Students in teacher Kira Donnelly's class, including Andrew Orrison, Rebecca Orrison, Leah Brennan-Magidson, Susie Young-Townsend and Nora McConnell-Johnson seated at the table in the foreground, clockwise from left, talked through a statistics problem. The canoe hanging above the class was built by a small group of students during their J-term, a three week period in January in which students immerse themselves in a special project.