by Gia Medeiros | Feb 3, 2015 | Community, Global Action, News & Events, Older Posts, Our Students
This weekend at the first ever Boulder Mini Maker Faire, Mackintosh Academy put the power drills in kids’ hands. The result was an astounding assortment of giant catapults each individually designed and created by kids and for kids. The first Mini Maker Faire...
by Gia Medeiros | Jan 22, 2015 | Community, Core Values, Global Action, Mack Manifesto, News & Events
This Wednesday, January 28th at 6:30 pm, we’re “Unleashing Creativity” on the Mackintosh Boulder Campus. Today, creativity is no longer regarded as the exclusive domain of artists and “creative” types. Instead it is a core capacity that is in high...
by Gia Medeiros | Oct 22, 2014 | Global Action, Growing Learners, Keen MInds, Our Team, Student Work
By Carolina Mirrales and Maria Beatriz Cardona “Learning to speak another’s language means taking one’s place in the human community. It means reaching out to other’s across cultural and linguistic boundaries. Language is far more that a system to be explained. It is...
by Gia Medeiros | Apr 13, 2014 | Community, Global Action, Growing Learners, Littleton, News & Events, Our Students, Student Work
By Diane Dunne, Mackintosh Littleton Middle Years Teacher Our two Mack Littleton World Affairs Challenge teams came in first and second in last weekend’s competition at Regis University on the topic of Water, Water, Water! “The One Drop Wonders”...
by Gia Medeiros | Apr 6, 2014 | Admissions, Global Action, Growing Learners, Keen MInds, Littleton, Testimonials
By Stacey Anderson, Head of School, Mackintosh Academy Littleton Campus Please enjoy this short piece, taken from an article published in the Duke University Digest of Gifted Research in regard to the International Baccalaureate Program. Although the article...
by Gia Medeiros | Mar 14, 2014 | Community, Global Action, Growing Learners, Our Students
Okay, so it’s a challenge with a wire and a battery that many (most?) of us might fail. But If you want to see the importance of hands-on building in education, check out this video. Ostensibly these are some of the best educated engineers on the planet. See...
