Joy In Learning, The Harley School's Podcast

Thomas Warfield is a dance instructor at RIT, and he has been involved in many local, national, and international creative collaborations since getting his first taste of performing at Harley in the Lower School. We spoke about saying "yes" to opportunities, as well as the pursuit of critical and creative thinking as a way of life.

Harley graduate Ryan Atkinson '11 shares how our school helped lay the groundwork for his current job at Sledgehammer Games. Where he most recently acted as a Level Designer for Call of Duty: WWII.

 

Ryan worked on the single player team to create, iterate, and polish combat setups across 6 levels. He worked in tandem with environment artists, animators, and the FVX and lighting team while guiding different experiences based off of his design and designs that were directed by level leads.

Join the Head of our Lower School, Dr. Terry Smith, for part two of our podcasts on play. This episode focuses on play as a vehicle for learning across all grade levels.

Joy In Learning is a podcast highlighting stories happening at The Harley School in Rochester, NY.

 

This episode is a preview of our October Commons Series panel discussion “Optimistic Innovators: Creating a Sustainable Future” focuses on current topics in environmental sustainability and will include how experiences at Harley impacted career paths. 

 

The panelists:

Harley School alumni Nate August ‘11, manager, Wegmans Organic Farm & Orchard, Meg (Malone) Sternowski ’06, Corporate Environmental Sustainability Manager, Constellation Brands, will return to campus, 1981 Clover Street, Rochester, N.Y. to lead discussions on Creating a Sustainable Future for its Commons Series on October 24 from 6:30 p.m.-8 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

 

 

Joy In Learning is a podcast highlighting the stories happening at The Harley School in Rochester, NY.

 

Our Head of Lower School, Terry Smith, discusses why play is an important part of learning.

Joy In Learning is a podcast highlighting the stories happening at The Harley School in Rochester, NY.

 

Our guest is Mark Zupan, esteemed President of Alfred University, former Board of Trustees President at Harley, and Harley parent. 

Zupan will discuss his book, Inside Job: How Government Insiders Subvert the Public Interest, (Cambridge University Press) released earlier this year. The book examines how government is vulnerable to demand-side capture by special interests but also to supply-side take-over by insider operating for their own benefit at the expanse of the public good.

Joy In Learning is a podcast highlighting the stories happening at The Harley School in Rochester, NY.

 

Graduating senior, Rachel Adler, talks about her college selection process.