Latest Stories About the Stone Community
School looked a little different in 2021, but even as their learning contexts changed our students continued to design, create and exhibit meaningful work all year long. Today, please enjoy a month-by-month look back our favorite photographs and “Stone-events” of 2021 — and be sure to reach out today if you are ready to schedule your private tour!
We were still in hybrid mode, but that didn’t stop our Entrepreneurship students from hosting a virtual Entrepreneurship Fair for the extended Stone community.
By February, our Pioneers — the students who were in 9th grade when we opened Stone — were receiving college acceptances, and Jayna R’ was named a National Merit Finalist!
All Stone juniors must complete “The Junior Workshop”, an intensive independent experience for which students must design, execute, and defend to a panel a project which creates “knowledge, insight, beauty, or function”. Gralyn’s project? A solar-powered boat.
“School” changed a little bit, but our core beliefs didn’t change at all: that learning should be rigorous, complex, and joyful regardless of context.
After seven months of “hybrid” school, Stone finally returned to “100% in-person”, and to do it we threw a party featuring a bonfire (well…we were supposed to have a bonfire!), and a lot of gaga ball, and Stone’s student-led band Bus.
In April, Stone students climbed into a van and began a 7500 mile trip across the country and back — all to better understand Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and exploration.
We began the largest collaborative project in our school’s history: we worked across all corners of our community to plant 5000 trees in 60 days!
Sixty days after we began planting trees, we threw a big party to celebrate our impact! With musical performances by The Districts, The Nielsen Family Band, Brad Armstrong, the Big Brass Band, and Bus — plus about 700 hundred of our closets friends in attendance! — we wrapped up two months of hard work in style!
On an incredible hot day, Stone students and parents and alums and faculty members, gathered in a field to launch watermelons from our student-built siege machines at a target about 100 yards away.
On a warm day in June, we said thank you — but never goodbye! — to the 25 students who have been with us from the beginning, who built our culture and our community, who made Stone…Stone.
Kicking off the 21-22 school year, Stone opens with it’s largest enrollment in school history!
…and our Middle School immediately got back to doing what it does best: solving complex, experiential problems in creative teams.
Humanities Instructor Jeff Pasternak-Post introduces design thinking and brainstorming techniques to our Middle School history curriculum.
Like we say: here at Stone, we do big. Especially when it comes to our annual Fall bonfire!
Five days, a few hundred competitions, and it all comes down to…the egg race!
Sure, it took him 54.5 hours to get it done, but senior Gralyn K’ figured out a new way to “commute” to school…by kayak!
In December, popular Stone elective “Archeology of Us” began working on understanding who ‘we’ are from an archeological perspective. From the course description: "The speed of technological and social change in modern societies is obscuring the recent past. Time flies, and with it, the opportunity to reach maturity as a society. In this sense, archeology is becoming an alternative means to shed light on the understanding of modern social conflicts through the study of the recent past that was quickly forgotten. In short, the objective of this course is to explore contemporary material culture found in cemeteries and garbage deposits using archaeological methods. Students will be challenged to think as archaeologists and try to identify and understand modern social conflicts by reconstructing recent past events based on their collected data."
