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Three Lake County High School Sophomores Receive Full Scholarships to HMI

Benney, Gonzales, & Reigel Receive HMI Merit Scholarships Lake County High School sophomores Ariel Benney and Bianca Gonzalez, and Abigail Reigel are the recipients of this year’s High Mountain Institute (HMI) merit scholarships. Benney, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Charles & Suzi Benney, will attend HMI this summer, Gonzales, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Alberto & Vianca Gonzales, will attend HMI for the fall semester; Reigel, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Michael & Allison Reigel will attend HMI in […]

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Five Principles of Deliberate Practice: Dylan Kane featured on Edutopia!

  “Educators often say that practice makes perfect. But what should that practice look like?” asks HMImath faculty Dylan Kane in the opening of his most recent article, “A Focus on Self-Improvement,” featured on Edutopia. Dylan goes on to discuss five principles of deliberate practice, and how educators can integrate them into their classroom to improve

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Five Principles of Deliberate Practice: Dylan Kane featured on Edutopia!

  “Educators often say that practice makes perfect. But what should that practice look like?” asks HMImath faculty Dylan Kane in the opening of his most recent article, “A Focus on Self-Improvement,” featured on Edutopia. Dylan goes on to discuss five principles of deliberate practice, and how educators can integrate them into their classroom to improve

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Finding Academic Success in the Backcountry

Each year, when our admissions team visits with prospective students and families, we field a version of the same question. People want to know how HMI offers both a top-notch wilderness program and an academic curriculum rich in conent. The question is a good one: HMI seeks to do an incredible amount at the highest levels. When this query

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Clean Underwear Day

This essay was written in response to the prompt: “Cultivating a sense of ‘enough’ in a culture of more.” I owe the inspiration and space to let my creative juices flow to the young ladies of Semester 33 who were in my third expedition group. Today is clean underwear day and I am pretty excited.

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How Experiential Learning and Outdoor Adventure Go Hand-in-Hand

Earlier this fall, Aaron Pomerance from Alpenclimb talked with Head of School Danny O’Brien about the role of outdoor adventure in education. Alpenclimb is an online community that makes the outdoors more accessible to those looking to adventure and go outside. Here’s some of what Danny had to say in his conversation with Aaron: “O’Brien

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People of HMI

In this week’s episode of People of HMI, Gabby Feizbakhsh shares how his passion for HMItriumphed over the obstacles he faced to get here. Check it out!

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Learning Leadership

Are some people natural born leaders? Or can leadership be learned? The nature versus nurture debate frequently plays out when it comes to leadership. Researchers at University College of London (UCL) have been studying whether or not genetics are associated with the likelihood that people take on leadership roles. “We have identified a genotype, called

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HMI Fun Run: What’s Next?

After completing the 10-mile Fun Run, many HMI alumni request running plans to help them train for future goals, or just to help them stay active. One of our math teachers, MCMcGovern, has come up with a variety of plans to help with this! You can start any of the training plans (below) at any time. For example,

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