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Milton Hershey School: The Art of Happiness
Visual and Performing Arts students at Milton Hershey School were challenged to create art designs depicting happiness with partner Hershey Company’s candy products. The art is now displayed in Target’s headquarters. The VPA Department offers your child a wide variety of sequential classes, activities and performing groups in all of the arts. The department offers […]
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Milton Hershey School: Recipe for Success
Milton Hershey School® students won first place in the Pennsylvania ProStart Culinary Invitational, held in State College on Feb. 25. It was hosted by the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation in conjunction with the PA Restaurant & Lodging Association. “We are incredibly proud of the students. They dedicated a lot of time preparing for this […]
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The Topic of “Food” is Discussed During Kent Place School’s Global Perspectives Day
On Friday March 27, 2015, Kent Place School hosted its school-wide Global Perspectives Day. This year’s theme, “Food,” allowed students, faculty and staff to learn about and discuss the various ethical, global, mathematical, scientific, historical, nutritional, sociological, literary, technological and cultural issues surrounding food. “The conversations that I heard and the interactions and deep thinking […]
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Pasta and Glue Motivate, Inspire Young Engineers
The engineering challenge offered to Topeka Collegiate’s fifth grade science students: Build the strongest bridge possible using only store-bought pasta and Elmer’s glue. Thus begins a cycle of research, design, prototype, test, and redesign, punctuated by trips to the grocery store pasta aisle. “It’s harder than it looks,” laughs science teacher Mary Kate Baldwin, “because […]
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Sixth Graders Launch 2 High Altitude Weather Balloons
Early on a recent Saturday morning, sixth graders launched 2 high altitude weather balloons in Ellensburg, WA equipped with flight computers and weather sensors built, soldered and programmed by students. The balloons made it to over 93,000 feet capturing photographs of “near space.” Recovering the balloons included a 9 mile hike and a walk through […]
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Aspen Academy Students Are Leaders!
Aspen Academy students are leaders! Whether it involves operating one of our on-campus businesses through Bear’s Enterprises – the school store, the vending machines, the café, or the broadcast network; participating in AMP’d (Aspen Morning Program), our Friday morning celebration of life at Aspen, participating in our Mentor/Mentee program, hosting visiting students through our Student […]
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Marshall School Students Send Frog Experiment Into Space
Wouldn’t it be cool to have an astronaut do your homework? This spring, three Marshall School students created an experiment that will be placed in the hands of astronauts, rocketed out of Earth’s atmosphere, and deposited in the International Space Station. Alli Hall, Pentti Hanlon, and Anna Nordin won the experiment design competition for Mission […]
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Throwing A Little Light On To The Subject
At Applewild School, our community of learners and doers are educated as twenty-first century learners and thinkers are fully engaged and ready to make a difference in their communities and their world. All students learn to craft in our two woodworking shops. Each Spring will find fourth graders busily building, painting, and learning about electric […]
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Reimagine School: Nicole’s Story
To spearhead its new “Reimagine School” marketing campaign, Lawrence School recently produced a pair of videos that aim to not only convey the school’s purpose and unique position among other independent schools in northeast Ohio, but also start the conversation about learning differences and the way people think about general education environments. “We are excited […]
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Put on Your Math Goggles! Seeing Patterns in a Romero Britto
Third graders at All Saints’ Episcopal School recently donned their “math goggles” and engaged in an exploration of pattern using the visual arts as a lens. Students learned about the present-day, internationally renowned Brazilian pop artist, Romero Britto, who uses vibrant colors and bold patterns as a visual language of his hope, happiness, and optimistic […]
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For Walker’s Students, Spring Break Spent Building Homes with Heart
Ten students from The Ethel Walker School in Simsbury, CT traveled to Bryan/College Station, TX for a spring break service trip, during which they worked with the local chapter of Habitat for Humanity helping to build homes and sheds for members of the community. From caulking and filling in nail holes to painting, priming and […]
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Trips Enhance Curriculum and Connect Students with the Natural Environment
Spring is a special time for Lower School students at Pacific Northern Academy in Anchorage, Alaska, because it’s when their much-anticipated overnight field trips — designed to enhance the curriculum — get underway. First graders study oceanography before visiting the SeaLife Center in Seward to hone observation skills, participate in hands-on marine science programs, and […]