The High School Art program’s Sculpture class has been working diligently on a polyhedral cardboard sculpture project. With a special focus on the use of sheet materials, geometry and 3D modeling software, students were prompted to design a polyhedric (many-faced) sculpture using SketchUp using a minimum of 20 faces and roughly the height of a person. […]

Twice a week our sixth graders go to the Tech Lab to learn 3D printing and design. They use Tinkercad, an online web tool to create their 3D objects. After running through some basic tutorials, their first challenge is to get their creative juices flowing by designing an abstract sculpture. You can see a photo […]

Our 6th and 7th graders were recently introduced to tints and shades in their art classes. They practiced making their own tints and shades using either white or black and then adding it to their base color of choice. They each designed and created a landscape with overlapping layers, using at least five distinct tints […]

The fourth- and fifth-grade engineers visited the MOXI Museum yesterday to kick off the second half of their Models and Designs unit. They explored the museum and gained a great deal of inspiration for their very own physical science exhibit model. While exploring and conceptualizing their own designs, students noted features that they liked and […]

The High School community worked together this week to beautify our deck tables while representing the value we place on diversity. Each grade level, 9th-12th, focused on a direction: North, South, East, and West. Our students chose a country in each direction: Canada, Mexico, Egypt, and Japan. Researching iconic symbols and contributions from those countries helps […]

Practice makes perfect. For members of the Garden Street Academy Robotics team, that saying holds true. It proved to be a winning mantra that paid off with the overall top honors at the 19th annual Greater Los Angeles Regional Botball Tournament in Burbank on April 29, 2017. Our Middle School Robotics team took home fifth […]

This has been a semester of good news for senior Natalya Foreman of Garden Street Academy who, after receiving her acceptance letter to UC Berkeley’s College of Letters and Science, has been awarded the Cottage Hospital Student Incentive Award. After spending her high school career volunteering at Cottage Hospital as an intern, she was able […]

The Garden Street Academy community is proud to report that its very own Max Sweeney (11th Grade) has been elected as SoCal Junior States of America’s Lieutenant Governor (or LTG) for the 2017-2018 school year. The JSA is an organization whose goals are “an exchange of ideas through stimulating student debates, thought talks, problem solving […]

In Middle School science, students are diving into “eco-scenario” research projects. They will be researching one of ten ecosystems that exist in our national parks. Their investigations will include where the ecosystem is located, what major populations live there, and what human issues are centered there. Students will work together to compile information, organize a […]

This past weekend, Upper School students in GSA’s chapter of the Junior State of America organization traveled to Woodland Hills to participate in the Southern California Winter Congress, a mock congressional simulation. Junior State of America (JSA) is a national student-run organization that encourages students to pursue leadership roles, embrace civic responsibility, and engage in civil […]