Due to the generous support of the Foundation, last week John Piersol travelled to Austin, TX to attend SXSWEDU, an education conference held the week before the larger SXSW festival. While there he had the privilege of attending a wide variety of workshops and keynote events, including a look at the future of education with former Florida governor […]
On Tuesday, March 12, 150 MLWGS seniors attended a matinee performance of a theatrical adaptation of Pride and Prejudice at the Quill Theatre at the VMFA. The MLWGS Foundation provided a grant of $1000 to offset the cost of tickets for every student.
Thanks to a generous grant from the foundation, Dickson Benesh was able to attend the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in Boston, MA in early March. Mr. Benesh is pictured here with Michael Lewis, the author of Moneyball: the Art of Winning an Unfair Game. Moneyball is one of the texts Mr. Benesh teaches in his Baseball […]
On Monday, January 28, twelve of Mr. Benesh’s math modeling students will be participating in the Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications’ Mathematical Contest in Modeling. This is a college-level competition that will include about 20,000 teams competing worldwide. A grant from the MLWGS Foundation covered the registration fees for all students participating. We’ll be […]
MLWGS math teacher Lynn Reed is a 25+ year member of the Mathematical Association of America. “I always enjoy attending the Joint Mathematics Meetings when they occur ‘near’ Richmond,” she says. As a member of the MAA’s Mini-Course Committee, she helped to monitor six mini-course sessions like “Dance and Mathematics” and “Object Based Learning and […]
Political analyst Bill Kristol is scheduled to address the Thomas Jefferson History Honor Society on February 11 at 2 PM in the Forum. Mr. Kristol is the second speaker to address the HHS this year. Dr. Johanna Neuman, who recently published Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites Who Fought for Women’s Right to Vote and is currently a […]
Students involved in Peer Mentors at MLWGS are attending workshops developed by the Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities, a non-profit that works with schools and community groups through the Merging Leaders Institute. One will focus on examining and reimagining school culture, which will allow students to think through the challenges in creating a culture where everyone belongs as well as […]
Dr. Christine Anderson was kind enough to write up the following report from the Women & Gender Studies Conference at GMU for us. A grant from the Foundation covered the cost of bus transportation for all students attending. “I just wanted to let you know how well our students performed at the Women & Gender Studies […]
Last weekend, a group of Matt McGuire’s AP Comparative Government students left for the United Kingdom. We got a note from Mr. McGuire yesterday evening about some of what they’ve been up to. “Today in the Parliament, we met with former Conservative Party Leader Iain Duncan Smith to discuss his actions in the House of Commons […]
Mr. Benesh’s baseball math modeling students are back from their research trip to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY! Students conducted research at the Giamatti Research Center, which is the foremost repository of baseball information, in all formats, in the world. They were working on their papers that will address an aspect of the […]
A grant from the Foundation covered the cost of bus transportation for Dr. Anderson’s students to attend the Politics of Gender & Justice Conference at GMU. Here’s more information about the field trip the school’s blog: “On November 16th, MLWGS’s Dr. Christine Anderson took students from her Gender, Politics & Consumerism in a Global Context VCU/Dual Enrollment class and […]
The MLWGS Counseling Office is administering Oxford and Cambridge admissions assessments this morning for interested students. Though Maggie Walker sends by far the bulk of its graduates to colleges and universities in the United States, seniors do sometimes choose to pursue higher education abroad. Application and admissions processes at international colleges and universities are often handled very […]
Sometimes our enhancement grants pay for 3-D printers, and sometimes they pay for a nice bunch of pizzas. The Foundation provided a grant to cover lunch for summer booster camp students so that they could have a chance to reconnect with each other and check in with the faculty members who run the camp for […]
If you want a small taste of the Britishness in store for the MLWGS students going on Mr. McGuire’s AP Comparative Government trip to the UK this winter, we recommend calling UK Parliament for the hold message alone. “Have you thought about taking afternoon tea on the terrace overlooking the River Thames? You are currently […]
MLWGS welcomed three great new music teachers in the 2018-19 school year. One of those teachers is Michelle Graham, who is teaching chorus. Michelle requested a Foundation grant to cover the cost of a subscription to SightReadingFactory.com in order to enhance her instruction. “I can generate sight reading exercises at SightReadingFactory.com that are aligned with […]
