Grade 4 students visited the Google office in Cambridge on April 27. Led by Grade 4 teachers Laura Lande and Meredith Gannon and Science teacher Kelly Western, the excursion entailed meeting with a panel of Google software engineers working on Search, YouTube, Android, and corporate infrastructure.
Googlers discussed how coding and math is used in various applications in their jobs and students shared their experience with the Coding Project at Nashoba, in which the students used block-coding to create either a movie, work of art, video game or app.
Our Grade 4 students engaged in meaningful dialogue and asked questions such as “Did you always want to work in computer science?” and “What do you like most about working at Google?”
Here are some reflections students wrote upon their return to campus:
“One thing I learned is coding does a lot for our lives. When we started coding I didn't think it was that interesting or important, but then you took me to Google and that made me change my mind. Thank you so much for this opportunity to learn more about coding.”
“When I grow up I want to be a robotics engineer, so this inspired me to work really hard at becoming one. Also, I really enjoyed learning about what the panel’s jobs entailed. I really liked asking questions to the panel because it was interesting hearing their variety of answers.”
Students also spoke with Googlers about how Nashoba Brooks’ core values of collaboration, resilience, and inclusivity are fundamental to the workplace, contributing to teams and being successful.
“The annual field trip to Google is great way for students to connect the coding work they’ve done this year to the computer science and tech field,” said Mrs. Lande. “It’s important for them to have the opportunity to talk with and see women working in STEM careers so they can envision themselves in similar roles in years to come.”
Grade 3 students participated in a favorite Nashoba Brooks tradition: a Sharing of Understanding. This event hosted family members to listen and learn about what their students have been working on at School, including a recorder recital and in-depth explanations of multiple indigenous peoples.
It was a packed weekend on the Nashoba Brooks campus for Fall Weekend!
Thank you to all the parent volunteers, student ambassadors, faculty members, and all other roles who contributed to making this weekend so memorable for our School.
After weeks of hard work, Grade 3 students had the opportunity to present their Community Hero projects to their families and their interview subjects!
The Nashoba Brooks School campus was bursting with excitement Friday, November 4, through Sunday, November 6, as we celebrated our annual Fall Weekend.
After almost a year of research, school visits, interviews, self-reflection, and essay writing, the Grade 8 class is enjoying a variety of excellent high schools to choose from.
Alongside the book fair and poetry month, April has been a wonderful time for literature at Nashoba Brooks School. Sharon Draper and Jen Campbell, two celebrated authors, left their mark on the community over the past few weeks.
More than 75 parents responded to this year’s annual School survey and numbers were well balanced across all grade levels. The results of the survey are impressive and the feedback the parents offer to the School is glowing.
As Black History Month comes to a close, students and faculty alike celebrate diversity, acknowledging that a school is not only classrooms, gymnasiums, and fields, but also the people within these walls. Each year and at every grade level our students contemplate the presence and importance of different backgrounds, experiences and beliefs. And this month provides community members with an opportunity to reflect on what it means to be Black in America.
Rachel Adams graduated from Nashoba Brooks School in 2001. She went on to study at Lawrence Academy followed by Maine College of Art and Design. Now living in Portland as a successful artist, textile designer, entrepreneur, wife and mother of two, Rachel shares her journey from student to full time artist.
Guida Mattison, Nashoba Brooks School's director of secondary school placement, wants to remove as much stress as possible from the high school application process that Grade 8 students go through each year.
Situated on a beautiful 30-acre campus in historic Concord, Massachusetts, Nashoba Brooks School enrolls all genders in Preschool through Grade 3, and students identifying as girls in Grades 4 through 8. Nashoba Brooks is an independent school designed to build community, character, and confidence in its students.