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Guided by the school's mission, Kimball Union Academy prepares students for tomorrow's world's challenges by inspiring academic mastery, creativity, responsibility, and leadership. Set in the historic village of Meriden, New Hampshire, students at KUA are immersed in a breadth of educational opportunities that also allow for a deeper dive into areas of interest. Students here are confident, life-long learners who care about one another. Education begins, evolves, and endures through positive relationships that build connections to self and others, to ideas and principles, and the work at hand. These relationships are in abundant evidence in the diverse faces and spaces of Kimball Union, where mission and goals are intentionally woven deeply into the learning community's fabric. When students and faculty are in mindful interplay to develop cognitive, behavioral, and affective aspects, active learning through individual and community expression and performance is everywhere. In every area of Kimball Union, we work actively with students to equip them with 21st-century skills. Individual growth, engagement, and the development of interdisciplinary academic tools, social skills, and habits define our program. For most students, this leads to the discovery of passions in new areas of study. We provide a breadth of educational opportunities and allow for a deeper dive into the knowledge and mastery that enables each student to contribute to their chosen field. Our students are confident, life-long learners who are successful communicators and leaders. In small classroom settings, supported and challenged in positive ways by peers, and encouraged by talented faculty members, KUA ensures that every student will develop a set of essential skills through the breadth of programs offered. Additional mastery and depth of knowledge can be attained by participation in Signature and Scholar Programs, which promote leadership and add academic rigor to the student experience. At KUA, learning happens everywhere, all the time, which means it does not stop when classes are over. Our program is designed to enable each student to achieve academic success through personal growth. Students encounter learning and growth in the classroom, on the sports field, in the theater, in the dorms—everywhere on campus. Student life is about engaging with the curriculum to allow connections between the classroom and the community. Student life is also about making connections that will last a lifetime. Another critical component of education is learning to meet challenges with energy, critical analysis, and the expectation that experience grants wisdom. At KUA, this begins with SMART Boards in every classroom, the KUA Laptop Requirement to ensure that every student is equipped with the appropriate device and support for their academic computing needs, and the adoption of digital textbooks across a number of our course offerings, which allows us to further embrace digital content and enhancements in and out of the classroom. Utilizing cutting-edge technology gives faculty and students the freedom to be creative and move beyond the traditional walls and constraints of "old school" education. We strive to make our classrooms more interactive and empower students to play an active role in their education. We see the impact of this every day—whether it is guiding students as they use Twitter to follow up-to-the-minute, first-person accounts of a revolution unfolding half a world away or watching them win the Massachusetts FIRST Tech Challenge Championships as part of our STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) Program. Kimball Union Academy's classrooms are all equipped with SMART Boards and outstanding audio/visual capabilities. These technologies are integrated into the curriculum in various ways to emphasize 21st Century skills and learning outcomes. Whether through collaborative problem-solving, global interconnectivity, access to databases, or refining information literacy, our objective is to advance learning with these technological tools. View full school