We Spark Creativity
Independent schools champion the natural creativity in every child, growing creative problem solvers and nurturing artistic skills.
Independent schools champion the natural creativity in every child, growing creative problem solvers and nurturing artistic skills.
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Inly School 8th Graders Spend Two Weeks at Innovation Lab
Each spring, eighth graders from Inly Middle School participate in NuVu, a full-time magnet innovation studio in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Prior to this partnership, NuVu worked exclusively with high schools. NuVu’s founder and Chief Excitement Officer is Saeed Arida. When asked about the partnership with Inly, Arida said, “We are excited to be working with Inly […]
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Fab Lab @ Recess program sparks students’ creativity
During the 2013-14 school year, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Day School in Coconut Grove, FL launched its STEM initiative with a series of stand alone workshops and activities that captured students’ hands, hearts and minds. Catapults, Contraptions, Makey Makey, Bulletin Board Marble Mazes and K’nex Amusement Center are several of the workshops that 1st graders through […]
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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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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 […]
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First Grade Engineers at Oak Hill Academy!
Hi! My name is Susan Cahalane and I teach hands-on science to students in grades PK – 4 at Oak Hill Academy in Lincroft, NJ. I believe children are natural scientists and it is my job as their instructor to nurture and develop their innate curiosity. I created an engineering lesson plan entitled Gnome Engineers, […]
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Designing for Innovation
What do you get when you bring together faculty teams from each division and frame mission-focused inquiry around a design thinking framework? You get our first successful Innovation Institute. Over a five-day period this summer, a diverse group of faculty came together to explore the concept of time and how it impacts teaching and learning […]
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Cardigan’s Charles C. Gates Invention & Innovation Competition
The Gates program at Cardigan began seven years ago, thanks to the inspiration of past parent, Diane Wallach P’06, whose late father, Charlie Gates, was himself an inventor and innovator. With the support of the Gates Frontier Fund, the Charles C. Gates Invention & Innovation Competition program was able to get off the ground in […]
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Trinity Hall Students Design Sustainable Furniture
At Trinity Hall, an all-girls college preparatory high school in Monmouth County, NJ, students use their own creativity together with hands-on projects to promote an understanding and appreciation of the engineering design process. The engineering thought process is so important to the school’s interdisciplinary curriculum that students are required to take four years of engineering/design […]
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Technovation Challenge: We’ve Created an App for That!
Technovation is the global technology entrepreneurship program for girls and this year Julia Morgan School for Girls’ “Team Floaty Bag” presented their app, “Floaty Bag” at a showcase in Google SF. A group of students have dedicated over 40 hours over the course of three months working hard on their app that involved designing and […]
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Put on Your Math Goggles! Exploring Linear Equations Using Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawings
7th-8th grade algebra students attending All Saints’ Episcopal School recently donned their math goggles and engaged in a hands-on exploration of linear equations using the visual arts as a lens. In order to challenge eighth graders’ graphing skills, students learned about the American artist, Sol LeWitt (1888-1976), who came to fame in the late 1960s […]
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Cookie Companies: An interdisciplinary project
In the days of early spring, the excitement is palpable in the 5th grade at St. Martin’s Episcopal School as students prepare for the 5th Grade Cookie Company project, a long-standing tradition. It is an interdisciplinary study of economics as well as a service project. Students are grouped into companies of 4 members. The companies […]
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Robohand Project – Students Building A 3D-Printed Mechanical Hand
My name is Rich Lehrer and I am an 8th grade science teacher at Brookwood School in Manchester, MA. Over the course of the 2013/2014 school year, I have created a club comprised of thirteen 8th graders from my school and they have been working with me and a senior from The Governor’s Academy in […]