May 13, 2025
From Studio to Shirt: Jahi Heath ’25 Brings His Vision to Life with Black Rose Haven
“I started Black Rose Haven to give back to my community by merging my passions for fashion, culture, and advocacy,” said Jahi. “The name itself…
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These conversations and experiences challenge students to consider new perspectives, build connections, and take action toward turning their ideas into reality.
May 6, 2025
Planting Hope, Growing Impact: A Decade of Dedication to Education
Kelvin shared about his journey in starting the school, from its seeds while at Blair Academy, to growing student enrollment by about 20x over a ten year…
Feb 18, 2025
Aid Her – Liberia: Peaches Dargbeh’s Vision for Women’s Empowerment
Said Peaches, “Aid Her – Liberia started with my personal story. As a child growing up with a single mother, I witnessed and experienced a lot of violence…
Feb 11, 2025
Breaking Barriers: Landy’s Mission to Bring Coding Education to Rural Madagascar
Last summer, Landy hosted a coding bootcamp for about a hundred students in rural Madagascar. There, students learned the basics of programming and built…
Nov 19, 2024
Harnessing Solar Power for Change
Carson and Daniel are both engineering students passionate about renewable energy and sustainable education. Via Amazolar, they aim to bring solar energy…
Oct 16, 2024
Akeena Hall ’26 Excels in Internship at Thread Bioscience, Inc.
Akeena worked on the software for a device that tracks the flow of patient fluids, with her primary tasks including extracting the data collected by the…
Nov 16, 2023
Making dreams take flight
By Stella Katsipoutis-Varkanis Remy Oktay ’24 in the cockpit of the fully electric Pipistrel Alpha Electro plane with pilot and plane owner, Phillip…
Mar 30, 2022
‘Need a Lift?’ with Shantae Shand ’22
Twitter President Nicole Farmer Hurd is giving members of the College community a lift—literally. Join her for bighearted, uplifting conversations…
Dec 8, 2021
Dyer Center Celebrates Innovators, Creators, Risk-Takers
By Stephen Wilson With teenagers navigating a pandemic, standard summer jobs like mowing lawns have shifted into more modern small-business ventures, like…
Dec 1, 2021
Inspiring Tomorrow’s Imaginative Leaders
By Stephen Wilson Not everyone would be as jazzed to calculate the discharge coefficient of a nozzle as much as Ken Parks. While he is a leader with a…