Intensive Learning @ MFS
The World At Your Fingertips
By Ava, Tessa, & Olivia Today was our last morning with our homestay families, with a quick goodbye after four refreshing mornings & relaxing dinners. We took a bus to Toulouse; on the way, we passed the Pyrenees, the snow-capped mountains creating the border between Spain and France. What a beautiful sight! We arrived...
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By Andrew Today, we started off the day with a large breakfast buffet at the hotel. We had choices ranging from omelettes to steamed pork buns. After breakfast, we got on the bus at 8:15 a.m. to Xi’an Foreign Languages University. There we took classes about calligraphy and tai chi. In calligraphy, we learned...
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By Zak B., Jadin F., & Richard F. Today was our final day and night of our Intensive Learning trip to the Dominican Republic. Our destination was Cayo Arena, a remote sandbar off the northern coast of the DR. We were excited to spend our last day at the beach, after almost a week...
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By Hannah and Sam After a farewell dinner at a local Norwegian restaurant, we ended our night with our last group meeting. This time consisted of sharing numerous teary-eyed appreciations of the trip. We woke up the next day and started with breakfast at the hotel. We then gathered together in the lobby to...
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We had a great last day at Urban Promise! Urban Promise is an interconnected network of schools that provide better opportunities for children in living in the city of Camden. Today we went and volunteered at Urban Promise, a school in Pennsauken, NJ. Cole, Jared, Matthew W, Janiel, East, Shabd, and Lucas were all...
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Today was the culmination of a week of hard work, learning, and community building. In the morning, we worked on two new projects that highlighted our focus for the week, using reclaimed materials. The first project was paper making, where we pulped the shredded paper from the MFS Faculty/Staff Lounge and turned it into...
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Slideshow photos by Ailsa Moriuchi ’11 Today, the bakers presented their final showstopper bakes to six judges. The Smart Cookies (Dylan, Nai, and Jack) decided to bake strawberry cheesecake cookies. They made a delicious cookie dough and folded strawberries into it. After skillful manipulation, they were able to fill their cookies with a sweet...
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Today, our field trip to Mill Creek Urban was unfortunately canceled due to weather, but that gave us the opportunity to fill our day with fun activities. We started our day by walking up to Main Street to Moore Bagels, where we enjoyed a delicious breakfast and fun conversation. After that, we returned to...
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We used the morning for final preparations. The trial began at 10:45 with a request by the prosecution to add a few more exhibits. Rumor of this hit the defense hard just 30 minutes before the trial. In the end the new evidence did not cause much of a disruption. The defense was offered...
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Today we took a trip to AIL Research and Princeton University to visit Dr. Eric Teitelbaum MFS class of 2008 and learn about his research on radiant heating, cooling, and heat pumps. He showed us a model of a heat pump system (shown above) and discussed how it works. The electronics in the system...
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We gathered in the Field House Commons on a rainy Thursday morning for our final day of IL 2024, grateful that the weather held throughout the week for our time in the Pines. While some groups captured additional film footage around campus, others spent a relaxing – and competitive – time with Ms. Thomson’s...
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Cookies at midnight, an early morning Cubby Hole run (with only one kid forgotten in a closet) and a whole day of food prep for the staff-appreciation lunch. This was our final day of Low and Slow IL. After all the cookies were baked, homemade of course, and games were played, we all ventured...
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We started the day off by finishing the ramps we built on Wednesday. We got the first period to add any finishing touches to our ramps. After that all groups presented their ramps to the class. During this process we measured the ramps and found the slope of each one. We then all voted...
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Today in Arts and Entertainment, we went to Gradwell House Recording Studio in Haddon Heights, NJ. We took a tour of the facility, and while it is small, they have a lot of possibilities in every room. All of the rooms are connected and you can record from almost anywhere in the building. The...
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On the last day of our Intensive Learning program we went to the GCLEA in Cherry Hill. We had a tour in the mosque. The mosque was big, with two prayer rooms, a children’s room, a library, a kitchen, and more. When we entered, we met Imam John Starling, who hosted us for our...
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