Community Service
completed desk to the refugee classroom and adjust their design or approve it for mass production.
makes reusable products difficult to adopt, Pennington Girls in STEM set out to design a hybrid sanitary napkin. They started on a first iteration in early November 2019, then field-tested the product over the next couple of months before getting back together in midJanuary to tweak it. Ms. Overhiser was a valuable resource for the girls as they designed and sewed! New desk design for refugee camp school Upper School students in the Malawi Club worked on a desk design project for the primary school at the Malawi refugee camp. The final design was rendered in CAD software by Matthew Cooper ’21 and sent to a factory in Lilongwe so a prototype could be created and tested. When Pennington students go to Malawi in March 2020, they will take the
iPads for refugee students Pennington Applied Science students have been refurbishing iPads all year in order to deliver them to students in the Dzaleka refugee camp in Malawi. The iPads will be preloaded with education apps, books, and other learning tools tested and selected by Pennington students. Dzaleka students of all ages will use the iPads for learning a host of subjects and skills. iPads are wellsuited for educational purposes in the camp due to their long battery life, durability, and ease of use. Students traveling to Malawi to deliver the devices will also bring with them a solar-powered charging cart. The group will teach the Dzaleka students how to use the iPads to exponentially increase their learning opportunities.
Faculty Spotlight
The Reverend David Hallgren became Pennington’s chaplain in the summer of 2019. Hallgren is the associate pastor of the Pennington Presbyterian Church, where he has worked with multiple generations within that congregation. He was born of the Yakima Nation in eastern Washington and was adopted by a Swedish-American Mennonite couple at the age of two. He began working as a building contractor but became hooked on ministry with children while volunteering at Camp Firwood in Bellingham, Washington, one summer, when he also met his wife, Kristin. They live with their two young daughters in Pennington. Hallgren has a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Washington and a master of divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary.
Beach Sweep Sixteen students were “citizen scientists” on Saturday, October 26, tallying and categorizing trash found on Belmar beach as part of Clean Ocean Action’s annual Fall Beach Sweep. They found a lot of small pieces of plastic such as straws, bottle caps, and wrappers, but many other items as well. The outing was organized by the Green Team, which hopes to continue the tradition into future years.
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