Community Symposium - Rockbridge Academy Skip Navigation Community Symposium Community Community Events Community Symposium Each year, Rockbridge Academy invites our parents and the broader community to engage in topics relevant to educating the heart and the mind. This year, we are pleased to have our very own Upper School Science Teacher, Robyn Kennedy speak on Curiosity: Science, Stem, and Virtue. You can find more information about our speaker and the topic of Science and Virtue below. Our Community Symposium is FREE and open to the public, but we kindly request RSVP's: RSVP for the Community Symposium About the Location The symposium will be held at our campus at 680 Evergreen Rd., Crownsville, MD  21032, on Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 7:00 PM. About the Topic and Resources: The discussion on ethics in advancing technologies is a constantly evolving, critical, and timely one— one in which the classical sphere is deeply invested. Beyond classical pedagogy, however, the evening presents a uniquely enlightening opportunity to engage with ideas on science, technology, and ethics in our Creator's world . As someone who claims the name of Christ, you can be a part of the conversation! If you're interested in learning and reading more, follow the links or look for these titles: Closely-Tied Books: Norms and Nobility , David Hicks The Liberals Arts Tradition , Clark and Jain Related Books: Awakening Wonder , Steve Turley Abolition of Man , C.S. Lewis Technopoly , Neil Postman Academic Articles: AI and the Path of Temptation , V. XXXIII, Issue 1, Fall '25 . Classis, a Journal of the Association of Classical Christian Schools. Five Things We Need to Know about Classical Change , Neil Postman About the Speaker: Robyn Kennedy has a degree in chemical engineering and a background in manufacturing and data acquisition systems. She teaches upper school science at Rockbridge Academy, specifically instructing students in Pre-Calculus, Physics, Advanced Physics, and Advanced Chemistry courses . Her husband is a retired Navy captain, and she and her family have served our country for many years at duty stations all over the world and the country. She is a parent to one Alumni and two current Rockbridge students. With her education and experience, Robyn is the perfect person to present on the overlap between STEM and ethics , so you won't want to miss her timely thoughts that night! RSVP now and invite friends to join you! Qoutes, Symposium 2026: The good classroom is an icon of the world, not an oasis from the world. - Joshua Gibbs, Something They Will Not Forget Our enthusiasm for technology can turn into a form of idolatry and our belief in its beneficence can be a false absolute. The best way to view technology is as a strange intruder, to remember that technology is not part of God’s plan but a product of human creativity and hubris, and that its capacity for good or evil rests entirely on human awareness of what it does for us and to us. ” -Neil Postman, Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change How is it that the more able man becomes to manipulate the world to his advantage, the less he can perceive any meaning in it? - Owen Barfield, The Rediscovery of Meaning Clear ideas are excellent when we are able to conceive them, but it may be that at certain times with certain problems it is better to be content with a creative confusion than to strive for an oversimplified solution. Clarity can be purchased at the expense of the complexity of the truth .” - John Polkinghorne, One World Seeking truth, and seeking to explain, can be conflicting goals. - Nancy Cartwright The more a quantitative indicator is used for decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the processes it is intended to monitor. - Cambell’s Law Education is not merely an intellectual affair, no matter how intellect-centered it must be, because human beings are not merely minds. As creatures made in God’s image, we are composite beings—unions of soul and body. A full curriculum must cultivate the good of the whole person, soul and body. - Ravi Jain, The Liberal Arts Tradition In its utilitarian haste, the state peddles preparation for the practical life to our young as the glittering door to the life of pleasure. - David Hicks, Norms and Nobility The passion to know cannot be fully good and healthy if separated from the love for God which limits and transforms it. - Gilbert Meilaender