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词条 Greenwich Academy
释义

  1. History

  2. Coordination

  3. Signature Programs

      Engineering & Design Lab    GAINS (Girls Advancing in STEM) Network   Daedalus Art and Literary Magazine  

  4. Campus facilities

     Ridgeview Avenue Campus 

  5. Notable alumnae

     Fictional 

  6. References

  7. External links

{{Infobox school
| name = Greenwich Academy
| image = Greenwich Academy (logo).jpg
| established = {{start date and age|1827}}
| type = Private
| motto = {{lang-la|Ad Ingenium Faciendum}}
| motto_translation = Toward the Building of Character
| gender = Girls
| head_name = Head
| head = Molly H. King
| streetaddress = 200 North Maple Ave
| city = Greenwich
| county = (Fairfield County)
| state = Connecticut
| country = USA
| zipcode = 06830
| coordinates = {{coord|41.0431|-73.6271|display=title,inline}}
| campus = Suburban
| campus_size = {{convert|39|acre|km2}}
| teaching_staff = 105.8 (FTE){{NCES Private School ID|A1500672|school_name=Greenwich Academy|access_date=April 1, 2019|do_not_render=yes}}{{efn|name=2015-16|2015-16 school year}}
| grades = PK-12
| students = 795{{efn|name=2015-16|2015-16 school year}}
(774 non-PreK)
| ratio = {{ratio|7.3|1}}{{efn|name=2015-16|2015-16 school year}}
| mascot = Gator
| athletics = 15 varsity sports
| rival = {{Plainlist|*Baldwin School
  • Hopkins School
  • Hotchkiss School}}

| colors = {{color box|green}} Green
{{color box|gold}} Gold
| conference = NEPSAC
| accreditation = NEASC
| free_label_1 = Athletic Director
| free_1 = Martha Brousseau
| free_label_2 = Director of Admission & Financial Aid
| free_2 = Nina Freeman Hanlon
| website = {{URL|greenwichacademy.org}}
| footnotes = {{notelist}}
| lastupdate = {{start date and age|2019|04|01}}
}}Greenwich Academy is an independent, college-preparatory day school for girls in Greenwich, Connecticut. Founded in 1827, it is the oldest girls' school in Connecticut.[1] Greenwich Academy's motto is Ad Ingenium Faciendum, "Toward the Building of Character."[2]

The head of school is Molly H. King. The head of Lower School is Jonathan Ross-Wiley. The head of Middle School is Becky Walker. The head of Upper School is Tom Sullivan.[2][3]

History

Greenwich Academy was founded by members of the Congregational Church in 1827. Until the turn of the twentieth century, the school admitted both girls and boys. Then, in 1900, a Greenwich Academy English teacher founded the Brunswick School for Boys. In 1913, the Greenwich Academy Board of Trustees formally approved the decision to accept only girls in the Middle and Upper Schools, and Greenwich Academy was reconceived as a day school for girls.

The newly chartered school was led by strong female educators, including Ruth West Campbell, who shaped much of the mission and philosophy of the school. Succeeding heads—Katherine Zierleyn, Alexander A. Uhle and Patsy G. Howard—oversaw impressive growth in the facilities and student body and expanded the academic and extracurricular offerings. In July 2004, Molly H. King, an educator firmly committed to modeling excellence and sustaining the school’s strong tradition of female leadership, was appointed as head.[4]

Coordination

Since 1971, Greenwich Academy has had a coordinated relationship with the all-boys Brunswick School. Brunswick's upper school is located across the street from GA and high school students take classes on both campuses. As a result, almost all high school classes at GA and Brunswick are co-ed. Together the two high schools offer more than 400 sections of ~200 courses, with 80+ honors and advanced placement classes.

Signature Programs

Engineering & Design Lab

Greenwich Academy's Engineering & Design Lab (EDL) was established in 2013 to encourage and foster community using creativity and new technologies across diverse curricula. It is a fully equipped, digital fabrication space with machines including 3D printers, laser cutters, vinyl cutters, and CNC machines. In addition to digital manufacturing capabilities, the space offers carpentry and hand-building tools, microcontrollers, electronics, and a wide variety of materials for building. Students and faculty across divisions have access to the space and support for their projects. The lab's director, Erin Riley, is a Senior FabLearn Fellow out of Stanford University's Transformative Learning Technologies Lab  .

GAINS (Girls Advancing in STEM) Network

The [https://www.gainsnetwork.org GAINS (Girls Advancing in STEM) Network] was founded by Greenwich Academy in 2011 to provide an online social platform for young women with a passion for science, technology, engineering and math.[5]Through the network girls connect with each other and with women working and studying in STEM fields to support, encourage, teach and inspire one another. Membership is open to any high school serving girls (public or private, single gender or coeducational).

