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“They're cool,” Brewer, an eighth-grader at Pittsburgh's Westinghouse Academy, said about his new classmates. “They're not bad.”
Wilkinsburg students get to know future classmates at Westinghouse Academy
Taiwan Brewer, 14, focused on the egg on his spoon.
Without looking up, he slowly walked about 15 feet to an orange cone and turned. His teammates — some of whom he had met only a couple of hours before — cheered for him as he moved back to where they waited in line for their turn.
“They're cool,” Brewer, an eighth-grader at Pittsburgh's Westinghouse Academy, said about his new classmates. “They're not bad.”
Brewer was one of about 200 middle school students from Westinghouse and Wilkinsburg who got to know each other Tuesday through games like capture the flag and water balloon dodgeball.
About 200 students from Wilkinsburg's middle and high schools will attend Westinghouse next year once their school is closed. They were invited to the annual Westinghouse field day events as part of efforts to introduce the kids to each other before they start sharing classrooms; high school students will have similar activities, school leaders said. Wilkinsburg students and their parents took a tour of Westinghouse last month.
Read more in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review's Wilkinsburg students get to know future classmates at Westinghouse Academy.