MDIS Earth Day Festival – Exhibitors

You're Invited to the Maryland International School Earth Day Festival 2023

We are looking for local businesses and vendors to join us for our annual Earth Day Festival on Saturday, April 29, from 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM

What is MDIS Earth Day?

An annual community event where MDIS students have an opportunity to educate through interactive activities and promote ways to protect and restore our earth. The 2023 Earth Day focuses on Investing in Our Planet and the topics of Climate & Environmental Literacy, Acting on Climate Change, Conservation & Restoration, Ending Plastic Pollution, and Food & Environment.

MDIS is searching for individuals and organizations with a focus the Environment who can provide hands-on activities and/or demonstrations during our Event. If you are interested in being an exhibitor, please submit the interest form below.

Earth Day Festival 2023 Exhibitors

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6th Annual MDIS Earth Day Festival

Maryland International School Earth Day Festival 2023

Thank you for joining us on Saturday, April 29, 2023, for MDIS 6th Annual Earth Day Festival! Check out our highlights!

Featuring:

  • Hands-on Earth Day-related activities for families and students in PreK-Grade 12 prepared by Maryland International School Students & other exhibitors
  • Food and snacks from Antojitos Express Food Truck & Schmidty’s Kettle Corn
  • The Scholastic Book Fair
  • Open House at 1:00 PM for prospective families – Click here to register.

 

6th Annual STEM Festival

On Saturday, October 29, 2022, MDIS Celebrated its 6th Annual STEM Festival! We are so happy to have held this event for our MDIS families this year, and hope to carry on the tradition in years to come.

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MDIS Middle Schoolers Participate in Experiential Learning at Echo Hill​

MDIS Middle Schoolers Participate in Experiential Learning at Echo Hill

Late last month, MDIS Grades 6-8 packed up their gear and headed to the Chesapeake Bay to Camp Echo Hill for an experiential learning opportunity. Usually planned for 6th grade students alone, this year’s trip was made extra special with the addition of the 7th and 8th graders who lost their trip to the Covid-19 pandemic. As a sleep-away camp experience, students stay in cabins with 8 of their peers, enjoy meals with classmates, participate in two 3-hour activities per day, and have periods of free time to explore camp with their friends. As a part of their ongoing science curriculum, their activities this year were primarily based around ecology and “challenges by choice”, one of the key reasons for this trip every year. Ms. Vance, MYP science teacher and leader of the annual Echo Hill experience, says that one of the main reasons this trip is so special is the way it is able “to bring any new students into the group, make them feel included and important, and give everyone a part of things. It requires a lot of communication with each other.” Ms.Vance says that her favorite part of the Echo Hill trip is getting to see students learn to believe in themselves. The camp’s daily challenges, “challenges by choice”, allow for every child to choose their own goal for each activity. A 40-foot-high rope swing might be a fun challenge for some, but for others, the appropriate challenge might be to sit on the swing, without any additional height. This is to emphasize that no personal challenge is too small to be worthy of celebration.

Each student is given the freedom to accomplish their own goals, without any pressure or shame. This is a huge key to the success of the Echo Hill experience. Ms. Vance recalls moments at Echo Hill where she has seen entire classes bond over one student’s desire to face, and overcome, a fear.  “I love how proud they are when they take on a challenge,” she says, “and I love that they embrace it.” 

 

Check out some pictures from the Echo Hill trip this year below, and discover more about MDIS’ commitment to building character in and outside of the classroom when you sign up for a tour today!

 

Thank you to all of our faculty for making this trip a success! Check out some photos below!

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Located in Howard County, MDIS is an authorized World School for the International Baccalaureate (IB) Primary Years Programme, Middle Years Programme, and Diploma Programme. We are the only school in Maryland and second in the Mid-Atlantic region to offer all three programmes of study. Our mission is to provide an academically rigorous and supportive college-preparatory education with an interdisciplinary and applied focus on the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines in order to prepare students to become creative problem solvers, effective communicators, and tomorrow’s leaders who think ethically, independently, and globally. We are conveniently located in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area on a beautiful 9-acre campus in Elkridge, MD.

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