Recent ActivityScience Academy
EST. 2006
Mission: To enhance science education with “real-life” science beyond the conventional classroom; including competitions, professional outreach, conferences/conventions, meetings, lectures, and research based, lab driven, field experiences for students who have career interests in science, engineering, math, and/or technology fields.
Science Academy students must:
✭ Have a career interest in science, technology, engineering, and/or math (STEM) field.
✭ Pass three core science courses (CP or Honors level Biology, Chemistry, and Physics). Course Offerings
✭ Have a minimum of two science electives. One of these electives must be at the Advanced Placement or Dual Credit level. Course Offerings
✭ Successfully complete math courses to the level of pre-calculus or equivalent level.
✭ Attend FHS Science Academy lectures.
✭ Be an active participant in a variety of science related activities such as: competitions, peer tutoring, workshops, professional science organization meeting, Junior Science and Humanities Symposium, or other board approved activities.
✭ Have a minimum of one semester of field experience in a program approved by the science department advisory committee. Science Research Mentoring Project
✭ Prepare an abstract, poster, paper and photo essay that describes your research experience.
Upon successful fulfillment of these requirements students will receive special recognition upon graduation.
Thank-you to our Partners and Sponsor:
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Science Advisory Committee
Academy Announcements Class MondayDon't forget that we have class Monday Dec. 12th. Research papers and drafts for Spring students are due on this day.
Donations for DogsDon't forget to bring your donation this week for the Wilderwood Service Dogs. I will give any money collected to Marilyn Mele next Monday. If you have started any other projects to try to help this organization out, please let me know so that I may tell her this information as well.
Science Lecture SeriesWe are excited about alternating our science lectures this year between Hardin Valley Academy and Farragut High School. Each student who is a part of the Science Academy at Farragut High School will be expected to attend 5 lectures this year. Here are the dates of the lectures and there locations. All lectures will start at 7:00 and are located in the library at FHS or the auditorium at HVA.
HVA Sept 8 Dr. Soren Sorenson UTK Physics "What is Everything Made Of?" FHS Oct 25 Veronica Brown UTK "BATS, BUGS, and GUANO!!!" HVA Nov 10 Ben Xue, UTK Chemistry FHS Dec 15 Dr. Olga Ovchinnikova ORNL "Optics and Lasers" HVA Jan 12 Student speaker UTK FHS Feb 9 Dr. Wei He, UTK Biochemistry HVA March 1 Dr. Jerome Baudry, UTK Biochemistry and Molecular Biology FHS April 12 Dr. Whitney Parson, FHS Chemistry and Physics Academy Files
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Academy Links  US National Chemistry Olympiad The US National Chemistry Olympiad local section exam will be given Wednesday March 11, 2009 and March 25, 2009 at 3:30 pm in O103. |
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