Senior Assemblies
	SPEAK YOUR MIND One of our treasured traditions at Agnes Irwin is the Senior Assembly. Each senior is required to prepare and present a 10-minute speech before the Upper School student body and faculty (approximately 300 people) on a topic of her own choosing. Generally the topics are consciousness-raising, and often are discussed afterwards by both students and faculty. Our students prepare for this moment starting with "show and tell" in Kindergarten, with class projects, and in public speaking classes in seventh grade. During the seniors' presentations, virtually all of which include multimedia, it is remarkable how poised and articulate the speakers appear — portraying a confidence and ease that belies the nervousness they might feel.  Senior Assemblies are emblematic of what we do at Agnes Irwin. They strengthen initiative and give tremendous merit to a student's ideas. Enormous support is generated by the community as the audience focuses its attention to each speaker. It is the one event all graduates remember throughout their life and when called upon to make a presentation or give a speech, they realize that it has become much easier to do.  Recent topics of senior assemblies have included: Adoption AIDS Assassination of JFK Theories Beatles Body Language Bullying Cancer Child Labor Clark Gable Dog Shows Future of Robotics Intuition and Self-defense Leonardo da Vinci Pearl Harbor Phobias Piracy Ski Patrol Star Wars Synesthesia Taliban Women Time Travel Theories Women and Technology Why We Went to the Moon William Shakespeare