The clock strikes ten. At the front of the room Biology teacher Gen Nelson is answering a question from the thermochemistry review packet. Behind her, students exchange furtive glances, waiting for someone to stand up, to leave class. Someone stands up and is quickly followed by a shuffling stream of students. It’s March 14, and...
Brenden Dahl (‘20) wrote a play, Imaginary, which won the 2017 Philadelphia Young Playwrights (PYP) Festival contest. Imaginary was produced as part of New Voices, a collaboration between PYP and Temple University. The play follows the troubles of Arthur, a man suffering from Dissociative Identity Disorder. Dahl is currently writing a play under commission for...
Steve Jobs famously told former Google CEO Larry Page that his company “did too much stuff.” Google, a company that is today worth $498 billion dollars has never revolved around a single product or idea. Their most known product, Google Search, is only a small piece of their always-growing portfolio. In 2010 Google X, Google’s “moonshot”...
This November the Hargroves Center hosted the first Upper School Coffeehouse performance of 2016. Will McQuillan, ’19 sat down with student leader Evan Gorski, ’17 and Upper School Student Activity Director Andrew Lee to discuss the show in Earthquake’s first ever audio news story (listen below).
This year the Mexican exchange celebrates its 30th anniversary. Each January, six GFS students travel to Tlaxcala to live with host families and to attend La Escuela Secundaria Técnica Número 1 “Xicohtencatl Axayacatzin,” as a part of the thirty year Mexico Exchange. Here are some thoughts from this year’s visitors: Luis Angel Marin Coheto...
I am spending my Junior Project at Europa Gymnasium, but don’t expect me to come back with any extra muscles. Gymnasium is a type of German college-preparatory school, but across the street from Europa Gymnasium lies the combined Realschule and Hauptschule, which are the slower paced high school and the vocational high school, respectively. The...
