variety of extracurricular activities for its students to partake in. The Model United Nations program and the Debate and Public Speaking program are especially popular, with approximately a hundred students in each. The school participates in many Model United Nations conferences and debate tournaments every year. Another moderately popular activity is Botball, an annual interscholastic robotics competition. The school team has done exceptionally well in recent years, placing 5th in the New England Division in 2009. In 2010, it placed 2nd out of 19 teams, a school record. The school also boasts several language clubs and a chess team that has won or shared the South Shore Interscholastic Chess League title in 2 of the last 5 years, as well as community service clubs, such as Habitat for Humanity. Music The school has an extensive music program, available to students of all grades. There is junior chorus for seventh and eighth graders, and a glee club for high schoolers. There is also a small a cappella group consisting of about fourteen singers called the Latonics that requires an audition. Additionally, there is a jazz band and several halls a year devoted to instrumental performances by students and faculty. Notable alumni Colonists James Pierpont (1677), principal founder of Yale University Paul Dudley (1686), Chief Justice of Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1745–1751) and Attorney General of Massachusetts (1702–1718) John Wise (1669), clergyman credited with revolutionary phrase "no taxation without representation" Joseph Warren (1755), Continental Army General who was killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill, surgeon Increase Sumner (1763), governor of Massachusetts (1797–1799), Justice of Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1782–1797) John Warren (1767), founder of Harvard Medical School, renowned surgeon Business Francis Cabot Lowell (1789), businessman, member of Boston Lowell family, founder of Lowell, Massachusetts Arthur Vining Davis (1884), president of Aluminum Company of America (1910–1949), major educational benefactor in United States James Dole (1895), founder of the Hawaiian Company in Honolulu, Hawaii currently known as Dole Food Company Albert Hamilton Gordon (1919), Wall Street businessman, philanthropist David R. Godine (1960), publisher Roger Altman (1963), founder and chairman of Evercore Sciences Charles Russell Lowell, Sr. (1796), Royal Society and Harvard University fellow Robert W. Wood (1887), American physicist, professor at Johns Hopkins University Edward Lee Thorndike (1891), famed psychologist, former professor at Columbia, member of National Academy of Sciences Paul Dudley White (1903), "Father of Modern Cardiology," noted cardiologist, founder of American