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Preschool and Lower School Students Showcase Creativity in Annual Cardboard Challenge

This year, the theme for the annual Cardboard Challenge was How Might We be Better Together, by Sharing the Gift of Play? This year's challenge was inspired by a young boy named Cain who lives in L.A. With a love for building things and tin...

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Story Slam – A Culmination of How to Tell a Story

During Mod 1 in the Upper School, a group of Innovation Diploma students learned how to write and share their own stories in How to Tell a Story, a class led by MV teachers Brad Droke and Krista Fancher. Throughout the Mod, students wrote th...

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Helping Hands Day 2019: Grateful to Serve

Last Wednesday, September 11, the Mount Vernon community joined together in honoring those who lost their lives, survived and responded to the tragic events of 9/11. This year, each division participated in a donation drive, and then packaged the it...

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Alma Merchant – Creating A Smile, Inspiring Hope

Mount Vernon Junior Alma Merchant has a heart for helping others, and this Helping Hands Day, through a non-profit that she began herself, she's partnering with Lower School students to make a difference in the lives of children across Atlanta....

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MV Middle Hosts Inaugural GameDay

With the hopes of growing unity in community and encouraging some healthy competition, MV Middle School introduced MV GameDay last Friday! Throughout MV GameDay, there were both physical and creative challenges for the students and faculty t...

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Helping Hands Day 2019: Grateful to Serve

Every year on September 11, Mount Vernon students and faculty join forces to pay tribute to those who lost their lives, survived, responded to, and like many of us, were affected by the tragic events of 9/11. We will show our gratitude for servi...

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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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Design Thinking Build Day on the Courtyard

Mount Vernon's fifth annual Cardboard Challenge was a great success. Students in Kindergarten through grade 4 took time over the course of four days to work in small teams wrestling with the question, "How might we share our love of creative play by...

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Seventh Graders take MVPS to Michigan for Odyssey of the Mind WORLD FINALS!

Embodying the Mount Vernon mission, a group of seventh graders recently participated in and placed first in their region in the world's largest creative problem-solving competition -- Odyssey of the Mind -- an international creative progra...

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Extending the #MVSpace Experience

Every spring during Interim Term, grade 6 explores space on their class trip to NASA’s Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama. See their play by play on Twitter. For three days, students and their teacher chaperones took part in Space Camp's Pathfi...