Friends Select School has appointed Sarah Kelly as interim upper school dean of students, marking a new chapter in the school’s leadership, as longtime dean Norman Bayard P’24, ’28 prepares to step...

In this podcast, Miles ’26, Bryce ’26, Bryson ’26, and David ’26 discuss the Friends Select baseball team midway through the season, focusing on team chemistry, coaching, and the overall experience...

Nighttime curfews are used in Philadelphia to address crime, civil unrest, and emergencies. Curfews are times of the night and early morning when people are required to be indoors, intended to stop nighttime...

Just as cars replaced horse-drawn wagons, we may be seeing a shift from human-powered food deliveries to autonomous, AI-powered robot deliveries. On March 10, Uber Eats, with autonomous vehicle development...

Every April, people around the world celebrate Earth Month as a time dedicated to environmental awareness and action. It began with Earth Day, first celebrated on April 22, 1970, with an estimated 20 million...

When individuals make decisions, there are often internal and external factors that influence their choices and thought processes. These internal and external factors are known as cognitive biases and...

Many graduates of Friends Select School have become very successful in their careers, including CEOs, Olympic athletes, mayors, and entrepreneurs. This article examines the lives of four notable alumni...

As social media becomes increasingly influential and dominant in our lives, high school athletes need to learn to manage not only physical pressure but also mental and digital pressures. Understanding...

When first walking into the thundering Friends Select School gymnasium, the symbol of the Falcon stands out among the rest of the school banners. The chants of the basketball team echo off the walls as...

The power in your house goes out, and you flip the circuit breaker, but it still doesn’t work. So you call an electrician, and they fix it with no problems. But what would you’ve done if there weren't...

For most of human history, humans lived without the complex languages that we use today. However, over thousands of years, simple gestures and sounds have evolved into the thousands of spoken languages...

July 4, 2019. It's a regular day in a Walgreens on the 1800 block of South Street. Suddenly, over 60 teens burst into the store, running around, knocking items off of shelves, vandalizing, and stealing....