by Darsa Morrow | Jan 30, 2017 | Community, Growing Learners, Keen MInds, News & Events, Older Posts
[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”] Wonder Girls Innovate! According to a recent study, “Girls as young as six years old believe that brilliance is a male trait, according research into gender stereotypes.” Help us change these...
by Darsa Morrow | Apr 8, 2015 | News & Events, Older Posts, Our Students
Mackintosh Academy is excited to announce its partnership with Ball Aerospace to celebrate 25 years of the Hubble Space Telescope through public lectures, stargazing and hands-on student learning experiences. For 25 years the Hubble Space Telescope has been...
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...
by Gia Medeiros | Mar 7, 2014 | Community, Global Action, Keen MInds, News & Events, Older Posts, Our Students, Student Work
Zach Olkin started building robots just three years ago in the 4th grade when his mom launched a lego robotics club at Mackintosh Boulder. Just last week his Vex IQ Robotics team won a “triple crown” at the Vex Robotics competition – for teamwork,...
by Gia Medeiros | Nov 10, 2013 | Global Action, Growing Learners, Keen MInds, News & Events, Older Posts, Our Students
By Nicole Krout, Mackintosh Parent The Boulder campus Design Thinking Lab got a fresh facelift last weekend – with the help of the kids! While parents had the bland idea of a somber gray for the design lab, the middle years Geometry students wanted something...