Transforming the Campuses with Chris Guides
Friends’ Central Upper School science teacher Chris Guides has been, for many years, quietly at work across both of the School’s campuses implementing highly...
NASA Ambassadors: Teaching Eclipse Literacy
Upper School physics teacher Deborah Skapik has recently been selected to be a NASA Partner Eclipse Ambassador. And Deb was thrilled to discover that...
The Contemporary Latino Experience
For students wanting to immerse themselves in Spanish while getting hands-on insight into a range of Spanish-speaking cultures, Friends’ Central Upper School’s Contemporary Latino...
Commencement 2022
On Saturday, June 11, Friends’ Central held its 177th Commencement honoring the Class of 2022. The rain forecast threatened to cause some chaos just...
Taking it to the Next Level with Linear Algebra
When students and teachers are equally excited by the subject matter and students themselves are inspired to push the boundaries of learning, there’s magic in the classro...
Building Cathode-Ray Tubes in the FCS Chemistry Lab
Friends’ Central Sophomore Rupert Bowen is conducting an independent experiment building cathode-ray tubes in an FCS chemistry lab. It’s a project he himself devised,...
FCS Science Program Publishes Scientific Research Article
Friends’ Central’s first ever scientific research article naming an unrecognized moth species was released in The Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society in June 2021....
Community-Centered Design to Promote Equity, Shaped by Quaker Roots
When I first decided to compete in the Fifth Annual HOK Futures Design Challenge as an Interior Architecture & Design graduate student at Drexel...