In early October, Harley was proud and honored to host a group of women leaders from African nations and Haiti who were part of the Department of State’s professional exchange program, International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP), to learn more about the topic of women political leaders. Rochester Global Connections was...
Harley was proud and honored to have Dr. Mark Zupan as our featured speaker at the first Commons Series event of the school year. Mark Zupan is a Harley parent (’10 and ’14), past Board of Trustees president, and current President of Alfred University. His latest book, Inside Job: How...
Two eager juniors are taking Living Building this trimester. Between the two of them, they may have possibly logged the most contact hours of their classmates in the Commons, extending back to their middle school science classes which were the first to be housed in the Commons. This team is...
The opportunistic students in Food and Farm 101 made good use of the harvestable vegetables from the high tunnel gardens. For those of you who haven’t visited the covered growing space, it was virtually filled to the roof with all kinds of tomatoes! The enclosed spaces was kept at a...
The first few meetings of Robotics allowed the students to get to know each other, as well as to meet their new teacher, Kima Enerson. As the Project Space evolves over Tri I to house Maker Ed courses, Robotics, and a future teaching kitchen, it was important to also get...
For the 2017-18 school year, we are pleased to introduce two new faculty members in the Commons and one new collaborative course! You can meet the new educators below and read more about the course offerings in the Commons for Trimester I. Meet Lisa Barker, Food and Farm Coordinator....
You may recall that our Commons Speaker Series event for March was cancelled due to an unruly snowstorm that hit our region. We are grateful that the presenters were all able to arrange their calendars to reschedule their presentation for this past Wednesday, June 21st. The panel drew on local...
Davy Brooks has worked diligently and creatively over two trimesters to bring their idea through all of the stages of design to completed reality. Davy began with the big idea of self-sustainable eating — taking care of growing spaces, growing food, making a table to eat at, and preparing meals....
Seventh grade science students learned about human anatomy and the skeletal system in the spring. To help the students apply this knowledge, Carli Rivers assigned each student one bone or a set of bones to make out of foam, cardboard, and papier mâché. Carefully, the students worked not only to...
The laser cutter….it’s not just for cookies anymore. Well, actually it has been used on cookies and wood and plastic and a wide variety of other materials in the past few weeks. In learning what this precision machine can and can not do, Kyle Graves and Derrick Taylor, our mid-year...
