HSA students will take their second semester finals in the last week of semester. All teachers work diligently to prepare students for the final week. Please see the final days below

HOUSTON, TX – The world’s largest science fair is going on downtown this weekend. More than 600 high school students from around the world have converged on the George R. Brown to show the world their greatest creations and wouldn’t you know it, a school from right here in Houston is leading the charge.

“This is my fourth year in it and we’ve been pretty successful,” says Ali Batayneh of Harmony School of Advancement in Houston.

The team from Harmony isn’t messing around at this year’s show, taking no prisoners at the robotics competition.

“They give us a list of materials and they say you can use this, this and this and the rest is up to us,” Ali explains.

The team designed remote-controlled robots able to pick up objects and manipulate them almost as keenly as the mars rover. But they didn’t stop there, the team also designed a fully functional submersible to their arsenal of gadgets at this year’s show.

“There’s so many times when you put it in the water and it doesn’t work so when you’re finally able to get it functioning, it is very fulfilling,” says Jhaelon Edwards.

Fulfilling also is the experience for these kids to meet science head-on. read more . . .

This past weekend, one of our students, Mandeep P., became the first ever Harmony student to qualify for the National Forensic League's national tournament, the largest academic competition in the world. Only 4 students from our district (South Texas) qualify in his event. Mandeep will compete in Domestic Extemporaneous Speaking and represent Harmony School of Advancement this June in Birmingham, Alabama. Domestic Extemporaneous Speaking focuses on analysis of current events that expects the students to give comprehensive, researched, sourced answers to questions regarding the complex issues facing America and the world with just 30 minutes of preparation prior to the speech. You can learn more about the National Forensic League, the national tournament, and his event at www.nationalforensicleague.org/ We're very proud of Mandeep for his hard work and great success!

Washington Post has released 2013’s high School Challenge Index. The index formula that's a simple ratio: the number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate and Advanced International Certificate of Education tests given at a school each year, divided by the number of seniors who graduated that year. A ratio of 1.000 means the school had as many tests as graduates. Our school is ranked 153 out of 1000 schools in the nation.

Congratulations to all, and we appreciate what you do for Harmony students! read more . . .

This year 86 juniors took 2012 Preliminary SAT/ National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/ NMSQT) from Harmony School of Advancement and 7 of them met requirements to enter the 2014 National Merit Scholarship Program. With a selection index score of 203 or above, these high performers have shown outstanding academic potential. Each of these students is among the 50,000 highest-scoring participants of some 1.5 million program entrants. Congratulations to: Yoosin C., Paul C., Maria L F. N., Zafar H., Pradhith K., Zainab M., Aamer N.

It is a great honor to present our first underwater robot, we named her Sea-Hawk. She was designed and built in Harmony School of Advancement Labs.
She is equipped with three high resolution on board live streaming operation cameras, 4 thrust propellers for omni directional movement and 2 diving propellers.

Please enjoy the video below

We are extremely proud to announce that the French Team from Harmony School of Advancement did wonderfully at our first Texas French Symposium. Harmony Science Academy and Harmony School of Advancement were two of only three new schools in competition out of 35 schools represented. Out of the 20 students who competed from Harmony School of Advancement, several made it to semi-finals, a few made it to finals and a couple managed to win top places!
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Merci to everyone who helped us make our first Texas French Symposium such a success! Please pass along your Félicitations! To these students, especially Maria B. and Daniel N.!

CLASS OF 2013 COLLEGE ACCEPTANCE NEWS

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HS Advancement will now have a certified counselor on campus every Friday. Students will need a signed consent form from their parent/guardian to be able to utilize this service if needed. All students need to have a form on file. Please fill it out, sign and return to the DEAR period teacher or front office by Monday, March 25, 2013
For counseling consent form please click here

Attending summer programs or camps is very crucial for college applications. Starting in Freshmen summer term but more importantly in Junior summer term, students may attend summer programs and camps to explore their interests, future careers and life-time opportunities to be college ready, career ready and life ready.

You may also check: www.InternInHouston.org

To see some recommended summer programs and camp, please read more . . .

For the past few years, Harmony School of Advancement has been developing Science Olympiad teams to compete in Tournaments. On February 23, 2013 Harmony School of Advancement Science Olympiad teams competed at the Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi Regional Tournament. HSA’s Team A took 3rd place while HSA’s Team B took 4th place out of the eleven teams competing. With all the hard work, HSA competitors wiped out nineteen medals out of thirty nine in a total of thirteen events.

Each year, AAPT and the American Institute of Physics (AIP) sponsor a competition for high school students to represent the United States at the 2013 International Physics Olympiad Competition. The mission of the U.S. Physics Team Program is to promote and demonstrate academic excellence through preparation for and participation in the International Physics Olympiad.

400 students passed the pre-elimination test (F=ma contest) and became semi -finalists in UNITED STATES. Paul C. from our school is one of the two finalists from Harmony Schools. Congratulations to Paul and Mrs. Nal for this marvelous achievement! View a list of Semi-finalists click here

Hafsa B. is accepted to University of Chicago as Class of 2017.

