Upper School seniors Keith Babcock and Elmo Small won recognition from the Midwest Regional Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Keith’s piece Cutthroat Runaway and Elmo’s cardboard sculpture each won a Silver Key award.
Keith’s digital piece The Jungle received a Gold Key award. The Gold Key Award recognizes the ...
Seniors Kaya Equevilley and Grace Ripley were accepted to the prestigious United Nations Association of the National Capital Area’s (UNA-NCA) Emerging Leaders program. They were selected for their demonstrated interest in and impact championing human rights and global issues. The Emerging Leaders program provides youth leaders with tools and support ...
Being proactive tastes a lot like chocolate ice cream! At least it did for Lower School students on October 15, when Acting Principal Jane Harrison surprised each class with the sweet treat. Donning an apron and pushing a red and white checkered cart, Harrison entered each classroom to the familiar ...
With almost a month of classes under their belts, students and faculty at the School and College have settled into the new routines in place for in-person instruction—sanitizing hands, wearing masks, maintaining social distance, and so on. While these protocols alter the learning experience, they do not define it. Students ...
Robotics, software engineering, mechanics, circuitry, digital media arts. This reads like a college course catalog, but peer over the large monitor in one of the two new School IDEA Labs and you’ll find a fourth grader heavily focused on animating her digitally drawn car. Across the lab, her classmate is ...
One week after winter break, friends and family gathered in the Lower School gym to watch Middle School students perform Frozen Jr. The sold-out production, which enthralled the audience, was all the more incredible because students had put it together in just one week of intense work, dubbed “Theatre Week.” ...
On a chilly evening in late November, Middle School students and their families gathered in the Middle School Center to recognize the high-quality work students had accomplished throughout the semester. Projects from all subjects—science, social studies, mathematics, language arts, integrated studies, and Spanish—adorned the walls, tables, and parts of the ...
In a 3–2 comeback victory, the varsity boys’ soccer team clinched the Class 1 State Championship against St. Paul Lutheran of Concordia. Their first championship since 2015, it was sweeter than ever in light of last year’s loss during penalty kicks.
Refusing to be rattled by St. Paul getting ...
This communication from Principia’s Board of Trustees is to announce a new pilot admissions program for exploring how we can effectively “enlarge the tent” of Principia to better fulfill our mission in today’s world. We wanted to share with the Principia community the context and rationale of our decision. ...
In the last two days of May—and with a nod to the school’s founding in 1898—Principia launched a 1,898-minute fundraising campaign highlighting our exceptional faculty and staff over the years. Leading up to the campaign, alumni shared their gratitude for the lasting impact Principia faculty and staff have had on ...
