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Communication: Connecting You With What You’d Like to Know
You may wonder when you’ll hear from Milton: How often? About what? How? And why? We are eager to support our Milton parents and help you understand and follow the exciting life of School. To do that, we combine regular messages from people at Milton with the rich resources at www.milton.edu.
read moreConsistent Professional Training for Milton’s Campus Safety Officers
This summer, at Fairfield University in Connecticut, Milton’s Campus Safety team completed the Campus Public Safety Officer Training Academy. The Academy provides officers with the skills necessary to help keep today’s campus safe.The curriculum for our team included Law for Public Safety, Hazmat and Fire Safety, Multicultural Awareness, Bomb Detection and Awareness, Community Relations, Report Writing and Critical Incident Management. Click “read more” to enlarge the photo of Milton’s Campus Safety officers who attended.
read moreMaking a Sandwich
Evan Scales created this short film—using at least 20 different shots to create a simple scene—for his Moving Image class. Milton hosts a Moving Image Film Festival on Friday, May 8, in Wigg Hall from 7–9 p.m.
Ned Sahin, Brain Power Founder, Will Be 2015 Graduation Speaker
Dr. Ned Sahin, Milton Academy Class of 1994, a neuroscientist and technologist, is the graduation speaker for 2015. Ned’s neurotechnology firm, Brain Power, uses cutting edge brain research and technological advances to affect lives. Brain Power is transforming wearables, like Google Glass into assistive devices for children with autism. At Williams College, Ned concentrated in biology and neuroscience. He earned a masters at MIT in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department. Ned completed his Ph.D. at Harvard in cognitive neuroscience,...
read moreDon’t Miss This Kodak Moment: Graduation is June 5
This year’s graduation ceremony will be held on the lawn in front of Robert Saltonstall Gym on Friday, June 5, at 10:30 a.m. The formal graduation procession begins at Straus Library, where each student receives a flower. A bagpiper then leads the faculty and seniors in a march to their seats. Tradition also dictates that Milton seniors vote for one boy and one girl to speak on behalf of the class at graduation. Diplomas at Milton are given in random order, and the last student to graduate is given a sock of quarters—one from each classmate. After the ceremony, students say farewell to faculty, who have formed a receiving line. In the event of heavy rain, the ceremony will move into the Fitzgibbons Convocation Center. The Academy is also hosting a reception in the Schwarz Student Center for the graduating students and their parents from 4 to 5:30 p.m. on the afternoon of Thursday, June 4. A variety of performances will accompany this reception, so that parents may have one last chance to witness some of the many talents in this class.
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read moreScience Symposium: Science Fit for a Crowd
By Ariela Buxbaum-Grice ’15
Milton’s fifth annual Science Symposium showcased advanced science students and their DYO (Design Your Own) experiments in the Pritzker Science Center. For students enrolled in advanced biology, chemistry, physics and environmental science, discussing independent projects that they’ve pursued over the last several weeks is their culminating work.
At the symposium, students presented posters and conducted demonstrations. For their DYO projects, students construct their own experiments based on, but not limited to, the material covered in class and their own personal interests in a specific area of study. The project is a long-term assignment, lasting for about a month, and is a chance for students to work independently of the curriculum without heavy guidance from a teacher. Most students perform their DYO with a partner, and the project requires time outside of class.
read moreCo-Head Monitors Rise to Lead in the Year Ahead
Newly elected head monitors Avery Park (II) and Mack Makishima (II) have taken up the mantle as school leaders from outgoing head monitors Caroline Wall (I) and Louis Demetroulakos (I). Avery lives in Millet House and is from Walpole, Massachusetts. Mack lives around the corner, in Milton. Fresh from the Class II Retreat, full of energy and spirit for their class and School, Class II students rise to the challenge of running for office. Over the course of two weeks in April, four boys and four girls—self-nominated—each made his or her case to...
read moreLive! From Wigg Hall! It’s Saturday Night!
This spring’s 1212 play brings another round of Saturday Night Live comedy to campus. Wicked Sketchy is an original production made up of 18 sketches, written and performed by students. Last spring’s Wicked Sketchy production was so successful that Peter Parisi, performing arts department chair, thought it made sense to do it again. This time, Jake Daniels (I), Mack Makishima (II), Rick Dionne (I), Alex Gistis (II) and Minh-Anh Day (I) took on lead writing and directorial roles in this collaborative project. The 28-student cast pitched ideas to each other and wrote draft skits in small groups, eventually choosing the final 18, which each student had a hand in editing.
read moreConfronting Contemporary Culture in the Nesto Gallery
Five Milton graduates return to campus this Friday, May 1, for the opening reception of their Nesto Gallery exhibit, Confronting Contemporary Culture: the documentary in still and moving image. Through mediums ranging from 35mm and medium format film to digital still photography and digital video, photo and video journalists Scout Tufankjian ’96, Sebastian Meyer ’98, Ian Cheney ’98, Mae Ryan ’05, and Ciara Crocker ’10 share intensely engaging stories of fascinating and disturbing aspects of human experience....
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