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Science and Social Justice: A Perfect Combination at Marymount
Marymount’s mission is to educate young women who are prepared to challenge, shape, and change the world. Two recent interdisciplinary projects that connected science with social justice highlight our mission in action at the School. Students in the senior elective, Atmospheric Science, wrote and published a multi-touch book entitled Sandy Stories to share the experiences […]
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Miller School of Albemarle Cycling Program
The Miller School of Albemarle (MSA) Cycling team is an internationally recognized high school road cycling and mountain biking program. The team is a varsity sport and competes in both high school and USA Cycling events throughout the year. The team works with some of the world’s top-ranked junior cyclists and prepares them for racing […]
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Poly Prep Service Trip to Cambodia
Watch a video of Poly Prep’s Winter Global Service Trip to Poly’s Cambodian Sister School. Students presented workshops in reading, sports, arts and crafts, music, and English at the Mitapeap School.
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Poly Prep 4th Graders Paint Keepsake Project
Poly Prep’s 4th graders in Patti Smith’s (Visual Arts) art class reached a rite of passage, putting the finishing touches on their reproductions of paintings by major 20th-century artists on the seats of metal stools, which will become keepsakes of their time at the Lower School.
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Poly Prep’s Women’s Innovation Symposium in Engineering
Poly Prep hosted its third annual Women’s Innovation Symposium in Engineering (W.I.S.E.) for middle and upper school girls to learn about the field of engineering in workshops presented by women engineers and scientists on March 9. The event is open for free to all 7th through 12th grade female students in the New York City […]
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Poly Prep Sponsors “Be A Green Neighbor Day”
As part of Poly Prep’s commitment to sustainability, the school hosted “Be a Green Neighbor Day,” inviting the local community to bring used electronics for E-Waste Recycling in conjunction with the Lower East Side Ecology Center (LESEC) or to pick up a free tree, as part of the New York Restoration Project, on Sunday, May […]
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Middle School Students Use New Shakespeare App
At Poly Prep, on the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth, Gail Karpf’s 7th grade English class was newly into the study of the Bard’s play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, using 21st-century technology. They were studying the 16th-century comedy using a new Shakespeare app on their iPads. Last year, Headmaster David B. Harman P’04, ‘06 introduced […]
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CSI: Walnut Hill
Many of us have seen a movie or television show in which forensic evidence was collected and interpreted. To the untrained eye, the actors seem to know what they’re doing. But, as good as it might look on screen, students who’ve taken Walnut Hill’s new Forensic Science elective can spot the inaccuracies in a heartbeat. […]
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A generation of creative collaborators: Chicago Interim trip
In the spring during Westridge’s experiential Interim week, 39 Chamber Orchestra students were featured as the artists-in-residence at Baker Demonstration School, an independent coeducational elementary school in Wilmette, IL. The goal was for the two schools to work together to create original music compositions. Leo Kitajima, Westridge Middle and Upper School orchestra teacher, conceptualized the […]
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Children Helping Children at Jonathan’s Place
Jonathan’s Place, a Garland-based temporary homeless shelter for children and girls’ treatment center, received special gifts March 25th from a group of students from The Winston School in Dallas. Students in the Middle School Student Government and members of the Upper School Leadership Team joined forces to load and install landscaping mulch throughout areas of […]
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Pioneer Days Take Winston Students Back In History
Plowing the fields and washing clothes in a bucket took students at The Winston School in Dallas, Texas back into history at their recent “Pioneer Day.” The school’s third and fourth grade classes gathered with great excitement as they ventured out into their cold wooded playground to meet with their Senior Buddies to experience a […]
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The Flexuary Experiment
This past year, some of our Upper Division teachers got together in November to brainstorm how we could turn the month of January into something more inviting and exciting for the students than just the dreaded return to school after a two-week break. Our initial task was to come up with something around which to […]