At the end of the 2017-2018 school year, Dr. Brande Jones' grade 9 Honors Biology students were challenged to create a podcast to submit to the New York Times Student Podcast Challenge. Her students chose from over 1,000 prompts provided by the New Y...
Read MoreThanks to a generous grant from the Edward E. Ford Foundation, Mount Vernon Presbyterian School and the Mount Vernon Institute for Innovation (MVIFI) are building a powerful partnership with Georgia Institute of Technology’s Design Bloc and the Sch...
Read MoreIn just three weeks, senior Megan Lienau experienced Morocco, was invited as a finalist to interview for and received two prestigious scholarship awards -- University of North Carolina's Morehead-Cain Scholarship and Georgia Tech's Stamps President...
Read MoreBut the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Galatians 5:22-23 These are the words that Chuck Waters, Chair of the Board of Trustees for Mount Vernon Presbyterian...
Read MoreClosing the gap between school and the real world, eighth graders gain real-life experience after being tapped as having professional potential. When students (left to right) Ella Grace Pickering, Landry Kruep, and Reed Garzon, pitched their products...
Read MoreNearing the end of the 2017-18 school year, students in grades 9-12 were honored for academic excellence, active community service, athletic achievements, and other accomplishments across the board. Please see Head of Upper School Blair Peterson's o...
Read MoreMount Vernon’s aspiring entrepreneurs pitch ideas to Atlanta leaders In just three days, Mount Vernon’s Innovation Diploma students created and pitched a variety of business startup ideas to some of Atlanta’s most successful leaders and invest...
Read MoreLined up chronologically, by birth year, from Benjamin Franklin to Malala — historical game changing characters were brought to life by students in grade 3 in the Founders Campus Fellowship Hall. Upon reading the biographies of several famous...
Read MoreSeven Mount Vernon seniors have earned the highest rank attainable in the Boy Scouts of America. With just four percent of all scouts reaching the level of Eagle Scout, these remarkable young men achieved the highest rank through hard work; in fact,...
Read MoreMount Vernon sophomores Jack Mullen and Parker Corley are stepping up in a big way to combat childhood cancer. They’re doing it support their childhood friend, Chip Mandren of Chip’s Nation, who was diagnosed with Stage IV brain cancer six year...
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