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From The Principal’s Desk

The investigations were varied,

curious, and in several cases

genuinely inventive.

Dear Parents and Students,

ecently, two things happened the code. That is the kind of work that belongs
that I genuinely looked forward to, on a university personal statement, and I told
R and I want to tell you why. them so.

I am a scientist by training. I studied My one note, and I say this as someone who
Biotechnology, and I have spent much has read a great deal of research, is that
of my career trying to convince young some of the conclusions needed stronger
people that science is not something evidence behind them. A finding is only as
that happens to you in a classroom. It good as the source that supports it, and a few
is something you do. So when I walked of the presentations pushed beyond what
into Science Day, I was not there as a their references could carry, both in the plan
Principal ticking a box. I was there as and execution. That is not a criticism. It is the
someone who wanted to see what the next stage of development, and what they
students had actually researched and did at this stage so far was excellent.
how they had researched it.
The Academic Research Presentations
They did not disappoint. The showed the same instinct in a different
investigations were varied, curious, and form. These were not students reading off a
in several cases genuinely inventive. slide. They were making arguments, fielding
What stopped me in my tracks was a questions, and defending positions. That is a
programmed tool incorporating sensors, skill that will serve them long after the specific
and one that used AI. The students had content has faded.
coded these themselves. That is worth
saying again: the students had written It has been a good week to be here.

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