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Innovation
Berwick Innovation Center
What is so special about BIC?
The Berwick Innovation Center (BIC) is an evolving program that reaches far beyond the physical Berwick Academy campus. BIC allows students the opportunity to follow their own intrinsic path to discovery.
Through BIC, students design, direct, and drive their learning. Acknowledging that those roads are as different as every student, BIC provides the framework for students to pursue their passion, learn more deeply, and connect to the subject matter in new and creative ways. Drawing from our mission, BIC encourages creativity, engagement, and entrepreneurship, while promoting the ideals of “virtue and useful knowledge.”
Berwick’s curriculum balances tradition with innovation. Some ideas, texts, or thinkers are timeless while others are timely. At Berwick, we are constantly reviewing what we teach and how we teach it, so our students can participate in classes that are interdisciplinary, engage ideas at the forefront of innovation, and hone 21st century skills. BIC is an ever-evolving program, continually expanding and changing with our students’ interests. The possibilities are endless and we look forward to what the future will bring for BIC.
Berwick’s curriculum balances tradition with innovation. Some ideas, texts, or thinkers are timeless while others are timely. At Berwick, we are constantly reviewing what we teach and how we teach it, so our students can participate in classes that are interdisciplinary, engage ideas at the forefront of innovation, and hone 21st century skills. BIC is an ever-evolving program, continually expanding and changing with our students’ interests. The possibilities are endless and we look forward to what the future will bring for BIC.
Elements of BIC
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Innovation Pursuit Program
The Innovation Pursuit program is a curricular vehicle that allows students to fully engage an intellectual passion. Innovation Pursuits are endeavors that are driven, designed, and directed by individual inquiry. Berwick believes an IP is a valuable learning experience and can play an integral role in the college process. -
Inspiration Commons
Inspiration Commons (IC) is a dynamic space in the Jackson Library consisting of a central HUB for collaboration and presentation, a Fabrication Studio, and a Digital Design Classroom. The IC is intended to provide a collaborative learning space where the community can gather, share, create, innovate, and most importantly inspire each other. -
Lower School Innovation
Innovation in the Lower School comes in many forms. From our Innovation Ex program to curricular innovation like the Project Approach, it is infused in many aspects of the Pre-K through grade 4 experience.
Berwick Academy
31 Academy Street
South Berwick, Maine 03908
Contact:
Admission | 207.384.6300
Main Office | 207.384.2164
South Berwick, Maine 03908
Contact:
Admission | 207.384.6300
Main Office | 207.384.2164
Berwick Academy, situated on an 80-acre campus just over one hour north of Boston, serves 520 students, Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 12 and Postgraduates. Berwick students are from Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and several countries. Deeply committed to its mission of promoting virtue and useful knowledge, Berwick Academy empowers students to be creative and bold. Berwick strives to graduate alumni who shape their own learning, take risks, ask thoughtful questions, and come to understand and celebrate their authentic selves.
