Next week brings final exams and the end of another progressive semester. Students at all levels are preparing to share the joy of Christmas through musical performances of all kinds. Our youngest students will be participating in Sugar Plum, a Principia tradition for more than 100 years. The program celebrates ...
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While theatre may create make-believe worlds for audiences, the Upper School theatre arts classes are increasingly about introducing students to the real-world, practical facets of theatre—performing, playwriting, directing, and auditioning.
In November, students in the Advanced Theatre Arts class presented Thanksgiving Day , an anthology of nine five-minute vignettes, ...
In a competitive final game played at Soccer Park in Fenton, Missouri, on a crisp November weekend, the Principia Panthers scored an overtime goal to net the School its first-ever Missouri State Championship in soccer.
Both goals in the 2–1 victory over St. Paul Lutheran (Concordia, MO) were scored ...
In this globalized, high-tech world—where existing information is rapidly superseded by new “facts”—Principia School graduates will face exciting opportunities as well as unforeseen challenges.
“We cannot solve economic, political, environmental, or other problems that are coming up in the world through one lens,” says the School’s Dean of Innovation ...
Given the recent attacks in Paris, we’re providing an early release of the cover story, by Janessa Gans Wilder (C’98), that will be featured in the Winter 2016 issue of the Principia Purpose .
Immediately following 9/11, Wilder was assigned to an intelligence task force on Afghanistan ...
Competing against 20 teams, Principians won first place at the MasterCard Masters of Code event in St. Louis in early October. After 24 hours of round-the-clock coding, the team presented its mobile app prototype FanFare to a panel of judges, becoming the youngest team to win a regional event. ...
Having majored in theatre, I’m always happy to oblige when offered cameos in one of Principia’s many theatrical performances on either campus.
I recently recorded a small part for use in the College’s upcoming fall musical , Guys and Dolls , opening in two weeks. In keeping with the ...
Principia’s solar car team placed 17th among 45 teams at the World Solar Challenge (WSC) last month and was one of only four teams to complete the 3,000-kilometer trek from Darwin to Adelaide exclusively on solar power. Principia raced Ra 9 in the most competitive level, the Challenger Class, as ...
Our four faculty members new to the College this fall bring a wealth of experience to campus. Learn about their areas of expertise and their first impressions of Principia.