Knight School


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What We Did: A Sampling

Get a Financial Life
Learning the basics of life’s key financial descisions. Explore the website here.

Working at Play and Playing at Work: Puzzles, Ciphers, Games & Hidden Treasures (student-led)
Discovering the world of puzzles, meta-puzzles, encryption, mindbenders and conundrums. Explore the website here.

Building and Upgrading Personal Computers
Yes, we built computers. See a short slide show here.

Exploring the Rainforest: Conservation and Community in Panama
Working with the organization Conservation through Research, Education and Action to study the revitalization of the rainforest. See photos here.

Global Perspectives: Community Service in Botswana
Partnering with students from the Maru-A-Pula School in Gaborone, Botswana and local community service organizations. Read the blog here.

Death Valley National Park: Nature on a Grand Scale (student-led)
Discovering one of the most beautiful places on earth with an Outdoor Education curriculum. See photos here.

Course Catalog

Check out the 2012-2013 Knight School Catalog.

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Knight School Highlights

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Program Mission: Knight School is a week of mini-courses offered on a pass-fail basis, where the usual academic schedule is suspended and students enroll in one of several elective course options. A continuing experiment in expanding the boundaries and possibilities of the academy, Knight School has two interrelated and primary purposes: to find new ways to foster joy in learning and engagement and to honor student interest and initiative by providing experiences and opportunities that may not routinely exist in the Menlo School curricula. While all Knight School courses engage the intellect, they may also address the hand and the heart, the physical and empathic dimensions of human experience.