Sep 6, 2023 | All School, Blog, Impact, Innovation
Picture this: Just on the cusp of a brand-new school year, two extraordinary Mount Vernon educators, Amanda Exley Lower and Cari Barocas, embarked on a thrilling five-day journey of innovation. Their destination? The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI. But this...
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...
Apr 12, 2023 | All School, Alumni, Blog, Impact, Innovation, Middle School News, News, Upper School News
A student-designed solution is improving the physical therapy experience for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta patients. The Mount Vernon School’s Virtual Reality (VR) team was among 60 presenters at the annual Virtual Medicine (vMed) Conference in Los Angeles last...
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...
May 25, 2022 | Blog, Impact, Innovation, Inquiry, News, Press Release, Upper School News
Mount Vernon Celebrates its 15th Commencement Ceremony and 15 years of 100% College Acceptance Atlanta, GA — (May 23, 2022) — The Mount Vernon School celebrated its 15th annual graduation ceremony this past weekend. The ceremony took place at 9:00 am on...
May 18, 2022 | Blog, Come to Play, Have Fun, Humanities, Impact, Innovation, Middle School News
How might we prepare all students to be globally competitive and engaged citizen leaders? Over the last month, grade 8 students have had a unique opportunity to experience this piece of Mount Vernon’s mission. The World Peace Game, created and developed by the World...
