  Do you stand around with your friends and re-site words that rhyme? Or do you sometimes sit at a computer till 2 in the morning creating your own beats?...