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Upper
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Animation and Dance Collaborations at the Putney School Summer Programs
The verdant pastures and unfurling meadows of Southern Vermont are an inspiring place to develop creative work. Each summer students come from all over the country and the world to actively participate in a unique community at the Putney School Summer Programs. A pastoral residential setting where students create compelling work in Visual Art, Music, […]
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For Girls, by Girls Leadership Conference at The Agnes Irwin School
150 girls from 19 public and private schools in the Philadelphia region took a big step toward exploring leadership in September by attending the “Leading for Change” conference hosted by The Agnes Irwin School. The conference was the realization of the hard work of a student group that serves as a liaison between the Center […]
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Real-World Engineering
Students at Laurel School in Shaker Heights, Ohio, are exploring real-world engineering solutions from the outside-in. According to Lisa Damour, Ph.D., Consulting Psychologist and Director of Laurel School’s Center for Research on Girls, female students are looking beyond traditional barriers to find meaning in the human applications of STEM projects. The “outside” motivation of finding […]
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Drawing Together Day 2013
Inspired by former arts faculty members, Drawing Together Day on September 9, 2013, brought back a tradition to the Catlin Gabel campus: a time when people of all ages take time to draw. Students from preschool through 12th grade and their teachers, and staff members, all spent one hour on a beautiful late summer afternoon […]
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Great Kids, Going Places
Moorestown Friends School Class of 2013 graduates Sarah Master, Spencer Bard, and Ashleigh Cartwright talk candidly about their experiences at MFS with new staff member Kat Clark, including their thoughts on teachers, opportunities, and ethical education. They are now attending Brown University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Columbia University (respectively). While in high school, Sarah […]
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Using Modern Technology to Recreate Antiquity: Casting Roman Coins in Fay School’s Innovation Lab
Fay Latin teacher Emily Gifford was looking for a creative way to help her seventh, eighth, and ninth grade students learn about ancient Roman currency. Her solution: have students cast ancient coins using 21st-century methods! After researching Roman currency, students designed their own coins to include a Latin epigram and a representation of Roman art. […]
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Engineering Bootcamp at Tower Hill School
Tower Hill School (DE) students tackle challenges that introduce engineering principles in an elective course called Engineering Bootcamp. Concepts like stress, strain, torque, and stability have real meaning as students stack textbooks on towers they created from PVC pipes and twine. For another project, the concept of aerodynamics underlies the performance of stomp rockets constructed […]
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Peddie School EXP Research Science Program
The EXP Research Science Program (or EXP for short) is a year-long program designed to help students develop their passion for scientific research and to encourage them to consider an eventual career in science-related fields. Even more specifically, EXP intends to help students: – get outside the textbook to do “research science” and to develop […]
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School Shows Excellence in the Community
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Students Tackle Real-World Problems in the Innovation Lab
The Nueva School in Hillsborough, California is engineering a new way of thinking for students. The Innovation Lab (I-Lab) teaches design thinking to prepare students with a solid mental framework for tackling real-world problems and brainstorming practical solutions. Students approach new projects with one core question: “What do we need to do next?” This seemingly […]
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Student Global Leadership Institute
The Student Global Leadership Institute (SGLI) at Punahou School convenes youth leaders who tackle global challenges and create positive social change. The Institute engages students in team-based projects that address issues such as the environment, economics, and globalization. It teaches principles of creative problem-solving and cross-cultural communication in addition to collaboration. In 2013, seventy-nine students […]
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Hockaday partners with Dallas public schools
Hockaday girls work hard at their own studies, but in a single academic year they also logged more than 12,000 hours providing tutoring and academic enrichment for students in underserved public schools in the Dallas Independent School District. Initially a community service program, the partnership has evolved into a true service learning opportunity in which […]