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Here is the latest news about our Preschool through 12th-grade college-prep school, located in Hockessin, Delaware! Visit often to learn about the latest student accomplishments, faculty achievements, alumni news, strategic initiatives, facility upgrades, and much more.

Sanford News

List of 3 news stories.

Team Rally: Sanford Students Create App to Connect College Students
3/5/2026
Elise Burke Parcha

Sanford students Ajay D’Souza ’27, Claire Fang ’28, and Mia Haydu ’29 were part of Team Rally, a student-built platform connecting college students through pickup sports. Mentored by Mona Singh, mother of Sanford alum Rai Kahlon ’24, Rally was chosen from 1,845 teams worldwide to advance to the regional Diamond Challenge at the University of Delaware’s Horn School of Entrepreneurship, finishing among the Top 20.

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Sanford Students Earn Design Award at FIRST Tech Challenge
3/4/2026
Elise Burke Parcha

Nico Mucchetti '27, Walter Fiechter '29, and Teddy Ketcham '30, put their engineering and coding skills to the test at this year’s FIRST Tech Challenge DECODE competition, building a robot that could pick up small game pieces and launch them into a goal, autonomously for 30 seconds, then manually for two minutes.
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Faculty Highlight: Mike Symons
2/10/2026
Elise Burke Parcha

At the PAIS Teaching and Learning Conference, Upper School English instructor Mike Symons offered strategies that put student voice and collaboration at the center of learning.

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