center campus Green and Kaye Dormitories Open Green Dormitory, named in honor of former Head of School John F. Green (2001–13), officially opened on September 2. The new three-story, 60-bed residential living space, located between Avery Dormitory and Austen Colgate Hall, faces center campus. A second dormitory, named in honor of Trustee Robert M. Kaye ’54, opened in October. Kaye Dormitory is located between Potter South and Octagon House and sits along South Main Street. Kerr Dormitory is scheduled to be removed, and plans are in place to appropriately honor the memory of former Headmaster Albert Kerr on campus. A dedication ceremony is planned for Spring 2017.
Students organize TEDx Talk Last spring, a small committee of students hosted the first-ever TEDxPeddie event. Created in the spirit of TED’s mission, “ideas worth spreading,” TEDx programs support independent organizers who want to create a TED-like event in their own community. Using video, or a combination of live presenters and video, TEDx events are meant to spark deep conversation and connections at the local level. The program, “The Future as We Know It,” brought together six industry leaders, some of whom are Peddie alumni, to discuss issues in the areas of social injustice, energy and sustainability, business, entertainment and social media, finance, and immunology and microbiology. Many of the talks originated from ideas that the student committee explored in their classes. Per TEDx rules, the private event sat 100 students and invited guests.
Here’s something fabulous Peddie’s Digital Fabrication Lab (we call it the Fab Lab) turns one-year-old this fall. Set in the school’s repurposed boiler plant, the state-of-the-art facility is home to coursework in engineering, and mechanical design and manufacturing. It’s also home of Peddie’s award-winning robotics team (pictured here), which advanced to the finals of the FIRST Robotics Competition in St. Louis last spring.
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Christopher Fu ’17, Christine Ayoh ’17, Oliver Crane ’17, Sach Iyer ’17, Hanako Kurita ’17 and Elizabeth Sullivan ’17 spent six months carefully arranging all aspects of the event from speaker outreach to ticketing and marketing. “Working with the members of the TEDxPeddie team has been a life-changing experience for me,” said Fu. “The thrill of hosting an event that brings together creative and innovative ideas to help spark meaningful conversations within the Peddie community is more incredible than words can describe.” The committee plans to bring in additional speakers for the 2016–17 school year, and recruit younger students to continue the program after the committee members graduate.