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12465 County Line Road, P.O. Box 8002
Gates Mills, Ohio 44040-8002
440.423.4446
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Senior Projects
Keeping a Long Tradition
The Senior Project Program at Hawken was instituted in 1968,
several years after the opening of our Gates Mills Campus.
During the Spring of 2005, the thirty-eighth year of the Program,
all but four students from the Class of 2005 undertook projects.
Although many secondary schools in Cleveland offer their own
versions of a senior project program, ours is one of the oldest
in the area.
The objectives and the essential structure of our program
have changed little over the years. Senior projects at Hawken
remain student-driven-leaving parents, the faculty, and
other adults in supporting roles. Regarding the projects
themselves, students inevitably discover that the most valuable
projects are experiential rather than theoretical in nature-that
in actually doing something rather than merely observing
something, a project becomes memorable for the student.
Recognizing the value of a senior project for our students,
the School has always supported a program of unusual length.
At Hawken the duration of an individual project ranges from
five to ten weeks, and its venue may be local or transcontinental.
In 2004, for example, several students created art or did
writing projects right on campus, one shadowed a barrister
in London, two students became photojournalists while traveling
the full length of Route 66, and another lived and worked
at a Zen monastery in San Francisco.
Of the many curricular and co-curricular programs that
Hawken School offers to its students, the Senior Project
Program continues to be one of the most rewarding. In a
recent alumni survey about the Program, eighty-eight percent
of over five-hundred respondents enthusiastically affirmed
their senior project experience.
Student Planning Resources
The Senior Project Calendar and Forms are available
here,
as well as an archive of past projects. |
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