We are pleased to introduce Derrick Taylor, current Nursery Red parent, to the Commons team. With the departure of Chris Hartman, we are glad to bring on Derrick to help round out coverage already provided by our Designer in Residence, Kyle Graves. Derrick Taylor has degrees in Mathematics Education and...
Anneke Nordmark decided that it was a good plan to take her homeroom of creative and intrepid 6th graders down to the Project Space one morning a week to get them busy working together–thus Maker Mornings were born. This plan coincided perfectly with the addition of our Designer in Residence,...
Please welcome Kyle Graves to the Commons team as our Designer in Residence for the month of November. As we have a great wealth of shop equipment, tools, and technology in the Workshop and Project Space, it is an excellent turn of events that we have identified someone with exactly...
In true design thinking fashion, the Design and Innovation Lab students worked at the end of spring to create and build wooden benches and a table for small group meetings on the third floor of the Commons, by the elevator. They first asked people what they needed from the space,...
In Mrs. Rivers’ seventh grade science class, the students took their study of human anatomy to the macro level! To apply their learning about how the bones, muscles and tendons all work together in human hands, the three different classes worked to create three larger-than-life, fully operational left hands. The...
As part of the Lower School Focus Week on “Everything Underground”, the Upper School Design and Innovation Lab students were engaged to help build a two-story “mine” in the Project Space. Using old wooden pallets, some wood screws and plywood, the productive students constructed the mine in less than three...
Written by Seth O’Bryan, Rights and Responsibilities teacher: Super creative community artist Shawn Dunwoody is working with the Rights and Responsibilities class to build a mural to be placed at a community garden in the city of Rochester. Rights and Responsibilities is a mandatory 9th grade trimester course that focuses...
In what is becoming an ever-expanding event at Harley, the STEAM Fair (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) was held all over campus on Thursday evening, February 12th. Science projects from 3rd-6th grade students were shared along with penguin habitats by Primary Two, many technology projects, some math challenges, and...
From Carli Rivers, 7th and 8th Grade Science teacher: As part of the chemistry (Bernoulli’s Principle), physics (lift, drag, weight), and engineering portions of the eighth grade science course, we partnered with the Design and Innovation Lab to learn all about kites. In the first phase of the project, students...
The eager students in the Food and Farm Lab class worked last week to harvest the honey from our two resident bee hives, with the expert help of Adriana Lozada and Arthur Rothfuss. The flats which were full of honey and had been capped off with wax were removed (after...
