POMFRET, Conn. – In a “new and different way of learning,” Bridget Bohan, of Nashua, recently was part of a student-faculty team that worked together on a project titled “Stories Everyone Should Know: Telling the Tales of Some Great Pomfret People.”

Bohan, a senior, was part of an all-school academic experiment called Project: Pomfret. From Dec. 3-18, in place of class time and homework, they were instead out tackling one of 29 innovative projects – among them designing and building a real footbridge; conducting statistical and laboratory analyses on the economic and nutritional value of organic produce; trying to make sense of the Middle East, the environment, hip-hop music and the practicality of dams; and producing and using biodiesel fuel.

Bohan also was named to the honor roll for the fall term.

Pomfret School is an independent college preparatory boarding and day school for about 360 students in grades 9-12 and postgraduates.