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…
Maddie Winslow ’14 was named the NESCAC Women’s Ice Hockey Player of the Year earlier this week after a standout sophomore season at Middlebury College. The forward was third in the league in scoring this winter and became the sixth member from the Panthers to receive the league’s top honor. In 16 conference games this season, Winslow led all players…
In honor of forty years of coeducation, we begin our Q & A series with the women nominated for living their promise long after graduating from Middlesex. Wewill commence with Patricia Melton ’77. One of the first girls to attend Middlesex in the fall of 1974, Patricia is an award-winning educator who is known for her reform work with communities.…
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 2015 fall semester. For a full list of awards, please click here. Alex Banay, Head of the Classics Department, was the featured speaker at the assembly. The School’s first…
As Middlesex prepares to celebrate the 40th reunion of its very first coeducational graduating class, it seemed fitting that the 2016 Bigelow Lecture should be given by one of the first young women to attend the School: Patricia Melton ’77. A dynamic, award-winning educator, Patricia is known for her reform work with communities, effectively forging pathways to college for underserved…
For four days in February, twenty-five students from Middlesex participated in this year’s Harvard Model Congress. They were each assigned a person serving in Congress, and they had to debate issues currently being discussed on the floor from that senator’s or representative’s point of view. They helped co-author bills and defended their positions in select committees and in the full “Senate” or “House.” Congratulations…
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…
Earlier this month marked the 30th Annual National Girls & Women in Sports Day, which recognizes and celebrates the extraordinary achievements of those who have effected change and created opportunities for women and girls in sports over the past three decades. National Girls & Women in Sports Day has empowered women and girls to get moving, embrace physical activity and…
On February 16, the multicultural office at Middlesex welcomed Ms. Tanya Fields to campus. She is the second speaker in this year’s MX Spectrum Dialogues, a mini lecture series devoted to equity, justice, and inclusion. Ms. Fields spoke about race, class, and gender. She is a food justice activist, educator, urban farmer, food blogger, and the founder and executive director of the…