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Paleontology Students Get Hands-On Experience with Deep Time
Standing at an outcrop of rock in central New York, Winsor Science Faculty Ken Schopfโs students could see about 380 million years into the past. Part of Mr. Schopfโs Upper School paleontology course, the two-day excursion to this fossil-rich siteโand to the Syracuse University laboratory where they would later analyze the samples they gatheredโwas a…
2026 Winter Athletics Banquet and Season Recap
Last month, on March 9, students, families, coaches, and Winsor administrators gathered in Carolyn McClintock Peter Hall for the annual Winter Athletics Banquet to celebrate another season of accomplishments on the courts, on the rink, and in the water. The banquet honored this yearโs basketball, ice hockey, squash, and swimming teams with remarks from their…
International Night Offers a Winsor World Tour
International Night returned to the Brock-Wilson Gymnasium this week for its biggest year yet. The event was a celebration of the many cultures, traditions, and cuisines that come together to form the Winsor community. Across 40 tables, more than 120 participantsโstudents and their families, as well as faculty and staffโoffered some 300 attendees small, meaningful…
Wellness Project Assembly Offers Tools for Finding Inner Peace on Life’s Journey
Students, faculty, and staff each showed up to last week’s assembly in the midst of their own journeys. Some were stressed about a deadline, others were anxious about an interpersonal conflict or troubled by something happening in the world outside of Winsor. But on that Friday, February 13, the Wellness Project student leadersโChloe Lien โ29,…
Chris Player Awarded Inaugural Bondoc Family Fellowship
At an all-school assembly on January 30, Science Faculty, STEM Coordinator, and Innovation Lab Coordinator Chris Player was awarded the newly established Bondoc Family Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. The three-year fellowship, established by alumnae Victoria Bondoc โ77 and Josefina Bondoc DeBaere โ75, was created to recognize and support the compensation for a…
Erin Cantos Wins the Pennypacker Prize
The Pennypacker Prize is awarded each year to a teacher who is in at least their third year of full-time teaching at Winsor. Created in 2002, the award is โgiven annually in the name of Henriette Pennypacker Binswanger โ52, with respect and admiration for the educational excellence of the Winsor School and the memory of…
Student Directed Plays Honor Those Lost and Those Remembered
Last month two Winsor students, Sienna McCabe โ27 and Robin Chรกvez Shirman โ27, presented their student-directed plays as a part of a joint program titled Lock & Cover, performed three times from January 30โ31. The culmination of months of work by these directors, their casts of Winsor student actors, their technical crew, and their teachers,…
Class I Play Celebrates the Magic of Creativity
The Winsor community was treated to a fable of childhood wonder on Friday, January 16, with the Class I play, The Magic Paintbrush. This yearโs production, written specifically for Winsorโs Class of โ33 by Theater Director Jeremy Johnson, was an original musical adaptation of the Chinese folktale of the same name, with original music by…
How One Alum Is Reimagining Life in Space
First taking the stage at an all-school assembly and then dropping into classes like AP Physics to meet with students, emerging technologies designer Sana Sharma โ10 returned to Winsor. โโEmerging technologies designerโ is a fun way of saying I couldn’t quite choose between the sciences and the arts and have found a way to do…
CEO Mira Mehta โ02 Encourages Young VCs and Entrepreneurs to โStay Curiousโ
Running a Nigerian tomato paste company was never part of the plan for Mira Mehta โ02. But when you โstay curious,โ as she encouraged students in Winsorโs Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship Club, life takes some fascinating turns. โI thought I wanted to be an Olympic athlete,โ she told the club on a recent visit to…