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18Dec, 2020

HMI Fall Programming Comes to a Successful Conclusion

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  • Categories Gap, HMI News, Semester

We are very pleased to report the successful completion of our Fall 2020 Semester and Gap programming. Both of these programs ran in an entirely in-person fashion and did not experience a single positive COVID case. Gap students departed from …

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20Nov, 2020

Greetings from the HMI Alumni Council!

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  • Categories Alumni Profiles, HMI News

Dear Alumni, We hope you are taking care of yourselves and others during this difficult time. We are writing to you as the Alumni Council to share three important things to HMI and our alumni. We want to introduce how we as …

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26Oct, 2020

Semester 45: Ten Weeks In Without a Positive COVID-19 Case

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Today marks ten weeks since the start of the HMI Fall Semester and we are pleased to report that we have so far not had a positive COVID-19 case on our campus. After arriving on August 17, students spent four days …

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26Aug, 2020

HMI Semester 45 Students Arrive on Campus; Depart on Expedition

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We were very pleased to welcome the students of Semester 45 to campus on Monday, August 17th. After four days of orientation and wilderness preparation, students departed on their 16-day First Expedition on Thursday, August 20th. Prior to the semester …

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25Jul, 2020

HMI Successfully Completes 2020 Summer Programming ​

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We are pleased to announce the successful completion of our modified 2020 summer program: the HMI Summer Expedition. Summer Expedition was a success and a great learning experience for our school. Seventeen high school students participated in two two-week backpacking …

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09Jul, 2020

Summer Expedition Students Arrive on Campus

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The HMI Summer Expedition is off to a great start! Seventeen students arrived on Sunday, July 5th and headed out into the wilderness yesterday on their 14-day backpacking expedition.  Students spent the first three days on our campus getting to …

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01Jul, 2020

Admissions Director Ray McGaughey on Diversity and Access at HMI

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People often ask me what has changed in the fifteen years since I was a student at HMI. I tell them that the best parts of HMI remain the same: our students still live in cabins, go backpacking with their …

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25Jun, 2020

What Does an Antiracist Math Class Look Like?

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Written by: Dylan Kane, HMI Math Faculty What does an antiracist math class look like? I’m not sure I know. But I’m working on it. For me, it starts with two questions. What is mathematics, and who does mathematics? Students …

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10Jun, 2020

A Message from Jess Wolinsky, Dean of Students

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Jess Wolinsky is our Dean of Students and P&P (Practices & Principles: Ethics of the Natural World) faculty. “Since sharing our statement from our Head of School, we have received many comments and questions from our alumni and broader community …

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03Jun, 2020

A Message from our Head of School

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Dear HMI Community, I write to you today during a time of sadness, anger, pain, and conflict. We grieve the loss of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and too many other Black Americans to name here. To see our …

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