Senior Projects Showcase Range of Knowledge and Capabilities

This week, the Class of 2023 completed and presented their senior projects. The students worked on these during the month of May, sharing their progress in small groups once a week. At the conclusion of their projects, all of our graduates shared their work with their peers and faculty, effectively communicating what they learned, the challenges they overcame, and their hopes for future endeavors in presentations earlier this week. Ella Adamec, Alex DeCamp, Sienna Staver, and the team of Aidan Cullinan and Keyana McLennon, were selected to present at this year's Senior Project Showcase. Their projects included internships at the Washington Post, EEOC, and Head Start, and a pottery project that incorporated teaching Upper School faculty to create their own mugs on the potter's wheel. Additionally, the Upper School walked into the assembly to selections from Ben Schirmeier's band, All My Friends, who recorded an EP as part of his project and ended the assembly with a viewing of Andrew Lay's film documenting the Class of 2023.

The Class of 2023 is an accomplished, creative, and hard-working group. Their diversity of skills and interests was reflected in their projects and included rebuilding vintage MGs, writing, filing, and editing films, designing and constructing a new outdoor classroom for Potomac, writing and recording a full-length musical, researching and writing a guide for the use of AI in education, completing a variety of art projects, coaching, teaching, and mentoring younger students and athletes, and interning with our advancement office, farmers, a physical therapist, defense contractors, museums, journalists, and even at a butcher shop. Great job, class of 2023! You have so much to offer.