Grade Level
Middle
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Students Voted “Best in Region” in Verizon’s Innovative App Challenge
Inspired by a personal challenge, a group of 7th and 8th graders designed a concept for an app that would help those affected by neurological disorders by providing musical therapy for speech, movement, and memory rehabilitation. They submitted their idea, NeuroNote (Watch: https://youtu.be/V3WRlY2VCFY), to the Verizon App Challenge and were 1 of 6 schools in […]
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Design and Fabrication at ‘Iolani School
‘Iolani School students in one of the Wet Lab classes needed a way to photograph and analyze specimens under the microscope. But holding up their iPads and iPhones to take the photos proved to be ineffective and unwieldy. The Design and Fabrication class seized the opportunity to find a solution for their fellow classmates by […]
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The Intersection of Art and Science
Turning Point School in Los Angeles offers a unique middle school elective class, Art Installation, where students brainstorm and collaborate to create an entire artistic installation based on a topic of their choice. Last year, students installed a piece entitled “Opposite Emotions” which provided a window into the emotional and social lives of middle school […]
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Turning Point School – A Deep Dive into Global Citizenship
Recently, Turning Point School was honored to be recognized by the Council of International Schools as a school that is shaping the future on international education. In a blog post titled “Turning Point School – A Deep Dive into Global Citizenship,” the Council of International Schools interviewed Head of School Deborah Richman on the school’s […]
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St. Luke’s Was Hacked
St. Luke’s School hosted its second annual 48-hour Hackathon. More than sixty students (and a few parents) participated, including 12 students and faculty guests from Wooster School. The goal of the Hackathon is to immerse in creating something…anything. A toy, a game, a serious solution to a problem. Something you wish existed but doesn’t—yet. “We […]
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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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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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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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Open Window School Student Experiment to Be Tested on the International Space Station
An experiment developed by a team of students at Open Window School to test the effects of microgravity on the growth of Arabidopsis in Martian soil simulant will be conducted aboard the International Space Station later next year. The findings could help to better understand how to grow plants in a future human colony on […]
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From Maps to Mosaics . . . to Solutions in Principia Middle School
In this globalized, high-tech world—where existing information is rapidly superseded by new “facts”—high school graduates face exciting opportunities and unforeseen challenges. “We cannot solve problems that are coming up in the world through one lens,” says Principia School’s Dean of Innovation and Academics Peter Dry. “We need to be able to look at and grapple […]