We're pleased to report outstanding results in the first part of this year's college admissions process. Two-thirds of our senior class has one or more early offers of admission (through early decision or early action) at some of the country's most selective colleges and universities - including Harvard, Dartmouth, Williams, Kenyon, Macalester, Colby and Colorado College. Congratulations to our students! We look forward to releasing a full list of colleges later this year at the end of the admissions season.

More than 700 students and their families attended the second annual BC STEAM Fair last Saturday (exceeding last year's crowd of 400), where they participated in nearly 30 hands-on activities related to science, technology, engineering, arts and math.  The event's featured activities were miniature car designing/racing with Nerdy Derby, magic shows with Mario the Magician and smoothie making with Sweetcycle. Thanks to everyone who attended especially our student, parent, faculty and staff volunteers. More photos.  Coverage on the BC Blotter's Instagram.

Spanish Teacher Rebeca Matthews' 10th grade students created six Spanish children's stories loosely based on existing stories, using the preterite and imperfect tenses and creatively illustrating them either by hand or using design apps like stop motion animation. Then they sent key vocabulary words to first graders who practiced them ahead of time in class. At the readings, the 10th graders asked the Lower Schoolers comprehension questions and discussed the moral at the end of each story. Read more or see photos. 

Congrats to our ACIS League Champion Girls Varsity Swimming and our ACIS Champion Boys' JV Basketball team, who had an undefeated 14-0 season!  Read Athletics Director Dick McGrath's Weekly Update. 

Seventh and eighth graders are raising $5,000 for a meaningful service project in Costa Rica which they will work on -- in partnership with the local community. Our students will live with and learn from the community for a week in March and have already busked in Park Slope and babysat to raise money. (They will also sell books and handmade cards at parent-teacher conferences next week). Contribute to their Crowdrise fundraiser here. 

Eight BC Upper Schoolers joined students from 12 other NYC independent schools and performed at our new Performance Space as part of the first Independent School Music Association Honors Jazz Ensembles. The student-musicians, who have been working together since October, played under the direction of John Fedchock, a Grammy-nominated arranger and one of NYC's premiere jazz artists. More photos. 

Seniors in the Documenting the World course sharpened their interview skills -- identifying subjects and crafting questions - at their second documentary-making boot camp at Reel Works Teen Filmmaking. The students will present their completed films - pre-production is well underway - at a premiere in May. More photos.

Seventh and eighth grade Spanish classes got a sneak peek at BC's new Spanish book collection, before the official unveiling on March 1. Students "tasted" a few books, took notes of their impressions and shared their thoughts in lively conversations. ¡Todo en español!"

Students in Ms. Khordoc's, Ms. Stein's and Ms. Paller's classes found many ways to commemorate the 100th day of school.  Students found 100 numbered chocolate kisses, drew 100 smiley faces, painted 100 pairs of glasses, made necklaces with 100 pieces of cereal, counted 100 items brought from home, made 100 headbands, drew pictures & wrote stories about what they may look like or be like at 100 years old, and collected 100 words they know how to read and write. Read more plus more photos.

Order, order! Seventh graders became attorneys and justices to argue Denver Dispatch vs. U.S. Government, a hypothetical First Amendment case, at the Brooklyn Bankruptcy Court in Downtown Brooklyn. The case questions whether the fictional newspaper has a right to publish articles on a biological weapons research facility or whether they would pose too much of a risk to national security.
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