Sustainability projects featured in virtual museum
When the 2020 Ransom Everglades Student Research Expo at Frost Science was cancelled due to COVID-19, RE STEM faculty and students worked together to ensure that the RE community could still view – and interact with – students' work by creating a number of remarkable virtual museums showcasing more than 350 projects.
RE students took on topics including including climate change solution research, public service announcement videos, proposed bills and even monologues featuring the plight of the environment. To see an overview of the 2020 Ransom Everglades Energy and Climate Change Symposium, view this introductory video created by faculty member Cameron Ferguson.
Virtual Museums
6th Grade
All 164 sixth-grade students have a dedicated "room" in their science class period’s museum featuring "artifacts" from both their science and world cultures projects. These include Integrated Science 1 projects from Dr. Kelly Jackson, Dr. Brooke Gintert, and Robin Escobedo and World Cultures/Geography projects from Cameron Ferguson, Alicia Fisher, Joe Mauro and Rene Gonzalez. This year, research project topics were focused on solutions to climate change based on the book/website Drawdown edited by Paul Hawken. Students investigated the science of their solutions, the economics and even proposed a bill. From the Performing Arts Department, Cecilia Gonzalez's 6th-grade drama classes created, constructed and performed Trash Puppets prior to the transition to REmote School. The photos and videos are featured in their own dedicated museum.
7th Grade
Students in Alexandra Gunner's and Bridgette Laskey's Integrated Science 2 classes contributed group projects to the virtual museums. Many of these projects also include an interdisciplinary component from Jan Bekkevold's Introduction to Programming classes. This year's 7th-grade projects focused on outreach and climate education. From the Performing Arts Department, Gina Montet's 7th-grade drama classes contributed Environmental Monologues. Students wrote unique monologues and then performed/recorded them using visual imagery, drawings, or puppets. These works can be viewed in their own dedicated museums.
Upper School
For the first time, upper school students from the Marine Field Research class, taught by Dr. Kelly Jackson, Dr. Brooke Gintert and Dr. Kristine Stump, contributed to the RE Energy and Climate Change Symposium. Students contributed group research papers and project videos to a dedicated MFR museum.
The REECCS virtual team included Kelly Jackson, Brooke Gintert, Cameron Ferguson and Alexandra Gunner. Barbara Share, Meghan Kramer and the RE library offered support for the project and assisted students with their research needs.
Those who visit the virtual museum are invited to sign the virtual guestbook.
Middle School
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Upper School
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Founded in 1903, Ransom Everglades School is a coeducational, college preparatory day school for grades 6 - 12 located on two campuses in Coconut Grove, Florida. Ransom Everglades School produces graduates who "believe that they are in the world not so much for what they can get out of it as for what they can put into it." The school provides rigorous college preparation that promotes the student's sense of identity, community, personal integrity and values for a productive and satisfying life, and prepares the student to lead and to contribute to society.