Moving from heading up a twice-a-semester high school news magazine (with an estimated readership of 500) to leading a 500-employee, five-day-a-week newspaper (estimated readership: 10,000+) is a huge step by any measure. And in the case of Tanner Walters (US’14), former Upper School editor of The Voice , it’s even ...
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In April, the George A. Andrews Distinguished Speaker Series presented Henry M. Paulson Jr., former Secretary of the Treasury and founder and chairman of the Paulson Institute at the University of Chicago. In a fireside chat format in Cox Auditorium, facilitated by John Yemma, former editor of The Christian Science ...
Students in this semester’s Theatre for Social Change class put the title of their course into practice, literally. Working alongside Annenberg Scholar Caroline Watson (pictured above in the center) and students at Alton High School, they created characters and stories that give voice to challenges in this river town. ...
From composting to renewable energy, Principia College’s Center for Sustainability is changing attitudes—and actions!
Each February, high school teachers within a 150-mile radius of St. Louis are invited to submit artwork from up to 10 students for the Young Artists’ Showcase, an exhibition curated by the venerable St. Louis Artists’ Guild.
Principia Upper School takes advantage of this opportunity for our students to ...
Florida sun, surf, bright skies, and sandy beaches—some of the sought-after elements of college spring breaks—were a definite bonus for the 19 students on Principia’s Metanoia spring break trip. But they weren’t the focus. Instead, the emphasis of this trip comes from the Greek word metanoiein, meaning a transformative change ...
First a book and then a movie in 1933, 42nd Street is a big, bold musical celebrating the stuff that dreams are made of. With its feel-good formula of talent and hard work, being in the right place at the right time, and—of course—love and romance, the musical was one ...
For the 20+ Principia students who participated in the recent Simunye Project service trip, the hard work began many months before they arrived in South Africa. Tasked with fundraising a minimum of $750 each to contribute toward their in-country projects, students offered services such as babysitting or raking and made ...
Upper schoolers involved in two new art classes offered this semester are exploring the connections between art and everyday life—community, culture, technology, politics—as a means of spurring learning, engagement, interaction, and even action among audiences.
Typically, art classes on public art (or community or place-based art, as it is ...