Author Da Chen Visits Milton

Da Chen, author of China Son and Color of the Mountain and father of Victoria Chen (Class III), visited campus on Friday, March 5. His first stop was the multipurpose room of Junior Building to talk with Grades 2 and 3 about his childhood in south of China, answer questions from students, and play his bamboo flute. Da Chen also met with Grades 7 and 8 in Straus Library to present "From China to Wall Street to Random House: a Chinese Author's Journey."

These are our lifers

Now in Class I, looking to the post-Milton horizon, these students joined Milton in Kindergarten and are now making college decisions. Click here to see our "lifers" 13 years ago. We've heard from their parents, this week, that the transition from the earlier image to today's image happens in a flash. So savor the moments.

School-wide Brainstorming Ideas See Action

All Together for Haiti

We are all struck at the earthquake's devastation in Haiti. There are many Haitians in the Milton Academy community, and students, faculty and staff across the campus wish to help in whatever way they can. Milton would like to invite you and your children to participate in a coordinated, school-wide effort to raise awareness and relief funds.

Lower School
We have initiated a program called "Helping Hands for Haiti" with Lower School students, who were invited today at school to join in.  We ask that along with your child, you identify a household task or chore that is not normally part of your child's responsibilities. In recognition of that task, you may place between 1 and 10 dollars in an envelope to send to school.  We will collect all these funds into a Milton Academy Haiti relief fund which will be allocated wisely and carefully.  In the Lower School, we will also create a Haitian flag in support of our Haitian community members, to be displayed in the Junior Building lunch room.  With student help, we are also developing a way to publically illustrate all the household tasks students performed in support of earthquake victims.

Middle School
Tonight, Middle School students are invited to participate in a Grades 6–12 "Hoops for Haiti" event from 5–6:30 p.m. in the ACC.  There will be food, music and basketball, including a half-time shootout (with prizes!) for anyone willing. We ask for a $5 donation from spectators and participants (more is appreciated!).  We will accept IA, cash or checks made out to Milton Academy; in the memo line please write Haiti Relief. Snacks, drinks and cookies (cash please) will be available.

Thank you for your support of these fund-raising programs for Haiti. It has been heartening to see the broad, rallying response from our community, and with these continued efforts we can make a true impact in helping Haitians recover from this natural disaster.

With our thanks on behalf of the K–8 community,
Marshall Carter, Rosalie Tashjian and Gretchen Larkin

 

X PRIZE Founder, Peter Diamandis, Visits Milton

On January 8, Milton welcomed Dr. Peter Diamandis to campus to speak with students and faculty during Friday’s assembly in Thacher. Having created many space-related businesses, Dr. Diamandis is considered a key figure in the development of the personal spaceflight industry. He is founder and chairman of the X PRIZE Foundation, an educational non-profit prize institute whose mission is to create radical breakthroughs in spaceflight. In 2004, the X PRIZE Foundation awarded the $10M Ansari X PRIZE to Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and famed aviation designer Burt Rutan with SpaceShipOne, the world's first non-governmental piloted spacecraft. Aside from serving as chairman of the X PRIZE Foundation, Dr. Diamandis is also the co-founder of Zero Gravity Corporation, which offers parabolic weightless flights to the general public, and Space Adventures, Ltd., the company that has flown four private citizens on Soyuz to the International Space Station.