Upper School News

Recent AIM graduate Isabelle Jolinger was recently named a National Liberty Museum Young Hero for 2019. Jolinger, who will attend Syracuse University this fall, is among 13 young people recognized by the organization with the TD Bank Young Heroes Awards given to young people who have taken action to make positive social change in their schools and communities.

AIM Upper School students learned about the dangers of distracted driving from End Distracted Driving founder Joel Feldman whose daughter Casey was killed by a distracted driver. Honored that they could help share this important message in the story on PHL17.

AIM Academy is excited to announce that this year's commencement speaker for our June 7th Graduation will be Daniel Joseph, a Principle Special Effects and Illusion Designer at Walt Disney Imagineering. Since our first Commencement in 2012 we have been committed to having our seniors final "lesson" be from an individual who, like our graduates, has a learning disability and understands acutely the grit and determination required to achieve remarkable outcomes. We look forward to Daniel sending our 29 seniors into the world at graduation wit his remarks and hope that you will join us on Friday, June 7.

Faculty, students, families and friends gathered for AIM Academy’s seventh Upper School commencement exercises on Friday, June 1 as members of the Class of 2018, the largest senior class in the school’s 12-year history, received their diplomas.

Marcus Soutra, president of the national student mentoring organization Eye to Eye delivered the school’s commencement address sharing a mentoring moment with the audience that focused on embracing learning differences and why he dedicated himself to creating an organization designed to “unlock greatness in the 1 in 5 who learn differently.”

AIM Upper and Middle School students turned the training room into a workshop Tuesday, May 15 constructing simple solar lanterns out of recycled cans, plastic bottles and simple circuit boards. This AIM Center for Global Leadership service project was part of the school's recognition of the International Day of Light.