Each year we set aside ten days to explore problems that inspire and perplex us.
These projects strive to answer essential questions, have real-world applications, and align with at least one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The culmination of the work is celebrated in a project fair, TEDx event, art gallery, and reflective essays.
Featured Projects
Each year, faculty and students create and participate in more than two dozen projects.
These are a few of our favorites.
Beyond the Stethoscope
By visiting area hospitals, shadowing medical professionals and touring medical school facilities, students explored the healthcare industry and inequities that exists.
Perform an Original Play
While deepening their acting skills and learning about stage and set design, costumes, and lighting, students drafted, designed, and staged an original production.
Travel to the Rainforest
While spending two weeks in Costa Rica, students surveyed its jungles, beaches, and farms and explored the complex relationships between governments, economies, societies, and the planet's physical environment.
Robotics
An immersive experience that fostered creativity, teamwork, and problem-solving allowed students to design, code, and build their own machines.
Stories Matter
As a class, the freshmen learned how to capture and tell the stories of others while enhancing their interviewing, listening, and storytelling techniques.
Cinderella Project
While learning about sustainability and stewardship, students collected and distributed formal wear to high school-aged students in our surrounding communities.
Project: Pomfret 2025
February 24 to March 7