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We 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 cover the Super Bowl, Spanish Culture Club, Green Committee, 5th Grade Fundraiser, Harry Potter Survey, Tech Talk, Broken Bones, & more. All ideas for content…

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. With Lena (‘16, studying sociology and statistics at Columbia University) preparing to jet off for a semester abroad in Berlin and Theo (a USC post…

BPC 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 annual High School Information Night, we were able to catch up with him in December to talk about his current role, his time at BPC,…

The 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 – mostly representing high schools – only two teams represented middle school teams….and RoBawks placed 11th! Team RoBawks was also surprised and delighted to be awarded…

November 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 optional extracurricular activity for our 6th-8th graders, students chose a word count of up to 50,000 words and wrote a novel by November 30. On…

Mina 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 Memory Encoding and Retrieval” was one of 30 finalists in this year’s competition. The Broadcom Foundation and Society for Science evaluated the finalists over a…

BPC 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 yarn Da Vinci” into a search bar, and a computer created image akin to a cat playing with yarn in the style of Leonardo Da…

For the second year, BPC’s Lower School is participating in the international creative design competition, Odyssey of the Mind. Seven 4th and 5th graders have been selected to participate, under the leadership of science teacher Nicole Lockwood. The team will choose one of five challenges (called problems) and create an eight-minute solution to bring before…

Mina Fedor, BPC class of 2022, was invited to the United We Stand Summit at The White House, where the focus was on combating white supremacy and hate across America. Mina was being honored as one of 16 Uniters. At the summit, Mina and her group were invited to join efforts through dignity.us (a non-partisan…