The purpose of the ONE|SEQUOIT Project is to display how Antioch Community High School has impacted current and graduated students’ lives through education, student life, athletics and community service. This project is our attempt to tell a story of ACHS through the lens of its students—past, present and future. These stories are not told by Tom Tom journalists. Instead, they are told by the Sequoits themselves. It is their words, their story and their experience. They are ACHS, and together they are ONE|SEQUOIT.

ACHS senior, basketball and baseball player, Model UN member and volunteer local organic farmer Samuel Smithson is the focus of the our first ONE|SEQUOIT Project.

EDUCATION AND STUDENT LIFE

[The teachers] have been very supportive of kids who want to do their own thing. Like I am trying to start up a club… When I bring in a box of fresh food to the principal’s office from the organic farm, half of the office comes over to see what I have. I lost trust in the educational system. I never really had trust in the first place. I gained that back because [the administration] are so supportive of the kids.

I am also in Model UN, It helps with talking in front in of people, which was one thing that I couldn’t do before.

ATHLETICS

Athletics have been huge for me at ACHS because of the lessons that I have learned. They taught me that I can overcome all obstacles, how to work with other people… My teammates are my brothers. Even if I don’t particularly like them, I’d take a bullet for any one of them in a second.  Overall, sports have shaped me into the young man I am today, and I have to give credit to Coach White, Coach Petty and Mrs. Strathman at AUGS.

SERVICE

I knew I was going into food for a long time and this program is like a real life business. I go into restaurants and try to sell them produce. I work the farm stand. I helped with growing. We are putting together a service right now where we could come out and pick it for You we will give it most to you and then we take some and process it and sell it. The Pig has offered us a spot in their store for us to sell some goods.