Independent Enrichment
GiftedandTalented.com Courses for Language Arts(through 7th grade) and Math(through Algebra).
SMILE camp: http://smilecamp.org Summer, track out camps, and Saturday sessions. SMILE Camp is an interactive inquiry-based STEM+Arts learning experience that will engage your child (ages 7 to 18) like never before! Through our unique applications of science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM) we will inspire a fervor for learning the wonders of science and the world around us. Video
Community STEM Courses
https://fun4raleighkids.com/Programs-Classes/STEM/
Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth: https://cty.jhu.edu/ctyonline/courses/computer_science/scratch_programming.html Online programs including coding for middle schools students and various courses for higher level math, reading and writing.
PAGE of Wake County Super Saturday http://www.wakepage.org/super-saturday.html
HMS CLUBS: Chess Club, Yearbook, Student Council
The Battle of the Books Club is for students who like to read and LOVE competition!
Math Video Challenge
Teams of four students will create a video based on one of problems included in the MATHCOUNTS School Handbook. The video must teach the solution to the selected math problem, as well as demonstrate the real-world application of the math concept used in the problem.
Rubber Band Contest
Design and create a working invention that incorporates at least 1 rubber band.
Letters About Literature
How has an author’s work changed your view of the world or yourself? Write a letter to that author (living or deceased) stating how his or her work changed you.
Creative Minds Fiction Contest
The first-place winner will be published in the May/June issue of Imagine. Second- and third-place winners will be excerpted in print and published in full online. All winners will receive copies of the issue in which their work appears.
River of Words Art/Poetry Contest
If you create an art project, you must also create a poem that relates to it.