The University of Chicago is a private, nondenominational, culturally rich and ethnically diverse coeducational institution of higher learning and research located in Chicago. Uchicago accepted only 15% of 22,000 applicants. Uchicago is ranked #4 by US News.

Shannon V. are accepted Drexel University as Class of 2017.

Founded in 1891 in Philadelphia, Drexel is a top-ranked, comprehensive university recognized for its focus on experiential learning through co-operative education, its commitment to cutting-edge academic technology and its growing enterprise of use-inspired research. With more than 23,500 students, Drexel is the nation's 14th largest private university and ranked sixth among national universities in the most recent U.S. News & World Report list of "Up-and-Comers."

Hafsa B. is accepted to University of Notre Dame as Class of 2017.

University of Notre Dame is a private institution that was founded in 1842. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 8,452, its setting is city, and the campus size is 1,250 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. University of Notre Dame's ranking in the 2013 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, 17.

Neerja V. and Tabeen H. are accepted to University of Californa at Los Angeles as Class of 2017.

University of California--Los Angeles is a public institution that was founded in 1919. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 27,199, its setting is urban, and the campus size is 419 acres. It utilizes a quarter-based academic calendar. With an acceptance rate of 25%, UCLA is the largest school in UC system. UCLA is ranked #24 by US News.

Neerja V., Jhaelon E.-S., Tabeen H. and Mandeep P. are accepted to University of Texas at Austin as Class of 2017.

A comprehensive university with a broad mission of undergraduate and graduate education, research, and service to society. With an enrollment of over 48000, UT is one of the biggest universities in Texas. UT-Austin is ranked 46 by US News.

Izzah A., Harleen S., Amaka N. and Tabeen H. are accepted to Texas A&M University as Class of 2017.

Texas A&M University is one of Texas's Tier-1 universities, and its first public institution of higher education, this research-intensive university with 10 colleges and a nationally recognized faculty was ranked 3rd by U.S. News and World Report as a 'best value'. It is ranked 66 by US News.

Krystal B. and Neha J. are accepted to Fordham University as Class of 2017.

Fordham University is a private institution that was founded in 1841. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 8,427, its setting is urban, and the campus size is 93 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Fordham University's ranking in the 2013 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, 65.

Susan N., Neha J., Neerja V., Tabeen H., Shannon V. and Elisabeth S.. are accepted to Baylor University as Class of 2017.

Chartered in 1845 by the Republic of Texas, Baylor is the oldest university in Texas and was one of the first educational institutions west of the Mississippi River. As top Texas Christian University, Baylor is ranked 77 by US News.

Aaron A., Neha J., Diego A., Mariana Q., Harleen S., Roxana S., Krystal B., Yasmin A., Amaka N., Elisabeth S., Izzah A., Gabriel A., Aaminah I., Zainab. A., Susan N., Tarunkumar J., Ryan D., Jugraj P., Henry C., Daazmen T. and Tabeen H. are accepted to University of Houston as Class of 2017.

Founded in 1927, the University of Houston, one of the Tier 1 universities in State of Texas, is the leading public research university in the vibrant international city of Houston. Each year, UH educate more than 39,800 students in more than 300 undergraduate and graduate academic programs, on campus and online.

Neha J. is accepted to University of Rochester as Class of 2017.

University of Rochester is a private institution that was founded in 1850. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 5,643, its setting is suburban, and the campus size is 707 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. University of Rochester's ranking in the 2013 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, 33.

Our schools was proud to present the MoHawk Warriors as yet another daring victory was made by our Robotics Team this past Saturday, February 9, 2013 at Hamshire Fannet FTC qualifying tournaments. We took home the First Place Winning Alliance Award, and not only this but also the Motivation Award.

Go Mohawks!!!

Please congratulate our own Two Time State Champion Lady Hawks Basketball Team and their devoted Coach Hall! They dominated the Texas Charter School Athletic & Academic League Final four Basketball Tournament in Austin this past Saturday February 2, 2013 to bring home the Trophy for the second consecutive year! GO HAWKS!!!!

ATTENTION ALL HAWKS!!!! This past Saturday, the 19th of 2013, the MoHawk Warriors won first place out of thirteen schools in the FTC Houston Qualifying Competition. With great inspiration and motivation they were ready to show off their winning robots. This is only the beginning, and they will keep winning every match and every competition because with team work and hard work anything is possible. Let’s congratulate them and wish them the best for their next game.

Harmony School of Advancement celebrates Paul C. for earning a perfect score on their AP Exam in Spring 2012.

The Advanced Placement Exams are written and scored by college professors from around the world, are typically designed to cover a full -year of intensive, college-level knowledge and skills, so it is very rare for a high school student to earn every point possible on the exam. read more . . .

Dear Harmony Public Schools Family

We are honored to share the news that Harmony Public Schools recently named finalists in the Race to the Top – District competition. Being considered a finalist for the Race to the Top – District awards is validation of our commitment to a standard of excellence at Harmony. The Race to the Top distinction is a welcome recognition of the hard work and dedication of our teachers, parents and students.

