Berkshire County Arc Awards Scholarships to High School Students

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PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire County Arc, along with BCArc's Down Syndrome Family Group, has awarded $7,000 in scholarship funding to five recent Berkshire County high school graduates who will be pursing undergraduate education in the field of human services.

This year's recipients include:

Quinn Walton (Wahconah Regional High School) is receiving the "Carol Craighead Memorial Scholarship Award" with a BCArc Down Syndrome Family Group Scholarship. She is majoring in Engineering and will be attending Tufts University in Medford.

Lily Robb (Wahconah Regional High School) is majoring in Elementary Education and attending Merrimack College in North Andover.

Kelly Couch (Monument Mountain Regional High School) will be majoring in Social Work and attending the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine.

Caroline Maloney (Lee High School) is "Undecided" for her major and will be attending the College of Charleston, in Charleston, SC.

Jessica Figueroa (Taconic High School) is majoring in Political Science and will be attending UMass., Amherst in Amherst.

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Central Berkshire Navigating AI in Education

By Sabrina DammsiBerkshires Staff
05:59AM / Monday, December 29, 2025

DALTON, Mass. — The Central Berkshire Regional School District is researching artificial intelligence in education to inform future policy and practice.

"Our ultimate goal is to at least to have some common expectations that we can rally around first," Assistant Superintendent Aaron Robb said at December's School Committee meeting.

In September, Robb established an AI ad hoc committee made up of teachers, a student, the IT director, and a School Committee member. The committee has been trying to meet twice a month, he said.

It is charged with researching the challenges and opportunities AI presents in education to help the district navigate the "AI revolution."

Throughout the process, the committee will get guidance from Fadia Rostom-Makdisi, computer scientist, AI educational adviser, and former principal of St. Agnes' School.

"She's gone off on her own as a consultant and she's doing some consulting work with schools around AI and she's been doing some, as we've just been calling it, 'AI 101' training in our district," Robb said.

During the November professional development days, almost 100 district staff and faculty received a three-hour basic AI training from Rostom-Makdisi which covered the how and what of AI and several commonly used AI tools in education.

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