Upper School Intersession 2025

Student sign-up timeline:

Monday, November 18 @ 3:15 – 12th Grade
Tuesday, November 19 @ 3:15 – 11th Grade
Wednesday, November 20 @ 3:15 – 10th Grade
Thursday, November 21 @ 3:15 – 9th Grade
November 21-30 – Sign-ups/changes open to all. After December 1, schedules will be frozen.

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8:55am PST

Chip Design: How Does Your Program Run On Silicon? TBAYi-Fan Hsu Gender Affirming Hormone Therapy: Medical Science and Clinical Care TBAErica Metz History of Scientific Racism & Eugenics TBAStacy Hackner Panel: Social Activism Leadership WRCLara McDowell Picture Perfect Politics: Assessing Political Competence Through Headshots TBANed Fluet Singers: Songwriting / Lyrics Edition TBARocío Guitard Smile & Sculpt: Dental Discovery Workshop TBACurious Cardinals • Iman Khater The Art of Cooking Breakfast: Crepes, Pancakes, and Omelettes TBAMichelle Greenebaum The Economics and Ethics of Shein TBADelaney Steele When The BIG One Hits TBAEd Vail American Sign Language TBABill White Anxiety Society: A History of Nervousness from Railway Madness to Coca-Cola TBAFelicia Angeja Viator Beginning Guitar TBAGreg Vaughan Chinese Brush Painting TBAFelix Lim & Bobbi Makani FMRI, Virtual Reality, and the Brain TBATara Srirangarajan Handcarved Blockprints on Paper and Fabric TBAElaine G. Chu Hot Glass - Cool Designs TBADouglass Brown Knitted Cables TBAKira Dulaney Learn to Play Bridge: Competitive Card Play TBAJennifer Kuhn Polaroid Emulsion Lifts: Make Photographs that Look like a Memory Feels TBAKathryn Gentzke Rewiring Reality: Magic, Witchcraft, & the Radical Imagination TBAJoshua Gentzke Architectural Drawing: Learn and Apply Different Ways to Describe the Built Environment Through Drawing TBAMichael Azgour Comedy Writing Intensive TBACorey Rosen In-depth Metalworking & Jewelry Making! TBASophia Hoermann Printmaking Palooza: A Survey of Printmaking Techniques TBANina Osborne TIG Welding TBAPeter McEvoy

10:15am PST

911! TBAEd Vail Bioarchaeology of Sex & Gender TBAStacy Hackner Conservation Ambassadors: Under the Canopy TBAConservation Ambassadors Forensics TBAKimble Torres Panel: Faith & Social Justice – Values-Based ServiceLara McDowell Panel: Nueva Alumni TBADiana Chamorro Panel: Women In Tech TBAGiovanni Iachello Restorative Yoga TBARuchi Murlidhar Singers: Elevate Your Stage Presence TBARocío Guitard The Art of Cooking Breakfast: Crepes, Pancakes, and Omelettes TBAMichelle Greenebaum

11:30am PST

Cu-Bop Latin Jazz Ensemble Concert TBAJim Munzenreider

12:35pm PST

Animal Behavior for Conservationists TBAGustav Steinhardt Bridge Play TBAJennifer Kuhn Conservation Ambassadors: Under the Canopy (Fac/Staff) TBAConservation Ambassadors Conversation and Q&A with Bestselling Author Jasmine Guillory WRCJasmine Guillory Forensics TBAKimble Torres Future Healers: Building Your Journey to Med School TBACurious Cardinals • Lexy Tran History of Scientific Racism & Eugenics TBAStacy Hackner Poems, Song, and Prose: A Global Exploration of Literary Expression TBACurious Cardinals • Ronak Shetty Pots and Parthenons in the Polis: Exploring the Ancient Athenian Agora TBACallisto Lodwick Uh oh, the Car is Broken TBAEd Vail A History of Haunted Houses TBAFelicia Angeja Viator American Sign Language TBABill White Atomically Thin Crystals: A New Twist on Quantum Materials TBABen Feldman Baking Arts: Croissants & Pain Au Chocolat Baking ArtsBaking Arts Chinese Brush Painting TBAFelix Lim & Bobbi Makani Fun Viral Foods Cooking TBASan Mateo Supper Club Hot Glass - Cool Designs TBADouglass Brown Intro to Aerial Silks Ascend Aerial Arts at IMPACT! Kickboxing FitnessAscend Aerial Arts at IMPACT! Kickboxing Fitness LLC Jam Session TBAGreg Vaughan Knitting for Beginners and Beyond TBADebbie Kitani & Lisa Ma Lead an Intersession for Lower School Students Nueva Hillsborough Campus Needle Felting Soft Sculptures TBAKira Dulaney Personal Writing: Finding and Publishing Your Story TBAMelanie Thernstrom Singers: Get your Riffing On! TBARocío Guitard

1:55pm PST

Animal Behavior for Conservationists TBAGustav Steinhardt Bioarchaeology of Sex & Gender TBAStacy Hackner Conservation Ambassadors: Under the Canopy (Alumni Only) TBAConservation Ambassadors Get To Know The Peace Corps TBAAnne Fazioli-Khiari Innovation, Science, and FDA: How Do New Medicines Get To Patients? WRCThomas Chalberg Let’s Go Flying - How to Fly from San Carlos to Truckee! TBAAndres Kohn More Than a Habit: The Science of BFRBs TBACurious Cardinals • Hannah Pescaru Poems, Song, and Prose: A Global Exploration of Literary Expression TBACurious Cardinals • Ronak Shetty Uh oh, the Car is Broken TBAEd Vail Understanding The World Through Maps TBAWalid Khiari