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Robotics team racks up wins at Worlds
Team VERTEX shines at the FIRST Tech Challenge competition in Houston.
![Keynote speaker Ibram X. Kendi speaks to Exeter students.](https://exeter.edu/sites/default/files/styles/et_news_thumbnail/public/news/Kendi-MLK-Day-2020-3.jpg?itok=ABGjjcy6)
Examining the dream: Exeter embraces MLK
Exonians honor the slain civil rights leader with programming titled “Changing the Narrative.”
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“You always listen to every instrument just to get to know how your part collaborates with the others."
CarlyMae '21 and Lily '22
Masterful message
"Live your passion, and wake up every day feeling like 'This is what I want to do.'" Watch chess Grandmaster Maurice Ashley (here playing Katya Davis '20) share his inspirational message with Exeter.
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“It’s ludicrous that we know far more about the surface of the moon and Mars than we know about the seafloor.”
John K. Hall '58
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Times columnist to Exeter: America 'facing a fact crisis'
Charles M. Blow tells first assembly of new year that a free press is "the best friend a democracy can have."
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Master of puppets
Theater Instructor Rob Richards taps into students' imaginations in Puppetry and Props.
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Author hails 'the audacity of the First Amendment'
Greg Lukianoff urges Exeter to seek out dissenting views and resist restrictions on free speech.
Thank you for this opportunity
The Exeter community is grateful to our supporters for all they do and all they give.
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Who's coming to speak at assembly this winter?
Guest speakers at Exeter this term will include award-winning writers and trailblazing innovators.
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PEA debaters are getting in the last word this fall
Academy teams earn top marks in both public forum and parliamentary competitions.
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9 questions for Arthur Sze
Felix Yeung ’21 sits down with the poet of “deep noticing” to discuss the writing process, the creative impacts of being bilingual, and how writing has changed Sze’s life.
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Jose Olivarez slays assembly
The award-winning poet and teacher treated Exeter on Friday with readings from Citizen Illegal.
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6 questions for classics scholar Dr. James Romm
We asked the Bard College professor about changes in the classics community, why he loves dead languages, and what he’d ask an ancient Greek if he met one on the street.
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Family fun!
It's one of our favorite weekends of the year! Welcome to Exeter, everybody.
![Ayush Noori](https://exeter.edu/sites/default/files/styles/et_people_feed/public/news/ayush-hall.jpg?itok=Itf5M7MO)
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The write stuff
What a treat having Dan Brown ‘82 back on campus to speak with the class of 2023. He urged the preps to “dive in” to their opportunity at Exeter and to wear out their delete keys as they embrace the trial-and-error nature of the creative process.
![Elizabeth Alexander, Ilya Kaminsky, Jericho Brown, Arthur Sze, Natasha Trethewey, Julia Alvarez, Gregory Pardlo.](https://exeter.edu/sites/default/files/styles/et_topic_cluster_primary/public/news/recent-Lamont-Poets-4.jpg?itok=_CC3zunm)
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Baratunde Thurston has the answers
Author, activist confronts tough topics with eloquence and insight at Exeter assembly.
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Political columnist's appearance part of spring assembly lineup
Jeff Jacoby of The Boston Globe discussed the direction of the Republican Party.
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(Beyond) a Day of Service: MLK Day 2021
Exeter honors the life of Martin Luther King Jr. with community service and programming headlined by Roxane Gay ’92.