Malibu resident Summer Staff was part of a student-faculty team that worked together on a project, “Art of Journaling.” Summer, a student at Pomfret School in Connecticut, was part of an all-school academic experiment called Project: Pomfret.
From Dec. 3 through 18 the students and faculty at Pomfret, in place of class time and homework, worked one of 29 innovative projects. Among the projects were designing and building a real footbridge, conducting statistical and laboratory analyses on the economic and nutritional value of organic produce, and studying the Middle East, the environment, hip-hop music and the practicality of dams.
Project: Pomfret was based on the principles of project-based learning (students engage to the fullest when they can experience and solve real-world problems). Founded in 1894 and coeducational since 1968, Pomfret School is an independent college preparatory boarding and day school.