On Friday, January 26th, PS8/MS8 hosted our third annual Dunk for 8, featuring basketball skills contests and 3 on 3 games for students of all ages. These were followed by the main attraction, a full-court game between the teachers and students.
Check out middle school student scientists and teachers at the New York Hall of Science last weekend thanks to our partnership with NYC’s Urban Advantage program.
Read eighth grader Sophie Mode’s post on the activism/inclusion conference a group of MS 8 eighth graders organized for the seventh grade. “We connected important issues going on in the world with things happening here at school,” she writes.
What do the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Brooklyn Music School and Brooklyn Ballet have in common? They are all arts enrichment partners at MS8! Students participating in those and other MS8 arts programs performed at NYU’s Pfizer Auditorium last week.
The game was exciting from the tip off, with a clutch “pull up three” and “insane hook shots.” Get the details in a post from basketball team member and 6th grader, Warner Gephardt.
Our 4th Annual Celebr8 Science event showcased student work and brought in visiting scientists from NYU, City Tech College, and the NYC DOE Department of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.
7th Graders pave the way for their Spring Exploration, “Are You What You Eat?” with a very popular vermicomposting workshop.
Read eighth grader Sasha Horvath’s tale of MS8’s inaugural year participating in the Science Olympiad competition. Spoiler alert: it involved towers, hovercrafts, and food burning!
Longtime English Language Arts (ELA) Teacher Tiffany Delhagen is spending this school year at MS 8 mentoring the ELA team and helping develop a cohesive curricular trajectory across students’ experiences at MS 8 in both ELA and Exploration.
What do middle schoolers think about truth? Read a poem Kennedy Gamble wrote as part of the CCM-FYI after school program at MS 8!
