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Congratulations to all.

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9:00AM-4:30PM (MON-FRI)

We received the individual 2009 TAKS tests results for our students. We estimate the overall results to be as below and expect to receive "recognized" rating from TEA. Official results will be released in early August.

Click here for the tentative 2009 2010 calendar.

The HSA BCS ELA Fair was a competition in which students had to read a book of their choosing and put together a presentation board. The boards included plot breakdowns, connections students made to the text, poetry, artwork, predictions for a sequel, vocabulary words, and other information depending on grade level. Students presented their boards to the judges, and the top six in grades 2nd through 10th were given awards. In addition, presentations were made by the Odyssey of the Mind Team, the 9th and 10th grade classes—who put together a Reader’s Theater performance for the event, and Amar Gawande—who shared a story he created for Mrs. Carter’s English class. Overall the event was a big success.
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The Second Annual International Sustainable World (Energy, Engineering & Environment) Project Olympiad (I-SWEEEP 2009) was completed successfully. Cosmos Foundation, event organizer, presented Grand Awards at the I-SWEEEP 2009 Award Ceremony. The I-SWEEEP Awards are valued at nearly $400,000 in scholarships, monetary prizes, tuition grants, and scientific internships.
Druck Green, 7th grade student at HSA BCS, received honorable mention award and a $100 prize.

Click here for the press release. For more info visit www.isweeep.org.

Our Odyssey of the Mind team was on KRHD-ABC on the 10:00 news. We were the lead story on April 16!

Click here to read ABC NEWS coverage of our team.

Click here to read THE EAGLE'S news on April the 9th.

Click here to read KBTX coverage of our team.

HSA BCS Odyssey of the Mind team got first place in the state and will advance to the world finals which will be held in IOWA. We are proud of our team and their coaches. Hard work has just paid off one more time.



For more information about Odyssey of the Mind you can click at the following link. http://www.odysseyofthemind.com

Congratulations to Harmony’s first Odyssey of the Mind team. They brought home the third place trophy at Regionals and will advance to the state competition in Houston at the end of March.

Team Members:
Savannah Barrera………..Lauren Matthews
Shankar Srinivasan………Bryce Stammler
Mary Walker…………………Matthew Walker

Coaches: Mr. and Mrs. Walker and Mrs. Carter.
Hard work has just paid off.

Harmony students participated in the Regional Science Fair with 23 distinguished projects in Math, Science, Computer, and Engineering categories. Hundreds of students from the counties of Bastrop, Brazos, Burleson, Fayette, Lee, Travis, Washington, and Williamson; and Prairie Lea School in Caldwell County, St. Stevens School in Hays County, and Dripping Springs ISD in Hays County were in Austin, on February the 19th, for the Regional Science Fair 2009 in which Harmony students did a marvelous job.
Here are top Harmony winners:
Kira Metoyer ………1st Place, in Chemistry
Druck Green ……….2nd Place, in Computer Sciences
David Smith ……….3rd Place, in Earth & Planetary Sciences
Ahmet Kalkan …….4th Place, in Materials & Bioengineering
Omar Elhassan …..4th Place, in Microbiology
John Pownall ………5th Place, in Earth & Planetary Sciences
Dipika Gawande ….5th place, in Plant Sciences
Amar Gawande ……BAE Systems Sensor Integration Award for outstanding project that rises above peers by achieving the highest standards of excellence.
Kira Metoyer, Druck Green, and David Smith advanced to the Texas State Science Fair which will be held on March the 28th thru 30th, in San Antonio.
More information on 2009 Texas state science fair can be viewed at https://emtsef.utsa.edu

Harmony Science Academy Houston and Harmony Science Academy-Austin both received Bronze Medal from US News Best High Schools 2009 search. They were selected from a pool of 21,000 public high schools.
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We had our second annual Science Fair on November, the 15th. This year we had 136 individual and team projects.
Parent, teacher, student cooperation made this event a huge success. All students deserve a big congratulation! for the amazing job they did prior and during Science Fair. Judges, we had around 40 of them most of which were professors or PhD students at Texas A&M, were very impressed with the talents the students presented to them.
Our PTO diligently worked to decorate the school before the Science Fair, provide the food for the day and our parents were very generous about donating the food to support the school.
Our parents were very responsive about recruiting the judges. Without their help, we would not be able to recruit so many highly qualified judges.
All of the students are the winners. Here are the top winners.
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