Every day, one classroom on the first floor of the Lanphier Center is filled with light, conversations, and excitement. This is the Shattuck Robotics Lab, where the members of the Choate Robotics Team energetically build robots and prepare for competitions. The Choate Robotics Team has a competition number of 6106,Read More
According to Forbes, fewer than 3.6% of businesses are owned by people under 30. An even smaller number of those businesses are owned by high school students. Despite these numbers, there are many on Choate campus who have created their own businesses — making entrepreneurship a facet of campus life.Read More
What would it feel like to tear down — and keep — pieces of history with your very own hands? Perhaps Mr. Jim Yanelli, Choate’s Director of Student Activities, knows. He is in possession of several small chunks of the Berlin Wall, acquired upon the Wall’s fall, in 1989. AtRead More
Although most famous (or perhaps infamous) for its food, the Hill House Dining Hall holds another purpose: displaying historical art. Atop the fireplace facing the senior section, a circular maritime painting stands peacefully. On the other side of the fireplace perches a rectangular painting with similar themes of ships andRead More
Walk up the path between the Science Center and Brownell, and you will find a row of neat, quintessentially New England houses that make up Rosemary Lane, a community of faculty residences, including that of Headmaster Dr. Alex Curtis. But do not be deceived by the apparent monotony of theRead More
Ms. Kolina Koleva has been a math teacher at Choate for three years. She is an immigrant from Bulgaria. In 1989, when I was six, the Berlin Wall fell. We were a socialist country in the 80s, and people mostly complained about things like waiting in line in the coldRead More
Choate life is, without a doubt, busy and chaotic — students juggle schoolwork, sports, clubs, social lives and (if they’re lucky) sleep. However, some brave souls at Choate have added on an extra layer to the equation: part time jobs. Cammi Chester ’17 currently works at the take-out counter ofRead More
On Wednesday, January 25, Yale University welcomed Ms. Diane Nash as the keynote speaker of its Annual Celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. program, which was open to the public. Two recent Choate alumni, Uzo Biosah ’16 and Esul Burton ’16, who are now Yale students; two Choate faculty,Read More
Environmental activist. CEO. Journalist. These are just a sample of the professions occupied by former Editors-in-Chief of The Choate News. They have continued the tenets of analytical thinking and professionalism shaped by their time at Choate — though not always in journalism. During Mr. Jim Altschul’s ’78 time at Choate,Read More
