SA-HERO will be sponsoring a National History Day competition for homeschoolers. The competition will take place Tuesday, February 1st. If you are planning to complete you must email the following registration information to mskretzschmar@gmail.com by Monday, January 17th:

Student's Name
Grade
Category
Project Title
Parent Name
Parent Phone Number
Parent Email

 National History Day (NHD) is open to students in sixth grade and above. Students prepare a project on the annual theme which this year is “Debate & Diplomacy: Successes, Failures, Consequences.” The great thing about NHD is the flexibility in the ways you can compete. Your submission can be a paper, exhibit, documentary, website, or performance.  Students can enter as individuals or as a group of up to five students except for the paper category.
 
My son has been competing in NHD for the last three years and I can tell you homeschoolers are welcomed. Visit www.nhd.org for more information on possible topics and competition rules. You can email me any questions you have about the competition. If there is enough interest, I will hold a general information session or if you have a homeschool group, I will come and discuss the competition. Please email at mskretzschmar@gmail.com if you are interested.

The Institute for Texan Cultures is recruiting mature young adults who have a passion for Texas and the desire to share that passion
with museum visitors.

Junior Docents
A junior docent is a student age 15-17 who volunteers his or her time to make Texas history come alive at our museum! Volunteering as a junior docent is an outstanding way to earn community service hours or demonstrate civic pride on college applications. It's also a great way to make friends!

Junior docents fill these important roles:
 
-puppet theater performers
-character performers during the Texas Trails and Tales summer program
-activity coordinators at museum family events
-gallery host
-off-site promotions at community events and festivals

To discuss joining the junior docent team, please contact:

Karen Sanchez
Program Coordinator
Volunteer Services
Institute of Texan Cultures
210-458-2225
karen.sanchez@utsa.edu

This summer iTECH at UTSA will be holding several robotics camps.  These camps will be held at UTSA's 1604 campus.  Elementary age students are invited to participate in the first camp session to be held June 15-June 26.  Middle schoolers are invited to attend our second session June 29-July 10.  Both sessions will start at 8:30 am until 2:00pm. iTECH will provide both breakfast and lunch to all participants.  There is no cost to attend these camps, parents will have to register their students, and provide transportation to and from the UTSA 1604 campus.

Our elementary age program is open to students that have completed 3rd grade through sixth grade. The middle school program is open to students in 6th through 8th grade.  Sixth grade students may attend either camp.  These camps are geared to meet the needs of under served/inner city students and students with learning issues, although any student may apply to attend the program.  If your school is looking to host a First Lego League Team in the fall, or a GEARS team in the spring, these camps will prepare your students to compete in these programs.

All campers will be working in teams consisting of four people.  Each group will have access to an NXT robotics kit, assuring plenty of hands on time for the kids.  We will work on robot design and programing.  Campers will participate in a camp wide robotics tournament the last two days of the camp session.  Many of our mentors will be students who have competed in robotics at the international level, it is our hope that your students will gain some "real game" experience from these mentors.

Please feel free to direct any questions to Mary Stowers, via email, stowers.mary@gmail.com or to Moses Thompson at Moses.Thompson@utsa.edu. 

SA-HERO has a group conducting an environmental science project on drinking water. They are conducting a survey of people's attitudes about drinking and using recycled water. Below is the link. We would appreciate if you would take the few minutes (@ 5 minutes) to complete it. We want all ages to complete this survey. The results will be given to the city council and displayed in a library display. Please help our kids create a great project! If you have any questions contact Terry Duncan at tduncan1@satx.rr.com.

http://www.esurveyspro.com/Survey.aspx?id=f5a620c3-74eb-4b1d-b8a6-828b541045c9

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who showed up last Wed for the San Antonio Community College Homeschool Symposium! I think we had around 300 people show up which was far more than the 20-50 I had committed to Dr. Lucchelli and Dr. Whitney in early March! Thanks for making it an awesome eye opener for the college district:)

We're working with Dr. Whitney to coordinate 2 events each year for homeschoolers. We talked about doing them in late August and early January after the semesters have already started. Hopefully that will give everyone more time to gather their various required documents:)

Also, for anyone who's interested there are a few facilities around the city that are working with San Antonio CC to offer dual credit classes - if you're interested please email me at gridjumpers@gmail.com

I can put you in touch with the leader closest to you.

Hopeful locations are:

Tree of Life New Braunfels
Rec Center at Canyon Lake
Resource center in Stockdale
Northwest Community Church on Guilbeau

Looking forward to amazing new adventures for the homeschool community in Greater San Antonio!

 

Sue Laprise
www.gridjumpers.com