An evening orientation for 5th grade parents and students is scheduled for Wednesday, April 18 from 6:30 – 7:30 P.M. at DMS. Students will tour the building with their parents and share what they have learned during their past visit.
Please join us for Penn High School's first ever Dance Marathon benefiting Riley Hospital for Children!
When: Saturday, April 14th
Where: Penn High cafeteria
Time: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Come out and join us for food, games, and a celebration of the brave Riley patients and their families.
Students have been fundraising all school year, and we will reveal their total efforts at the end of the marathon!
Learn a Foreign Language Academy is now open to all current 6th and 7th graders! Registration forms are due by April 11th! Please click HERE to register online.
Do you like bubbles? Well, if you do, you’ll enjoy this fun change coming to the Silver Mile this year. The Silver Mile 5K Run/Walk will now be a Bubble Bash!
Attention parents of 5th grade students coming to Discovery next year! We now have our orientation packet available online. The student/parent should have received the packet from the elementary school orientation meeting. However, if you need a new copy it can now be printed from our website. On the main DMS page you will find the packet under the “School Info” tab.
Many families face the challenge of balancing and monitoring social media and video games for their children. Balancing these modern day activities in the lives of children with family, school, and their own safety and well being can be challenging.
Congratulations to the DMS TEAMS group! They competed at the 2018 TEAMS Competition at Trine University on February 20, 2018. DMS Team-A were the winners for the middle school division.
TEAMS is an annual competition that gives students an opportunity to discover engineering and how knowledge in engineering can help make a difference in the world. Students work collaboratively to solve real-world engineering challenges, applying their math and science skills in practical, creative ways.
TEAMS offers:
· Exciting, theme-based academic competition
At the 2018 Scholastic Art Awards Ceremony over 3,000 works of art were entered this year, from which were selected 800 pieces for the show. Of these, the vast majority are high school student works. The middle school students’ works make up only about 10% of the accepted works.
Our Discovery 8th grader, Taelyn Thompson, was the only middle school student from our whole district to be accepted for the Scholastic Arts Award Show this year, winning an Honorable Mention Award for her Ceramic sculpture, Njord, the Lord of the Fjord.
Congratulations to the Math Counts Team! A first place team victory included the following DMS students: Jerry Yuan, Hala Ansari, Derick Shi and Maddie Zavada. Jerry Yuan was also able to finish 1st individually.
The following students finished in the top 10 individually: Hala Ansari, Luca Nijim, Matthew Zang, Carl Xu, and Felix Zhang.
All of the hard work and practice really shows.
It's not too late yet, but it almost is! Ordering your yearbook by February 27 is the ONLY way to guarantee that your student will get one. We don't order many extras, and once they're gone, they're gone. Avoid having to console a disappointed student in spring and order your yearbook TODAY! With questions, contact Mrs.
