Upper School Student Learning in Action

List of 3 items.

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  Living Wall/Chicken Coop

  In his Eco-Design class, Hovey Clark facilitates student-driven sustainability projects that address campus needs, problems, and opportunities. Using the 12 principles of permaculture, students collaborate on different ways to capture and harness energy in marginalized spaces.

   

  One project that students oversaw through conception to construction includes the “Living Wall,” a trellis of self-sustaining greenery adjacent to the dining hall entrance. Another student experiment in stewardship is the mini-chicken farm, which has taken an integral role in campus composting. 
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  Mandalas

  As an introduction to theology (BBV), students engage in a collaborative experience of designing and creating a Nature Mandala that demonstrates the Benedictine value of Hospitality. Through the process of designing and building the physical Mandala in a physical space on campus, students not only explore core concepts and questions in the course, but also exercise and reflect upon the 5 LCs.
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  Chocolate Design Project

  For a stewardship-themed project in Computer Aided Design, students use a 3-D modeling program to design Food-Grade Silicone Molds for small batches of delicious Artisan Chocolates. The unique challenge? Conceptualizing an object that “has never existed before.”