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On Tuesday, February 22, Jim Williams and the CBS news team came to our new campus at 9 W. Washington to see the school and the unveiling of our new…
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Why? In unit 3 of the MDGs & You course, students are studying Millennium Development Goals 6, 7, and 8. On their trip to City Farm, students focused on MDG…
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GCE represented at the University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children’s RBC Race for the Kids. Students, parents, and teachers woke up early on a Sunday morning to help make a…
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Why? We are studying tools, specifically the difference between mediocre gardening tools and great gardening tools so that we can then design our own. How? We will be talking to…
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What? This term we are studying design, and how to make things better. The purpose of this FE is to io introduce the class to professional designers, and to get…
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Why? The Invisible Institute is a journalistic organization operating on the city’s south side that seeks to not only report news, but also to inspire dialogue. In this sense, it…
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Join us for another opportunity to learn with our students on Thursday, March 26th at 10:30am at GCE Lab School. Final Presentations are both fun and inspiring. They are led…
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For the Ollywood Elective Course, GCE students investigated the following guiding question: How can you critique the elements of film post-production? Here’s the scenario students were challenged with: “National Public…
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For the Ollywood Elective Course, GCE students investigated the following guiding question: How can you critique the elements of film production? Here’s the scenario students were challenged with: “At the…
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Holiday happenings turn our eyes toward 2015, but they are also a great time to reflect on the year. Most importantly, we want to say thank you for supporting GCE…
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For the first Journalism Action Project, GCE Seniors investigated the following guiding question: What’s the meaning of life… in 1000 words & 1 photo? Here’s the scenario students were challenged…
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Welcome to the Elective term! This is the time when all grade-cohorts get mixed, according to the interests, passions (and credit needs) of students. 🙂 That’s also an opportunity for…
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For the second Population Action Project, GCE Sophomore students investigated the following guiding question: How can you portray the evolution of a species? Here’s the scenario students were challenged with:…
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For the first Design & Engineering Action Project, GCE Junior students investigated the following guiding question: How do we make better tools? Here’s the scenario students were challenged with: Garden…
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Visualize a reading list. Think of the many lines in a bibliography of a syllabus: you need to locate a book, and there are too many lines… At C2 Labs,…
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