Abington Friends School

What a Zoo

March 11, 2016

The first graders who were playing with the robotic reptile soon learned that its menace didn’t include an ability to bite. So, of course, they put their hands in the snake’s mouth over and over again and giggled in joy at their discovery as they placed their mechanical animals into the cardboard habitats that the first graders had created. The event marked the culmination of a collaboration between Upper School robotics students and their first grade partners.

Pop-Up Events Come to AFS

March 11, 2016

Upper School Teachers Donna Russo, Amy Newman and Megan Bellwoar Hollinger spent a few weeks last summer exploring new and exciting trends in their disciplines — photography, studio art and theater — and how they could incorporate them into their classes this year. They soon focused on creating a series of pop-up displays and events, which are responsive to what is going on in the world, appear unannounced and disappear just as quickly.

Ben Shuster ’17 recognized by the Anti-Defamation League

March 11, 2016

Ben Shuster ’17 was recognized by the Anti-Defamation League as the Grand Prize Winner for his essay, “Eyes Wide Open,” which he wrote after attending the Anti-Defamation League’s 9th Annual Youth Leadership Conference in October. The essay contest on “Exploring Diversity, Challenging Hate” was open to students from 46 schools who had participated in the daylong meeting.

Debating Medical Ethics

March 11, 2016

At a session of the AFS MedEx program, AFS students and doctors discussed the ethical dilemmas physicians can face when treating their patients. MedEx is a yearlong group-mentoring program, providing students with the opportunity to explore what doctors do, how they think and what they face daily in their profession.

AFS Recognized with 15 Cappies nominations, including Best Play

March 7, 2016

The Cappies is a national program celebrating the work and achievement of high school theatre and theatre critics. The cast and crew of the AFS performance of "Much Ado About Nothing" were nominated in 15 categories and won the following awards, including Best Play of 2015.

AFS Students ‘shine’ in Lower School Winter Program

March 7, 2016

AFS Lower School “traveled” across the continents in their Winter Program of music, dance and poetry that took them on a dreamlike journey in search of what makes the light shine in each of us.

In the program, “Una Luz para Luz” or “A Light for Luz,” a little girl at bedtime asks her mother a very big question — what makes her inner light shine. The annual Winter Program began with only an idea — light — and grew from there.

A Supreme Moment

February 29, 2016

Lawyer Ryan Lockman’s name was listed on the brief and he had a front-row seat on Tuesday when the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a First Amendment case brought by his Philadelphia law firm.

“It was kind of amazing to be there, and to know that I had a significant part of this case,” Ryan ’01 said later of his role as co-counsel.

Equality, Poetry and Rap

February 7, 2016

A delegation of five AFS students attended the annual Quaker Youth Leadership Conference in Providence, R.I., for two days of intense work and conversation focusing on the theme of “Equality: Past, Present and Future.”

AFS Students Host Diversity Conference

December 7, 2015

For several years now, Upper School students from AFS have been teaming up with their peers at the Perkiomen School to host the student-led Mid Atlantic Regional Diversity Conference.

College Guidance

December 7, 2015

Students at AFS develop and grow in an environment where they are known well by many adults. This highly personalized approach to education carries through to the college application process. Our two college counselors work closely with students to fully understand their talents, abilities and interests and to help them find the college or university where they are most likely to thrive.