Since 2015, the GAINS Conference has been held each spring in partnership with top research universities and corporations. The three-day conferences have been held at MIT (2015), Duke University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2016), Silicon Valley (2017), and New York City at the offices of Oath (2018).

Daedalus Art and Literary Magazine

Daedalus, Greenwich Academy's art and literary magazine was established in 1986 and has earned 22 Gold Medalists from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association, 15 Highest Awards from the National Council of Teachers of English, and 14 Crowns from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association.

Campus facilities

Ridgeview Avenue Campus

Pre-Connecting (pre-K) and Connecting Class (kindergarten) students are housed at our Ridgeview Avenue Campus that features four classrooms, a large playground and a soccer field.[6]

Notable alumnae

{{Refimprove section|date=September 2018}}
  • Jane Fonda, model and actress.[7]
  • Dr. Frances Jensen, author, Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurology at the Perelman School of Medicine (University of Pennsylvania).[8]
  • Radhika Jones, editor-in-chief, Vanity Fair Magazine[9]
  • Ethel Kennedy, human rights activist and widow of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.[7]
  • Megan White Mukuria, founder and CEO of ZanaAfrica Foundation.[10]
  • Lauren Redniss, Visual Storyteller and MacArthur Fellow.[11]
  • Kelly Rohrbach, model and actress.[12]
  • Maia Shibutani, Olympic ice dancer.[13]
  • Allison Williams, actress, comedian, and singer.[7][14]

Fictional

Miranda Wells, the fictional protagonist of the Dragonwyck (novel) attended the school.[15]

References

1. ^"Private Independent Schools" (Connecticut: Bunting & Lyon, 1979), 105.
2. ^Who and What
3. ^"Back to School Preparations"
4. ^http://www.greenwichacademy.org/page.cfm?p=508
5. ^{{Cite web|url=http://compsci92ruffagoldsmith.weebly.com/signature-initiatives.html|title=Signature Initiatives|website=compsci92ruffagoldsmith.weebly.com|access-date=2016-04-18}}
6. ^http://www.greenwichacademy.org/page.cfm?p=581
7. ^{{cite news | url = https://www.greenwichtime.com/local/slideshow/Greenwich-Academy-notable-alumnae-144510/photo-12811709.php | title = Greenwich Academy notable alumnae | last1 = Lauer | first = Kaitlyn | publisher = Hearst Media Services Connecticut, LLC | date = April 28, 2017 | accessdate = April 1, 2019 | work = Greenwich Time}}
8. ^[https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g324/p8577612 U Penn]
9. ^{{Cite news | url = https://dailyvoice.com/connecticut/greenwich/schools/literary-alum-returns-to-ga/406028/ | title = Literary Alum Returns to GA | work = Greenwich Daily Voice | first = Alexandra | last = Corbett | language = en | date = November 19, 2010 | access-date=2019-02-06}}
10. ^zanaafrica.org founders
11. ^https://www.macfound.org/fellows/968/
12. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.people.com/article/kelly-rohrbach-5-things-you-need-to-know|title=5 Things You Need to Know About Kelly Rohrbach|work=PEOPLE.com|accessdate=January 5, 2016}}
13. ^{{cite news |author=NBC Connecticut |title=Shubutani Siblings Tweet What Life’s Like as Olympians |quote=The siblings got their figure skating start in Old Greenwich, Conn. in 1998, according to the Web site for the 2014 U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Boston. |newspaper=WVIT |date=February 15, 2014 | url = http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/sports/Shubutani-Siblings-Tweet-What-Lifes-Like-as-Olympians-244911991.html | accessdate = December 31, 2014}}
14. ^{{cite news|url=http://ncadvertiser.com/41615/new-canaans-sweetheart-set-to-soar/|title=Allison Williams flies high|newspaper=New Canaan Advertiser|date=December 4, 2014|access-date=2017-03-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170308150029/http://ncadvertiser.com/41615/new-canaans-sweetheart-set-to-soar/|archive-date=2017-03-08|dead-url=yes|df=}}*"I went to the New Canaan Nature Center for preschool," she said. "I was so into that world, and still think about it all the time. It established my love for nature and animals." "New Canaan Country School and Greenwich Academy followed."
15. ^[https://books.google.com/books?ei=Y6XuTdTVMcLi0QG9v-XeAw&ct=result&id=VDHYAAAAMAAJ Dragonwyck] on googlebooks

External links

  • {{Official website|http://www.greenwichacademy.org}}
{{Greenwich, Connecticut Schools}}

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