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EXPLO Studio: Critical Making and Innovation Camp for Educators
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Many schools have maker spaces – or are contemplating building them – but aren’t exactly sure how to use them or understand how to leverage their use across the curriculum. EXPLO Studio is focused on critical making: transforming the ordinary into something with meaning. It’s not making for the sake of making, but making for a purpose.
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Wellesley Workshop Highlight: Fencing
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Gear up and compete in one of the first sports to be played in the Olympics: fencing! Learn how to differentiate between the foil, épée and sabre, all while practicing fencing's formal sportsmanship techniques.
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EXPLO at Yale: Economics
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Come explore the basic principles of micro- and macroeconomics as we learn how companies set prices to maximize their profits, explore the impact of unemployment, and understand the effects of supply and demand on price.
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Wellesley Clubs and Leagues: Early Morning Running Club
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For ninth grader Gabi, early morning running around the beautiful and scenic trail of Lake Waban helps ground and energize her for the day of classes and activities ahead.
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EXPLO Partnership: Richard Light
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Richard Light, eminent professor at Harvard University, and founder of How To Live Wisely — a program that aims to strengthen student experiences on undergraduate campuses — is partnering with EXPLO to lead professional development seminars with EXPLO educators on how high school students can live a meaningful, fulfilling, and happy life.
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EXPLO Studio: Maine Moose Project
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EXPLO Studio, along with our transient moose, delivered an interactive keynote on playful learning to Maine STEAM teachers at the Thomas College Center for Innovation in Education. Some of the herd stayed behind, and the project is now moving to public schools throughout the state.
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EXPLO Programs: Dining
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Dive into our thoughtful menu that reflects the eating interests and needs of our second graders — and eleventh graders alike. Accommodating to dietary restrictions and allergies, all we ask is you make sure something green is on your plate — and no, “jello” doesn’t count.
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EXPLO at Yale: Find Your Voice
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At Yale, opportunities to be bold surround you. From practicing civil discourse in the classroom, to dancing on stage at a Main Event, finding your voice is guaranteed.
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EXPLO at Wellesley: Medical Careers Course
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In the morning, become a doctor-in-training, getting a hands-on approach with instructor Llona Kavege, discovering more about anatomy and physiology through the dissection of a fetal pig.
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EXPLO at Wheaton: Super Secret Spy Society
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Hunt for clues around campus, practice deductive reasoning and nonverbal communication skills, trail your mysterious suspect with a drone... all in a day's work as your team works to crack the case.
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EXPLO at Yale: network with professionals in your field
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Connect with international surgeon, Dr. David Mulligan; chief of transplantation surgery and immunology at Yale Medical School. At Yale, "meeting the experts" means one-on-one introductions and round table discussion. Leave your session feeling better connected — bonus: learning how to effectively network.

Making Summer Meaningful [VIDEO]
EXPLO is far more than your standard academic enrichment program. EXPLO is where you discover by doing. Where you find those things that move your spirit. Where you are encouraged to act on your talents so that you may create a life of purpose and meaning.
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Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Flow is Key to Engaged Learning
EXPLO Advisor Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi recently chatted with us about why learning to practice flow early on leads to more engaged learning, self-confidence, and a life driven by meaning and purpose.
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EXPLO Alum Salvador Gómez a TIME Teen of the Year
After launching a global crowdfunding campaign when Hurricane Maria left millions in the dark, Salvador has been recognized by TIME magazine as a 2017 Teen of the Year alongside fellow activists, artists, and entrepreneurs.
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It Takes Daring and Courage to Live Life Fully
EXPLO is where you come to make lasting connections and practice taking risks you aren't able to in any other environment. These are the keys to living a wholehearted life — and this is where you can be wholly yourself, every moment of every day.
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We're All In
From EXPLO Summer to EXPLO Studio, we are designers of remarkable teaching and learning experiences. That means students and teachers are engaged and fully immersed in the learning as its happening — and exploration continues far beyond the classroom.
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The Experts Come to EXPLO
The EXPLO network is vast, international, and deep, and it gives us access to some of the most influential minds in academia and industry, drawing on their expertise and connecting them to our students.
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30+ EXPLO Alums Crack Forbes' 30 Under 30
There's a reason why more than 30 recent EXPLO alums have gone on to be named to Forbes magazine's prestigious "30 Under 30" lists. Lifelong habits of exploration and discovery start at EXPLO.
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Mind the Gap
When you compare the skills needed to thrive in 2015 against those needed in 2020, there are key differences that aren't being addressed at most schools. They are at EXPLO, where we actively prepare students for a future of the unknown.
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