Undeterred by COVID-19 and the many adjustments it has entailed, the 2020-2021 Middlesex Physics Teams had their best year ever participating in the annual PhysicsBowl competition, hosted by the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT). The PhysicsBowl is a challenging, 40-question multiple-choice test, taken this year by 5800 students around the world, including 46 Middlesex students. Middlesex competes in Region…
To an impressive list of leadership positions and awards, Andrew Harris ’21 recently learned that could add one more distinction. On May 13, 2021, the U.S. Department of Education announced that Andrew is one of the 161 high school seniors chosen for the 57th class of U.S. Presidential Scholars. Created in 1964, the U.S. Presidential Scholars Program honors the nation’s…
While each June marks the retirement or departure of several Middlesex faculty and staff members as they move on to new ventures, every September brings new colleagues to the School, revitalizing the community with different ideas, approaches, and experiences. Peter Sullivan has returned to New England to teach both math and economics. Previously an assistant professor of economics at the…
The Middlesex Robotics Club is a student-led enthusiast group that explores the world of robotics and engineering. Each year, students choose a theme and plan their designs and builds around it. This year’s theme is aeronautics and the club is building light drones under the leadership of Logan Tonra ’20, Walker Massey ’20, Colin Finke ’20 and Luke Andresen ’21. Students first…
At our annual Prize Day ceremony, we honor the artistic, athletic, scholarly, and community-building achievements and efforts of our students. See below for a full list of this year’s recipients:
The Middlesex Physics teams represented Middlesex admirably this year in their first and only contest of the year: the American Association of Physics Teacher’s PhysicsBowl. This challenging 40 question multiple choice test was taken by 7100 students this year from hundreds of schools across the world, and our students performed very well against tough competition. Both our Division 1 (first year physics students, our…
On Tuesday, April 1st, Amazon announced that senior Jeremiah DeGreeff ’19 has been selected as one of the 100 recipients of their prestigious “Future Engineers Scholarship.” Through this national prize, Amazon has awarded Jeremiah a $40,000 scholarship along with a guaranteed internship as he pursues an undergraduate degree in computer science. As stated by Amazon’s Press Release, recipients of the…
After each semester at Middlesex, we gather to celebrate the academic achievements of our students at the Academic Awards Assembly. At this week’s assembly, we acknowledged work done in the 2018 fall semester. For a full list of students receiving honors, please see below:
This week, Middlesex senior Leo Dong ’19 was named a 2019 Regeneron Science Talent Search Scholar. Leo was selected as one of the 300 top competitors out of a pool of nearly 2,000 entries nationwide for his project titled “netDAE: Novel Feature Learning Method of Gene Expression Data Based on a NetworkEnhanced Denoising Autoencoder.” Further information about the Talent Search can be…
After each semester at Middlesex, we gather to celebrate the academic achievements of our students at the Academic Awards Assembly. At last week’s assembly, we acknowledged work done in the 2018 spring semester. For a full list of students receiving honors, please see below: