Intensive Learning @ MFS
The World At Your Fingertips
Fire. On Tuesday we saw a documentary that began with fire and subtitled it “renewal.” On Wednesday we learned about that process from a forest fire fighter who joined us for the day’s hike. Nolan wrote: “I learned about the process of creating controlled fires to prevent specific acres from being burned in the...
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During the third day of the Morocco Intensive Learning trip we experienced a myriad of things. To start the day, we ate a traditional Moroccan breakfast on the top floor of our auberge. Breakfast included msemmen (similar to an American pancake), yogurt, hard boiled eggs, fresh bread, cream cheese, and the tea we have...
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By Anja and Anjali On our third day of the Sacred Spaces IL, we traveled to two different sacred spaces of two distinctly different religions. Hope Community Church Our first Sacred Space of the day was the Hope Community Church on Main Street, Moorestown. While there, we saw that the Hope Church is not...
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After a long bus ride to Haverford College, we started our day with the info session, where we learned a lot about life as a student at Haverford and what the university has to offer. Students were pleasantly surprised to learn that dorm rooms were about 70% singles. In addition to learning about the...
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Today we all had somewhat working robot by the end of the day. A lot of time was spent testing the software with the hardware and making modifications to both. By the end of lunch everyone was able to spend time on the competition field for much needed practice and strategy sessions. This time...
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Today was a fun and bittersweet day as we finished up our eighth and final volunteer shift at Give Kids the World Village, marking approximately 25 hours of service per person and totaling over 200 hours volunteered by Moorestown Friends School this year. We started our day by departing our house at 7:00 a.m.,...
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Today, we started to record the main parts of our podcast. We started by editing our intro to make it perfect. Then we added the finishing touches to our script so we were ready to go when the time to record came. When the time came, we recorded the entirety of our podcast. This...
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The Upper Schoolers bonding and playing with the Preschoolers in Anastasia’s class. We worked on drawing title cards for the stop-motion credits. They helped to design the title card of the movie as well as the name cards for the Upper Schoolers. The Upper Schoolers and Preschoolers sitting and listening to a story that...
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Our second day at College Settlement was amazing! We woke up bright and early for a day filled with “lessons.” Throughout the day, we worked with the camp counselors to explore all of the things the camp has to offer. We went on an ecology hike, where we learned about trees like beech, tulip...
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After learning about responsible spending at the food trucks, we headed to the United States Capitol building and had a tour. It was really informative – we learned what Congress does, and we learned a lot more about the capital city of Washington, D. C. and how important Congress’s job is. After that, we...
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“I will always remember having a can-do attitude and challenging myself.” ~Nathan, after crossing the catwalk, twice Forty-three students in four cabins woke up to greet the sun and begin the day by shuffling to the dining hall, where a hearty breakfast was had before heading out into the woods for adventure hikes and...
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Today was all about lighting and growing our fire pit. In the morning, we gathered around the fire pit, which was lit by Dan in the morning. Afterwards, we began preparing Jamaican rice to go along with our Jerk chicken for lunch while working on foods like salsa for Thursday’s lunch. Later in the...
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We started our first full day in Washington, D.C. by taking a walking tour of Logan Circle. This is where Washington D.C. all began. We learned about city planning, history, and gentrification. We saw the beautiful buildings and houses and learned about their history. Next, we spent several hours exploring the National Museum of...
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By Mariana and Tessa We’ve spent most of the trip thus far on the Pacific Coast of Panama, but today we traveled to the Caribbean Coast to work alongside the CREHO scientists who have been studying the coastline. To start off the day we woke up, as usual, to have breakfast at the hotel,...
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By Myles R. and Shabd S. We started the day off with a quick breakfast (if you were awake). Following this we packed our luggage, loaded the bus, and continued our journey. Our journey today was along a road known as the Golden Circle. Well-known sites along the Golden Circle are þingvellir (a national...
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