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Middle Years Students Take on World Affairs Challenge
The World Affairs Challenges gives students the opportunity to address real-world issues. At Mackintosh Academy, seventh and eighth grade students have been participating in the World Affairs Challenge (WAC) since 2014. This annual challenge asks students to work...
Mackintosh Receives Colorado Garden Foundation Grant
Greenhouse Grant Awarded Mackintosh Academy recently received a $3000 grant from the Colorado Garden Foundation to be used for improvements to our greenhouse. We incorporate the use of our greenhouse throughout our Pre-Kindergarten through 8th grade curriculum. Our...
Middle School Students Address Global Issues in the World Affairs Challenge
Since 2014, Mackintosh Academy middle school students have participated in the World Affairs Challenge (WAC). Each spring, our seventh and eighth grade students work in teams to research and design sustainable solutions to global issues, and then present their...
Pi Day Celebrates the Joy of Math (and Pie!)
Mack students and teachers celebrated Pi (π) Day on Monday. First declared an unofficial holiday in 1988 by physicist Larry Shaw, Pi Day celebrates the mathematical constant of pi (Greek letter π), which begins with 3.14 and has been calculated to over 50 trillion...
Mackintosh Academy honored with prestigious “Climate Action Project School of Excellence” award
On November 4, 2021, Mackintosh Academy in Littleton, Colorado was awarded Climate Action Project School of Excellence. Only 250 schools globally were recognized because of their intense work on climate education in a whole-school approach. The recognition was awarded...
Empowering Faculty: A Collaborative Code of Conduct
Written in collaboration with Joe Pausback and Roger Chow Most of us are familiar with student codes of conduct which, depending on the school, can range from essential agreements on how students treat one another to prescriptive rules for behavior and dress....