This upcoming 2021-22 Academic Year, WNA will offer several NEW workshops and seminar classes in videography, technology/social media, humanity/cybersecurity, and gaming. Workshops and seminar classes will bring experienced professionals to campus to engage with students on provocative new directions for learning and growing in an ever-dynamic technological age. To learn more about WNA's academic programs, visit the link in our bio. 
Could this be the last we see of winter? The first day of spring is only 24 days away! 🌷☀️ 
We are incredibly excited to unveil our brand new website to our community–near and far. Our new site, designed with students and alumni in mind, highlights our rigorous academic programs, rich student life, beautiful 100-acre campus, and treasured history. Today, we hope you have a moment to peek at our new site–created with the ability to text our advancement office right from your mobile device! To view our new website, click the link in our bio. 
This past weekend students participated in a few different indoor student life activities. They created cards for Valentine's day, crafted origami paper cranes, and made hot chocolate bombs. How are you spending your snow day?❄️ 
In honor of Black History Month, our student-led Diversity Support Group hosted an interactive Jeopardy game geared toward teaching students more about Black History and creating dialogue about Black History in the American educational system. Can you name the first African American to win Major League Baseball’s Most Valuable Player? Who is... 
In honor of Presidents’ Day today, we are excited to shed light on the following West Nottingham alumni, who like our signers of the Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Rush and Richard Stockton, had direct connections to presidents. Ebenezer Hazard was a published historian and the first postmaster general of the United States, appointed in 1775. Hazard attended the Constitutional Convention. Dr. Alexander McWhorter, sent by Congress in 1775 to western North Carolina to persuade the Royalists to unite with the Patriot cause. In 1776 he visited the American army in its camp opposite Trenton to confer on measures to protect New Jersey. Nathaniel Smithers was a Union Soldier and Republican Lawyer asked by President Lincoln in 1861 to persuade Delaware to legally end slavery in the state. Henry S. Breckenridge served as the United States Assistant Secretary of War from 1913 to 1916 and was a member of the U.S. fencing teams at the 1920 and 1928 Summer Olympics; he married Aida de Acosta, the first woman to fly a powered aircraft solo. Col. Richard Hallock was a much-respected former WNA trustee and generous benefactor who served with distinction in the military for 25 years. In 1959, he joined a team that was part of NATO and in 1961, he was appointed the Executive Officer to the Special Assistant for Arms Control on the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Project Manager for Weapons Systems under the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Keep an eye out for more about our history as our ‘I Am West Nottingham Academy’, an online digital exhibit, unveils this spring!