by Kerstin Pintus | WSP Handwork Teacher On September 10th, WSP students and I, their handwork teacher, participated in a Living History event “A Walk Through Time” at the Sunnyvale Heritage Park Museum. Representing the "golden days" of the rancho period, 1833...
High School
Coding in a Waldorf High School Humanities Class
by Marina Budrys | High School Humanities Faculty Member Rudolf Steiner believed that it is really important to understand how things work in the world in some basic way. This doesn’t mean, for example, that we all need to know how to build an Audi TT engine, but some...
Book Review: The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
by Saul Nishan | WSP Class of 2023 The daughter of parents who fled the South and Jim Crow, Isabel Wilkerson sought real stories from real people. She was the first black woman to be a Pulitzer Prize winner, and the first African American to win for individual...
Opinion: Edible Food is too Often Destined for the Dumpster
by Sohei Wu | WSP Class of 2023 I recently got a job working at a restaurant and after a couple of weeks the abstract concept of food waste became concrete in my mind. It was no longer just the idea of food being lost, I was starting to see real food wasted. And much...
EI Week: Exploring Bay Area Diversity
by Dylan Lee | WSP Class of 2023 Experiential Interdisciplinary Week (better known as EI Week) is a week-long engaged learning process in which high school students at WSP “learn by doing”. The planning of EI Week starts in winter when high school faculty and students...
Meet Coach Sarah
by Melanie Ingler | Communications Coordinator Coach Sarah Triolo comes to WSP with a background in kinesiology, fitness, sports nutrition, and enjoys working with people who are struggling with health issues. We are so excited that Coach Sarah has expanded her...
3 Surprising Things about WSP’s FIRST® Robotics Tournament
by Christine McQuade Hsu | Advancement Director WSP hosted a FIRST® Tech Robotics Qualifying Tournament on the Mountain View campus earlier this month. The STEM group that convenes the event is named First—but the event was a first in other ways, too: until now, WSP...
WSP Hosts FIRST Tech Challenge Robotics Tournament
by Melanie Ingler | Communications Coordinator 16 local schools competed in a FIRST Tech Challenge Qualifying Tournament at our beautiful campus in Mountain View earlier this month. For many teams, this was one of the first in-person competitions since the start of...
High School Met Gala — An Experiential Review
by Rich Armstrong | WSP Music Teacher and HS Dance DJ The High School Courtyard was magically transformed into a red-carpeted, paparazzi-infused tunnel that opened into an art gallery and dance hall. Much effort was made to give the students an amazing experience,...
Wonders of Blacksmithing
by Phil Dwyer | HS Teacher Most of what we use in our modern world can be traced back to the fires of a blacksmith’s forge. Most crafts and trades either began or evolved with the forming of hot iron under the blacksmith’s hammer. The most fundamental impact, of...