Alumni experts connected with current MFS students in exciting project-based learning

As part of the Middle School Seventh Grade Quest Program, teams of students were challenged to imagine solutions to problems identified within the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Their work culminated in making virtual presentations to real-world experts, in front of their teachers and classmates. This year’s experts included John Donnelly ’71, past president of Global Healing and principal at Vaccinology; Mike Murza ’06, attorney with the California Energy Commission; and Chris Setz-Kelly ’04, immigration attorney with Gian-Grasso, Tomczak and Hufe, P.C. in Philadelphia.

Also, the Upper School Economics class hosted The MFSBiz Entrepreneurship Competition for the first time, underwritten in part by the Herman Hollerith Endowment at MFS. Student teams were required to come up with original business or nonprofit startup ideas and pitch their concepts to a panel of four guest alumni judges. The judges, all of whom have first-hand successful entrepreneurial experience, included: Ashley Edwards ’08, Founder and CEO of MindRight, a Newark based tech startup in the behavioral health space; Mike Carter ’91, CEO of Biz Equity in Wayne PA, a financial technology firm; Mark Friedenthal ’91, President of Friedenthal Financial a Marlton investment advisory; and Tony Yi ’91, Senior Vice President for Corporate Strategy and Partnerships at Open Slate in NYC.

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