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“Our Body”
At UMS-Wright, we continue to build a foundation for excellence through our devotion to advancing our students in mind, BODY, and spirit! During the Spring of 2016, we released a series of four videos (Our School, Our Mind, Our Body and Our Spirit) that give viewers an inside glimpse into “Our School.”
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“Our Mind”
UMS-Wright continues to set the example in education as we nurture and shape the minds of our students. During the Spring of 2016, we released a series of four videos (Our School, Our Mind, Our Body and Our Spirit) that give viewers an inside glimpse into “Our School.”
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Admiral Farragut Academy students attend prestigious summer academies for leadership and sailing
Each summer, students from Admiral Farragut Academy represent the school in noble ways by participating in various leadership programs. The summer of 2016 was no different as cadets from the upper school served as mentors or participants at the Naval Academy Summer Seminar, the NJROTC Area Seven Leadership Academy, the Sail Academy, and LeaderSail. In […]
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Stone Ridge students design and build at the commercial maker space Tech Shop.
Summer at Stone Ridge is a great time to be creative and do your own thing. The summer Stone Ridge/Tech Shop maker class allows students to develop their own design concept and then build the design using state of the art commercial manufacturing equipment. By enrolling as members of a commercial maker-space at Tech Shop […]
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A Unique Spin on the Classic Oral Book Report
Our 6th grade reading class put a spin on the classic oral book report. Each sixth grader chose a book to read, then selected a character from the book to portray in full costume and with props. We made trading cards which had the character’s photo on the front and three questions on the back […]
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“Our School, Our UMS-Wright”
At UMS-Wright, we continue to build a foundation for excellence through our devotion to advancing our students in Mind, Body, and Spirit! During the Spring of 2016, we released a series of four videos (Our School, Our Mind, Our Body and Our Spirit) that give viewers an inside glimpse into “Our School.”
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A Senior Independent Project Celebrates Wordsworth, Visual Arts, And Butterflies
In the closing weeks of senior year, Riverdale students have an opportunity to pose a challenging question or think deeply about a human experience. It’s a chance to do something they’ve always wanted to do as they look to the future. There are a few requirements: they must submit a detailed proposal, check in with […]
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Trinity Hall Fosters Innovative, Empathetic Engineers
Trinity Hall students practice human-centered design-thinking to develop prototypes where empathy is the central attribute. The final experiences of the junior engineering classes included product designs that embraced empathy as the singular most important attribute for designing the details of their product, and were inspired by social issues and personal experiences. The students were asked […]
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‘Iolani School’s Student-designed Quadcopters
‘Iolani School’s innovative project-based programming and curriculum were on display as seventh and eighth grade Robotics II students, in support of another Sullivan Center for Innovation and Leadership class, designed and built quadcopters to collect water samples from various locations within the neighboring Ala Wai Canal for biology students’ research projects.
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Middle School Entrepreneurs Take On The “Shark Tank”
Gladwyne Montessori’s 7th and 8th grade students capped off their yearlong Entrepreneurship studies with presentations to a carefully chosen panel of potential “investors” in Gladwyne Montessori’s Shark Tank. Following the style of the popular television show for entrepreneurs, students presented business plan proposals for the new companies they created going over profits, business goals, marketing […]
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Kent Place Student Experiment Chosen to be Carried Out on the International Space Station
Kent Place School and our partner, The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education is proud to announce the selection of a student-designed experiment that will be carried out on the International Space Station (ISS) next fall. Seventh graders, Isabella Diaz, Aya Mtume, Elizabeth Wyshner and fifth graders Olivia Adamczyk, Alexandra Anderson, Nora Lee […]
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Empathy Meets Design-Thinking In The Maker Space
Riverdale Country School fifth graders became product designers this spring, making cardboard reading easels to meet the needs of their first-grade clients. The project was inspired by the Adaptive Design Association, a non-profit organization that builds custom furniture, equipment, toys, and other items for infants and children with special needs. Many of the items are […]