With Thanks: To The Donors To Our Faculty Wish List

With Thanks TO THE DONORS TO OUR FACULTY WISH LIST

The Elisabeth Morrow School

We wish to thank the generous donors to the 2016 Faculty Wish List. These items greatly enhance learning and teaching throughout all three divisions of The Elisabeth Morrow School, and represent innovation coupled with traditional approaches. Their impact will be felt by a generation of students.

Following is a sampling of the items purchased within the last year. A full listing of items and donors who supported our Wish List appear on the final two pages.

The Elisabeth Morrow School

These tiny programmable robots help teach students various types of coding as well as fundamental deductive reasoning skills.

OZOBOTS

These amazingly comfortable bean bag chairs are the perfect spot for reading and other quiet activities.

The durable soft seating contains zero pressure points, providing instant relaxation, as well as optimum comfort and support.

YOGIBO POD

Aesthetically pleasing, utilitarian and used on a daily basis, this book truck allows librarians and teachers to curate collections for special use and conveniently transport the books from library to classroom.

Demco LibraryQuiet Book Truck

Written in Spanish, these biographies teach students about some of the most influential Hispanic historical figures.

Santillana USA Personajes del Mundo Hispanico Biography Series

Spheros are robotic balls that teach coding through creativity and collaboration.

Sphero SPRK Robot

The Padcaster turns an iPad into an all-inone mobile production studio, creating high quality videos.

Padcaster

This time-honored learning tool introduces the concept of numbers to our youngest students. It also teaches simple math skills, patterning and color recognition.

Abacus

Digital cameras provide students with a visual way to communicate thoughts, feelings and ideas. They allow students to take photos for use in storytelling, scientific investigations and field trip adventures.

Digital Camera

Classroom set of Metamorphoses of These classics help support the training of EMS’ competitive Latin Ovid and teams in Certamina tournaments.

The Odyssey

Latin students learn to read these authentic 4th century A.D. Roman coins as historical documents.

They research the iconography, date and minting of each coin and write about their findings.

Ancient Coins for Education

Lobby monitor screens in each building provide the entire community with upto-date information, as well as event reminders. Also, they allow us to celebrate our academics, athletics and extracurriculars in a visual medium.

Lobby Monitor

These colorful doublesided wall maps in Spanish serve as strong visual aids for our students. They provide an authentic setting for classroom discussions.

Two-sided Wall Maps

Developed in the early 20th century as a way to encourage studentled discussion, Harkness tables allow students to sit facing inward, where they are intuitively invited to engage with one other by sharing, discussing and collaborating. Students are all equals around a Harkness table, and all voices are heard and respected.

HARKNESS TABLES

GIFTS 4’ x 6’ Soccer Goals Portable Men’s Lacrosse Crease QB tees for Flag Football Girl’s Lacrosse Crease/Arc Floor Hockey Goals Lockable Outdoor Sports Container Lacrosse Backstop Large Scale Wooden Abacus Tangle Relax Therapy Power Clix Magna-Tiles (100 pieces) Building Set with Tubes & Wheels Root Viewer Garden Kit Sand And Water Activity Table LED Smart TV Lobby Welcome Screen + Wall Mount MakeDo Toolkit Group Cork Yoga Blocks Children’s Microscopes Art Stands/Table Easels Bean Bag Chairs Chat Soft Seating Pouf (seats 6) Legos - Wheels WEDGiTs Deluxe (30 piece set) Van de Graff Generator Analog to Digital Audio Converter Ancient Coins for Education

Set of Homer’s Odyssey (Fagles translation) Set of Ovid’s Metamorphoses A Class Set of Santillana’s USA Personajes del Mundo Hispánico Biography Series Two-sided Wall Maps of Spain, South America, Mexico & Central America (in Spanish) Santillana’s USA Spanish Poetry Kit Demco LibraryQuiet Book Truck Yogibo Pods Whiteboard Stand Up Desk Harkness Tables PowerShot Elph 350 HS Digital Cameras Myo Armband Kinect (gaming device) Wacom Tablets (drawing interface for computer) Sphero SPRK Robots Accessory Packs for Sphero Robot Virtual Reality headset set up(s) Ozobots Leap Motion E-textiles / Wearable Electronics Wireless Lapel or Headset Mics Structure (3D scanning for augmented reality for mobile devices) Padcasters Sound System with Wired Mic

