May 9, 2023 | All School, Blog, Design Thinking, Innovation, Lower School News, Maker, News, Upper School News
Designing a product for a specific client is an incredibly rich and multi-layered learning experience. In addition to leveraging skills like solution seeking, critical thinking, connecting, communicating and innovating, to ensure the clients needs are met, attributes...
Mar 15, 2023 | All School, Blog, Design Thinking, Lower and Middle School, Lower School News, Middle School News, News, Upper School News
From our littlest learners to our graduating seniors, students across both campuses are emboldened to pursue their passions and explore their interests, all while being nurtured, supported, and guided by their teachers, parents, and peers. When student passion is...
Dec 7, 2022 | All School, Blog, Design Thinking, Have Fun, Middle School News, News
Grade 6 students are diving deep into the concept of sustainability. Since the beginning of the year, students have explored how weather and natural disasters can affect a city, how to build earthquake-resistant homes, design sustainable food production networks,...
Aug 31, 2022 | All School, Blog, Design Thinking, Have Fun, Idiploma, Innovation, Innovation Diploma, Middle School News, News, PBL/IBL
Introducing Impact Design Lab (IDL), a Mount Vernon Middle School designed class where students are taught to find problems and ask “How can I fix this?” instead of “I wish this was different”. Over the summer, we sat down with the three educational designers: Todd...
Aug 24, 2022 | All School, Blog, Design Thinking, Have Fun, Lower and Middle School, Lower School News, MVXperts, News, PBL/IBL
Grade 5 is starting the year with a Project-Based Learning (PBL) unit on playground design. Have you or your child ever seen a playground and wondered why it was built the way it was or how it could be improved? This unit encourages students to ask those same...
Apr 27, 2022 | Academic Coverage, Blog, Design Thinking, Idiploma, Impact, Innovation, Innovation Diploma, Inquiry, News
This story was contributed by Brad Droke, Director of Innovation Diploma and was featured in the Spring 2022 SAIS Newsletter. In the spring of 2014, Mount Vernon Ventures at The Mount Vernon School hosted an event called the Council on Innovation, where several groups...
