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Saint Mary’s School held its third annual Saint Mary’s Pitch Night, Monday, March 8, for the Class of 2022. Juniors presented solutions to their business partners in a culmination of the work that they’ve engaged in through the Seminar Program, in conjunction with our community partner District C.
“For the last two months, squads of three-four juniors have worked collaboratively in squads of three to four girls to tackle complex business problems,” said Heather Ramee, 11th grade seminar lead faculty member. “Pitch Night is the culmination of this incredible work by the Class of 2022. The students have pushed themselves to think outside the box as they tackle complex, real-world problems.”
This year’s community partners include Copeland Springs Farm, GoKart Kids, Iris Coffee Lab, Jobs for Life, Raleigh Pride, Susie Silver Art, Whole Brain Escape, and Wiley Elementary PTA.
Our community partner District C is dedicated to partnering with forward-thinking high schools from across the region to offer innovative real-world learning experiences designed to teach high school how to work together to solve real problems. Local businesses bring real, meaningful, and urgent problems to the table. Setting the work in the community means our students become active members of the innovation economy.
In the collaborations, step-by-step, linear instructions give way to unbounded, messy, and self-directed experiences. The real learning lies in this mess and uncertainty, and in figuring out how to keep moving forward. Traditional school experiences often reward individual achievement, but modern work is collaborative by nature. The District C model prioritizes collective process and prepares students to optimize the performance of the team. No case studies or hypotheticals. The most critical part of the experience is that it’s real.
District C has set a goal of giving every Triangle area high school student a real-work learning experience by 2025. Saint Mary’s was the first area high school to bring this program to its students.
Click here to view the teams, partners, and challenges.
About Saint Mary's School Seminar Program
The Saint Mary’s School seminar program integrates what we know girls need, with what we know of the changing world girls will be facing, to provide relevant, forward-looking, real-world opportunities to prepare girls for college and life.
As part of the school's comprehensive and innovative curriculum, seminar classes are designed to help girls develop key competencies through relevant, experiential learning experiences with experts, resources, and organizations in the greater Raleigh area.
