Representing Milton on the World Stage

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Representing Milton on the World Stage

Sarina Miller ’26 gave this year’s student keynote address at the opening ceremony of the VEX Robotics World Championship in Dallas, Texas. Miller, a member of the VEX Student Advisory Board, delivered her speech to an audience of thousands. 

Robotics is the perfect activity for young people with boundless curiosity who aren’t afraid to ask questions and learn from failures, Miller told the audience.  “Since there is no simple roadmap to building the perfect bot, we need to iterate until we find what works. Questions are essential to that process. Robotics exists in the real world, where solutions are often messy and not realized in a single attempt.  … The ‘aha’ moments come from our ability to go beyond what we know and explore the unknown.” 

“Asking questions is an art form,” she continued. “Understanding how to take observations and transform them into thought-provoking questions is an important skill.”

What’s Next?

Combining time-tested foundational pedagogy and a healthy dash of innovation, Milton Academy looks to the future. This issue is a celebration of the very best of interdisciplinary study, high academic standards, new methods and perspectives, and a daring embrace of the unknown. Alumni search for lessons from a dynamic past and rethink legacy industries—leading with new approaches to the most challenging issues of the day. On campus, Milton teachers and students look at classic disciplines with new eyes.