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Domino Dynamos!🔴🟡🔵🟠🟢🟣 For kids who like building, tinkering, and challenging themselves, this is the perfect way to spend a week. These campers create chain reactions, bridges, and spirals only to watch them systematically fall. Good-natured competitions and collaborations happen each day. #SummitSummer #SummitSchoolWS #EndlessExploration #ConfidenceToBeCurious

Summit Summer Week #1 Full of Creating🌟 Campers immersed themselves this week in creating all kinds of skills--theater production, sewing, volleyball, chess, mixed media, how to use tinkering tools, how to give back to our community, and much more. They explored with friends, became curious about new topics, and, most importantly, filled their day with joy. 🌟🌟 #SummitSummer #EndlessExploration #StudentVoice #JoyInTheJourney

We're delighted to announce that we've placed in third place in the Triad Business Journal's Best Places to Work. It's a testament to our incredible faculty and staff, who embody our culture of fostering creativity, innovation, and collaboration. Their dedication and enthusiasm have truly propelled us to this achievement. #bptw #tbj

Since 2014, Charlie Lovett '77 and the Lovett Foundation have donated $2,500 to Summit School, enabling the 9th grade class to make a gift to a local nonprofit organization. The students collaborate with our development office to learn about philanthropy, the Lovett Foundation, and deserving organizations in our community. Approximately 5-7 agencies submit a grant application to Summit. The students and staff review the applications, ask questions of the organizations, and have robust conversations about how to narrow the field. The 2024 recipient of the 9th Grade Philanthropy Project grant is the A. Bailey Legacy Foundation for Women. This philanthropic foundation celebrates and invests in the lives of women and girls of color through scholarships and education, award recognition, health development projects, humanitarian efforts, and mentor programs. Dr. Alicia Bailey accepted the grant at the Welcome New Alums Breakfast this morning. #SociallyResponsible #Honorable

High honor for Adelaide Jernigan '22! Jernigan, a junior at Bishops McGuiness, received an invitation to the 2024 U18 USA Basketball's Women's National Team Trials, which will begin on May 15 at the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Jernigan is one of 26 players in the country—12 from the Class of 2024 and 14 from the Class of 2025—invited to compete for a spot on the 12-member team that will compete at the 2024 FIBA U18 Women's AmeriCup from June 17 to 23 in Bucaramanga, Colombia. "I'm very excited and very honored," said Jernigan, who was recently voted as the Winston-Salem Journal's girls basketball player of the year for the second straight season after averaging 19.1 points, 3.9 rebounds, three assists, and three steals per game this season. "There is no higher honor than playing for USA Basketball, and I'd really love to make the team." This is the second invitation she has received from USA Basketball to try out for one of its national teams. Way to go, Adelaide! #GirlsBasketball #WSNC #FIBA #WomensAmeriCup #USABasketball #SummitAlum

🦅 Class of 1994 representing at May Frolics! These seven classmates are all current parents, and two are even staff members. For more information about our admissions process, check out https://lnkd.in/e8jTughe

Yesterday, I was lucky enough to visit three Triad area schools - each with distinct missions and exceptional student-centered leaders. Thank you to Tom Franz at High Point Friends School, Susan R. Perry, PhD, MSW, LCSW, and Gardner Barrier at Forsyth Country Day School, and Michael Ebeling and Cindy Kluttz at Summit School for your hospitality and time. It was wonderful seeing your missions in action! Independent School Management Left: Forsyth Country Day School Top Right: High Point Friends School Bottom Right: Summit School

Calling all Triangle Area Alums! Grab a friend and join the Summit School Alumni Council at the North Carolina Museum of Art on Sunday, April 21, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. We will meet in the West Building at 2:30 for a brief welcome and overview of the current exhibitions. To RSVP, please message us, comment below, or email Sarah Dalrymple, Director of Alumni Engagement, at sarahd@summitmail.org. #EndlessExploration #ncartmuseum #SummitSchoolalums #ArtsInTheTriangle

Summit School is on the road and excited to host these regional alumni events. Mark your calendar and make plans to join the gathering in your area! Questions? Contact sarahd@summitmail.org (Sarah Dalrymple, Director of Alumni Engagement) #SummitSchoolWS #SummitEagles #SummitAlums

Distinguished Alumni Alert 🎨 Anne Kesler Shields was born in Winston-Salem in 1932. She was in the founding group of the Five Winston-Salem Printmakers. Shields attended Summit School and graduated from R. J. Reynolds High School. She graduated from Hollins College with a bachelor’s degree in classical art and earned an MFA from UNC Greensboro. She also studied at the Hans Hoffmann School of Fine Art in Provincetown, MA, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. Shields was one of the founders of Associated Artists and The Winston-Salem Gallery of Fine Arts (now SECCA). She was an exhibiting member of Artworks Gallery. Shields' work included silkscreens, portraits, woodcuts, collages, and more. She was a prolific creator. Many of her silkscreens in the ’60s and ’70s were what she classified as Op Art, or Optical Art, which is an art that uses pattern and color to create the illusion of movement. Her works of this type are very recognizable and often seen around Winston-Salem. Her work is in permanent collections at Wake Forest University, the Forsyth County Public Library, Arbor Acres, the NC Museum of Art, the Mint Museum, MUSE Winston-Salem, and many others. Shields was married to Howard Shields for 51 years until she passed away in 2012. Together they had three children and several grandchildren. The attached image shows Anne Kesler Shields’ 1970 silkscreen “Curve IX, Blue,” from the artist’s website. North Carolina Museum of Art Wake Forest University Forsyth County Public Libraries The Mint Museum