On June 30, 2016, Innovation proudly awarded high school diplomas to our third graduating class at a commencement ceremony held at the beautiful and historic El Teatro at El Museo del Barrio, in East Harlem. Amongst the 90 plus candidates for graduation our valedictorian, Ana Paulino, spoke movingly … Read more
Innovation now has the honor of being chosen as a Google Classroom Pilot Program School. Google works with classrooms across the globe to pilot new features and gather feedback about what works, what doesn’t, and what our teachers and students need. Innovation will have the opportunity to try out new features, and provide direct feedback … Read more
In collaboration with Mountaintop, Innovation students had the opportunity to demo their creative projects to industry professionals on May 31st. Mountaintop is an organization that connects students with industry professionals on a sustainable, long-term, commitment with the aim of helping students envision, develop and institute services or products that they will solve an unmeet a … Read more
On Friday, June 10th, Innovation and Deloitte organized another successful Impact Day. The Science Department and 20 Deloitte volunteers worked through a lesson that focused on the parallels of high school and the real world. The volunteers pushed into Biology/Living Environment, Earth Science, and Chemistry classes where they co taught the lesson with Innovation’s Science … Read more
Three engineers from Google visited Innovation’s Software Engineering classes on Monday to field questions from our students about careers in computer science! Over the past year, SEP students have been learning a wide array of coding languages and hardware applications – all relevant to today’s growing tech job market. Students enjoyed a rare in-person interview … Read more
Wednesday, May 11th Innovation students were invited to attend TechCrunch Disrupt at Brooklyn Marine Terminal in Redhook. TechCrunch is a leading technology media property, dedicated to obsessively profiling startups, reviewing new Internet products, and breaking tech news. Disrupt is a convention hosted all over the world connecting new innovative tech startups with audiences and funders. … Read more
In March of 2016, Innovation embarked on its 6th annual Enrichment Week project-based learning program. Over 400 students in 18 clusters engaged in true, project-based, experiential learning, in New York City and across the globe! Some highlights of the program included: Discover Brazil, Social Justice:NY to NOLA, Cycle Harlem, Conquer Spain!, Coding Virtual Reality, the … Read more
A member of Innovation’s Class of 2015 is featured on the PBS Reporting Labs website (here) as well as the American Graduate (here) This inspiring video was produced by Innovation’s own student journalists with the support of PBS Reporting Labs.
