Winterim 2020

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WINTERIM 2020 For 47 years, Winterim at Harpeth Hall has been affording girls the opportunity to step out of the traditional classroom to broaden their intellectual horizons. This innovative three-week program in January provides a wide-variety of hands-on learning experiences across the globe. This year, freshmen and sophomore students chose from 76 different, project-oriented courses offered by our exceptional faculty, alumnae, and other professionals from around the country. Students explored the field of neuroscience, designed robots for use in medical applications, contemplated gender roles in history and literature, discussed the Supreme Court and civil liberties, and studied everything from Jane Austen to Forensic Science among other engaging topics.

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MATHEMATICIAN AS ARTIST

FORENSIC SCIENCE

CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION

TEXTILES OF THE WORLD, TOOL TIME

FIELD TRIP TO THE RYMAN

FENCING

With more than 100 companies and organizations participating in our internship programs, juniors and seniors have the opportunity to explore career interests, to develop decision-making skills, and to experience working in a professional environment, which can ultimately inform their future career choices. Environments ranged from hospitals to financial firms to television stations. This year, students completed internships in Washington, D.C., Nashville, and New York City as well as in Ethiopia, Lithuania, London, and Tamworth, Australia. Placements include Blackbird Studios, Nashville Predators, Penguin Random House, BMI, NASA, National Parks Service, and more! Beyond dynamic classes and internship opportunities, students also participated in academic travel to France, Italy, Spain, and Kenya. In traveling abroad, students are immersed in cross-cultural experiences and deepen their understanding of the world and the world’s needs.

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For me, Winterim has been a really amazing opportunity to try things I never would have before and broaden my perspectives on many issues in our Nashville community and the nation as a whole. This year’s Winterim has been more interesting and impactful than I could have imagined, and I am so grateful for this opportunity. ” — MALLORY THOMAS ’22

WINTERIM HOSTS FROM THE HARPETH HALL COMMUNITY

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Gigi Hudson Grimstad ’85 Alison Smith ’79 Marcie Allen Van Mol ’92 Senator Lamar Alexander Senator Marsha Blackburn Tess Fardon ’10 Beth Rather Gorman ’90 Melinda Higgins

Murray Benson ’07 Nancy Graves Beveridge ’80 Judge Joe P. Binkley, Jr. Charles Robert Bone Dr. Lola Blackwell Chambless ’97

Christy Crider Michelle Cudd Donna Darnell Dr. Joseph DeLozier Dr. Tom Dovan Dr. Georgia Yowell Ferrell ’98 Sara Morris Garner ’03 Dr. Mary Gingrass Jose Gonzalez Liza Graves Dr. Oscar Guillamondegui

Dr. Jeff Herring Ed Higgins Jennifer Harrison Hutton ’01

Diane Lance Dr. Dora Sztipanovits Mathe ’98 John McBride Joanna McCall ’11 Margaret McRedmond ’97

Dr. Rick Miller

Dr. David Miller

Campbell Mobley ’11 Dr. Anna Morad

Dr. Huck Muldownay Dr. Mike Pagnani Amy Seigenthaler Pierce Rob Pittman Scott Potter Rena Clayton Rolfe ’13 Brooks Smith Kate Steele ’06 Ashley Strobel Millie Wert ’13 Christopher White

ROLE Alumna, Host Liaison Alumna, Host Alumna and Current Step-Parent, Host Past Parent, Host Past Parent, Host Alumna, Host Alumna, Host Liaison Former HH Teacher, Host

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Past Parent, Host Liaison Alumna, Host Past Parent, Host Alumna, Host Alumna, Host

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Each Harpeth Hall Center is a mission-driven area of concentration established to address priorities in girls’ education with agility and creativity. Transcending the scope of a single discipline, these centers engage students and faculty in research, innovation, and collaboration as they seek solutions to the challenges facing our world. Since the days of John Dewey’s educational philosophy, schools and teachers have examined the best ways to integrate learning across disciplines. We inherently know that life is not sectioned into silos of subject areas. Yet undoing centuries of discrete disciplines can be a challenge. From the open classroom movement of the 1960s, to the backlash growth of more standardized testing in the 1970s, to a push for higher-order thinking skills in the 1980s, we keep trying to get it right. In 2020, Harpeth Hall girls are hungry to begin solving real-world problems. Here they learn the analytical skills to dive into almost any 21st century issue or challenge and study it from all sides. Equally important, our students master the written and oral communication skills necessary to express their thesis clearly, while basing it on research and fact. Whether they are designing a better bridge or deliberating on American foreign policy, they have what it takes to contemplate the issues at hand and develop a deeper understanding. By pushing our students to think critically about modern themes and topics across a wide range of disciplines, they can begin to apply the knowledge they have. It allows them to move beyond the classroom assessment or transcript grade to a fuller capacity for learning. Our students are highly motivated, and our teachers are newly engaged with the collaboration they experience across disciplines. Today, we are broadening our concept of a Center at Harpeth Hall. By defining what this framework means to us, we are embarking on a more flexible approach to the inevitable educational changes that are coming our way. Within a shifting educational environment, we strongly believe that one thing holds firm — when students recognize a purpose to their study, they develop a love and respect for learning that will carry them throughout adulthood. We established The Center for STEM Education for Girls in 2011. Now, we are pleased to announce our second center, the Center for Civic Engagement.