HSA-Brownsville Alumni

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Harmony Public Schools will add another building block to its innovative teaching techniques after receiving a five year, $26 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education.

On Wednesday, September 28, 2016, the department announced Harmony is one of 13 recipients nationwide of the federal Teaching Incentive Fund (TIF) competition. The TIF competition is a performance-based reward system for principals and teachers in high-risk schools.

“This is another statement to the high quality of our educators, and will add to the many educational tools they use to prepare our students to succeed in college and in life,” said Dr. Soner Tarim, CEO of Harmony Public Schools.

Harmony will use the grant monies to continue its mission of supporting our engaged and dedicated teachers as they provide rigorous curriculum focused on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. Harmony looks to expand its professional development and financial incentives for high-performing educators to increase and maintain student academic performance.

“Our teachers consistently go above and beyond every day to ensure our students receive the best possible education. I am thrilled we will be able to expand the professional and financial support we provide to our educators, which they so obviously deserve,” said Zekeriya Yuksel, Superintendent of Schools.

America has a teacher shortage, and a new study says it’s getting worse Minority and low-income students will feel the brunt of the coming crisis.

Here we go! HSA Brownsville Alumni wall and map. Map will be pinned out soon!

Harmony Science Academy Brownsville; title 1, tuition free, charter and only designated T-STEM academy in Brownsville AP& Physics class students planned and conducted another great experiment to investigate "The Work - Energy Theorem". Students used motion sensors to calculate final kinetic energy and force sensor to find applied force. AP students also discussed the dynamics laws to figure out why applied force is not equal to he hanged mass's weight! Eureka! All teams proved that the theorem is correct! HSA Brownsville, where students gain lifelong learnings through hands on activities. Teamwork, collaboration, hands on!, sensor based data collection... STEMSOS model works!

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Harmony Science Academy Brownsville; title 1, tuition free, charter and only designated T-STEM academy in Brownsville AP& Physics class students planned and conducted another great experiment to investigate "the law of conservation of energy". Students used a popper dropper, stored elastic potential energy and calculated the amount by releasing from different heights! Their goal was also to calculate the threshold energy of the popper dropper. HSABrownsville, where students gain lifelong learnings through hands on activities. STEMSOS model works!

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HSA Brownsville alumni visited our campus to guide seniors and 8 through 11th graders. Full of very genuine conversations among students and alumni who been there and done that! HSA Brownsville college counseling department is aiming to have at least one alumni panel every year.

Special thanks to our alumni who participated and shared their experience.

Dear Students, Parents and Guardians,

Harmony Science Academy Brownsville is organizing an alumni panel for our valued students, where they can ask specific questions to learn more about college and life. Out of town and local college attendees who just "been there and done that" will be participating.

Plan will be as following:

8:00 am to 8:25 am : Alumni breakfast with seniors (room 134)
8:25 am to 9:00 am : Panel, Q&A with seniors (cafeteria)
9:05 am to 9:35 am : 10th and 11th grade Q&A session (cafeteria)
9:40 am to 10:20 am : 8th & 9th grade Q&A session (cafeteria)
All students are encouraged to prepare questions by the event date.

Harmony Science Academy Brownsville Seniors visit Houston area colleges every year. College trips start from 6th grade at Harmony and by their mid senior year students visit 14 different colleges. You may see trip details on our website:
http://www.hsabrownsville.org/?midframe=/webfiles/College_and_Field_Trips.html

Special thanks to our alumni for giving us tours.

Way to go Seniors!!!

Part time job openings for HSA Brownsville Alumni!

Positions:
-Math& ELA Tutor
-Teacher Aide
-Duty supervisor
-Administrative assistant
- Club mentor
-Lab assistant

If you are interested, please reach Mr. Gozuacik(G) via email or phone 956 574 9555 ext 239.

Alumni part time work program is applicable overall Texas, 46 campuses. Emails sent before, if you are willing to join, please get in touch!

Harmony Science Academy Brownsville; title 1, tuition free, charter and only designated T-STEM academy in Brownsville Physics class students investigated series and parallel connections. Step 1; measuring the voltage of batteries in series and parallel connection. Step 2; connect 2 light bulbs in series and then parallel under same voltage to compare brightness. Step 3; connect one light bulb to 2 batteries in series and in parallel. Eureka! all figured out parallel and series connections and how brightness depends on applied voltage and current.