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Welcome to the WA Mash Wiki!
WA Mash stands for [|Worcester Academy] Mashup. It is created and maintained by students taking Creative Writing as a junior or senior English elective with [|Mr. Viva]. WA Mash is an online, alternative weekly magazine that deals with politics, news, current events, arts and culture, technology, business, fiction and creative thinking. You can find WA Mash on a variety of social media sites. WA Mash was created to discuss what students want to know. The class wants to inform the students and faculty at Worcester Academy and everyone else who wants to listen. The goal for each creative writing student is to formulate their message and then find the means to present this message. The website covers everything from politics to entertainment using a variety of methods. The blog contains opinion editorials, short stories, and discussion prompts. The topics on WA Mash are: arts and culture, business, fiction, ideate, opinion, politics, science/technology, video and sports. [|MashTube]is WA Mash’s YouTube channel. It plays host to the videos created by the students. The most recent entry is a web series created by Jake Hilbert, Eric Rubino, and Austin Carroll. It is titled [|“Yay! Or Nay!”] and features the creators asking students their opinions on current events. [|MashPics] is also found on the WA Mash website. MashPics is a collection of photographs taken by the students from different places around campus. [|Mashpics]also shows photo-albums with different themes. Another feature of the WA Mash blog is the [|MicroMash]. The [|MicroMash] is a Twitter-feed, where students discuss current events in short blog entries. Discussions about the presidential debate and vice presidential debate were last discussed on the MicroMash. WA Mash can also be found on Facebook. The Facebook group displays events that are happening around school. Think Slate.com for high school. WA Mash wants to welcome you to this weekly online magazine. Join us in the conversation and help us mash it up a little!