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On a clear summer evening in the year 2025, look to the southwestern sky and find the planet Jupiter. If you look hard enough, you might see the Europa Clipper spacecraft flying by Jupiter’s moon Europa, carrying with it Julie Jester Newman’s instrument named REASON.
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There are few people who can walk down the aisle of a library and not be captivated by the colorful spines of the books on the shelves or wonder about the adventures contained between their covers. The Considine Library at Parker’s Lower School is one of those captivating places.
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WOW, originally known as Women of W.A.R. Lords, was launched by female Parker students who wanted to confront the gender gap in the STEM industry as well as Parker’s own robotics team. Today, WOW harnesses twice the power by recruiting, retaining, and engaging girls in FIRST Robotics, creating a network of women who share experiences to promote girls in STEM.
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Anxious to return to her hometown, Stacey Patsko jumped at the chance to move back to San Diego. In August, Stacey accepted the position as Parker’s Upper School dean of students, leaving her position as dean of students and middle school athletic director at the Texas Military Institute Episcopal in San Antonio, Texas.
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Parker’s robotics club hosted an FTC league competition on Sunday, Dec. 9, providing a space for 14 local, community-based robotics teams to compete. One of those teams was FTC 10092, a community team supported in part by Parker’s robotics program.
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We all have a place in history, though at the age of 13 or 14, we may not know all of the details. In Middle School at Parker, Grade 8 students get the chance to research and share their family’s story through the Grade 8 Family History Project—a project that has been part of the Parker curriculum for nearly 30 years.
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It was a backpacking trip through Greece and Spain that inspired Grade 8 Dean and Middle School social studies teacher Jeremy Howard to become a history teacher. It was the beauty of the land and the stories it held that reminded him that history has so many lessons to tell.
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Senior Kindergarten (SK) teacher Katie Paige knows kindergarteners have a lot to say. They never miss a beat if you ask them to tell you a story, but ask them to write a book—that might be met with silence. Not for Parker’s SK students. During writer’s workshop, students are experienced authors writing and constructing how-to manuals on making cookies or talking about their “firsts.”
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Francis Parker School senior Evan Morgan was named a 2019 Congressional Award Gold Medal awardee representing California’s 52nd Congressional District of Poway. The Congressional Gold Medal is the highest honor Congress can bestow upon youth civilians.
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