One of Michelle Baxter’s life mottos is not to plan anything more than a year ahead. “We make plans and God laughs,” Ms. Baxter said. “If you had asked me in college what I was going to be doing, I would have said I would be in the hospital, in the middle of Uganda, helping the babies.”  

Freshman Samson Taxon has won First Prize for his congressional district in the Congressional App Challenge, a competition that invites high school students to design original computer apps of any kind to share and sell if they’d like.

Newly staffing Shalhevet’s “genius bar” -- the tech station on the second floor where students can charge their devices and get help with Schoology -- is a former genius at an actual Apple Store, Mr. Nick Parsons, new Director of Technology.

When we were children, all we could do was feel. We knew very little, so our beliefs were based mainly on intuition. We didn’t know the difference b...