The Delbarton Difference: Building Innovative Learners

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The Delbarton Incubator Delbarton’s version of Shark Tank is a hands-on class that builds entrepreneurs by applying student creativity and problem-solving strategies to real world product solutions.

Students work in teams to develop prototypes, write business and marketing plans, and introduce innovative products by applying industry skills like website design and promotional pitches. Throughout the year, alumni entrepreneurs visit to offer feedback on everything from setting up an e-commerce company and implementing product validation methods to researching intellectual property rights and creating partnership agreements.

Past products include the Wallet of the Future, the Powder Pill electrolyte performance system, and Table Rock, the must-have accessory for restaurants.

Social Justice Workshop & Retreat A longstanding tradition at Delbarton has been our prejudice reduction workshops designed for every freshman. Delbarton’s Social Justice Committee, comprising juniors and seniors trained as peer mentors to promote awareness of issues of intolerance and privilege, lead these powerful experiential student workshops. Every sophomore student at Delbarton then enrolls in a one-term Social Justice course where he will study problems facing society today. Perspectives from Scripture, history, and Church teaching are included to bring this message to bear on specific issues, including poverty and hunger, global and environmental concerns, sexism and racial prejudice, and the care for our aged and infirm. Faith and justice are linked to peace by helping students better understand that if they want peace, they must work for justice. The social justice student experience culminates in a sophomore class retreat at the Romero Center’s “Urban Experience” in Camden, heralded by both students and faculty as “eye opening” and “truly transformative”.

This hands-on, intensive encounter involves films and dialogue, witness talks and identity role-playing, community service work and an exercise, challenging students placed in family units to feed themselves for twenty-four hours on only $3.00 a day per-person in a modern urban food desert.

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The Delbarton Difference: Building Innovative Learners

The Delbarton Difference As a Benedictine Catholic school, Delbarton is at the center of the longest tradition in Western education dating back 1,300 years. Benedictine schools flourish on six continents, balancing tradition and innovation, rooted in the wisdom of the past yet always embracing the possibilities and promise of the future.

Delbarton students benefit from this rich blend of past and present. From flipped Math classrooms, choice reading in English, character reenactments in History, foreign language cultural excursions, student-designed 3-D projects in Science, guest speakers and off-site experiences, Delbarton is a cerebral playground for the serious learner and offers these innovative signature programs.

Ryan Crane ’95 Business Center Delbarton is one of the few high schools in the United States to offer a fully equipped Bloomberg terminal lab. Here, students build financial literacy, strengthen research skills, and bring economic theory to life. Seniors in AP Macroeconomics become Bloomberg-certified via an online course while learning how to navigate a powerful tech tool that teaches about global markets and economic trends. Many have discovered that their Bloomberg certification gives them an edge when seeking internships and jobs.

Arabic Language As one of the most widely employed and fastest growing global languages, Arabic is spoken by over four hundred million people around the world. At Delbarton, students of Arabic learn to read, write, and speak the language through

virtual video exchanges with peers schools in the Middle East and via an optional Global Delbarton trip to Jordan, Palestine, and Israel. Many continue their studies in college and discover that in addition to opening their minds, learning the Arabic language also opens many doors.

DelEX: Delbarton Externship Program Each June, DelEX offers an externship opportunity for rising seniors, connecting them with alumni and parents to explore career opportunities and extend learning beyond the classroom. Alumni and parent hosts from private enterprise and

public service offer training programs to our young men. Students shadow their hosts during their externship, sit in on meetings, work on projects, and network with professionals.

Training in how to leverage a LinkedIn account, create a resume, and develop professional etiquette are included in the DelEX program.

Past externships offered exposure to business, finance, entertainment, media, medicine, manufacturing, entrepreneurship, politics, law and more. Students appreciate the chance to sample a profession, and hosts enjoy connecting with our talented young men, sharing their knowledge with a new generation of potential employees.

The Freshmen Project

All Delbarton freshmen are invited to participate in a yearlong, independent research Freshman Project that allows each young man to explore a nontraditional area of personal interest.

Using a digital delivery platform, technology tools, and guided portfolio assessments, Freshman Project work culminates in live presentations to a faculty panel in May. Past projects include every area imaginable -- from building a doghouse for Ben (Delbarton’s mastiff-lab mascot) and designing a Delbarton iPhone App to launching an annual 5-K fundraiser and hosting an alumni baseball game.