Last Sunday, April 8, two teams of Choate students participated in the Rothberg Catalyzer Hackathon to build an invention that would help emergency disaster relief. A hackathon is a challenge-based competition that tasks participants with creating something unique and new using limited time and resources. This event, the first ofRead More

The second presentation of the i.d. Lab Maker Alumni Series was presented by Mr. C.J. Bell ’10 on January 17. The Maker Alumni Series is new this year, featuring recent alumni who pursue careers in design and engineering. These presentations happen once a term. Mr. Bell works as an engineerRead More

Community Weekend featured a variety of activities aimed at bringing the campus together to participate in everything from a skating party to an international food court. One item on the weekend’s itinerary was the i.d. Adventure held in the Worthington Johnson Athletic Center. Though the event did not have quiteRead More

Where in the world can you find a light-up prom dress, a bicycle-powered music stage, and a solar-energy chariot drawn by a robot Arnold Schwarzenegger? 20 Choate students found all three this weekend in the same place during the  2017 World Maker Faire at the New York Hall of Science.Read More

  The i.d. Lab is full of resources that are open to students and faculty alike. Many students are unaware of the endless possibilities that lie within the two floors that the lab encompasses, with tools and equipment, including wood cutters, 3D printers, sewing machines, circuit boards, book-making materials, andRead More

For some people, 7:00 a.m. on a weekend is too early to be sitting in a Chevy Suburban driving from suburban Connecticut into New York City. For the nine excited students who traveled last weekend to Maker Faire — “the Greatest Show (and Tell) on Earth” — it wasn’t earlyRead More