The Middlesex varsity and JV physics teams represented the school admirably in the 2018 Physics Bowl. In both Division 1 (1st year students, our AP Physics 1 students) and Division 2 (2nd year students, our AP Physics C class), Middlesex had a number of students equal or best the national average on this traditionally very challenging 40 question test (see…
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 2017 fall semester. For a full list of students receiving honors, please click here. To open assembly, Classics teacher Dan Barber reflected on the true meaning of knowledge . His remarks are reprinted…
Teacher, coach, advisor, administrator – and the parent of two School presidents, Sam ’06 and Nina ’12 – Paul Harrison certainly knows Middlesex well from his many different roles over the years. With the retirement of his longtime colleague Ned Herter ’73, Paul recently and deservedly inherited two additional titles: Senior Master (as the current, longest serving faculty member) and…
Every year, the Middlesex French department participates in the The Grand Concours, an annual National French Contest sponsored by the AATF (American Association of the teachers of French). This year, 78,899 students in all 50 states and Puerto Rico participated. Middlesex School presented 68 students in all the 5 levels in the Grand Concours, and 42 students received a medal. Nationally,…
This spring, two teams of Middlesex physics students performed exceptionally well in the AAPT Physics Bowl. The competition, which is organized by the American Association of Physics Teachers, features a multiple-choice test that challenges students to solve forty advanced physics questions in 45 minutes (to get a taste, see this year’s test here!). Over 6,500 students from around the world…
Over her three years at Middlesex, Kiara Wahnschafft has collected a staggering number of accolades for her exceptional work in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). A two-time recipient of the School’s Matthew S. Brown ’03 Award in Computer Science, Kiara has also garnered significant recognition for her performance in public competitions like The Physics Bowl, American Computer Science League…
Lily Renneker ’17 is no stranger to high-pressure situations, but sitting in front of a panel of judges in a plush conference room perched high atop the John Hancock Building in downtown Boston, even she must have felt a flutter of butterflies. She was, after all, just one of sixty high school seniors in…
The Middlesex Chinese curriculum focuses on much more than just grammar and memorization. As part of their course work, our students become immersed in all aspects of Chinese culture and history. They also become ambassadors of Chinese culture for the rest of the Middlesex community, and last week they helped lead a campus-wide celebration of Lunar New Year. The festivities…
A Middlesex education extends far beyond the classes you’ll find in a typical curriculum. Our students engage deeply in a broad range of programming aimed to help them grow not just intellectually, but emotionally and ethically as well. Take our Mindfulness program, for example, which helps our students see their thoughts, feelings, and emotions more clearly. Our Community Life program, meanwhile,…
This spring, several of our students will take the Advanced Placement Chinese Language and Culture examination, an extraordinary accomplishment considering that the majority of these students had entered Middlesex not knowing a word of the language. The feat is just one example of the strength of our Chinese program, which continues to thrive in its 16th year at Middlesex. Today,…