At the National Math Counts competition held in Washington, D.C., three 8th graders and one 7th grader helped set a Guinness World Record for the fastest time creating the first 25 rows of Pascal’s Triangle.

The Sidwell Friends Middle School debate team earned the first place trophy for the 2012-2013 DC Urban Debate League season.

Sidwell Friends has grown its composting program to include the dining room on the Wisconsin Avenue campus.

The National Building Museum’s new exhibit, Green Schools, features the Sidwell Friends Middle School building among other environmentally conscious K-12 school buildings.

The Sidwell Friends Middle School math team dominated the field against the area’s best “mathletes” at the recent MathCounts state competition, winning the team competition and all top six places in the individual competition!

World-renowned composer Jeffrey Mumford ’73 visited the Wisconsin Avenue campus to talk to Middle School students about his music. He is currently serving as composer-in-residence at the National Gallery of Art in honor of African American History Month.

A group of 20 6th, 7th, and 8th graders led Sidwell Friends to victory at a recent middle school math meet for local independent schools at St. Patrick’s Episcopal Day School.

Fifth and sixth graders from Shijia Hutong Primary School in Beijing, China, spent Monday morning at Sidwell Friends School, touring campus and visiting classrooms.

On Thursday the Washington, D.C., area received its first snowfall of 2013. Enjoy a slideshow of scenes from the Wisconsin Avenue campus.

The author of "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" visited campus on December 12 to talk with students about his book, a powerful New York Times bestseller.

A sophomore at Bowdoin College, Catherine Yochum ’11 is a member the women's crew team, rowing in the varsity four boat.

Six weeks after winning the first place trophy in the first of five DC Urban Debate League tournaments this year, the Sidwell Friends Middle School Debate Team won the first place trophy in the second tournament.

Two Sidwell Friends Upper School students participated in the 5th Chinese Bridge Chinese Proficiency Competition for Foreign Secondary School Students and its visiting camp in Kunming, Yunnan province, China.

The Sidwell Friends Middle School Debate Team won the first place trophy in the first of five DC Urban Debate League tournaments.

Josh Edelman ’87 visited a meeting of the Middle School diversity club, A-Z SU, to talk about inequities in the education system and the achievement gap.

Lessons don’t often stay in the classroom at the Lower School. A recent fourth grade project is proof of that—it’s made its way to the world’s leading conservation organization!

Jair Lynch ’89, who won the silver medal in the parallel bars at the Atlanta Olympics, is still comfortable in recreation centers—but this time he’s building them, not competing in them.

Gaby Grebski, Upper School counselor and SFS women’s cross country and track & field coach (pictured at far left), qualified to compete at the Master Invitational Track & Field event as part of the U.S. Olympic Team Trials in Eugene, Oregon.

Celena Dopart ’08, a field hockey student-athlete who graduated from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in May, has been selected for the NCAA Division III Academic All-America of the Year award for the Women's At-Large division.

The recent Northwestern University graduate and 2012 first-team All-America breaststroker headlined a five-member Wildcats contingent at this week’s U.S. Olympic swimming team trials.

Nana Meriwether ’03, crowned Miss Maryland USA in October 2011, lost to Miss Rhode Island in the nationally televised June 3 event.

The Sidwell Friends Middle School debate team competed in the fifth and final D.C. Urban Debate League tournament of the season on Saturday, May 19.

Thirteen students from the Sidwell Friends community traveled to New York City for a behind-the-scenes look at Broadway’s Godspell.

Dr. Beth Shapiro spoke to Middle School students last week about her career and experiences as an evolutionary biologist.

On April 21, five Upper School students competed in the 2012 World Chinese Bridge Competition: Washington, D.C., Region held at the University of Maryland.

Sidwell Friends Middle School has been recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as one of 78 “Green Ribbon Schools” across the United States.

Upper School student Sam Lipscomb ’14 captured this photo of NASA’s retired Discovery space shuttle riding piggyback on a modified jumbo jet as it flew from Cape Canaveral, Florida, to its new home at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum’s annex near Dulles Airport.

The 7/8 Boys Ensemble recently participated in their first out-of-town choral festival at the Haverford School in Haverford, Pennsylvania.

Recently, Sidwell Friends again hosted the middle school tournament for the D.C. Urban Debate League.

Sidwell Friends third graders and third graders at the Lowell School in Washington, D.C., are writing to each other—in Spanish!

The SFS Math Counts team won the District of Columbia Math Counts Championship soundly on Saturday, beating out second place finisher St. Albans.

Oteil Burbridge ’82 was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award as a member of The Allman Brothers Band at the Grammys on Sunday and also won a Grammy Award for Best Blues Album with blues rock group Tedeschi Trucks Band.

The Upper School’s three robotics teams, with 40 total students, united to place first in area tournaments to qualify for state robotics competitions.

Four Sidwell seniors made it official at today’s 12:30 p.m. National Signing Day Ceremony, which is the first day that high school seniors are able to sign binding letters of intent to play college sports.

When author James Otis Thach visited third graders at the Lower School, he started a small research revolution.

Sidwell Friends hosted its fifth annual SFS-Model UN Conference on Sunday, January 22, with opening remarks from President Obama’s National Security Advisor, Tom Donilon.

Nick Blaemire '02 stars in the cast of Broadway's "Godspell."

Recently 6th graders traveled to Sharpsburg, Maryland, to visit the Heifer Global Village, an experiential learning tool to raise awareness of hunger and poverty.

