On Friday, February 27th, the entire Eighth Grade class trekked to Mendon Ponds Park to test their friction-defying sleds they constructed during their engineering and physics unit in science. The students were charged with the task of designing and building a snow sled that would experience the lowest force of...
Elizabeth Schirmer, founder and CEO of Untapped Shores International (USI), shared her global work in hydroponic farming and water sanitation as the seventh speaker in the Commons Speaker Series. USI uses entrepreneurship to address the following three needs of women and children worldwide: sanitation and hygiene; clean water; disaster relief....
On Wednesday, March 11th, several people virtually attended a webinar of a presentation given by Dr. Adam Frank, U of R astrobiologist, at the University of Rochester entitled “Human Impacts on Earth”. As a webinar, the audience was able to view Dr. Frank’s information slides and hear his live presentation...
Design Thinking process with Math Topics class–by Seth O’Bryan The Math Topics class, an elective course in the upper school, has been building a math board game for lower school students in the workshop. The project began with the goal of creating a game to help students learn math. With...
July ‘64 field trip–by Leader In Residence Jocie Kopfman Every trimester in Rights and Responsibilities, the class goes on a field trip around the city of Rochester to visit the sites of the 1964 race rebellion. Luis Perez, who witnessed the race riots from his home on Joseph Avenue, guided...
Summary of Net Zero Commons Trial–by Seth O’Bryan Below is a table summarizing net energy use in the Commons from March 2-6, 2015. An important caveat is that this doesn’t include the energy use of the compressors, which drive the heating and cooling. The compressors are the biggest energy users...
