
CONNECT Honors Veterans with its USMA Friends
Friday, November 7th CONNECT students learned about Veterans Day with their West Point Army Community Engagement (ACE) Friends. They attended a “fire-side chat” to ask questions and learn more about

Pumpkin Bouquets for the win!
In a move that probably made lots of Highland Falls and Fort Montgomery moms incredibly happy, florist Rosemarie Pozo and Kim Kort, with the help of retired Highland Falls florist

How to make a Skeleton
Highland Falls Intermediate School’s CONNECT kids took paper towel tubes, painted them, laid them out on a table and … a skeleton appeared! Nah, it wasn’t that easy. The children,

‘Escape the Room’ at CONNECT
Students need to combine their knowledge of science, technology, engineering and math (aka STEM) to solve interactive puzzles in CONNECT’s new ‘Escape the Room’, part of the free after-school program

Army Rabble Rousers visit Highland Falls CONNECT
Who better to help kick off CONNECT’s new year at the Highland Falls Intermediate School than the Army Rabble Rousers – aka cheerleaders! The team stopped by the school on

Be Part of Something Beautiful
Sherline, Rosemary, Marley, Terrence, Skyla, Kenneth and Abigail want their friends and Highland Falls Intermediate School to join them at CONNECT this school year! You may not be able to

Rah, rah, rah, it’s time for CONNECT!
These cheerleaders, shown post-performance at an end-of-the-school-year performance by CONNECT’s cheerleading class, are here to remind parents of third to eighth grade in the Highland Falls – Fort Montgomery Central

CONNECT is just one month away!
Christine McDonald, shown at right, is the director of CONNECT, the West Point Association of Graduate’s free, afterschool program for students in the Highland Falls Intermediate School. At left are

Highland Falls’ CONNECT celebrate end-of-year party with ice cream
Stewarts Shops of New Windsor is being thanked by the students of the Highland Falls Intermediate School’s CONNECT program this week – the store donated ice cream and hot dogs

Fun last day of CONNECT!
When CONNECT, the free after school program at the Highland Falls Intermediate School hosted by the West Point Association of Graduates, finished out the 2024-25 school year with a fun

Delicious food, Good company!
Connect, the free after-school program for Highland Falls Intermediate School students hosted by West Point’s Association of Graduates, held the first ever ‘Hudson Valley Welcome’ fair on Main St. in

CONNECT + RISE = Success!
During the current school year, CONNECT, the free afterschool program for second through sixth graders at the Highland Falls Intermediate School, found a new partnership, with O’Neill High School students

Heading Out and ‘Around the World’
CONNECT, the free afterschool program for Highland Falls Intermediate School second through sixth graders, has a class called ‘Around the World’ where kids ‘travel’ to all kinds of places and

Who doesn’t love a good book?
CONNECT, the free afterschool program for Highland Falls-Fort Montgomery Central School District second through sixth graders, has a Book Club! Here, Mr. Christopher reads Ralph S. Mouse to a younger

Baseball is the name of the game!
Given the opportunity to be in a class where they play baseball every day, versus doing something indoors on (most!) recent Spring days, many students enrolled in the Highland Falls

CONNECT program’s Wild Wonders class teaches the students survival skills
The Highland Falls Intermediate School CONNECT program’s Wild Wonders class, taught by Mr. Anthony, teaches the students survival skills they could use if needed in the great outdoors. For instance,

DUSA makes $34,000 in local donations
The Daughters of the U.S. Army West Point has awarded community grants to some “amazing organizations that make this area a wonderful place to live and work”, DUSA members said

CONNECT program offer Spanish lessons via Duolingo
Under the direction of Mr. Randy, students enrolled in the Highland Falls Intermediate School’s CONNECT program have the opportunity to begin learning Spanish at an early age, via a Duolingo

What do you know about Sakura and Hanami?
f you answer the above question by saying ‘nothing!’ then you might want to find a Highland Falls Intermediate School student who is enrolled in the CONNECT program and ask

Army Sprint football team visits CONNECT
“It was fun I learned that there could be flag or tackle football. We played football together.” -Chase Thomas “They showed us how to be a leader with respect.” –

Letting their lights shine!
CONNECT’s Creations Class is all about being creative; so last week the students made lanterns out of recycled soda bottles, stencils and fairy lights. CONNECT is a free West Point

CONNECT students learn about plants and flowers
CONNECT students at the Highland Falls Intermediate School got to meet two community icons when it comes to plants and flowers last week when Highland Falls residents Michael Graber and

It was Dr. Seuss week at CONNECT!
National Read Across America Day is a nationwide celebration of reading that takes place annually on March 2 – the CONNECT program at the Highland Falls Intermediate School made the

Highland Falls’ CONNECT students learn about robotics
Students in CONNECT’s Robotics class are shown in a hallway of the Highland Falls Intermediate School recently – the class provides a “practical application for their daily math drills, allowing

Looking for a creative caterer?
Well, if you wait a few years, any of these current CONNECT students at the Highland Falls Intermediate School might be able to help you! They’re enrolled in the afterschool

Students learn Yoga at CONNECT
“The body benefits from movement, and the mind benefits from stillness” The above is a quote from Sakyong Mipham, and it reenforces that both physical fitness – and mental health

What is Cupid’s favorite band? Kiss!
Children enrolled in the CONNECT program at the Highland Falls Intermediate School spent some time last week making fun Valentine’s Day cards for children in the hospital battling cancer. They

CONNECT kids learn cheerleading
Highland Falls Intermediate School’s CONNECT kids take a variety of classes in their afterschool program — math & English, for instance are mandatory. But they also get to choose fun,

Everyone loves LEGOs
One of the programs that CONNECT, the West Point Association of Graduates afterschool program at the Highland Falls Intermediate School, offers is LEGOS, and it’s a popular one. Students make

They look almost good enough to eat!
Students in the CONNECT program at the Highland Falls Intermediate School have been busy designing houses! Well, gingerbread houses, that is! The students helped get themselves and everyone in the