What do a CNC milling machine, a polymerase chain reactor, and a play about the Holocaust have in common?
These are just three difference-makers in the educational culture that sets Warwick schools apart. Three extra opportunities for learning enrichment funded by the Warwick Education Foundation.
Families are drawn to Warwick in part because of its STEM programs. Compared to other county schools, “Warwick definitely has the edge because we have the technology we’re able to acquire through the Warwick Education Foundation,” says Martin Meier, lead technology instructor at Warwick High.
But the great richness and diversity of a full-spectrum STEAM experience also attracts families to the district.
“Before I came to Warwick, I knew absolutely nothing about this. ”
For Kaitlin Kindle, watching a live performance of “My Heart in a Suitcase” at the middle school was a new and powerful experience for the seventh grader.
The play, which personalizes the Nazi discrimination against the Jews,
is based on a poignant memoir by the late Anne Fox. It dramatizes a horrific turning point in the life of a 12-year-old Jewish girl. As threats mount on the Jews, she’s forced to tear herself away from her family in Berlin and flee to England so she can escape the Holocaust.