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Robotics team racks up wins at Worlds
Team VERTEX shines at the FIRST Tech Challenge competition in Houston.
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We're on the air!
WPEA, the oldest high school radio station in the U.S., is back on the air for another year. Tune into 90.5 FM or click the link to listen!
![Some of the fall assembly speakers (clockwise, from top left) Julie Livingston, BK Fulton, Courtney Sender, Richard Blanco, D. Michael Shafer and Ken Ilgunas.](https://exeter.edu/sites/default/files/styles/et_news_thumbnail/public/assembly-project.jpg?itok=Kyc3PdD3)
Who's speaking at assembly this fall?
Alums, writers, leaders to share life experiences, messages of purpose with Exeter community.
![Curtis Thomas '09 returned to campus to work with Exeter's dance company in the Goel Center for Theater and Dance.](https://exeter.edu/sites/default/files/styles/et_news_thumbnail/public/news/thomas.jpg?itok=RPAiMOZ2)
Alumnus puts dancers through their paces
Curtis Thomas '09 returns to help Exeter's Fall Dance Company "find moments of float."
![Members of the class of 2021 race go-karts of their own making during Class Activity Day at Alnoba in Kensington.](https://exeter.edu/sites/default/files/styles/et_news_thumbnail/public/news/gokarts.jpg?itok=6j_KoPOi)
And ... they're off! Classes click as a new year dawns
Exeter students gather by class year to reconnect with old friends and make some new ones.
![Exeter's international students hail from 31 countries, from Australia to Vietnam](https://exeter.edu/sites/default/files/styles/et_standalone_feed/public/ISO2019.jpg?itok=W6PIEjbq)
World Wide Web
Exeter's international students hail from 31 countries, from Australia to Vietnam. Welcome back, all!
![Exeter student Angela Zhang in the front of the Academy Building](https://exeter.edu/sites/default/files/styles/et_news_thumbnail/public/news/zhang-1200.jpg?itok=Wq8tmZp3)
Summer warmup
Incoming prep Angela Zhang '23 brings valuable lessons from Exeter Summer program into fall term.
![Janet Taylor Lisle and her husband Dick Lisle sit in on Exeter English class](https://exeter.edu/sites/default/files/styles/et_news_thumbnail/public/news/janettaylorlisle-1200.jpg?itok=d866NlxM)
Serendipity and "The Secret Garden"
A fortuitous visit from author Janet Taylor Lisle brings expert perspective to senior English class.
The Goel Center
The David E. and Stacey L. Goel Center for Theater and Dance has elevated Exeter’s performing arts to a whole new level.
Shout-outs and big ups
A conversation with poet and English Instructor Willie Perdomo.
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Experiment experience
Exeter Summer students work together in a lab at Phelps Science Center. The five-week program continues through Aug. 2.
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Summer of a lifetime
Campus is abuzz again with the arrival of hundreds of learners and teachers for Exeter Summer.
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Exeter Summer: an unbeatable mix of Harkness and fun
733 students gather for five weeks of collaboration and student-centered learning.
![Rachel Labes at an Exeter summer professional development conference.](https://exeter.edu/sites/default/files/styles/et_news_thumbnail/public/ET-SMT-thumb.jpg?itok=dHq0QVUh)
Math instructor comes home to Harkness
Rachel Labes discovered Harkness at an Exeter summer professional development conference. Now she’s teaching here, and passionate about its power.
'That's the beauty of it ...'
Emily Coombs '18 tells Exeter Humanities Institute participants about the elusiveness of the "perfect Harkness discussion" — and the joy of the pursuit.
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Educators hone skills with Harkness
Hundreds of teachers from across the country and around the globe gather on campus to learn from Exeter faculty, featured instructors and each other.
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Full speed ahead on summer break
Exeter students embrace PEA's Global Initiatives programs, from New Orleans and Yellowstone, to Iceland and Italy.
![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.
![Jeff Jacoby](https://exeter.edu/sites/default/files/styles/et_topic_cluster_secondary/public/news/Jacoby-1200.jpg?itok=JjKdjRvp)
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.