In 2019, Pine Crest faculty, staff, and administrators created and finalized the School’s strategic plan to be executed over the course of the following five years under the leadership of President Dr. Dana Markham ’18H.
Transforming Tomorrow: Pine Crest Moves Forward with Strategic Renovation and Construction Projects
Topics: Innovation, Student Life, Fine Arts, Middle School, Academics, Robotics, Giving, Pine Crest Fund, Computer Science, STEM, Future Ready, 2022
Mr. Kenneth Ashjian: Positivity In and Out of the Classroom
Topics: Faculty, Middle School, 2022
The Beyer Family on Philanthropy and Supporting Pine Crest School
The Beyer family joined the Pine Crest School community three years ago. After touring Pine Crest, twin brothers Alexander ’28 and Nikolaus ’28 told parents Anthony and Vanessa that this was the school for them.
Topics: Middle School, Giving, 2021
Coach Dave Smith Reflects on 55 Years of Educating Students at Pine Crest School
Coach Dave Smith may be the only faculty member at Pine Crest School who can say that he has worked under every School president and every Athletic Director in School history — including time spent on the original campus location on Broward Boulevard.
Topics: Upper School, Athletics, Alumni, Faculty, Middle School, 2021
A Career Well-Lived with Pine Crest Coach Ruth Bresnahan
Coach Ruth Bresnahan, more affectionately known as “Coach B” around campus, has been a fixture of Pine Crest School athletics since 1988. However, her start at Pine Crest was actually in 1975 when she began working at Pine Crest Summer, known then as Pine Crest Day Camp.
Topics: Upper School, Athletics, Alumni, Faculty, Middle School, 2021
Motivating Through Math: Ms. Maria Marcello's Passion for Teaching
Topics: Faculty, Middle School, 2021
Learning Human-Centered Design in Pine Crest Middle School
Topics: Innovation, Middle School, Design Thinking, Computer Science, STEM, Social and Emotional Learning, 2021
What to Expect During the Pine Crest School Virtual Admission Process
Admission season for independent schools is well underway. While families look forward to campus tours and face-to-face interviews during a school search, COVID-19 health and safety modifications require these activities to look a little different this year.
Topics: Lower School, Upper School, Admission, Middle School, 2020
Strength Training Ushers in a New Era of Pine Crest Athletics
Topics: Upper School, Athletics, Middle School, 2020
Planning Your Admission Visit to Pine Crest School
An important part of applying for admission to an independent school is getting to know the school and assessing if it is right for your family.
Topics: Lower School, Upper School, Admission, Pre-kindergarten, Middle School, Pine Crest School, Pine Crest Summer
How Students Develop an Entrepreneurial Mindset
At Pine Crest School, we believe our students must learn to be as agile and adaptable as possible.
High-brain human traits such as global understanding and empathy, deep thinking and learning, and complex problem-solving mindset through collaboration will distinguish our students and set them up for success.
Topics: Alumni Newsletter, Lower School, Upper School, Student Life, Middle School, Design Thinking, Pine Crest School, Entrepreneurship
Student Entrepreneurs Make Their Name in The Community
Upper School Students Rhea Jain ’20 and Neil Sachdeva ’21 were selected to join the Young Entrepreneurs Academy (YEA!) in the fall of 2018.
Topics: Upper School, Student Life, Middle School, Pine Crest School, Student Leadership, Entrepreneurship, STEM
Pine Crest Summer: A Great Place for Middle School Aged Campers
Topics: Student Life, Middle School, 2019, Robotics, Campus Safety, Pine Crest School, Computer Science, Music, Entrepreneurship, Science, STEM, Pine Crest Summer
Why Parents and Campers Choose Pine Crest Summer
Topics: Lower School, Fine Arts, Middle School, Robotics, Campus Safety, Pine Crest School, Computer Science, Music, Science, STEM, Digital Media Production, Pine Crest Summer
Summer Fun at Pine Crest’s Traditional Day Camp
As one of South Florida’s longest running summer programs, Pine Crest Summer offers campers ages 4 to 14 a fun and safe environment to play and learn.
Pine Crest Summer offers over 50 camps across our campuses in Boca Raton and Fort Lauderdale - camps in the arts, sports, academics, and signature programs like traditional day camp.
One of our most loved programs, traditional day camp combines all of the elements of summer from swimming, playing games, and making crafts.
What parents love about traditional day camp is the opportunity to pair it with tennis lessons or Elevate, an academic camp geared towards our youngest campers in kindergarten through grade 5. Elevate serves as both a review and extension of grade-level skills based on the needs of the students.
Topics: Lower School, Middle School, Campus Safety, Pine Crest School, Pine Crest Summer
Four Reasons to Attend Pine Crest Fine Arts Camp this Summer
Do you have a budding artist at home? Does your child sing into a hairbrush, put on shows in the living room, or spend hours editing footage he or she filmed on a cell phone?
Topics: Lower School, Fine Arts, Middle School, 2019, Pine Crest School, Music, Digital Media Production, Pine Crest Summer
Pine Crest School Science Classrooms Receive Anatomage Tables
Pine Crest School received three Anatomage Tables recently.
Anatomage Tables are virtual dissecting tables that are generally used by medical schools such as the Mayo Clinic to allow medical students the opportunity to perform virtual autopsies. One Table is located in an Upper School Huizenga Family Science Building classroom. The additional Tables are located in the Middle School life science classrooms — one on the Boca Raton campus and one on the Fort Lauderdale campus.
Topics: Upper School, Faculty, Admission, Middle School, 2019, Academics, Science, STEM, Pine Crest Summer
Why Pine Crest School Students Create Digital Portfolios
Topics: Innovation, Student Life, Admission, Pre-kindergarten, Middle School, Academics, Giving, Pine Crest Fund, Computer Science, Social and Emotional Learning
The Evolution of Music Education: 14 Years of Musical Growth
Topics: Lower School, Upper School, Faculty, Admission, Middle School, 2019, Pine Crest Fund, Pine Crest School, Music, Pine Crest Summer
Middle School at Pine Crest is home to new virtual reality (VR) equipment, which Pine Crest Computer Science and Technology faculty are using to teach students how to create their own virtual experiences and to influence others’ perspective.
“More content is being released and is increasingly available and accessible, and VR and augmented reality (AR) devices are becoming more effective,” said Mr. Sean Tibor, Pine Crest Computer Science and Technology Specialist. “By the time our Middle School students go to college, they will need to know how to use this equipment and feel comfortable using it.”
The terms “VR” and “AR” are often used interchangeably, but they are not the same.
“The difference is that AR takes information around you and fuses the world you are in with additional data or information — think Pokemon Go,” said Mr. Tibor. “VR is about immersion and perspective. It overlays virtual items or instances on top of the real world. The benefit of VR technology is that it can change our perspective from a few different axes: distance, time, scale, and the forthcoming, human perspective."
Delving into these axes, Mr. Tibor shared how using VR technology is not limited to one course or subject.
Topics: Innovation, Panther Pulse, Faculty, Middle School, Design Thinking, Innovation Institute, 2019, Academics