Senior Exhibit

The Senior Exhibit is a graduation requirement at Fredericksburg Academy that requires a level of commitment beyond most secondary courses.  It gives the students the freedom to be immersed in a topic they are interested in while learning important life skills such as time management and working cooperatively with others.

It is a process that begins in January of the eleventh grade year.  Students select a topic of their choice and undertake a learning activity related to that topic such as taking a formal class, completing an internship, or travel.  They work with a faculty mentor, and the scope of the topic evolves as the student applies that learning to another element related to the topic, finally giving a formal presentation to a panel where the student has the opportunity to showcase the struggles and successes of the Exhibit process.

Senior Exhibits topics chosen by students have included:

Russian Art and Architecture

Scuba Diving

Principles of Psychology

Video Production and Editing

Getting a Pilot’s License

Learning Norwegian and translating ancestral letters

Archaeology of Virginia and Colonial Digs

Writing a Novella

FBI Profiling

STD Control and Teen Pregnancy

Ornithology and building a bird sanctuary

Building a Computer from scratch

Vertigo and other balance disorders

Investing: Beginning your teenage portfolio

Organizing and running a bone marrow drive

Art or Science: the study of Albert Einstein

Babies at Risk: Neonatology in the Fredericksburg area

For more information about the Senior Exhibit, please email Senior Exhibit Coordinator Jeff Eckerson at jeckerson@fredericksburgacademy.org.