Best of SAAS, Volume 19
Showcasing Seattle Academy's 2019-20 school year, including student profiles, academic highlights, signature programs, and more! Learn More
Culture of Performance
Students are challenged to take risks by combining disparate skills in moments of action. Learn More
Know the Kid
Understanding each student at the individual level and navigating with them through their educational experience. Learn More
Inclusive Community
Fostering respect for human differences, growth of the individual, and diversity within the school community. Learn More
College and Life
We value curiosity and innovation, participation and excellence, and exploration and resolve. Learn More
SAAS Pillars
The core of our programmatic vision is the collection of student learning provided in our academics, arts, athletics, outdoor trips & travel and service experiences within a supportive diverse and inclusive community.
Academics
Seattle Academy’s mission of preparing students for college and life means our academics pair traditional areas of study with innovative curriculum, projects, and performances.
Arts
Since Seattle Academy was founded, the arts have played a central role in our school’s identity. We believe that every student is intrinsically creative.
Athletics
Seattle Academy Athletics offers an inclusive, no-cut program that invites students of all skill levels to participate in our team sports offerings. At the same time, we’re just as passionately committed to supporting excellence, fielding teams that operate at the highest level of competition or performance.
Outdoor & Travel
The Seattle Academy Outdoor & Travel Program provides opportunities for students to challenge themselves both physically and emotionally, to deepen relationships, and to develop a responsible understanding of cultures, people, and the lands through which they travel.
Service
The Seattle Academy Service Learning program helps prepare students to be engaged, reflective, and productive contributors in a changing world.
Inclusive Community
Seattle Academy welcomes and binds together a diverse independent school community - we believe that a diverse school community is essential to education. We therefore foster and encourage respect for human differences, growth of the individual, and diversity within the school population.
Community Voices
Our SAAS community is full of exciting stories about and opinions of our students, Alums, families and faculty/staff. Our voices reflect the inspiring impact of SAAS within our school, community and the world at large.
Alicia Mullikin
Arts Dance Faculty
Alicia Mullikin, Seattle Academy dance teacher and choreographer, was recently featured on KCTS9 in an article written by Laila Kazmi. The article discusses Alicia’s attempts to open minds and challenge long-existing stereotypes of who can be a dancer.
Sophia Schloss
Class of 2021
Sophia Schloss ’21 stars in the title role of the new film Sadie. The film debuted at the SXSW Film Festival in mid-March and has been receiving raves reviews since then.
Lewis Greenstein
Class of 2017
Lewis Greenstein ‘17 won the teen category of the Future Engineers Mars Medical Challenge. Lewis first entered the competition in his Upper School Winter Innovations-Prototyping course with David Pynchon. In mid-March, his medical 3D digital Dual IV/Syringe pump object designed for an astronaut to use in space to maintain physical health on a 3-year journey to Mars was selected as a finalist.
Sam Schimmel
Class of 2018
Sam Schimmel ’18, Center for Native American Youth 2017 Champion for Change, hosted an Alaskan Native Youth roundtable discussion during the Alaska Federation of Natives Conference held last week in Anchorage, Alaska.
MacKenzie Caputo
Class of 2018
In cross country, MacKenzie not only set a school record but earned First-Team All-ECL honors and was named ECL Rookie of the Year. She qualified for the state meet, where she broke the school record set by Shayla Maupin ‘10 back in 2008. Mackenzie’s record time was 19.49.
Tess Barton
Class of 2019
Earlier this month, the Center for Infectious Disease Research announced that Seattle Academy junior Tess Barton will be one of just thirty-six applicants selected to participate in their nationally recognized, summer outreach program 2018 BioQuest Academy.
Sam Zivin
Class of 2019
Sam Zivin ’19 was recently featured in the online magazine Northwest in Motion. The profile discusses how Sam’s interest in cycling has grown and his recent accomplishments.
Gavriel Staloch
Class of 2018
Alumnus, Gavriel Staloch '18 highlighted on Geek Wire as their Geek of the Week as he builds his own brand and a business on Instagram.
