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Inspirational Creating Innovators Workshop
“Where are the chairs?” As participants entered the Creating Innovators Workshop last week at Mack Boulder, it was apparent from the beginning that it would be no ordinary affair with someone standing at a podium while lecturing a passive, seated audience. For over...
Mack-Boulder Receives $1.5 Million Grant for Gifted Scholars Program
Mackintosh Academy-Boulder recently received a $1.5 million grant to launch a new Mack Scholars program designed to provide ten students from socio- economically disadvantaged backgrounds full financial support to attend Mackintosh Academy through 8th grade. JJ...
Tour Mackintosh Boulder
Take our new virtual tour and see the Mackintosh difference in action. We are so proud of our new admissions video. It is different by design - just like our educational program. The narration is completely student driven and we focus on showing how we "do" things...
Campus Spotlight: Littleton Lights Up With Inquiry-Based Learning
What is that blue line? Why does it drop down for two days and then go up again for five? And what does azimuth mean? These and other questions lit up the room as students and, later, their parents explored the data generated by our solar panel monitoring system....
Resolve, Not Resolutions, in the New Year
There’s a certain amount of expected angst and “taking stock” that comes with middle age, and that tendency towards introspection became even more intensified this year when I experienced some sudden-onset, mysterious back pain (nothing says “You’re old!” like back...
Upcoming: I am a Scientist Workshop by John Paull
OK, so…….what is a scientist? The popular view held by most children is that the world of science is owned by wide-eyed, white-coated ‘boffins’ [1]who spend their time poking in test tubes and looking into microscopes, beautifully illustrated by 5th grader, Paige. I...