Videos
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“Our Mind”
UMS-Wright continues to set the example in education as we nurture and shape the minds of our students. During the Spring of 2016, we released a series of four videos (Our School, Our Mind, Our Body and Our Spirit) that give viewers an inside glimpse into “Our School.”
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Stone Ridge students design and build at the commercial maker space Tech Shop.
Summer at Stone Ridge is a great time to be creative and do your own thing. The summer Stone Ridge/Tech Shop maker class allows students to develop their own design concept and then build the design using state of the art commercial manufacturing equipment. By enrolling as members of a commercial maker-space at Tech Shop […]
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“Our School, Our UMS-Wright”
At UMS-Wright, we continue to build a foundation for excellence through our devotion to advancing our students in Mind, Body, and Spirit! During the Spring of 2016, we released a series of four videos (Our School, Our Mind, Our Body and Our Spirit) that give viewers an inside glimpse into “Our School.”
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A Senior Independent Project Celebrates Wordsworth, Visual Arts, And Butterflies
In the closing weeks of senior year, Riverdale students have an opportunity to pose a challenging question or think deeply about a human experience. It’s a chance to do something they’ve always wanted to do as they look to the future. There are a few requirements: they must submit a detailed proposal, check in with […]
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‘Iolani School’s Student-designed Quadcopters
‘Iolani School’s innovative project-based programming and curriculum were on display as seventh and eighth grade Robotics II students, in support of another Sullivan Center for Innovation and Leadership class, designed and built quadcopters to collect water samples from various locations within the neighboring Ala Wai Canal for biology students’ research projects.
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Empathy Meets Design-Thinking In The Maker Space
Riverdale Country School fifth graders became product designers this spring, making cardboard reading easels to meet the needs of their first-grade clients. The project was inspired by the Adaptive Design Association, a non-profit organization that builds custom furniture, equipment, toys, and other items for infants and children with special needs. Many of the items are […]
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Applied Physics and Design–Motorboat Project
Belmont Hill Form III students recently traveled to Concord River in Bedford, MA to test drive motorboats built in their Conceptual Physics class with Mr. Trautz and Mr. Tahan. The boats were an applied physics and design project, in which the boys designed the boats using CAD software and prototyped them using markup models. The […]
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Middle School Student Builds a Robotic Prosthetic Hand
Students in the Middle School Robotics club were asked to find to choose a real-world problem which they could solve through robotics. Jodie, an 8th grade student, created a robotic hand to help patients who may have lost their own hand.
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Woodland School Capstone Inspires Students to Be Changemakers
Eighth grade students see their final year of middle school as a pivotal year in their educational career—and life—due to the Capstone project. Designed to be a hallmark of Woodland School, Capstone provides students with the opportunity to immerse themselves in research and action regarding issues of global significance. They step outside their comfort zone […]
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Robots have taken over the library!
On a bright spring morning, a group of exuberant 1st graders gathered in our school library to cheer on their 5th grade buddies in their first ever “robot battle”—a contest that had student-created bots attempting to push one another out of a circular ring. This culminating event followed intensive work over several weeks during which […]
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An Immersive Experience: Kindergarteners Dive Deep Into Their Hudson River’s Studies
Riverdale Country School kindergarteners know the Hudson River well. It flows alongside their campus in the Bronx. Last week, they explored what lies beneath the surface, and they created their own model of the river. In this video, the children explain how they did it.
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Dance Movement and Music Help Students Develop Personal, Environmental Connections
Baltimore Lab School students recently collaborated with dance therapist and architect Martha Raquel Herrera Muñoz and the non-profit PlanetArt Fund in a series of three-day workshops to create ocean awareness. Through dance movement and music, Muñoz, along with BLS faculty members Zac Lawhon and Jackie Lesh, helped students in grades 6-12 explore the concept of […]