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Water Olympics

Collegiate School 5th Graders compete in the annual Water Olympics as a fun-filled end to their yearlong study of water. Read More
Chinese New Year

Chinese language students in all divisions put on a performance each year during the Chinese New Year.
Slave Trail

A group of Collegiate seniors taking the River City Capstone class visit the Richmond Slave Trail with faculty members Rhiannon Boyd and Brad Cooke in their ongoing efforts to understand the James River and its impact on the Richmond region. Read More
Diwali

Students on both sides of our Mooreland campus celebrate Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights.
Ethics

A rigorous Senior Capstone course, the Ethics Bowl encourages students to participate in morally serious discourse concerning real-world issues.
Costa Rica

Through in-field study and hands-on observation, students studied and compared the ecology of Virginia and Costa Rica.

Responsible Citizenship

The guiding principles of the Powell Institute for Responsible Citizenship are to empower engaged, contributing citizens by nurturing students' compassion, creativity, and purpose. The School's promise is to nurture and equip its students as scholars, citizens and leaders. The principles of the Institute and promise of Collegiate are actualized through collaborations with faculty and integration of programs in JK-grade 12 that build the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary for today's and tomorrow's world, through the identified areas of Global Engagement, Inclusion, Economic Literacy, Entrepreneurship, Sustainability, and Civic Engagement.

Through the Powell Institute for Responsible Citizenship, Collegiate supports and creates opportunities for the myriad ways individuals engage responsibly and compassionately with others. Just as there are many lenses through which we see the world and our place in it, The Powell Institute for Responsible Citizenship encourages our community to see that there are many lenses through which one can take action to make a better world.

Students in each division of our School exemplify their understanding of and growth in the tenets of these areas by participating in a culminating capstone program. Our 4th Graders participate in Envision Collegiate, our 8th Graders participate in Envision Richmond and our 12th Graders participate in Envision Your World.

Ignite - Responsible Citizenship Blog

Ignite offers insight into how our programs come to life in Collegiate's curriculum, highlighting various examples of student projects and faculty reflections across the seven identified areas.

List of 6 news stories.

Collegiate Receives Grant to Support Spatial and Mathematical Competency
9/7/2023
The School joins teams from 12 countries being awarded more than $4 million to develop and expand tools that will impact learners by 2026.
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Leading with Purpose
11/22/2022
Funded by endowment support, Stan Craig ’23 attended a research internship that helps students with speech therapy.
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Exploring Avenues of Opportunity
10/24/2022
Deven Pandya ’20 spoke with Upper School students about computer science and its applications in the job market.
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Global Perspectives, Innovative Solutions
10/20/2022
Collegiate School welcomed 20 high school students from five countries last week for the annual International Emerging Leaders Conference.
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Meaningful Partnerships
9/12/2022

During the Cochrane Summer Economic Institute, rising Seniors in the Richmond area come to Collegiate to grow as inquisitive thinkers and future business professionals.

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Classmates Collaborate to Make an Impact
7/6/2022

5th Grade students organized an event that brought the community together to support children with cancer.

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