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Middle School MathCounts Team Competes at RIT

Middle School MathCounts Team Competes at RIT

The Harley Middle School MathCounts Team was one of twelve middle school teams (comprising over eighty students competing) at RIT at the Monroe County MathCounts Chapter meet on Saturday, February 29th.   The team has been practicing every Friday morning with coaches...
Pi Day: Middle School Math (Both Fun and Delicious)

Pi Day: Middle School Math (Both Fun and Delicious)

Each year, Pi Day occurs on March 14th, and in Grade 6 at The Harley School, we celebrate in a big way.   By Lee Allen, Grade 5 and 6 Mathematics Teacher Pi Day: Student project Each year on March 14th (in other words, 3/14!), grade 6 students at The Harley School...
MathCounts Team in NYS Championship

MathCounts Team in NYS Championship

By Lee Allen, Middle School math teacher, and Anthony Villani, Harley parent: Coaches, Harley School MathCounts team The Harley Middle School Math Counts team, after a second place finish behind Calkins Road MS at the Monroe County Chapter meet at RIT in February,...
MATHCOUNTS Team Scores Big

MATHCOUNTS Team Scores Big

A  fun way for Middle School students to explore more advanced math Recently our Middle School MATHCOUNTS team (Sophia Darling, Dominic DiFrancesco, Max Ellis, Shaheer Fahad, Jack Gilbert, Rebecca Lee, Roman Novy-Marx, Maxwell Sun, David Villani, and Alexander Wasley)...

Students may create independent studies with supervising teachers throughout their Upper School experience or, during Grade 12, they can design Capstone projects—intensive collaborations with Harley faculty and off-campus mentors—involving rigorous academic study and culminating in public presentations. They are empowered to create their own curriculum, set goals, and work on time management skills in order to accomplish their objectives.

Independent Studies run the gamut from The Psychology of Sports to Furniture Design to The Neuroimaging of Alzheimer’s Disease. Capstones, meanwhile, are as diverse as the students who pursue them: Fictional Rochester, Autobiographical Art, Biomimicry Education, Organic Fuel, and Rochester Refugees. 

Indicative of Upper School curiosity and creativity, pursuits such as these distinguish our graduates in college. Through deep dives of this sort, Harley students master more than speaking, writing, and computing: they learn to communicate, advocate, collaborate, organize, listen, and empathize. 

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