Choate may be one of the first high schools to develop a designated makerspace, but just down the street is a site similar to our own i.d.Lab. In September of 2016, the Wallingford Public Library opened its Collaboratory, a combination makerspace, co-working space, and visual media lab. Located inRead More

The 75th Annual Golden Globes were the first Sunday of January. It was the biggest gathering of the Hollywood establishment since both the accusations against Harvey Weinstein and the #MeToo movement, which started in 2006, gained increased notoriety a few months ago. One of the most memorable parts of theRead More

  This year’s Diversity Day, which, as always, took place on the holiday commemorating the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., included a variety of activities designed around a single theme: “Everyone can be an activist.” The day required a great deal of planning, both from student and facultyRead More

Many junior and senior day students who drive themselves to school were surprised to recently see a row of new signs at the head of the parking spaces in the familiar Gunpowder Creek parking lot. This section of the lot, as Mr. James Stanley, Dean of Students, explained during schoolRead More

Charlie Yockey ’19 recently qualified for this year’s World Individual Debate and Public Speaking Tournament in Cape Town, South Africa. Yockey said, “I have sort of a combative personality,” which he has used to his advantage as a prominent member of Choate’s Debate Team. During the school year, Yockey participatesRead More

The Choate community recently gained a new Head of Facilities, Mr. Mark Cappello, whose job it is to collaborate with the rest of the facilities management team in assuring that the campus continues running at its smoothest. This is no small feat. As Mr. Cappello himself put it, “Not muchRead More

The Science Research Program’s biology section has just received a generous donation of equipment from alumnus Dr. Richard Quintiliani, class of 1977. “My students were all joking that it was like Christmas,” said Dr. Allison Nishitani, “The whole classroom was just full of all these boxes and I was like,Read More

Dr. Edrik Lopez “Flow with the go,” new English department member Dr. Edrik Lopez said when asked the best piece of advice he has ever received. This phrase, not to be confused with “go with the flow,” is a motto expressed regularly in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, a type of martial artRead More