Conner Pierce
Class of 2018
Alumnus, Conner Pierce '18 was named a 2018 US Paralympics Track & Field All American.
Upcoming SAAS Events
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June 12 - 3:00 PM
We will honor seniors with a virtual graduation ceremony that will have many of the components that SAAS gradations have always had! We will have both prerecorded and live performances, as well as student speakers. Each student will be honored in the ways we have in the past by sharing observations for each student and their plans for next Fall.
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SAAS Middle School Building, 1137 13th Avenue, Seattle, 98122
Middle School Seminar Room
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SAAS Middle School Building, 1137 13th Avenue, Seattle, 98122
Middle School Seminar Room
Currently Happening at SAAS
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Welcome to the Best of SAAS magazine. We’re excited to share our Spring 2020 edition showcasing Seattle Academy's 2019-20 school year including student profiles, academic highlights, signature programs, and more!
![Seattle Academy Spring 2020 Athletics Contributor Awards]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1591207920/seattleacademyorg/upuk3sbq2kn5qrygojuv/SeattleAcademySpring2020AthleticsContributorAwards.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1591207920/seattleacademyorg/upuk3sbq2kn5qrygojuv/SeattleAcademySpring2020AthleticsContributorAwards.png","width":470}])
It was another great year for Seattle Academy Cardinal Athletics. We will add nineteen banners to the gym wall! More impressive are our participation numbers. We had seventy-four teams this year and close to seventy percent of our student population participating in at least one season of athletics this year.
![Seattle Academy Athletic Director Cathy Schick]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1590186452/seattleacademyorg/qzqzefq5dvj1p9pbjxfv/SeattleAcademyAthleticDirectorCathySchick.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1590186452/seattleacademyorg/qzqzefq5dvj1p9pbjxfv/SeattleAcademyAthleticDirectorCathySchick.png","width":470}])
Congratulations to Athletic Director, Cathy Schick, who has been recognized by the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (NIAAA) as a Certified Master Athletic Administrator.
![Photo of Seattle Academy Senior Project Community Threads T Shirt Designs]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1589399674/seattleacademyorg/hlotst4hlnw9mqbdpw4t/SeattleAcademySeniorProjectCommunityThreads.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1589399674/seattleacademyorg/hlotst4hlnw9mqbdpw4t/SeattleAcademySeniorProjectCommunityThreads.png","width":470}])
As part of their project, seniors Max Torres '20 and Elena Zytnicki '20 created a clothing company entitled Community Threads, which reflects and serves the needs of their community amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
![Photo of Seattle Academy Remote Learning 2020 Kitchen Chemistry Lab with Shelley K.]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1588623639/seattleacademyorg/zisdxlyrztuz0gxywjbh/SeattleAcademyRemoteLearning2020KitchenChemistrywithShelleyK.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1588623639/seattleacademyorg/zisdxlyrztuz0gxywjbh/SeattleAcademyRemoteLearning2020KitchenChemistrywithShelleyK.png","width":470}])
During a time of remote learning, our Seattle Academy 10th grade chemistry students have delved into the complexity of Acid-Base Chemistry.
![Photo of Seattle Academy Community Producing Masks for Health Care Workers]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1588649721/seattleacademyorg/d3mb7wr9axanqzywcogl/SeattleAcademyCommunityProducingMasksforHealthCareWorkers.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1588649721/seattleacademyorg/d3mb7wr9axanqzywcogl/SeattleAcademyCommunityProducingMasksforHealthCareWorkers.png","width":470}])
We are proud of Seattle Academy alums Kenji Lee ‘18 and Peter Springer ‘18 who are involved in Maker Mask - a Seattle nonprofit creating medically endorsed, reusable protective masks using everyday 3D printers.
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Seattle Academy English Faculty member Rachel Edelman's original poem "Passage" was recently published by Wildness, an online literary journal based in the United Kingdom.
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Beginning Seattle Academy Visual Arts sculpture students learn different woodworking skills through the challenge of building a working automaton.
