Maker Archives - The Mount Vernon School

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Upper School Virtual Reality Students Partner with Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta

Over the last year and a half, Upper School Virtual Reality students, along with Director of Virtual and Augmented Reality Lab Marie Graham, have been working alongside Children's Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA) to create a VR program to help patients...

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Middle School Students Design and Create a House for Sparkle Sandy Springs

Middle School students, alongside MS Visual Arts teacher Susan Edwards, worked together to both design and create a Made in MV Sparkle House to be featured outside of the Sandy Springs Performing Arts Center in their Christmas village. Stude...

A Celebration of Upper School’s Mod 2

Contributed by Head of Upper School Chip Houston LEARNING & INNOVATIONWe continue to see collaborations across disciplines and courses, which is awesome! Our students have been off campus at Georgia Supreme Court, Anne Frank Museum, King’s...

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Grade 6 Math Students Complete The Amazing (Math) Race

As a way to turn a regular math unit into an engaging opportunity for student collaboration and fun competition, Grade 6 teacher Nichelle Davis created a math version of The Amazing Race. Each team completed 10 review problems, and had to ch...

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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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