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Hospital Pain to Beach Carnival Fun: Immersive Technology to Distract Pediatric Rehab Patients

Contributed by Marie Graham Pediatric rehab patients face many challenges to complete the occupational and physical therapy that is necessary for recovery. The goal of this project was to use virtual reality to decrease discomfort for patients un...

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AP Calculus Students Visit Six Flags to Study Motion and Rollercoasters

Last week, a group of AP Calculus students and their teacher Danielle Heintz took a trip to Six Flags to gather data about motion using rollercoasters. By using an app that gathers accelerometer data and videos of their rides, the students put toget...

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Students Recognized in Upper School Honors Assembly

Contributed by Chip Houston, Head of Upper School Today we celebrate the learning and achievements of our community for the 2018-2019 school year. This year began with a new modular schedule, based on research and consultation, aligned with the m...

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Justin Blumencranz Helps Take MV’s Virtual Reality Lab to the Next Level

Story by Justin Blumencranz The catalyst for reaching out to Woojer about their haptic vest was a need in our VR lab and my desire to work on a project of my design. As a Freshman, I worked with Mrs. Graham and a few other students to create Moun...

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Guest Ceramist Tripti Yoganathan Visits Upper School Art Classes

Local artist Tripti Yoganathan recently visited both the Intro to Ceramics and Advanced Ceramics classes offered in the Upper School. A seasoned artist who works out of Callenwolde Studios and shows her work regionally, Tripti instructed the...

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The Art of Visual Journaling

When Director of Visual and Performing Arts Matthew Neylon attended the 2017-2018 session at School for Art Leaders at Crystal Bridges, he met former Disney illustrator Niki Stewart, who immediately became a friend. When he returned to MV, h...

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Students Survey Campus For Erosion Control: Part 2

This story is part 2 in a series that started with "Mustang Wins Essay Contest For the City of Atlanta" The campus of Mount Vernon has changed significantly over the last few years with expansion and improvements being made on both sides of Mount Ve...

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Students Turn Prisms into 3D sculptures, Based on Passions

When students in Ben Hendry's and Margaret Gunter's grade 5 math classes were asked to create 3-dimensional models related to something about which they were passionate, they weren't yet sure how it would relate to math. The only stipulation for the...

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Courageous Conversations: A Teacher’s Reflection

Kristen Pisacreta: Seventh Grade Literature Project Based Learning A Teacher's Reflection on Courageous Conversations This semester students read the novel Monster, by Walter Dean Myers and explored what it feels like to be silenced in our judicia...

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