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Monthly archives for April, 2017

Junior Solar Sprint Competitions Show...

April 28, 2017 Written by Editor-Admin

Harmony School of Excellence-El Paso 6th grade all girls team won first place in the Western Regional Technology Student Association Solar Sprint car competition, and will be traveling to complete at the national level this June, in Orlando Florida. Houston area Harmony campuses also participated in the Houston regional event and qualified three teams to […]

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Harmony Teacher Chosen to Participate...

April 28, 2017 Written by Editor-Admin

Samantha Schleder, fourth-grade teacher at Harmony Science Academy in Houston, was one of only six teachers in Texas chosen by NASA to participate in the July program, Train-the-Trainers Institute by the Texas Girls Collaborative Project. The teachers will go to Johnson Space Center and learn how to better teach and engage elementary students in STEM […]

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The Role of the Teacher in High-Quali...

April 28, 2017 Written by Editor-Admin

Project Director, Burak Yilmaz offers his take on the importance of effective teacher training. “ I believe designing/writing high-quality PBL requires a completely different skillset than implementing high-quality PBL”. You can learn more about PBL teacher training by visiting https://goo.gl/MjQjIu. A more detailed blog article about Harmony’s effective professional development practices can be found here […]

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Harmony Robotics Team Makes it to the...

April 28, 2017 Written by Editor-Admin

Harmony School of Advancement robotics team “Mohawk Warriors” has qualified to participate in the First Tech Challenge (FTC) World Championship in Houston, Tx from April 19-April 22 at the George R. Brown Convention Center. The team started the journey in January when they won the league championship, and advanced to the Southeast Texas Regional Championship […]

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10th Annual ISWEEEP Olympiad is Almos...

April 4, 2017 Written by Editor-Admin

The International Sustainable World (Engineering, Energy, Environment) Project Olympiad draws hundreds of the brightest STEM-focused students in the world together each year to compete in a fun and collaborative environment. Harmony Public Schools launched ISWEEEP 10 years ago in an effort to spark interest among young innovators for exploring solutions to our sustainability challenges. Come […]

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SXSWedu Great Learning Opportunity fo...

April 4, 2017 Written by Editor-Admin

Harmony students participated at the annual SXSW Edu Festival. Our students presented projects to hundreds of visitors that attended the famous event. Harmony had three tables at the exposition with one table designated for Harmony students and their STEM presentations, such as a 3D printer, Arduino Smart Car, Gyroscope among others. SXSW is a festival […]

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Robo Ravens from HSPS-Austin Win Big ...

April 4, 2017 Written by Editor-Admin

Ethan C, Vinayak J, and Ambereen H, Sidnee B, and Evgeniy A, makeup thr Robo-Ravens. This group consisting of 6th and 7th graders won 1 st place in the robot performance category at the Central Texas Regional FLL Invitational Tournament on February 25. With the help of Coach Shukrat A, the Robo-Ravens achieved the highest […]

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Brownsville Students Earn Spot at Sta...

April 4, 2017 Written by Editor-Admin

Harmony Science Academy-Brownsville Science Olympiad team participated at the regional competition on February 25 at South Texas College, where they received second place overall and advanced to the Texas Science Olympiad at Texas A&M on April 21-22. Science Olympiads feature individual and team events in which students are judged on various challenges in biology, earth […]

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Harmony Campuses Awarded FUSE Grants

April 4, 2017 Written by Editor-Admin

Harmony Science Academy-Brownsville and Harmony Science Academy-San Antonio have both been named recipients of the CompTIA FUSE Grant, providing resources to help with the implementation of STEAM. This learning experience was developed by researchers and educators at Northwestern University. Each grant will provide support for two years of programming starting this August. Grant recipients will […]

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3rd Annual Harmony Science & Eng...

April 4, 2017 Written by Editor-Admin

We are excited to announce the 3rd Annual Harmony-Science and Engineering Fair that took place at Harmony Public Schools Central Office, in March was a great success. 85 projects from Harmony campuses around the state came to Houston to participate in this event. We also welcomed a great group of judges from high level universities […]

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