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Why Maharishi School?

Welcome to Maharishi School, one of America’s most unique and progressive schools. What began in 1981 as a single innovative school is now the model for a special kind of holistic education around the world.

At Maharishi School, the foundation of our college preparatory program is optimal alertness. You could have the most ideal school imaginable—best teachers, best facilities, best curriculum, and technology—but if students enter the classroom stressed, fatigued, or distracted, how much can be gained?

What if there was a way to optimize students’ alertness? Every aspect of school life would be enhanced: assimilating and retaining knowledge, social and emotional development, physical health and well-being.

That is why at Maharishi School we invest in rest—of a special kind. Our students and teachers take time to transcend twice a day, with the practice of yoga and Transcendental Meditation. This allows them to gain deep rest and dissolve stress before it accumulates. It improves brain functioning. In a world of nearly incessant outer stimuli, it gives them a respite of inner silence, a connection with their own individual true self.

Gain Self-Knowledge

Through our unique program that is part theory, part practice, students learn to operate from a place of center. They learn how to imbue life with stillness, self-awareness, and presence. This lays the foundation for academic success and prepares students for all areas of future life.

Our goal is to help our students be the best version of themselves—starting with knowing who they are.

Think vertically and make connections.

We offer AP exams to prepare our students for college-level work and Honors classes to promote original work. Our students also have a unique interdisciplinary course called the Science of Creative Intelligence where they see underlying, universal principles that are common to the structure and functioning of all aspects of life—their academic subjects, in nature, and in themselves. Students make connections between all the surface details and the big ideas.

Tap new reservoirs of creativity.

Our students are awake. They are dynamic. We want to help them unleash their creativity, and that’s where Project-Based Learning serves them best.

Our Project Period gives students 70 minutes to explore their passions three days a week, whether in a teacher designed project or one they have proposed as an independent or small group project. They problem-solve, they experiment, they falter and keep trying. They are exercising real-life skills in areas of interest, supported by teachers, community experts, and/or online resources. Project Period is another doorway to finding oneself. It’s another place where individuality is honored and encouraged.

Be successful and happy.

Maharishi School students awaken hidden potentials and accomplish audacious goals. Our alumni have gone on to prestigious universities such as MIT, Stanford, Middlebury, and Oxford. They boast achievements in renowned international competitions like INTEL Science and Engineering Fair and Destination Imagination’s Global Finals. The daily practice of Transcendental Meditation also helps to keep life in check so our students can just be happy with themselves regardless of the competitions, goals, or pressure they will face.

Be valued.

We’re small. All the students know each other. Teachers know all the students. And the small class sizes create a learning environment where every relationship matters and every voice is encouraged and expected. Students from 30 countries have walked through our doors allowing for a rich mosaic of perspectives and preferences.

Beyond our doorstep lies Fairfield, a small, safe community stitched together with progressive values and people from all over the world. Smithsonian Magazine recently named Fairfield one of the “Top Small Towns in America to Visit.” It’s so special that Oprah herself came to visit Fairfield and Maharishi School and slipped into a meditation seat next to our students. This intimate and inclusive setting makes Maharishi School a very special home away from home.

Maharishi School’s vision of holistic education encompasses not just an array of academic subjects and extracurricular pursuits, but also a focus on character development from outer examples and training. We are committed to drawing out the phenomenal gifts and potential in each person’s inner self.

Close eyes.

Tap In.

Be You.

A flower only blooms when its roots are watered.

In the same way, when we nourish ourselves through meditation, our true nature blossoms and we unleash our innate creativity and genius.

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🙌Last year, Ishita presented her research in t 🙌Last year, Ishita  presented her research in the International Science and Engineering Fair after being selected as a State Science & Technology Fair of Iowa Champion. 
🙌Currently, her project is one of the selected Top 5 Iowa Junior Science and Humanities Symposium projects headed to nationals representing both Maharishi School and Iowa at Virginia Beach, Virginia in April. 
🙌This is a huge honor and we are so proud of Ishita!❤️
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⚡Destination ImagiNation, Inc., the world’s la ⚡Destination ImagiNation, Inc., the world’s largest creativity and problem solving organization, inspires participants in all of its programs to learn the process, art, and skill associated with problem solving. 
⚡Up to seven participants work together as a team for many months to create their unique solution to a Team Challenge. 
⚡Every year 6 unique and new challenges are put out in 6 different areas: Technical, Engineering, Fine Arts, Scientific, Improv and Public Service. Frequently, challenges also incorporate history, culture, literature, math, science, technology and the arts. 
⚡This year Maharishi School has 5 teams. We have 3 Elementary teams, 1 Middle School Team and 1 Upper School team.  2 teams choose to solve the Engineering Challenge, we have 1 Fine Arts team, 1 Improv team and 1 Technical team.
⚡Our first competition was a Regional Competition,Saturday, March 4th, in Pekin, Illinois. Our teams did very well, and we're preparing for the  bigger State Competition on March 25th in DeKalb, Illinois. 
Team Stats Elementary Level:
⚡Fine Arts Team- 3rd Place
⚡Improv Team- 3rd Place
⚡Engineering Team- 4th Place
Team Stats Middle Level:
⚡Engineering Team- 1st Place
Team Stats Secondary Level:
⚡Technical Team- 1st Place
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🍀Happy St. Patrick's Day🍀 🍀Happy St. Patrick's Day🍀
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📝See you tomorrow morning!
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📥Save the date for our March 13th Open House. 📥Save the date for our March 13th Open House.
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⚡️Our Upper School puts emphasis on project-ba ⚡️Our Upper School puts emphasis on project-based learning, this provides students with a platform for pursuing passions and testing original ideas under the mentorship of people who are skilled practitioners of their craft, whether in the pottery studio or the organic garden or the engineering laboratory.
Go to www.maharishischool.org/upper-school and apply to our program today!
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🌈At Maharishi Preschool we are cultivating with 🌈At Maharishi Preschool we are cultivating within each child a sense of independence and capability. 
🌈When the children enter into the gates of our playground carrying their lunch and wearing their backpack, a sense of responsibility, independence, and capability is enlivened in them.
🌈They know where to put their belongings and they know where they are when they need them or when it is time to go home. 
🌈During their time at school, they make many choices and their sense of capability grows each day. 
🌈They are following their internal drive to master skills, grow, and learn, and by allowing them to be responsible for their own belongings, these qualities will continue to be reinforced.
🌈The sense of pride when children feel responsible in these small but significant ways is such a beautiful thing to witness!
Go to www.maharishischool.org/preschool to see if our Preschool program is right for your child.
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🎉Our task is to design an academic program for 🎉Our task is to design an academic program for Upper School that is anchored in our core values yet aimed at equipping students to meet the future head-on, each to fulfill the purpose that is uniquely theirs.
🎉We also know that students maintain their focus and engagement through a wholesome lifestyle and the regular practice of transcendence, the foundation for living all of our core values.
🎉In this context, we strive to find a balance between innovative programs and traditional academic courses still informed by entrance requirements to the best colleges and universities in the US and abroad.
🎉Go to www.maharishischool.org to see if our program is right for you!
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🤩Speech Performance Tonight🤩 Our talented S 🤩Speech Performance Tonight🤩
Our talented Speech team will perform two Ensemble Acting pieces and their All-State Choral Reading, along with music by faculty Doug Daller and Lynwood King.
When: @ 7:30 pm
Where: Spayde Theater Fairfield, IA
$5 optional donation is appreciated
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