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BPC Celebrates 50 Years!
June 29, 2023BPC is delighted to be celebrating our 50th anniversary during the 2023 – 2024 school year. Our 50th anniversary celebrations kick off on Saturday, September 30 with a festive, all-day open house event for the entire BPC community.
Senior Send-Off 2023
June 6, 2023The much loved and anticipated Senior Send-Off took place on Monday, May 22 on the Upper School Campus. Over 50 BPC alums from the class of 2019 attended along with…
From Halloween Musicals to Law School: BPC Alum Simone Bradley (’06) shares exciting updates
March 27, 2023Taking time out of her busy schedule, BPC alum Simone Bradley (‘06), recently sat with Head of School, John Carlstroem and Director of Communications, Lesley Jones. She spoke about her…
Attention, Attention! Lower School Newspaper Gets Updated Design & New Name: Volume 2, Issue 3 Out Now!
February 10, 2023We are pleased to share that the Lower School Newspaper has a new design and a new name: The Jaguar Journal! In our latest issue (Volume 2, Issue 3) we…
While at Wat Mongkolratanaram’s Sunday brunch in Berkeley, our Director of Communications and Events, Lesley Jones, ran into Theo and Lena Haber – siblings who both attended Black Pine Circle….
BPC alum makes his mark on local school board
January 9, 2023BPC alum, Ian Segall (‘19), is a senior at Berkeley High School and the current Student Director on the BUSD board. After Ian returned to BPC in October for the…
BPC Robotics Team, RoBawks, Wins “Judge’s Choice” Award
December 13, 2022The BPC Robotics team participated in a First Tech Challenge qualifying tournament on Saturday, December 10. Team RoBawks consisted of 7th & 8th graders. Out of 16 participating teams –…
BPC Participates in NaNoWriMo for 13th Consecutive Year
November 29, 2022November was National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and BPC participated for the 13th year in a row! ✍️ As part of the 4th & 5th grade curriculum, and as an…
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Award Winner
November 7, 2022Mina Fedor ’21 and her family recently attended the Broadcom MASTERS® finals week in Washington, DC. Her 8th grade MasterWorks science research project, “EEG Theta During Self-Directed Versus Passive Spatial…
“How am I going to create an image of Kentucky fried solipsism? I’ll ask a robot”: BPC alums on the forefront of AI
October 26, 2022BPC Alums Jack Gallagher (‘11) and Sam Schickler (‘15) are working together at Midjourney, an independent research lab that produces AI-created images from text descriptions (Think: typing “cat playing with…