Thank you all for your hard work and best of luck to all of our schools!”

We are proud to announce recent update for Class of 2013's SAT scores. Unlike other public and charter schools, our participation rate is almost 100%.

Class of 2012 National average Critical Reading:496, Math:514, Writing:488. (Participation Rate:47%)
Class of 2012 Texas average Critical Reading:474, Math:499, Writing:461. (Participation Rate: 53%)

Our seniors have attended an information session presented by Eric Watson, senior admission counselor at Texas A&M University-College Station which has been ranked #1 for "pay-back ratio" by Smart Money magazine

Texas A&M is one of the research colleges (Tier-one) in State of Texas and ranked #65 in the national by US NEWS. read more . . .

Harmony School of Advancement is a college-oriented high school which prepares students to the best colleges in the nation. We have several students who are accepted to the top 10 universities in the nation such as Harvard, MIT, Columbia and U-Chicago.

To encourage our freshmen to see what they need to accomplish to get in the top colleges, 10 of our freshmen visited:
Harvard, ranked #1 by US News
MIT, ranked #6 by US News
Tufts, ranked #28 by US News

Learn more about, college rankings read more . . .

Our seniors have attended an information session presented by Tiffany Anderson, Freshmen Admission Officer at UH.

University of Houston has become a Tier One state university what we have only three in State of Texas. UH has been funding Engineering and Businees programs which have different admission requirement than other programs. read more . . .

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Newsweek has announced America's Best High Schools where seven Harmony schools have made into the list. Newsweek has also identified Top 25 Transformative High Schools in which four Harmony Schools are also featured.

Harmony Science Academy - Bryan/College Station, Harmony School of Advancement (Houston), Harmony Science Academy Fort Worth, Harmony Science Academy (Houston), Harmony Science Academy El Paso, Harmony Science Academy Dallas, Harmony Science Academy-North Austin are the campuses that made into Newsweek's list.

Bryan/College Station, El Paso, Houston, and Dallas campuses became America's 25 transformative schools who did the most with the least resources.

In 2011, two Harmony campuses were also named as the Miracle Schools by Newsweek.

Washington Post has announced its Most Challenging High Schools list of 2012. Four Harmony high schools made the Challenge Index and three of them in the top 100 out of 1900 schools in the list. Harmony School of Advancement is ranked 32nd among the national schools.

The Challenge Index of Washington Post ranks high schools since 1998 based on the student achievement on IB, AP, and college level tests (SAT, ACT, etc.) and graduation rates. The index score is the number of college-level tests given at a school in 2011 divided by the number of graduates that year. Also noted are the percentage of students who come from families that qualify for lunch subsidies (Subs. Lunch) and the percentage of graduates who passed at least one college-level test during their high school career, called equity and excellence, (E&E). A (P) next to the school's name denotes a private school.

See the detailed list here.

A segment of the May 13 television news show 60 Minutes included references to Harmony Public Schools (HPS) of Texas that may have left some inaccurate impressions. Please note the following facts about Harmony Public Schools, all of which were shared with 60 Minutes before the show was broadcast: Read more at Harmony Public Schools and 60 Minutes: Setting the Record Straight

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HS Advancement programming team participated in UT Austin Computer Science Department's High School Programming Contest last Saturday, on February 11th. 59 teams from around Texas schools were present at this event.
Ryan, Christopher, and Leelund successfully competed in small school division category among 1A-3A schools. Here are the results:
1st place Team Award: Ryan, Christopher, Leelund
3rd place Individual Award: Ryan, Leelund
4th place: Christopher

Harmony School of Advancement Robotics Team, MoHawk Warriors, Participated in FTC South East Texas Tournaments and competed against more than 30 Schools
Here are the results:
1st place in all areas , plus
Winning Alliance Award, Best Robot Design Award, Motivate Award, Connect Award, Innovate Award, Inspire Award and more... Total of 11 awards.

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Go MoHawks

From Superintendent Dr. Soner Tarim To the Harmony Public Schools Community: A disappointing article on charter schools in this week's New York Times attempts to put Harmony Public Schools in Texas in a context that is not accurate, necessitating this brief response. Many of us at Harmony Schools cooperated extensively with the Times on this story over the last several months, providing documents, interviews, tours and dozens of detailed responses to specific questions in good faith. But, as sometimes happens, the end result was not entirely what we had hoped. See the rest of Dr. Soner Tarim's response here: http://harmonytx.org/news/122/letter-to-stakeholders-on-ny-times-article/

It is the policy of the Harmony Science Academy Charter School to locate and identify any child who contacts or enrolls in the Charter School who may have a disability and be in need of special education and related services, regardless of the severity of the disability, in accordance with its procedures as reflected in the CHILD FIND legal framework of the Legal Framework for the Child-Centered Special Education Process, located at: http://framework.esc18.net/. read more...