by Sheila Sherwin | Mar 20, 2020 | Alumni Stories, Kaleidoscope
For his YIHS Senior Project, Charlie developed and executed “Food For Thought”… A food truck that today is one of the student body’s biggest fundraisers. After graduating from YIHS, I left my idyllic small-town childhood for The University of...
by Sheila Sherwin | Dec 27, 2019 | Kaleidoscope
By Jeffrey Marshall Although it has been more than a decade since I graduated from Youth Initiative High School (YIHS), I can say without reservation that it played a profound role in my development as a critical thinker and globally-minded citizen. YIHS has a way of...
by Sheila Sherwin | Dec 27, 2019 | Kaleidoscope, Uncategorized
By Emily Colacino In the twelve years since I graduated from Youth Initiative High School I have many times found myself in unexpected situations, feeling grateful for the unique and well-rounded education I received and the ways in which it prepared me for the real...
by Sheila Sherwin | Dec 23, 2019 | Kaleidoscope
By Jacob Hundt – Kaleidoscope Fall 2019 “For, to speak out once for all, man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.” -Friedrich Schiller, Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man, Letter XV...
by Sheila Sherwin | Dec 19, 2019 | Kaleidoscope
by Tegan Wenland, YIHS Class of 2004 I came to YIHS as a sophomore – confused, lost and looking for escape in unhealthy places. I found community, support, and family. I found mentors who told me I could be a successful leader, a bright student, and a...
by Sheila Sherwin | Dec 18, 2019 | Kaleidoscope
By Sheila Sherwin – YIHS Director of Development What makes Youth Initiative High School different? Is it that we are one of only 40 Waldorf High Schools in the country? That we were the first high school in the United States to be designated as an...