The SFS Middle School Debate Team won the first place trophy with 17 overall victories at the October 15 debate.

The American Institute of Architect’s Philadelphia chapter celebrated the best in design with two awards going to the Sidwell Friends Meeting House and Arts Center.

The challenge? Produce a video that compresses the story of a Newbery award-winning book into 90 seconds or less.

With the sun shining for the first time in more than a week last Friday, seventh and eighth grade science classes headed outdoors for their biology classes.

Sidwell Friends School and hundreds of parents, alumni, and friends paid tribute Tuesday evening to former LS principal Rich Lodish and former Head of School Bob Smith at the Meeting House and Arts Center ribbon cutting.

As a Sidwell Friends student, Nate Franks ’03 was the only boy on the normally all-female varsity field hockey team.

Three students from Sidwell Friends School, with Upper School Principal Lee Palmer, attended the second annual Student Global Leadership Institute (SGLI) at Punahou School in Hawaii from July 25 to August 5.

"The Economist" interviewed Erle Ellis ’81 about the new geological era, the Anthropocene, that some scientists believe we have entered.

Sidwell Friends School has partnered with nine other independent schools across the country and abroad to launch Global Online Academy, a nonprofit organization that will offer challenging courses online.

MBA programs may be getting a run for their money: Kimberly Clarkson, a middle school teacher at Sidwell Friends, introduced business concepts to her sixth graders last spring.

In his new book, "Blood, Steel, and Canvas: The Asian Odyssey of a Fighter," Craig Wilson ’74 describes two levels of fighting—his unorthodox career as Asia’s oldest amateur boxer and his battle against colon cancer.

The Sidwell Friends varsity baseball team won the Congressional Bank Baseball Classic on Sunday, June 5, with two thrilling victories in front of a loyal contingent of fans at Nationals Park.

On May 21, two Upper School students earned first and second place in their respective categories at the 6th Chinese Bridge U.S. High School Speech Contest, held at the University of Massachusetts Confucius Institute in Boston.

By defeating St. Albans 9-7 on May 24, the Sidwell Friends varsity baseball team has made it to the semi-finals of the D.C. Congressional Bank Baseball Classic Tournament. They will play against Maret School at Nationals Stadium on Sunday, June 5, at 9:30 a.m.

Two Sidwell Friends robotics teams, the RoboPenguins and the RoboQuakers, tied for 1st place at the Pennsylvania Regional Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center’s ROV Building Competition. The two teams will compete next month at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

How would U.S. Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin define poetry? He wouldn’t. The 84-year-old American poet visited the sixth grade recently and answered questions about poetry and his life as a poet.

Six Sidwell Friends sophomores won the 27th annual Chemathon competition on April 30 at the University of Maryland.

Ellen Barry ’89 of the New York Times was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting for her reports of corruption and abuse of power in Russia.

“How can we think of ourselves as equals when we are so different from each other?” With this query written and presented by Middle Schoolers, the first meeting for worship in the new Quaker meetinghouse on the school’s Wisconsin Avenue campus was underway.

Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank reflected Wednesday on his career highs and lows—from suing his high school for editorial control of the student newspaper to regularly finding the absurdity in Washington politics—in an entertaining speech to the Upper School.

Of the 568 teams who participated in this year’s Moody’s Mega Math (M3) Challenge, two five-member Sidwell Friends teams were selected to receive Honorable Mention awards.

History professor and author Jeffrey Wasserstrom highlighted a century of American impressions of China—and Chinese impressions of America—in the 29th Annual John Fisher Zeidman Memorial Lecture on March 15.

The Sidwell Friends Middle School Vertical Voices Playback Theatre performed two standing-room-only shows to more than 400 students at the Mid-Atlantic Middle School Leadership Conference earlier this month.

The Middle School Math Counts team earned 2nd place at a recent tournament and qualified for the state tournament in March.

Lower School students celebrated the Year of the Rabbit earlier this month in the school’s annual Chinese New Year festivities.

The Upper School robotics team, “RoboFoxes,” had a phenomenal performance this weekend at the FIRST Tech Challenge Virginia State Championship, ending up as the No. 2 seed in the harder of two divisions.

Michele Thoren Bond ’71 was sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Lesotho last year at the Department of State.

Two of Sidwell’s robotics teams – one comprised of fourth and fifth graders and the other of Upper School students – earned first place finishes on Saturday in their respective tournaments. Both teams will now advance to state championships.

A new grant from the Toshiba America Foundation will allow Upper School molecular biology students to use DNA barcodes to identify plant and animal species on the SFS campus.

Trout Unlimited arranged to have 150 trout eggs delivered to biology teacher Melanie Fields on Thursday. Her biology classes will study the early lifecycle of trout by observing and recording their growth in a tank located just outside her classroom.

The Middle School Robotics Team, the “BotBoyz,” won three awards in the first-round qualifying tournament at Owings Mills High School on Saturday.

On Friday, December 3, the Upper School Chamber Chorus performed before hundreds in the White House at a two-hour open house.

Yale senior Micah Hendler ’07 made two recent appearances with the world-renowned a capella group, the Whiffenpoofs of Yale, on NBC’s hit show, "The Sing-Off."

Eric Chivian, MD, founder and director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, presented the 2010 Anindya Dehejia ’78 Memorial Lecture to faculty, staff, and guests on Wednesday, December 1.

More than 100 alumni returned to campus on the day after Thanksgiving to play football and, this year, basketball for the annual Turkey Bowl games.