DONORS Mr. Robert Amador & Mrs. Rositsa Amador Mr. Gregory Amerkanian and Dr. Natalie Capan Amerkanian ‘84 Mr. Christopher Anderson and Mrs. Adrienne Anderson ‘79 Mr. Paul Baly and Mrs. Liane Baly Ms. Tracey Blumberg Mr. Stephen Borg ‘80 and Mrs. Monica Borg Ms. Beth Anne Brennan Mr. Matthew Capizzi and Mrs. Jaime Capizzi Mr. Edward Choi and Mrs. Brenda Choi Mr. Pil Chung and Mrs. Angie Byun Chung Mr. David Cohen and Mrs. Janet Cohen Mr. Aaron Cooper and Mrs. Kara Cooper Mr. Carlos de Alba and Mrs. Patricia Maclean Mr. Victor Del Rio and Mrs. Susan Del Rio Mr. Michel Dominguez Mrs. Tricia Eickelberg Mr. Andrew Escala ‘83 and Mrs. Meredith Escala Mr. Darren Esser and Mrs. Stacy Esser Mr. Artur Ferreira and Mrs. Catherine Ferreira Mr. Donald Gardner and Mrs. Milagros Camacho-Gardner Mr. Alexander Garger and Mrs. Yana Garger Mr. Philip Harris and Ms. Judy Grossman Mr. Paul Hollander and Mrs. Robin Goldfischer Hollander Mr. Kaibo Hu and Ms. Zhanglan Cheng Mr. Edward Hunter and Mrs. Theodora Hunter Mr. Tom Hur and Mrs. Annie Hur Dr. Joshua Hyman ‘75 and Ms. Elizabeth Corsini Mr. Ilias Iliadis and Ms. Anna Roussou Mr. Robert Kachikian and Mrs. Kim Kachikian Mr. Mark Kesslen and Mrs. Phyllis PerskieKesslen Mr. Adetunji Layade and Mrs. Nashira Layade

Mr. Ira Lifshutz and Mrs. Alyssa Wilk Dr. Hyun-Soo Lee and Ms. Masako C. Shiono Mr. Robert Lopez and Mrs. Amy Kadomato Mr. Sean Lucan and Ms. Danielle Bocchino Ms. Jill Malesardi Mr. Paul J. Marvin and Ms. Melissa Geiger Mr. Miguel Merino and Mrs. Sofia Aviles Mr. Neal Merker and Ms. Anna Merker Mr. Robert Michiels and Mrs. Debra Michiels Ms. Elizabeth Milne Mr. Prashant Mitta and Mrs. Shabri Mitta Mr. Levon Nazarian and Mrs. Vera Nazarian Mr. David Oropeza ‘75 and Mrs. Michelle Oropeza Mr. Scott Ostfeld and Mrs. Jennifer Ostfeld Mr. Neil Ovadia and Ms. Lauren Ovadia Mr. Dimitrios Paliouras and Mrs. Joanna Paliouras Mr. Saumil Parikh ‘86 and Mrs. Saloni Parikh Mr. Pankil Patel and Mrs. Ami Patel Mr. Andrew Piccinich and Mrs. Maria Piccinich Mr. Jeffrey Rowbottom and Mrs. Francine Rowbottom Ms. Claire Santoro Dr. Robert Schwartz and Mrs. Debra PerskieSchwartz Mr. John Skinner Jr. and Mrs. Adela Waymouth Skinner Mr. Yoshimasa Tada and Mrs. Nancy Fujita ‘86 Mr. Michael Toback and Mrs. Karen Toback Mr. Gaurav Verma and Mrs. Shuchi Verma Mr. Sarabjit Walia and Mrs. Hanita Walia Mr. Zhigang Wang and Ms. Yujie Dong Mr. Jeremy Warren and Mrs. Monica Warren Mr. David Weinraub and Mrs. Melanie Weinraub Mr. Basil Williams and Mrs. Anna Williams Mr. Parker Winston and Ms. Allison Bazin Mr. Tao Zhang and Mrs. Cong Chen