Last summer, Dr. Watts, the Grade 8 Social Studies teacher, was pondering how to make our 8th graders’ year unique and memorable outside of the pandemic. Knowing that we would not be able to explore Washington, D.C. in May, she wanted to give the 8th graders a hands-on history experience….
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Eighth grade students joined more than half a million students around the world to conduct historical research on a topic of their choice through National History Day. National History Day®(NHD) is a non-profit education organization that engage over half a million middle and high school students around the world annually…
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Annually, Mrs. Schramm’s Grade 7 literature students enter the Read-Imagine-Create (RIC) contest. Every year, a different author is chosen by San Diego’s Write Out Loud organization. This year’s author was Emily Dickinson and an impressive fourteen Rhoades students were selected as finalists this year. The task was to read the…
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In Fall 2020, Rhoades middle school students participated in the AMC 8 Mathematics Competition. The AMC 8 is a national mathematics competition designed to promote excitement, enthusiasm and positive attitudes towards mathematics and to stimulate interest in continuing the study of mathematics beyond the…
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On Monday, twenty-eight Rhoades middle school students met with students in Bangladesh over Zoom. The Girl Rising Club partners with a non-profit organization called Speak Up for the Poor that provides education opportunities for hundreds of girls in Bangladesh. Some of these high school girls live together in a dormitory,…
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Last year, Mrs. Schramm was seeking a way to combat Zoom fatigue with her sixth grade social studies students while, at the same time, capping off the classes’ unit on Ancient Egypt. Enter the Getty Museum Challenge, which is (and only…
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On Monday, November 2, Rhoades Middle School students participated in a Rhoades Foundation sponsored roundtable discussion with Historic America, “Assessing the Strength of Our Democracy on the Eve of the 2020 Election.” Dr. Watts prepped Middle School students for the roundtable by discussing the meaning of democracy, the election, and…
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For the past five years, middle school students from the Rhoades School in Encinitas have volunteered one Thursday a month with young students at Casa de Amistad, a non-profit organization that provides tutoring and mentoring for underserved youth in North County. Although COVID-19 suspended their monthly “Club de Tecnologia” in…
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Three Rhoades students – current 8th grader Tejas Ravi (pictured) and recent graduates Arjun Chatha and Bhadra Rupesh – were selected as members of the Top 300 MASTERS in the 2020 Broadcom MASTERS®. Broadcom MASTERS® (Math, Applied Science, Technology and Engineering…
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Higher Orbits Art Contest Winner
Congratulations to Emma Lamoureux for her creative artwork which inspires the soul and captures the imagination! Scientists are developing a new form of travel to the edge of space. The project is known as “Neptune One”, and it is an ingenious idea developed by Space Perspectives. The project aims to…
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