Category: Student Life
Video: Milton Highlights
October 24, 2022 by
In their final weeks at Milton, eighth graders reflected on their favorite projects, their school community and what they will miss most after they graduate.
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Sixth Grader Hannah Joffe Publishes App on the Apple Store
February 19, 2021 by
Sixth grader Hannah Joffe (’23) just published her first App on the Apple App Store! The app is called Jewish Holy Days. It displays the dates of the major Jewish holidays and stores to-do lists for each holiday that you can use from one year to the next (never forget a pomegranate for Rosh Hashanah […]
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MILTON Student Eliana W. (’22) Helps a School in Uganda
November 19, 2020 by
Seventh grader Eliana W. raised $18,000 in support of Innovation Africa (IA) for her bat mitzvah project. IA uses Israeli solar technologies to bring electricity to destitute schools and hospitals in Africa. Eliana is supporting a school in Uganda with over 1200 students, many of whom are orphans. She needed to raise $18000 to bring […]
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- Student Stories
- Tikkun Olam
First Week of an Unforgettable Year at MILTON
September 14, 2020 by
This is a year for the record books: 90 New Students 4 Learning Sites New Experiential Outdoor Program Milton 2.0 Launches Redesigned Learning Spaces New Health and Safety Protocols Facilities Upgrades MILTON’s talented and dedicated teachers are bringing their expertise, creativity, love, and a spirit of innovation to teaching students wherever they are: on campus, […]
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Milton Eighth Grader Published in The Forward as Part of Youth Essay Contest
May 22, 2020 by
Kol Hakavod to eighth grader Lilli Libowitz on having her essay published in The Forward! In her article, Lilli wrote about a transformative learning experience she had as a fifth grader when the class did a deep dive study of landmark Supreme Court cases. Read Lilli’s reflections on the impact of her studies about the […]
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- Creative Writing
- Student Stories
Sixth Grader’s Tikkun Olam Projects Featured on Area News Outlets
May 11, 2020 by
NBC News interviewed sixth grader Maya Goldman about her campaign to sew face masks to support two area causes. Maya began by assembling a team and sewing masks that they donated to medical personnel. Now, she is a second phase of her tikkun olam efforts, making and selling face masks and donating the proceeds to […]
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Registration Open for Milton Space Camp 2.0
January 2, 2020 by
Due to Covid 19, we will not be able to run our Space Camp program as planned. We will have an online space camp experience as part of Summer@Milton in 2020 and will run the full program in summer 2021. Join the crew of our FAA-approved Space Camp! Space Camp Director Melinda Viteri is a […]
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Milton Partners with the Shakespeare Theater Company for Middle School Production
January 2, 2020 by
Romance. Angst. Magic. Mischief. Milton’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream combined a contemporary eye, metal music, a grunge vibe and a fastidious ear for Shakespeare’s language. Through voice and movement, middle schoolers transmuted into their characters to present Shakespeare’s quintessential romantic comedy. The gym became a place of enchantment inhabited by lovers, both fairy […]
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- Performing Arts
Read-a-thon to Support Hurricane Harvey Victims
September 6, 2017 by
An important middah (moral virtue) is achrayut (responsibility). As teachers and as parents, we spend much of our time working to instill in our children a sense of responsibility for themselves, their behavior, and their work. But we also look for opportunities to teach our children that our responsibility does not end with ourselves – that, […]
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JPDS-NC Celebrates Purim with Joy, Creativity, Design Thinking, and Outreach to the Community
March 13, 2017 by
The entire school celebrated Purim on Friday with a day full of Megillah, Tikkun Olam, and Design Thinking – and of course a lot of fun! We saw Esthers and Hamans, pirates and baseball players, pandas, lions, and Hogwarts students. The children engaged each other in a Purim-themed Design Thinking challenge, made Mishloach Manot for the community, and […]
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- Holidays
- Tikkun Olam
- Visual Arts
