Social Entrepreneurs: The New Community Project Share Night

On March 17th student social entrepreneurs, members of The New Community Project presented their project plans for Tree House Books in Philadelphia. Read more about the social entrepreneurship at GA and the New Community Project here.

Lower School Art Students Design Inventive Creations

6th Grade Student Makes Digital Model of Cell as City

R DiDonato a 6th grade student made this three dimensional rendering of a cell city using a free software called Sketch Up building each element without the assistance of models or pre-loaded template structure.  Maura Saurman, MS Science Teacher reports "After learning about the parts of a cell and how they function like parts of a city, the students were required to make a digital model of a cell city.  They were allowed to use Google draw or sketch-up. Robert put a lot of effort into his and it showed in his modeling which was very sophisticated. Applying the use of 3D rendering tools to traditional learning modes really help students to understand complex ideas in a tangible way."

Upper School Design Day

Earlier this fall, the students and faculty in the Upper School spent the day using the design thinking process (empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test) to imagine a new school schedule.  Student and faculty leaders facilitated the work insuring each portion of the process from brainstorming to presentation provided opportunities for ideas to shine!