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Poly Prep Class of 2022 Early College Admissions Results

Academics

Early Decision College Results Are In

Fall Sports Champs Girls' Volleyball

Athletics

Back in Action 2021: Highlights of Poly’s Fall Sports

Poly on Film Why Did You Kill Me?

Alumni

Poly on Film Features True Crime Documentary

Elektra Urbatsch '23 water polo action shot

Athletics

Elektra Urbatsch ’23 Is Headed to Pan Am Games with USA Water Polo

Isabella Saul '22

Athletics

Tennis, Anyone?

Grades 7&8 play A Christmas Carol

Arts

PolyARTS Presents a Holiday Classic

Poly PM Spectacular STEM

Community

Poly PM Is a Hit

One Love Community Fridge

Community

Service Learning Guest Speaker Inspires Students to Give Back

NYC Slavery Tour story

Academics

NYC Slavery and Underground Railroad Tour

The Everyday Grind Polygon student story

Community

The Everyday Grind: Hustle Culture at Poly

How I Got Here speaker series with Dr. David Petrou P’34 group photo

Community

Google Software Engineer Shares Insights

Middle School Students Build Robots

Academics

Grade 6 Tech Class Builds AI Computer Vision Kits

Museum play poster art

Arts

Preview of the Grades 11/12 Play “Museum”

Dancer and choreographer Winston Dynamite Brown instructs students

Arts

Professional Artists Return for In-Person Middle School Dance Classes

Party Book

Community

Party Book, Fundraiser or Friendraiser? Why Not Both?

service learning saturdays at one love

Community

Be Part of Poly’s Service Saturdays

Ramesh Laungani

Academics

Dr. Laungani’s Strategies to Make Science Approachable

$Zach Udin at British Museum$

Academics

Math History Student’s Quest Led to British Museum

Lower School salsa dancers greet students at lower school

Community

Lower School Celebrates Hispanic/Latinx Heritage

AI scholars program social media icons

Academics

Marisa Triola ‘24 Completes A.I. Scholars Program

Homecoming 2021

Community

Poly Goes Big for Homecoming 2021

Dr. Robert Aston

Academics

Dr. Robert Aston Guest Lecture to Graduate Students in London

Blue Devil illustrator Ken Niimura

Community

Meet the Illustrator Behind the New Blue Devil

Maite Iracheta summer professional development in Mexico

Academics

Maité Iracheta Connects with Mexicayotl Movement in Summer Professional Development

9-Man Poly on Film series

Arts

Poly on Film Looks at a Uniquely Asian-American Sport

Blue Devil teaser

Community

What in the Blue Devil Is Going On?

Grade 9 & 10 Play: The Outsider

Arts

Live ARTs Is Back: Grades 9&10 Play “The Outsider”

Harold Eric Theurer ’13 Daddydelphia

Alumni

Young Alumni Collaborate on Animated TV Pilot

Climate Change professional development

Academics

Climate Change Education

Sabina Laricchia MS Food Drive

Community

Sabina Laricchia P’21 Is the 2021 Spirit Award Winner

Qadir Forbes

Alumni

Meet Qadir Forbes ’11

Sarah E. Brook blue hallway

Arts

Sarah E. Brook’s Artist Residency Illuminates Poly

Clubs Fair 2021 First Aid Club

Academics

Creative Pitches at the Upper School Clubs Fair

Blue Devil Night September 24, 2021

Athletics

Blue Devil Night Brings It

Poly on Film 9/11 Memorial plaque

Alumni

New Season of Poly on Film Debuts

Michael Robinson Met Gala dress close-up

Arts

Art Meets Activism: Michael S. Robinson Garment Wows at Met Gala

New roles, new faculty 2021-22

Community

Taking on New Roles at Poly This Fall

Students receive letter from President Biden

Academics

President Biden Gives Advice to Grade 2

Dan Doughty, Director of Music

Arts

Dan Doughty’s New Role as Director of Music

Dr. Ramesh Laungani, Science Chair

Academics

Meet Dr. Ramesh Laungani, New Chair of the Science Department

Academics

Getting Ahead by Exploring the Past: History Club

Middle School and Upper School Final Assembly of 2020-2021

Academics

End-of-Year Assembly Celebrates Perseverance & Achievements

We did it year end wrap up

Community

Poly Highlights from a Most Unusual Year

2016 In The Heights

Alumni

Poly’s 2016 “In the Heights,” Revisited

senior capstone 2021

Academics

Senior Plan Capstone Project 2021

Commencement 2021 cap

Academics

Poly Prep Celebrates the Class of 2021

Gauri Purohit joseph dana allen award winner 2021

Academics

Joseph Dana Allen Award Winner Gauri Purohit ’21

Talia Marash Senior Speaker 2021

Academics

Senior Speaker Talia Marash ’21 Reflects on Her Poly Experience

Class of 2021 Heads to College

Academics

The Class of 2021 Heads to College

2021 Cum Laude Inductees

Academics

Class of 2021 Cum Laude Induction with Guest Speaker Kwame Anthony Appiah

2021 Major Awards

Academics

Major Awards Ceremony 2021

Poly on Film The Argument

Alumni

Poly on Film Features “The Argument” with Dan Fogler ’94

Middle School Musical Godspell Junior.

