Justice, a junior at The Bay School, played a few songs on guitar at Morning Meeting. With guitar experience that stretches back to his youngest years, Justice said his selections weren’t typical of what he regularly plays. In performance or competition, he tends toward longer classical or jazz pieces because they require “harder technique and …
Conversations: What is the School Life Committee?
Members of the School Life Committee spoke at Morning Meeting about their newly formed group, last year’s accomplishments and this year’s goals. Among their recent endeavors: restructuring the announcement system and creating apt mission statements for each sub-committee. Hear it all here!
Active Endeavors: A Parent on JV Soccer’s Recent Tie
I had a chance to watch JV soccer play against Lick-Wilmerding on Oct. 1. The boys did exceptionally well despite the fact that they were facing a 20+ member team; it was like facing a new team at every substitution! In the last five minutes of the game, our boys came back from a deficit …
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MARMOT Program: An Inside Look
When you talk to the MARMOTs you get the answers you seek – and fast – but you’ll come away wondering how you got them. The group answers casual questions the same way they would answer a support desk ticket – eagerly and in unison. You get the feeling they’re the quirky, tech-inclined cells of …
Science at The Bay School: Raul Betancourt’s View
Why doesn’t plastic biodegrade? What makes ice cubes float and the plates of the earth move? What's so concerning about the acidification of the ocean? Reasons abound for loving science, whether for its ability to answer these questions or for how it reveals the wondrous size and scope of the universe. What we call matter, …
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