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Upper
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BlendEd Program Fosters Self-Motivated Education
Juniors and seniors at Marin Academy have a unique opportunity to take classes with peers and teachers from their own and four other Bay Area schools — The Athenian School, The College Preparatory School, Lick-Wilmerding High School, and The Urban School — in a partnership that combines face-to-face instruction with online learning. The Bay Area […]
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Acceleration Comes to Light in Dunn School’s Physics Class
At Dunn School in Los Olivos, California, juniors and seniors saw free-fall in a whole new way, thanks to a newly-designed physics course. Students approximated free-fall by attaching a small strobe light to a heavy ball (to minimize the effects of air resistance); then they photographed the strobe light as it fell. They took this […]
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Lost In The Game: A Musical Story of Relationships, Sex and Gender Politics
Durham Academy a cappella group XIV Hours takes on hookup culture, relationships and respect as reflected in pop culture and music. Their music video, in three acts, breaks down some of the sexist lyrics and themes that teens navigate every day. The students’ powerful, poignant message is also inspiring, as they close emphasizing a sense […]
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Finding success through failure
In partnership with the World Pediatric Project and VCU, a group of eleventh-grade students at The Steward School (an independent JK-12 school located in Richmond, Virginia) was given the chance for a hands-on project that explored independent research, design, systems thinking and innovative technologies during the spring of 2015. The WPP purchased blood pressure monitors […]
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Auroral Splendor – Teachable Moments
Like most schools, Conserve School teachers and staff are always alert for “Teachable Moments”. This year solar activity has set the stage for some great ones. Here is a description of one such moment from Conserve School’s Head of School, Stefan Anderson. “This past Labor Day evening Conserve School students and staff were fortunate to […]
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STEAM Project Turns “Paradise Lost” into Innovative Exploration
When sophomores at Stone Ridge School begin their foray into John Milton’s Paradise Lost, a unique STEAM project encourages their scientific exploration and inquiry in a cross-disciplinary context — “something like Satan on the brink of the Abyss embarking on his own epic journey,” says Upper School English teacher Stephany Fontanone. In this lesson, traditional […]
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New Partnership Means the Sky’s the Limit as Girls Develop Drones
Last fall, a group of Foxcroft School students were the only all-girls’ team to participate in the Kashmir World Foundation’s (KWF) Da Vinci Drone Challenge, part of a worldwide initiative to develop unmanned aerial vehicles to help save endangered species from poachers. They learned the fundamental components and electronics of remotely operated aerial vehicles, built […]
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Milton Hershey School: On the Cutting-Edge of Cancer Research
While students around the state are spending their days sleeping in and relaxing, rising Milton Hershey School senior Lucas Sproule is participating in an internship at the Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute and setting a course for his future. It’s a personal endeavor for the student who lost his grandmother to kidney cancer. “I have […]
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Emerging Leader Program with The Hershey Company
When MHS senior Ethan Stratton shops, he looks at products differently than most other consumers. That’s because he spent his summer interning with the Marketing and Sales Department of The Hershey Company. “I’m seeing how a company markets and sells their product, and everything that goes into it. My mentors here are building on what […]
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An Interdisciplinary Project Goes Global
In an elective, Mark Day School Upper Division students learned that engineering the right product means respecting the process and really listening to your users. In fall 2014, “tinkerer in residence” David St. Martin presented the 7th and 8th grade students in his fabrication class with statistics about the impact of inefficient cooking stoves on […]
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Students Visit Hiroshima, Rally for Peace
Seventy years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, two Harker students joined students from Russia, Japan and the United States for the 18th annual Critical Issues Forum, a student conference on nuclear disarmament held in Hiroshima. The forum, April 2-4, was co-sponsored by the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury […]
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Igniting a Spark: The High School Classroom as a Neuroscience Laboratory
Last fall, Trevor students collaborated with a group of NYU neuroscientists, performing groundbreaking experiments that explored brain activity during learning. The study, entitled “Crowdsourcing neuroscience: Neural oscillations and human social dynamics,” tried to determine what happens when a group of brains synchronize with one another–and to understand the consequences of this synchrony in terms of […]