Five AFS seniors have been named Finalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program, which recognizes scholastic excellence. The five are Makarios Chung, David Goulden Naitove, Jacob Jacobson, Eli Russell and Lucy Silbaugh. All are eligible to be considered for National Merit Scholarships, which will be awarded to about 7,400 students nationwide.
Read MoreUpper School Theatre Teacher Megan Hollinger took a mighty team to the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival’s annual high school competition, where AFS students were chosen to perform a scene in the Festival's final showcase.
Read MoreThe first graders who were playing with the robotic reptile soon learned that its menace didn’t include an ability to bite. So, of course, they put their hands in the snake’s mouth over and over again and giggled in joy at their discovery as they placed their mechanical animals into the cardboard habitats that the first graders had created. The event marked the culmination of a collaboration between Upper School robotics students and their first grade partners.
Read MoreUpper School Teachers Donna Russo, Amy Newman and Megan Bellwoar Hollinger spent a few weeks last summer exploring new and exciting trends in their disciplines — photography, studio art and theater — and how they could incorporate them into their classes this year. They soon focused on creating a series of pop-up displays and events, which are responsive to what is going on in the world, appear unannounced and disappear just as quickly.
Read MoreBen Shuster ’17 was recognized by the Anti-Defamation League as the Grand Prize Winner for his essay, “Eyes Wide Open,” which he wrote after attending the Anti-Defamation League’s 9th Annual Youth Leadership Conference in October. The essay contest on “Exploring Diversity, Challenging Hate” was open to students from 46 schools who had participated in the daylong meeting.
Read MoreAt a session of the AFS MedEx program, AFS students and doctors discussed the ethical dilemmas physicians can face when treating their patients. MedEx is a yearlong group-mentoring program, providing students with the opportunity to explore what doctors do, how they think and what they face daily in their profession.
Read MoreThe Cappies is a national program celebrating the work and achievement of high school theatre and theatre critics. The cast and crew of the AFS performance of "Much Ado About Nothing" were nominated in 15 categories and won the following awards, including Best Play of 2015.
Read MoreAFS Lower School “traveled” across the continents in their Winter Program of music, dance and poetry that took them on a dreamlike journey in search of what makes the light shine in each of us.
In the program, “Una Luz para Luz” or “A Light for Luz,” a little girl at bedtime asks her mother a very big question — what makes her inner light shine. The annual Winter Program began with only an idea — light — and grew from there.
Read MoreThe AFS Kangaroos played with heart and boosted school pride with their sterling efforts in winter sports competition.
Read MoreLawyer Ryan Lockman’s name was listed on the brief and he had a front-row seat on Tuesday when the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a First Amendment case brought by his Philadelphia law firm.
“It was kind of amazing to be there, and to know that I had a significant part of this case,” Ryan ’01 said later of his role as co-counsel.
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