We are very excited about the start of our College Mentorship Program (CMP) this year, on September 24, 2014.

Fourth through eighth grade students will be assigned a mentor. Every Wednesday from 2:55 to 3:30 students will participate in the CMP Program. They will be doing activities with their mentor, working toward their CMP goals and have bi-weekly speakers.

We are taking suggestions for speakers. If you know of someone in our community that you think our students could benefit from having as a guest speaker, please let us know.

Email Michelle Campbell at mcampbell@fultonscienceacademy.org

Click on the following links to see some examples of previous speakers

Leader Stacy Abrams

Craig Carter, Ameriprise Financial Advisor

Mike Sutton, President Pinnacle Performers

Kris Rinne, Senior Vice President AT&T Labs

As well, we appreciate any feedback or suggestions for improving the program.

Fulton Science Academy College Mentorship Program
We have three goals with CMP:

1- Academic Proficiency

2- Guidance & Counseling

3- College & Career Readiness

As part of CMP, we also will plan short seminars on important topics every other Wednesday.  Some of the topics we plan to cover are as follows:

• Understanding and Managing Conflict
• Personal Finance
• Problem Solving and Decision Making
• Leadership
• Attention Improvement Techniques
• Stress Management
• Goal Setting
• Top Universities
• Public Speaking
• Critical Thinking Improvement
• Community Service
• Working Together Effectively
• Road to College

6th Grade Earth Science class conducted a mineral exploration activity which simulates real-life economic, societal and issue-oriented problems. The activities were designed to teach about how water works along the earth’s surface and through the ground as it picks up small amounts of the minerals found in the rocks and sediments. Certain minerals ionize, then travel along in the moving water and later react chemically with the surface of river sediments.  Since it is impractical to take a class out to the field to obtain samples, working with simulated sample river sediments were a great way to learn about this topic!

Stained Glass Window is a project that requires students to graph linear equations in order to create a colorful (yet mathematical) display window.  Each student selects and graphs at least twelve linear equations from the equation bank to create their own unique stained glass window.  This visual/kinesthetic project helped Mr. Seker’s math students to clearly identify the equations of horizontal and vertical lines and to easily distinguish between positive and negative slope. Please see a picture here: