On Sunday May 1, a small team of Middlesex students and faculty joined more than 40,000 people to make a statement against hunger. Team MX walked ten miles along the Charles River in Cambridge, MA and raised nearly $2,000. Money raised from the walk will be used to support Project Bread, an organization that works to develop solutions that provide people…
In the election for School President and Vice President, the voting resulted in an unprecedented tie between rising seniors Jake Goorno and Grace Crozier. As such, the two were elected as School Co-Presidents for the 2016-2017 school year! Grace has been a member of the Middlesex family since she was a toddler, when her father, Matt Crozier, joined the faculty.…
Thanks to his exceptional performance on the American Invitational Mathematics Examination, Daniel Lee ’18, of Seoul, South Korea, was recently invited to take the USA Junior Math Olympiad, or USA(J)MO. Of the thousands of test takers, only about 500 students are invited to take the USA(J)MO. The USA Junior Mathematical Olympiad is administered simultaneously and synchronously across US time zones. …
The annual Middlesex Haiku Contest is our way to welcome (or encourage the arrival of) the spring season. This year, we enjoyed unseasonably warm weather in early March only to experience a snowstorm on the first day of spring! We look forward to the time when we can sprawl out on the Circle in the warm spring sunshine. Below are…
This fall, the Robotics Club divided into teams to build “Sumo” Robots. The process of designing, building, and programming was a group effort and culminated in our Sumo Robot Competition on March 2 in the Clay Science Centre. With a core group of 8 students and numerous friends, our robots represent over 120 engineer-hours while building, troubleshooting, programming, and debugging. – Chuck…
On February 20, the 10th Mountain Division Wounded Warriors Sled Hockey Team took the ice in a fundraiser game at Middlesex. Over 30 Middlesex students strapped into sleds to compete side-by-side and against members of the Mountain Division Wounded Warriors team. The mixed-squad Wounded Warriors beat the blended Middlesex team 5-1, but few will remember the final score; participants will…
Alyssa McNally ’16, daughter of Head Trainer Laura “Darby” McNally ’80, was no stranger to Middlesex before she matriculated. Not only did her mother graduate from Middlesex, but five cousins, two uncles, and one aunt also attended the school. Her parents were married in the Chapel, as were her aunt and late uncle. Perhaps most importantly, Alyssa has lived at…
The Community Life Program aims to address the topics and issues students will face both in the present and later in college, career, and life: healthy relationships, wellness and stress management, drug and alcohol use, appropriate technology use, citizenship (both local and global), and leadership, to name just a few. We address these issues through organized events designed to stimulate…
All new students at Middlesex participate in an Introduction to Mindfulness course. Mindfulness can be summed up as “inner education.” Mindfulness practice helps us in understanding and training our attention, learning to relate to thoughts, emotions, and feelings in a more skillful way, becoming aware of the habits of our own mind, learning how to better connect with others, and…
On Tuesdays during lunch, you might wander down the hallway of the Clay Center and come upon the Middlesex Chess Club. Heads down in tournament-style play, a dozen students challenge each other for the title of Club Master. The top players at Middlesex as of December 1, according to the Elo rating system, are: 1. Nick Kender ’16 (Chelmsford, MA)…