At their weekly Academic Decathlon (AcaDec) meeting, juniors Nick Avery, left to right, Gigi Thao, her younger sister Sophie Thao and freshman Chloe Duerr watch a slideshow on adviser Molly Sargent’s (not pictured) laptop, Oct. 28.

The slideshow contained numerous pictures from the ’30s and ’40s, dealing mainly with people impacted by the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. Sargent allowed the AcaDec team members a break from the normal reading material in order to provide better insight into John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath, which they just finished.

For more information, read the Oct. 7 article AcaDec investigates Great Depression. For more photos, check out Home-grown chilis or This little light of mine.