Sports of the Mind (Clubs)
Sports of the mind are activities that involve intellectual diligence and ability. These types of activities also require patience, time, rigor, and practice. Students use outside-the-box thinking, creativity, and problem-solving skills. Brainpower and perseverance promote student success. As the team coach for these activities, I guide students throughout the process, prepare them for competitions in school, between local schools, and within the state. Individuals and teams compete against others.
MOEMS
Math Olympiads for Elementary & Middle School
Students explore mathematical concepts while developing flexibility in solving non-routine problems with multiple solution paths. Problems prepare our students to exceed the rigors of the core curriculum by developing higher-order problem solving skills.
TEDEd
Students' ideas worth spreading
TED's youth and education initiative — aims to spark and celebrate the ideas and knowledge-sharing of teachers and students around the world. Studens work thorouout the year preparing their own ideas worth spreading. Then, studends delivered their ideas to a small audience because of COVID. They are also creating a video tape to be shared with our Mattlin school community.
OM
Odyssey of the Mind World Finals
Odyssey of the Mind, abbreviated OM or OotM, is a creative problem-solving program involving students from kindergarten through college. Team members work together at length to solve a predefined long-term problem and present their solution to the problem at a competition. Every year my teams competed locally and earned recognition to compete at the state level. Additionally, one of the teams competed at world finals.
Kidoyo
Kid Own Your Own Code
KidOYO is creative computing for all
K - 12, Beginner - AP Computer Science. It is a coding platform for students to learn at their own pacehave passionately heightened their skills while in school and also at home.
This club met virtually and students chooses his or her own coding application. Then they work collaboratively and finally present their projects to everyone.
