Back from Loon Mountain!

In our program's first foray into adventure sports, a group of Gateway sophomores traveled today to Loon Mountain (NH) for a day of skiing and snowboarding.














While our novice skiers and boarders spent much of the morning sprawled in the snow ...











... it was thumbs-up by the afternoon, when our beginners graduated from the bunny hill and up to the main slopes.









Here is a little blooper with audio for your amusement:



Special thanks to Mr. Hines and Mr. Tran for chaperoning this trip, and to our friends at Y.E.S. (Youth Enrichment Services) for putting this group trip together for us!

Now that it's almost spring, who's up for some mountain biking with Y.E.S.?

3/26 Special Visit from BUSM "Early Admissions" Med Students

Attention all Gateway students who have ever thought about medical school!!!

On Thursday March 26 from 5-6 PM, prior to our all-Gateway family meeting, we will be hosting a special visit from five members of Boston University School of Medicine's Early Medical School Selection Program (EMSSM). These are students who have earned early admission to BUSM after their sophomore years of undergraduate study at historically black colleges and universities. Students in this program spend their senior undergraduate years at Boston University, making an early transition into medical school.

Come learn about the kind of personal commitment to excellence that is required to make it all the way to medical school. Some of the students in EMSSM also participated in Gateway-like programs in high school, and they may have interesting perspectives to share with you about "life after Gateway."

Whitehead Institute High School Biology Program

If you have enjoyed previous field trips to the Broad Institute, we encourage you to sign up for the Whitehead Institute of MIT's High School Student Program, which occurs every year during the April school vacation. The Whitehead Institute is one of the world's leading biomedical research centers, and it is right next door to the Broad Institute. Registration is open now for this year's program, and it is first-come first-served.

Back to the Broad Institute and MIT Museum (3/13)

Yesterday, the Gateway ninth-grade class enjoyed a field trip to the MIT Museum and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. At the MIT Museum, we learned about protein synthesis in the Legos-based learning lab designed by Dr. Kathy Vandiver from MIT, who led us through this activity along with her colleague Jon Bijur. At the Broad Institute, we learned how to conduct DNA fingerprinting using the technique of gel electrophoresis.

Many thanks to Dr. Vandiver, Jon Bijur, Dr. Megan Rokop and Kate MacSwain for organizing such a wonderful experience for our students!

Pride of the O'Bryant

We are incredibly proud of our school community's participation in tonight's Boston School Committee budget hearing at English High School. Thank you to all O'Bryant students, parents and staff who came out to support our school. Our "roaring" O'Bryant welcome to Superintendent Carol Johnson truly showed the heart of our school.