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Mirman School Launches Groundbreaking MirmanX Program
Mirman School is excited to announce the launch of MirmanX, a unique program offering funding and support for its students to tackle “moonshot” projects that have the potential to help a community in a meaningful and tangible way. “The idea behind MirmanX is to help students achieve far-reaching goals in an open-source environment supported by […]
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Yes We Can! Middle Schoolers Build A Life-Sized Woolly Mammoth
You know those dinosaurs at the American Museum of Natural History? A Riverdale Country School group built one during Project Week. It was an audacious idea, and it succeeded through a combination of imagination, improvisation, and teamwork. To begin, they went to the American Museum of Natural History to study the skeletons of dinosaurs and […]
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Students Get Hands-on Research Experience
Seven Stoneleigh-Burnham School students have been accepted into the ASPIRE program in the Polymer Science and Engineering Department at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. The program gives high school students in grades 10-12 who are interested in science, technology, and engineering experience doing hands-on experiments in laboratories. Stoneleigh-Burnham students accepted into the ASPIRE program are: […]
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Students Learn Leadership Skills by Raising Chickens, Selling Eggs
Fourth grade students at The Lamplighter School oversee a chicken-raising and egg-selling corporation that integrates entrepreneurship into the curriculum. Lamplighter Layers, now in its 47th year, teaches students to apply academic skills to the hands-on operation of a real business that involves selling thousands of eggs and donating most of the profit to charities, including […]
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Admiral Farragut Academy student, Michael Cooney ‘16, develops leadership through charitable deeds
Saturday mornings for most teenagers are usually reserved for snaring extra sleep. For Michael Cooney, the day has been devoted to helping with the Challenger League, which is for players with physical or mental disabilities. Since coming to Farragut at the beginning of his sophomore year, Michael – along with his teammates on the Farragut […]
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Engineering at The Hill School
This year, The Hill School (Pottstown, Pa.) introduced a new and distinctive engineering program, Engineering 3 (E3), created by Timothy Jump, Hill’s director of the Quadrivium Engineering and Design program. This short video provides a lively overview of this class at Hill and shares a glimpse of Hill’s student and faculty excitement about E3. This […]
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Character Through Comedy
Comedy is harder than it looks. This fall, the Riverdale Middle School created “School Night Live,” an original sketch comedy production featuring sharks, elves, tap dancers, pop singers, a Donald Trump impersonator and hundreds of one liners. The work took creativity – and commitment. “The nature of sketch comedy demands bold choices,” says Laura Desmond, […]
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School-wide Hour of Code Event at Stoneleigh-Burnham
The entire Stoneleigh-Burnham School student community, along with many adults, participated in a registered international Hour of Code on December 9, 2015. Part of Computer Science Education Week, the Hour of Code is an introduction to computer science, designed to demystify code and show that anybody can learn the basics. Andrea Tehan Carnes, STEAM coordinator […]
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Jane Goodall Visit Leads to Lasting Lessons About Activism and Conservation
Jane Goodall’s momentous visit to Burke’s in fall 2015 continues to reverberate across campus, with projects relating to her and her work extending well beyond her departure. The famed primatologist told the story of her life and urged environmental action to both Burke’s divisions at two separate assemblies on October 13. Her appearance in and […]
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Week of Code Expands to P.E. and the Arts
Burke’s hosted its second annual week of Hour of Code activities in December. Close to 75 activities kept students in all grades busy throughout each day of the week, from early Open Code before classes started to playing coding games in Tree House after school. We saw students taking part in activities such as: -Coding […]
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Girls in Government, Leadership, and Service Make It Into Change.org’s 2015- Year in Change Video
The Girls in Government, Leadership, and Service at Julia Morgan School for Girls in Oakland, CA is honored to have been chosen out of 200,000 petitions to be included in Change.org’s 2015 – Year in Change video. The girls are featured around 15 seconds into the video about their petition to pass the ERA.
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Creating Synergy: Math & Art
In Betsy Bennati’s fifth grade math class, students are discovering fractions and creating works of art. When Mrs. Bennati first introduced the unit on fractions, she noticed her students were struggling with the concept. In an effort to combat the initial nerves of learning something new and complex, she asked students to use a ruler. […]