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SONORAN SCHOOLS - Celebrating 10th Year Anniversary

SONORAN SCHOOLS would like to congratulate all its dedicated teachers and staff from Sonoran Science Academy and Paragon Science Academy who inspire more than twenty four hundred students both in Tucson and Phoenix to reach their full potential. To celebrate the 10th Year Anniversary and in commemoration of the Teacher Appreciation Week, all faculty and staff were recognized for their hard work and dedication at the pre-game show at the Arizona Diamondbacks vs. Minnesota Twins game on Sunday, May 22.

Please click here to see the video and click here for the photos.



CONGRATULATIONS SSA-TUCSON!

An exclamation point to the great end of school year arrived with the news of Sonoran Science Academy ranking 27th in the nation among more than 1900 public high schools  nationwide. The formula for the index is simple: Divide the number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate or other college-level tests a school gave in 2010 by the number of graduating seniors. The index aims to rate the level of a high school's commitment to preparing average students for college.

Since 1998, The The Washington Post's Jay Mathew has ranked Washington-area public high schools using the Challenge Index, his measure of how effectively a school prepares it students for college. In 2011, the Post expanded its research to high schools across the United States. The Challenge Index was formerly Newsweek's America's Best Schools ranking. When The Washington Post sold Newsweek last year, they held on to the Challenge Index. It is currently posted online and will come out in print in a special edition of The Washington Post.


PARAGON IS THE STATE CHAMPION!!!
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The results are in from the Arizona State MATHCOUNTS competition and  Sonoran Schools soared to the top, taking FIRST and SECOND place as teams and qualifying three of the four top individuals to compete on the National level.  This is an amazing accomplishment for our schools.  Mr. Begench Owezov from Paragon was chosen as the official coach of the State team. Congratulations to all our Mathcounts teams and their coaches.  Thank you for showing us that hard work pays off.  
 
 
School Rankings
1st Place: Paragon Science Academy - Coach Begench Owezov
2nd Place: Sonoran Science Academy - Coach Cihan Dalkilic
 
Individual Rankings
1st place: Sloan Kanaski - SSA Tucson
2nd place: Jordan Hines - Paragon
3rd place:  From another school
4th place: Oshadha Gunasekara -Broadway
5th place: Martin Rhey - Paragon
6th place: David Wang - SSA Tucson
 
Paragon and Sonoran schools have been leading the state in Math for the past couple of years.  Way to go!!

  

Senator Al Melvin visits SSA Tucson

In early December SSA Tucson welcomed Senator Al Melvin. Mr. Melvin spoke at assemblies in both middle school and high school about the importance of college education and the opportunities provided by Military Academies.  After taking a tour of our facilities, visiting the classrooms and speaking with some of our students and teachers, he was amazed at the unique programs offered; and the many achievements and honors of our students. His conclusion was one that we already knew. SSA is one of the best, if not THE best school in Arizona. Thank you Senator Melvin!



Gabrielle Giffords visits SSA-DavisMonthan

US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords visited Sonoran Science Academy-Davis Monthan campus in November 2010. [read more]



SSA-Tucson students apply for patent

When you ask 6th grader Nathan Vandivort what he did at school today, some of his answers may surprise you. Nathan is part of Team TOXIC (Team of Xperts in Computers) [read more...]



SSA-Phoenix students awarded

Sonoran Science Academy - Phoenix has been awarded "Best Computer Model" award in 2010-2011 Arizona Region Future City Competition which has been held in Saturday, Jan 22nd. Team members Murat A. (6th), Garret S. (6th) and Elaysha B.(8th) worked very hard to prepare their future city model and prepared a Virtual City in SimCity Computer Game. We are congratulating their teacher Cihan Dalkilic and volunteer engineer Michael Rucker.



SSA-Broadway students awarded


SSA-Davismonthan students awarded

The FIRST tech Challenge (FTC) robotics state tournament took place at Sinagua Middle School in Flagstaff. Tournament was consist of 16 teams. After qualifying matches our team took 3rd place and got a chance to gather their own alliance.

SSA-DM's -Golden Eagles- brought 2 trophies back home.  They got FIRST Tech Challenge Inspire Award and FIRST Tech Challenge Finalist Alliance Award.

The Inspire Award is the most prestigious FTC award, and is given to the team that truly embodied the ‘challenge’ of the FTC program.  The team that receives this award is chosen by the judges as having best represented a role model FIRST Tech Challenge Team.  The team that receives this award is a top contender for all other judging categories and is a strong competitor on the field.

SSA-DM robotics team received an invitation to advance to the next level event. The World Championship will take place in St. Louis, Missouri on April 27-30.



Johns Hopkins CTY Honors PSA

Paragon Science Academy has been named a “Top School” for the state of Arizona in the 2009 Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth Talent Search.  They looked at the top 100 schools by state to determine the number of student enrollments they received into their annual Talent Search, and Paragon Science Academy received this honor. [read more]



 
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Home Visit Program

Sonoran Science Academy encourages its teachers and parents to make home visits to their students to establish better communication between home and school. [read more]



AMSP

Advanced Math and Science Program


AMSP© aims to train student towards prestigious math and science competitions in regional, national and international levels. [read more]



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