This December, as the days get shorter and the air colder, many different events approach. Holidays such as Christmas, Hanukkah, and Yule light the way as students end the first semester. Christmas, a Christian holiday, celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ, as well as the act of gift-giving to loved ones. The holiday is hard […]
Continue ReadingWinter Comic by Zoe Boulton-Dang (#1) “Party Planning” by Yuyan Liu (#5) “The Adventures of Pixy: The Green Planet” by Patience Peterson (#5)
Continue ReadingBy: Trip Peterson and Ethan Cottrill On Thursday, November 13th, The Miami Valley School hosted its second annual Art Night. Art Night showcases the art from MVS students across the divisions and provides interactive activities for families. This year, Art Night featured Klaus Massey and Brihanna Howell on the potter’s wheel, Patience Peterson demonstrating casting, […]
Continue ReadingThanksgiving has come and gone, and the Christmas season is in full swing. But sometimes, I like to take a step back and look at what we don’t truly acknowledge: Thanksgiving media. From beloved cartoons to Adam Sandler songs, Thanksgiving media is truly nonexistent. For decades at this point, the people of America have been […]
Continue ReadingWriting is a dream. Perhaps it may even dare to edge ever so delicately (I jest; writing is a deeply disturbing, benumbingly visceral act) into nightmarish territory, but I’ll insist that it has played the unyielding savior in my life to no end. For me, the act of putting ink to paper—of codifying the swirling […]
Continue ReadingMerbert. That is the name of our school robotics (MVS Rambotics) team’s labor. Headed by lead builder Wyatt Eros (Class of ‘27), lead coder Caleb Meeker (Class of ‘27), and lead outreach Yuvi Gupta (Class of ‘26), the team has made astounding progress throughout the school year, building and optimizing Merbert. For this year, Merbert’s […]
Continue ReadingMiami Valley School’s Design Foundations, Ceramics, and Sculpture teacher, Ms. Trick, had an interesting career before coming to our school. Originally from Dayton, she earned a BFA in Sculpture from the University of Dayton and her MFA from the University of Cincinnati. She then taught as an Instructor of Record at the University of Cincinnati […]
Continue ReadingBy: MVS Book Club For our second book of the year, the MVS Upper School Book Club read Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, a novel about Clay. He’s a struggling web designer living in San Francisco, who finds a job as a night clerk at a 24-hour bookstore where his boss is weird and the customers […]
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