Graland Country Day School

Recently, four middle school students and teacher/Gates coach Andy Dodge were guests on the Colorado & Company television show. They shared their inventions and talked about their experiences with the Charles C. Gates Invention and Innovation Program. Click here to watch the television segment.

The recent death of Steve Jobs, founder of Apple, has caused the entire world to take note of his unique knack for invention. In our daily life, we don’t often think about how the iPod or iPad or iPhone in our hand came to be. Most of us take inventions for granted. But not Nathaniel Newman ’09, whose life has been forever changed by Graland’s Gates Invention and Innovation Competition.

Each fall, approximately 30 pieces of student artwork from the previous school year are selected to become part of Graland's Permanent Art Collection. Click here to see the 2010-2011 selections.