Science and Technology

The Science and Technology Department vision is to mold students into independent thinkers who strive to find solutions for themselves. Through class work, lab work, classroom demonstrations, and hands-on projects, each student relates the principles of science to the world at large. Labs and projects help students develop their teamwork skills and personal integrity while enhancing their understanding of the importance that collaboration plays in science careers like engineering, medicine, or research.

We discuss essential questions such as:

• What drives scientific and technological advancement?

• How is scientific knowledge generated and validated? What is evidence?

• How do we study the unobservable? How do we measure the unquantifiable?

The Science and Technology Department requires three credits in natural science and a half-credit in technology for graduation, with freshmen and sophomores studying biology and chemistry, respectively, before moving onto electives such as physics, anatomy, environmental, or forensics. A half-credit S.T.E.M. course that introduces coding and robotics is required of all sophomores. See our Course Selection Guide for more detail.