The Senior Exhibition is an opportunity…

• to learn and to teach;
• to explore a topic of intellectual inquiry;
• to pursue a passion;
• to present your new understanding to a public audience of teachers, schoolmates, family and friends.

The Senior Exhibition program is a culminating academic experience targeted for the final year of study at The Thacher School. Projects are of substantial magnitude and the April presentation an articulate expression of organized thought about the topic’s issues and arguments. Senior Exhibitions begin with a question that soon evolves into a thesis or a clear statement of purpose. The senior then builds an argument deciding the truth of his or her thesis by reflecting upon and explaining what he or she has studied. Senior Exhibitions often go beyond this to offer reasoned criticism and alternatives.

Each senior works one-on-one with an advisor and an "exhibition coach," getting advice or guidance when necessary, but more importantly, sharing the unique pleasure of sustained intellectual inquiry.

Some recent Senior Exhibition topics have included:

• Channel Islands Resource Management
• The Evolution of Electronic Music
• Avalanche Accident Analysis
• The Mozart Effect
• Islamic Society and Woman's Role
• AIDS: From Primates to Humans
• Bible Codes
• The Life and Work of the Artist Yvonne Hudson
• Two African Tribes Compared: The Mbuti Pygmies and the Maasai
• The Physics and Fluid Dynamics of Sails: More than Meets the Eye
• Art in Children's Literature
• Rain Forest Plants and Modern Medicine
• Cryptography: What is Protecting Your Credit History?
• Social Dance: A Reflection of Women's Culture
• The Power Behind the Mask: An Exploration of Mardi Gras in New Orleans & Carnival in Rio de Janeiro
• Livin' La Vida Loca in California Politics: The Hispanic Vote in California's Federal Elections
• Adolescent Female Moral Development
• Neuropsychology of Dreaming
• Egyptian Mathematics