ORMS GT Newsletter
February 2022
ORMS GT Parent Expo
Field Trips
*6th grade's field trip will need a few parent volunteers. Please email lshelton@nbisd.org or hgrieve@nbisd.org to volunteer, if interested, and please make sure you're in the system ahead of time.
6th grade: April 1st: going to Headwaters for a tour and Landa Park for a scavenger hunt
7th grade: March 25th: going to the Family Center at Freedom Fellowship Church for the 7th GT STEAM competition
8th grade: April 22nd: Texas State University
6th Grade
Ms. Shelton
6th GT Advisory
830.627.6441
Ms. Grieve
6th GT Advisory
830.627.6439
7th Grade
7th GT STEAM Competition
7th grade GT started the month of February working on Tinkercad (a website that allows students to create 3D images). Their assignment from Mr. Braun, one of our district technologists, was to create a mansion. Each student was given a room assignment and then sent them to Mr. Braun for him to compile into one giant file that could be projected via Virtual Reality. This will be one of the stations they have to go to at their STEAM competition so it was good practice.
They also had a guest speaker for a week: Winki Smith. Winki used to teach at NBMS and is now retired. She worked at Newks and learned a lot of team building games and skills and brought them to our students to get even better at working together in their teams.
The last part of February students worked on the Destination Imagination part of the competition. This is where they're given random items, have to create an item out of it and then present it.
Ms. Stanush
7th GT Advisory
830.629.8534
Ms. Hubbard
7th GT Advisory
830.629.8524
8th Grade
Toothpick Bridges
Ms. Bryant
8th GT Advisory
830.629.8529
Ms. Cowan
8th GT Advisory
830.627.6458
Upcoming Events
7th Grade STEAM Competition Field Trip
Friday, Mar 25, 2022, 09:00 AM
Freedom Fellowship Church, Oak Run Point, New Braunfels, TX, USA
6th Grade Field Trip
Friday, Apr 1, 2022, 09:00 AM
Headwaters at the Comal, East Klingemann Street, New Braunfels, TX, USA
ORMS GT Parent Expo
Thursday, Apr 7, 2022, 05:30 PM
Oak Run Middle School, Oak Run Point, New Braunfels, TX, USA
8th GT Field Trip
Friday, Apr 22, 2022, 09:00 AM
Texas State University, University Drive, San Marcos, TX, USA
GT Evaluations
Wednesday, May 25, 2022, 10:00 AM
Oakrun Middle School, Oak Run Point, New Braunfels, TX, USA
Amanda Hunt, Librarian and NBISD Secondary GT Facilitator
Email: ahunt@nbisd.org
Website: http://bit.ly/ormslibrary
Location: 415 Oak Run Point, New Braunfels, TX, United States
Phone: 8306276449
Twitter: @thenextgenlib
Blake Haygood
Email: bhaygood@nbisd.org
Website: https://sites.google.com/nbisd.org/giftedandtalented/home
Phone: 830-643-5765