Arts

Spotlight on Poly’s Middle School Musical “Godspell Junior”

reunion social justice panel 2021

Alumni

Reunion 2021: Class of 2009 on Social Justice

Middle School Bearns 2021 Poly at sunset

Academics

Bearns: A Speaking Tradition Goes Virtual

Richard Marlin and Robert Magnus

Alumni

All in the Family: 70th Reunion Alumnus and Grandson in Class of 2021

Visual Arts Debuts Virtual Exhibition in May

Arts

Visual Arts Debuts Virtual Exhibition in May

Pop Up Vaccine Clinic at Poly Prep

Community

Pop-Up Pfizer Vaccine Clinic for Students

Upper School Rienzi

Academics

Upper School Celebrates World Languages and Poetry

Dr. Donald Earl Collins Poly Connected speaker

Community

Poly Connected: Tackles ‘Cancel Culture’

Poly on Film Aaron Matthews

Alumni

Poly on Film Features Academy Award Winner Aaron Matthews ’89

Middle School Rienzi 2021

Academics

Middle School Celebrates Rienzi 2021

Michael Buckley Middle School Author Visit

Academics

Best-selling Author Michael Buckley Visits Grades 5 & 6

Nobel Prize Science Forum

Academics

Nobel Prize Lunch Forum

Poly Honored with CCE Award James Ogilvie and Wendy Banner

Community

Poly Honored with CCE Award

Lower School Women's History Month Assembly 2021

Academics

Lower School Celebrates Women’s History Month

National History Day

Academics

Poly’s History Club Members Advance

Confronting Anti-Asian Discrimination

Community

Confronting Anti-Asian Discrimination

Poly Connected Dread Scott

Community

Poly Connected: Social Change through Art

Upper School Musical Songs for a New World

Arts

Preview of the US Musical “Songs for a New World”

PolyCultura

Community

PolyCultura: A Celebration of Diversity Through The Art of Storytelling & Connection

Sprinter screenshot

Alumni

Poly on Film Features Rob Maylor ’96, Producer of “Sprinter”

Alumni panel discusses What to expect in College

Alumni

Alumni Panel Offers Insight: What to Expect in College

Afrofuturism “Entropia,” by artist Julie Mehretu

Academics

Brooklyn Museum Educators Bring Afrofuturism to US Assembly

Community

Plans for Spring at Poly

Lower School MLK and African-American History Month Assemblies art

Academics

Lower School Celebrates MLK and African-American History Month

Poly Connected Camille Rich

Community

Poly Connected: Other People’s Stories

SEED Project

Academics

SEED Is a Tool in Creating Equity in the Classroom

Connie Chen ’19

Alumni

Checking in With: Connie Chen ’19

Vacs for Vax Ethan Gilbert ’22

Community

Ethan Gilbert ’22 Spearheads VACs for Vax

Lunar New Year ox

Community

Kindergarten A Shares Lunar New Year Celebration with Lower School

Facing Latin America Website by Students

Academics

Students Launch “Facing Latin America” Website Project

Jair Froome ’15

Alumni

Checking in With: Jair Froome ’15

Holocaust Remembrance Assembly

Academics

Child of Survivors Is Guest at Holocaust Remembrance Assembly

Evan James book covers

Academics

Author Evan James Shares “Tales” in Writers’ Block Masterclass

Lower School PreK Rosa Parks Civil Rights Lesson

Academics

Pre-K Reenacts Rosa Parks’ Bus Protest in Civil Rights Study

Chloe Sun '19

Alumni

Checking in With: Chloe Sun ’19

Laura Terruso Work It Alumni On Film

Alumni

Poly on Film Features Laura Terruso ’99, Director of “Work It”

Covid Testing nasal swab

Community

Working to Stay Ahead of the Virus

Producer Paul Hanson Discusses District 9 with Grade 10 English

Academics

Producer Paul Hanson Discusses “District 9”

Middle School Read-a-thon January 2021

Academics

Middle School Read-a-Thon Clocks Over 1,000 Hours

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Arts

Middle School’s Grades 7 & 8 Play Goes Virtual

Dr. Omari Keeles

Community

Poly Welcomes Dr. Omari W. Keeles as Its New Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Joseph Wright ’75, M.D. and Vivien Thomas (inset)

Alumni

Dr. Joseph Wright ’75 Champions Story of Medical Pioneer Vivien Thomas

The Redemption/Blossom courtesy of Tawny Chatmon

Arts

Poly Context: Artist Tawny Chatmon on Celebrating the Beauty of Black Childhood

How I Got Here speaker series Minya Oh P’33 and Dr. Armin Tehrany ’87, P’23, ’25

Community

Listen to Perspectives on Career Pathways

Alumna experience COVID hotel

Alumni

Alumna Experience with “COVID Hotel” Sheds Light on Health Care Inequities

Lower School Virtual Festival of Lights

Community

Virtual Festival of Lights Shines Brightly

Author Helen Phillips and her book Here Where the Sunbeams are Green

Academics

Author Helen Phillips “Zooms” with Middle School Students

The Students for Environmental Justice Conference

Academics

Reflections on The Students for Environmental Justice Conference