For the first time, Rye Country Day School will host the United States Invitational Young Physicists Tournament (USIYPT), an annual physics research and debate tournament for high school students. On January 26-27, thirteen teams from throughout the country and the world will compete for the title.

Thank you to the Parents Association for hosting the RCDS Family Skating party. It was a fantastic afternoon of skating, hot chocolate, and fun!

RCDS alumni Hugh Reynolds '16, Hanna Kopits '17, Charlotte Fleischman '16, CeCe Payne '17, Nicole Reindel '16, and Jarvy O'Neill '17 returned to campus to meet with prospective families.

Top players from the area's top small-school football teams headlined the honorees on this year's Class B, C and D all-state football teams, which were released by the New York State Sportswriters Association Tuesday. In the Class B division, Seniors Allan Houston and Cameron Coleman were first team picks, and Junior Cullen Coleman third team pick after leading the Wildcats to the Metro Independent Football League championship last fall.

Thousands of athletes from all over the east coast competed on the last weekend of 2018 at the third preliminary of the nation's largest women's amateur track and field series, the Colgate Women's Games. Junior, Isabel Stronski, won the 1500 meters with an impressive time of 5:00.09. Grade 8 student, Rowan Houston, won the high jump with a personal best of 5'4".

Students in Grade 4 and in the Upper School were given a piece of paper much like the image above and asked to use their imaginations to create an image around the dots. This exercise - which the faculty also did during Professional Development Day - inspires creativity and thinking outside of the box.

RCDS junior Miles Chun has taken advantage of the tools in the maker space to design and 3D-print a special memento featuring a mesmerizing intersection between the letters RCDS and the numbers 150.

Freshman Peter Nicholas competed in the first round of the Bedford 2020 Greenlight Award competition, a program that provides students with a framework, support, and incentives to create sustainable initiatives.

The Upper School Environmental Club hosted Lew Blaustein of the Climate Reality Project.

As part of the School's continued commitment to excellent and innovative approaches to education, as well as overall student balance and wellness, every Lower School classroom is now equipped with a mindfulness toolkit.