The industrial arts program begins in the Middle School.
Basic woodshop skills are learned in fifth grade and are further reinforced and augmented with new tool use in sixth grade. Boys are introduced to all the major hand tools and are also given a preliminary introduction to several power tools.
In seventh and eighth grade, boys will build upon the skills from woodshop in the more technological setting of our Idea Lab. Boys will be given the opportunity to approach the engineering design process through projects using hands-on physical builds as well as designs through computer programming software that connects with our 3D printers and laser cutter.
Peter Bevacqua ’89, who now serves as University Vice President & James E. Rohr Director of Athletics at University of Notre Dame, returned to Edwards Campus to be the keynote speaker at the 92nd Annual Father-Son Dinner in March.
A second-generation Holocaust survivor spoke to Middle School boys in February about her mother’s escape from Hungary in the early years of World War II.
The Middle School Math Team finished first in the statewide Connecticut MathCounts competition, held at Yale University on March 1.
After winning a tightly contested match against St. Andrew’s School on Saturday night to secure its place in the finals, Brunswick defeated Hotchkiss, 5-2, to earn the 2025 US High School Team Squash Championship. It is the Bruins’ sixth title in school history.