Dear parents and students,
Harmony Science Academy is committed to prepare its students for college with the strongest possible preparation. On their path to college, students have to show success in state tests, in our case TAKS tests. Therefore, we are preparing our students for approaching TAKS tests with the instruction given in the classroom as well as after school and Saturday tutorials. For TAKS dates, read more . . .

We are currently " piecing together" memories of 2009-2010 from the first day of school, school field trips, to service projects, festivals, science fairs, and even more candid pictures! We need to know who might be interested in purchasing a yearbook! Please simply fill out the form below, we do not need the money now, we just need to know if you would be interested in purchasing a yearbook. The yearbooks will come in a soft-back and hard-back option. The price range is approximately $20 for softback and $25 for hardback (the more interested, the cheaper the price).

Please fill out the form sent with Wednesday mail by February 12th and turned it in to your child's homeroom teacher. For more information contact Laura Sanders at lsanders@harmonytx.org.

Congratulations to the following students on their science fair awards. Students worked very hard to produce some wonderful science fair projects over the past semester. We are very proud of all of our students for participating and attending science fair. Thanks again to all of the teachers, parents and students that helped make this event possible!

6th Grade:
1st Place – William Sherwood
2nd Place – Farboad Rahmatipour
3rd Place – Abhey Vashist
Honorable Mention – Vincent Le
Best Board Design – Angela Wilson

7th Grade:
1st Place – Kaitlyn Jones
2nd Place – Amani Ramiz
3rd Place – Lauren Gatmaitan
Honorable Mention – Ketaki Nair
Best Board Design – Lauren Gatmaitan

8th Grade:
1st Place – Kishore Balasubramanian
2nd Place – Sara Uddin
3rd Place – Geetanjalie Vashist
Honorable Mention – Craig Richard
Best Board Design – Sara Uddin

9th Grade:
1st Place – Elizabeth Vigants
2nd Place – Shannon Vick
3rd Place – Nicholas Stillwell
Honorable Mention – Muzzammil Shuja
Best Board Design – Hafsa Bouderdaben

10th Grade:
1st Place – Dania Mahmoud
2nd Place – Farhana Zabidi
3rd Place – Asia Anderson
Honorable Mention – Kimberly Roohi
Best Board Design – Farhana Zabidi

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HSANW Mathcounts team participated Mathcounts Mini Competition held at Quail Valley Middle School on January 9th.

2 students got awards on team round:

Kishore Balasubramanian's Team got 4th place.Vincent Le's team got 2nd place.

Congratulations to our students and supportive parents.

Harmony Science Academy NW will be participating for the first time in “Name That Book”! This competition is being organized by Harmony School of Excellence and will be held on April 10, 2010.
Depending on the number of students who have signed up, they will be put into groups of 4 to 6 students. If there is more than one group, HSA NW will have an “in school” competition and the winners for each category, K-2, Grade 3-5, Middle School and High School will move on to the finals at Harmony School of Excellence.
Each team will have a captain and there will be reserves, in case someone is ill or will not be able to attend due to unforeseen circumstances.
This is a great way for students to get to know others from the various grades, learn to work in teams and read books at the same time! Be sure to check out the reading lists for the 4 categories. Just “click” on the links!

The following are tentative schedules for the following grades:
K–2 Mrs. Harmatuk Room 144 (dharmatuk@harmonytx.org)
Monday 3.20pm – 3.50pm
Tuesday 3.20pm – 3.50pm
Thursday 3.20pm – 3.50pm
Friday 3.20pm – 3.50pm
Please make sure to pick up your student by 4pm.
Grades 3–5 Ms. Scott Room 151 (tscott@harmonytx.org)
Tuesday 3.15pm – 4.15pm
Ms. Scott will be starting her training sessions from January 26, 2010.
Grades 6–10 Mrs. Sanders Room 220 (lsanders@harmonytx.org)
Tuesday 3.20pm – 4.20pm
Mrs. Sanders will have her first information meeting on January 19, 2010 and then confirm day and time.

All teachers require their students to bring a one inch binder for their respective sessions.

K -2 List Grades 3-5 List Grades 6-8 List Grades 9-10 List

According to the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), all core subject teachers should be highly qualified. You can see Harmony Science Academy NCLB HQ Teacher report by clicking read more . . .

We are excited to announce our 1st American Mathematics Competition 10 (AMC 10) contest being offered at Harmony Science Academy on Tuesday, February 9, 2010.

With these contests, there are awards in each school for the student with the highest score, certificates for high scoring students in each school, and state-wide awards. The AMC 10 contest can lead to other more selective math contests, even all the way to the United States of America team sent to International Mathematical Olympiad, the premier international high school level mathematical problem solving contest. But the real rewards come from challenging each student with mathematics that is new, different, and “outside of the box”. The problems on the contest are difficult, but designed to be within the reach of students. Even so, if your son or daughter managed to solve only one or two problems, this should be an encouragement to learn more, because these problems are meant to be more challenging than students routinely encounter in their mathematics courses.

Mathematics is increasingly important in our technological and scientific age. Taking enough mathematics in school is the gateway to jobs and careers of all kinds, even those that are not explicitly mathematical, scientific or technological. We hope that by offering these contests, we can challenge and inspire students to want to learn more mathematics. We hope that yours son or daughter enjoys the contests and will continue to take mathematics courses in high school and beyond.

For more information about the contest, please contact Mrs. Nguyen via email cnguyen@harmonytx.org

The 2010 Robotics Competition will take place on Saturday March 29th, 2010 at 2.00 pm. Competition will be held in cafeteria.
All the materials that you need will be provided by the school.

The HSANW Engineering Robotics Competition is targeted towards students in the Middle school grades and aims to promote engineering among youth. Each team in the competition has 7 week to build a robot using a Lego Mindstorms kit to overcome a challenge game. School teams do not require a robot kit to compete. Besides the exciting challenge the competition also judges the quality of the student to engineering principles. There is no limit to the size of the teams but a maximum of 3-4 students appears to be3 the norm.

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Our teachers are working hard, going beyond their schedule and trying to visit our parents in their homes. The goal of home visits is first of all to get parent feedback and ask about any concerns. Also to have a better communication and increase parent involvement in their child's education… This way build rapport and respect between the student, parent and the teacher which improves students' grades and behavior at school.

If you would like to schedule a homevisit please e-mail your available times to Mr.Besli at gbesli@harmonytx.org