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Last week, the Advanced Drawing and Painting Studio classes went to the de Young museum to see the exhibition “Modernism from the National Gallery of Art." Students were struck by the magnificent size of many of the works, and amazed by the layering of paint and materials. Three students shared their reflections with us. "This …
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What do trees, pies and lemonade stands have in common? In a recent Math 2 class, students used all three to communicate information about patterns during their “Carousel" activity. To begin the activity, groups of 9th- and 10th-graders in Bree Pickford-Murray’s class approached whiteboards around the classroom with markers in hand. Their first step was …
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Over the weekend of May 30, fifteen Astrophysics students, four parents, one UC Berkeley post-doc and one Bay teacher had a fantastic weekend full of celestial observations at the Aardvark Observatory in Groveland, CA. Observatory designer, master astronomer and gracious host Gary Bengier explained the intricacies of the main telescope’s operations. Students, staying up way …
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Some Senior Signature Projects change the world. Others actually create one. Enter the world of the Children of Vasae’ah, and Ian, Franky and Christian ‘14. Ian and Franky first began crafting this realm four years ago, but never dreamed that this would become part of their coursework. Says Ian, “It was one of those things …
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Bacon makes everything better. At least, that’s what the popular saying tells us. For Sam ’14, though, bacon really does make something better: a sustainable bioplastic. It was in his Environmental Chemistry class that Sam first learned that plastics could be made from common materials. After investigating different types of plastics, he found that even …
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