Yearbook Club Room D200

Yearbook

Students will collaboratively design and layout the yearbook.  This will include taking photos, organizing pages, sequencing the yearbook, and determining themes surrounding this year's memories.  We already have a deadline to meet in March, so we need your help!

If you have questions, please contact Barbara Meis

Instructor: Barbara Meis
Grade Levels: 4th-8th
Dates: Tuesdays, Sept. 25th - March 20th
Meeting Times: 3:30 - 4:30
Location: D200
Cost: FREE
Maximum Enrollment: 20

Green Team F100

Green Team is a Beyond the Bell program that encourages students and faculty to help the environment through recycling, energy conservation, composting, and recycling.

Instructors: Michael Cabibbo and Maureen Carlson
Grade Levels: 2-8
Dates: Tuesdays, beginning Sept. 11th - May 14th
Meeting Times: 7:15 - 8:00 a.m.
Location: F100
Cost: FREE
Maximum Enrollment: 10

Card Club F108

Are you ready for your next challenge? Join our Card Club to test your wits and your deck. Bring your decks, your dice, and your skill to our arena. All school-appropriate card games are welcome, including Magic the Gathering, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-O! Some instruction is available, but participants must bring and maintain their own cards. We will be playing games and, as such, no trades will be allowed during club hours or on campus.  

Instructor: Molly Ewing
Grade Levels: 5th - 8th
Dates: Tuesday and Friday, September 7th - April 27th (NO meetings Nov. 1st-30th)
Meeting Times: 3:30 - 4:30
Location: F108
Maximum Enrollment: 20

Battle of the Books middle school - Room D112

Battle of the Books is a competitive reading sport. Student read books, and compete against school teams to become experts on each of the books. The winning school team will compete at the district level in the spring. Teams are comprised of four students. We can help you form teams if you need it!

MS Battle of the Books Competition will take place on March 20th from 5:00PM - 7:00PM at Thornton High School.

Please contact Ms. Lincicome with any questions.

Instructor: Shawna Lincicome
Grade Levels: 6th - 8th
Dates: Every other Tuesday, September 11th – March 19th  
Meeting Times: 3:30 - 4:15
Location: D112
Maximum Enrollment: 20

Launch + Room Library

Launch+ is an after-hours program for the STEM Launch community that provides a quiet work environment in the school library. The program is currently open to students supervised by STEM Launch teachers and one administrator. Thursdays are for students in 6th - 8th grade. Students may complete homework or research, receive tutoring in any subject, collaborate on a PBL, and use technology for academic purposes. 

If students would like to practice and enhance math, literacy, or keyboarding skills, they may use the computers and log in to IXL, Think Through Math, Khan Academy, Reading Plus or a keyboarding practice website. Computers are to be used for academic purposes, so social networking and gaming are not allowed at Launch+.

Students may sign up in the main office, and space is limited to 20. In order to attend any Launch+ session, a Launch+ permission slip MUST be completed and on file in the main office. The Launch+ Handbook and permission slip are available in the main office and below in the Documents section. Attendance will be taken and parents are responsible for signing out their student from the front office upon pickup.

Please bring all materials needed for homework, tutoring, or PBL collaboration because locker visits are not allowed. Eat dinner first, and please leave all food, drink, valuables, and other distractions at home.

We appreciate the efforts of teachers, students, and parents to make Launch+ a place for our students to enhance their skills and grow as students!