911 Ceremony

Every year the chorus and band departments present a small ceremony is memory of those who lost their lives on 911.

Digimemo

Mr. El-Nemr is using a DigiMemo in class to interact with his PC and his students. He writes down the notes, drawings, equations, graphs or anything onto the notepad, and they instantly are displayed to the class via the LCD projector. Even better he can pass the notepad around for students to write down their responses. After they're done he attaches the DigiMemo via a usb to his PC and his students see the results. Wow, and just think all of this is done with a special pen, legal notebook paper, and an electronic clipboard!



Way to go Mr. El-Nemr!

Power Team Visit

The Power Team is a group of world-class athletes who came to perform feats of strength for our students, while sharing and connecting to our students through motivational messages. The messages expressed that great personal achievement in education can from making positives choices, such as staying drug and alcohol free. For more information feel free to visit their website: http://www.powerteamschools.com/

Pictures from the 8th Grade Dance

American History Museum

Our seventh graders traveled to visit the American History Museum this month in Washington, DC.

National Junior Honor Society Induction Ceremony

The Floyd T. Binns National Junior Honor Society Induction Ceremony was held Monday, April 27th during first block. The new inductees were welcomed during the traditional candle lighting ceremony, and the 2008 - 2009 officers tapped in the new officers for the 2009 - 2010 school year.

(Pictured from left to right: Treasurer Tanvi Tyagi, Secretary Destiny Rodriguez, President Tanae Holmes, and Vice President Tyeshia Tibbs. Not pictured Historian Bryan Fox)

Click here for a complete list of members

National School Scrabble Tournament

Floyd T. Binns Middle School would like to congratulate the Blackhawks Scrabble Team on a job well done at nationals. There was a lot of tough competition and more than one hundred teams participating. President Barack Obama and Shaquille O'Neal gave prizes to the competition and there were lots of scrabble winners. Our school placed 34th in the nation overall. Congratulations goes out to: Michael Bayne and Preston Shaw with a high score of 305, and Courney Dalimonte and Jordan Smith with a high score of 294.

In the picture from left to right: Mrs. Garton, Preston Shaw, Michael Bayne, Jordan Smith, Courney Dalimonte and Mrs. Beachboard

Links to team information from the tournament:

http://www.scrabble-assoc.com/tourneys/2009/nssc/build/player/1/033.html

http://www.scrabble-assoc.com/tourneys/2009/nssc/build/player/1/034.html