On Friday, October 27, 2017, the Automotive Maintenance and Light Repair classes from Oak Ridge High School competed for the second time in the Top Wrench competition at McGhee-Tyson Air National Guard Base. The students had their first experience in this competition of April 2017. Top Wrench Competition is in its 27th year, hosting 17 […]
On Friday November 3 and Saturday November 4, the ORHS Mu Alpha Theta Math Club will host the State Math Convention. We have 12 visiting high schools from all areas of the state, with 188 students plus chaperones attending.
Several students from UT’s student math club will be […]
Four Oak Ridge High School students were recognized on Tuesday, October 17th as semifinalists for the Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology, the nation’s premier research competition for high school students. The Siemens Competition selected only 300 projects from over 1800 submissions this year. Radha Awasthi, daughter of Ritu and Revendra Awasthi, and Candace […]
Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) is a new program at Oak Ridge High School which gives students the opportunity to experience rigorous courses with support. Oak Ridge High School is seeking tutors to help students twice a week. Tutors do not have to be content experts but do need to be willing to ask questions, […]
This summer, more than 350 educators and instructors gathered on the Belmont University campus in Nashville to attend the annual Tennessee Arts Academy (TAA). The Academy is a weeklong session for arts teachers across the state including visual, music and theater arts. Educators receive training from national experts in their arts field in order to […]
As is emblazoned in many of our memories, September 11, 2001 was the day that nineteen militants associated al-Qaeda hijacked four airplanes and carried out suicide attacks against several targets in the United States. Beginning at 9:03 a.m., two planes crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, a […]
From July 1-10, 2017, ten eighth grade students and two Oak Ridge Schools staff chaperones visited Naka-shi, Japan for the twenty-sixth annual Middle School Exchange. The annual exchange is organized by the Oak Ridge Sister City Support Organization and Oak Ridge Schools.
The goal of the exchange is to build knowledge and understanding between cultures. To […]
Jefferson Middle School students, Ian Bailey and Beatrice Shea were awarded 2nd Place in the Student Map – up to age 12 category at the Esri 2017 Users Conference Map Gallery. The students selected their mapping project because their school is unique by having wooded and protected areas near it. They learned that these areas […]
Jefferson Middle School Principal, Phil Cox was inducted into the Kentucky High School Basketball Hall of Fame last week. Mr. Cox was a two-time all-state selection, averaging 35.3 points a game as a junior and 28.7 as a senior in earning the 1981 Kentucky Mr. Basketball award. He led his high school team to the […]
The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) announced that Elaine Vaughan, a math teacher at Oak Ridge High School in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was one of 10 math and science teacher leaders selected to serve as a 2017 STEM Teacher Ambassador. The program aims to […]