George School Math is Top Ranked in Philadelphia
The George School Math Team closed out the new Philadelphia Math League Challenge as the top ranked team with a 91.4 percent average and a completion time of 01.60 minutes
The George School Math Team closed out the new Philadelphia Math League Challenge as the top ranked team with a 91.4 percent average and a completion time of 01.60 minutes
The George School varsity boys’ basketball team scored a resounding win in their first game of the season
Noises Off opened the George School theater season in November 2019. Michael Frayn’s hilarious comedy is set during the rehearsals, backstage during a performance, and then during a calamitous show. The play chronicles the hilarious escapades of a touring cast of a farcical fictitious play, Nothing On.
The Fall/Winter 2019 Georgian highlights some of our outstanding faculty members and the research, testing, and on-going learning they model for George School students. The articles teachers have written for this issue come from their professional development plans and demonstrate their commitment to ongoing research, risk-taking, and improvement.
Jacob Bright ’21 was selected to feature his digital image, Bright Black Swan, at the Pennsylvania Center for Photography through November 17, 2019. “It just presented itself and I was lucky enough to capture it,” said Jacob. “It was not until later that I was struck by the unrealistically good composition of the image.”
The George School varsity football team defeated St John’s Catholic Prep (MD) 34-22 in the team’s final game on Saturday November 2,2019.
The 2019-2020 George School theater season opens with Michael Frayn’s hilarious comedy Noises Off. The play comes to Walton Center on Friday, November 8, 2019 and Saturday, November 9, 2019 at 7:30 p.m. Both shows are free and open to the public. Set during the rehearsals, backstage during a performance, and then during a calamitous show, Noises Off chronicles the hilarious escapades of a touring cast of a farcical fictitious play, Nothing On.
The George School math team took on the Fremont High School Firebirds from Sunnyvale California in a live Math Madness competition on Thursday, October 31, 2019.
The George School varsity field hockey team defeated Friends Select School 5-0 to win the Quaker Cup. The Cougars were aggressive from the start, knowing that their regular season game against the Falcons ended in a hard-fought 1-1 tie.
Nobel Prize winner and George School graduate, Dr. Mario Capecchi ’56, recently visited campus to teach science classes and meet with students. Mario’s research and work on gene targeting in mice is renowned in the field of science.