Students and families!
Join your SST friends for a day filled with food, activities, and culture!
Our school has chartered busses to go to the Turkic Cultures and Children's Festival in Houston, TX. SST is taking the students for a fantastic weekend with their families to Turkic Festival. Please come and enjoy colorful exhibits, and give the best gift to your child; have fun with the stage performances, puppet shows, games, tournaments, moonwalks, dunking booth, fussball, face paint, costumes, movie tent, cotton candy, pop corn, and traditional ice-cream.

Turkic Cultures:
- Watch the parade of the Historic Ottoman Military Band
- Observe the making of the Turkic Arts
- Enjoy the rich Turkish Cuisine
- Listen to international tunes.

Please visit http://www.turkicfest.org/ for more info.

The trip will take place on Saturday, November 1. We will depart from school on Saturday Morning at 9:00 AM promptly and come back to school around 9:00 PM. This is not an overnight trip.

SST is offering Robotics classes for middle & high school and Robotics Clubs for both middle & highs school students.
These courses are an exciting introduction to the NXT Robotics System.

We learn how to design, program and develop teamwork skills. In pairs, using LEGO building elements, motors and sensors, students build different robots and program them with a computer to move, react and make sounds to solve challenges.

Please, click here to see Robotics Class movie

We had annual Parent Picnic on Saturday, October 4, 2008 at McArthur Park. We would like to thank to PTO, VIP parents & teachers for their help and efforts…

Please, click here to see Pictures

Book Fair will be held between Oct 13 and Oct 17, 2008.

Parents! If you are interested in sponsoring and volunteering a club in following areas or any other area that you might be interested, please contact with Ms. Gilmore at kgilmore@ssttx.org ***:

-Italian, German, French, Japanese or other languages

-Anime Club

-Spelling Bee

-Astronomy Club

-Debate

***Please note that clubs are subject to administrational approval.

Six students represented SST in I-SWEEEP International Olympiad in Houston on May 5th, 2008. 550 young researchers from 58 countries around the world and 42 states in the United States participated in this great event. SST received following awards;

**Bronze Medal: Rebecca De Los Santos, "Burning!" ($500 Money Award)

Honorable Mention: Cameron Szala, "Solar Home"
Honorable Mention: Rabia Ali & Christopher Torres, "Biodegradation of Hardly Decomposing Materials."

Please, click here to see pictures

SST participated in Texas statewide Science Olympiad in Texas A&M University, College Station on April 25, 2008. SST was the only school represented San Antonio in middle school level in the competition. SST students did a good job and returned with total 6 medals. Here are the results:

Third Place: Disease Detective
Mariana Saenz, Serena Lopez

Third Place:Write it do it
Francheska Colon, Mustafa Tajkhanji

Fourth Place: Simple Machines
Matthew Sheridan, Mustafa Mohammed

Please, click here for Science Olympiad pictures.

SST first annual spring break trip was to Orlando, Florida.

High school students had wonderful time. The places visited during the trip included Walt Disney World and Universal Studios in Florida, New Orleans and Baton Rouge (Louisiana State University) in Louisiana.

Please, click the links below to see pictures of spring break trip.

New Orleans-Louisiana
Walt Disney World-Florida
Universal Studios-Florida
Baton Rouge-Louisiana

Career Day 2008 was held on March 13, 2008.
Career presenters from different fields shared their valuable experience with students. We had representatives from UTSA, OLLU, Western Technical College, Wellsfargo and more.

We thank and appreciate all career day participants.

Please, click the link below for career day pictures.

Career Day 2008

SST students participated in "2008 Alamo Regional Science & Engineering Fair" on March 8, 2008. They did marvelous job in both Junior and Senior division.

15 students from SST advanced to the statewide science fair with their distinguished projects. We would like to thank all students, teachers and parents for their support.
Please, click for SST Science Fair Results, and for pictures.

Second annual Turkish olympiad was held on March 6, 2008.

Everybody enjoyed the night. Students competed in six different categories. Marissa Hickox placed first in singing category and Valerie Gamao placed first in poem recitation.

Please, click the links below to see winners and pictures of SST second annual Turkish olympiad.

Turkish olympiad winners
Turkish olympiad pictures

SST MathCounts Team participated in Bexar Chapter/Texas State MATHCOUNTS. Our MathCounts Team was placed first in the San Antonio chapter of the competition and proceeded to the state level to represent San Antonio. Among our team Sajid Leelani came the first in individual category and Countdown Round category.

Our Achievements:

1. First Place Team, Chapter Mathcounts Comp-2008

2. First Place Individual, Chapter Mathcounts
Comp-2008

3. First Place Countdown Round, Chapter Mathcounts Comp-2008

* SST Mathcounts Team Coach, Mr.Adam won 2008 Coach Chapter Competition award.

Please, click here to see Mathcounts-2008 competition pictures.

Congratulations to Mr.Adam and SST Mathcounts Team;

1. Sajid Leelani
2. Matthew Sheridan
3. Myles Wortham
4. Julian Mejia

SST science olympiad team participated in Regional Science Olympiad in Texas A&M University at Kingsville,Texas on February 23, 2008.

SST middle school team took the second place and advanced to statewide science olympiad.

Congratulations to SST science team!

We would like to thank all students, sponsoring teachers and volunteer parents. Special thanks to Mrs.Schlagal, Mrs.Dorsett, Mrs.Herrera and Mr.Martinez.

Please, click here for Science Olympiad pictures.

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