Students gathered in the Timberline gym for a unique event after raising more than $18,000 from the Timberline games a month earlier.

On November 17 and 18, seventh and eighth grade Visual Art students from Rose Hill Middle School took a field trip to the Seattle Art Museum.

Students at Finn Hill Middle School are using Lego bricks to learn how to tackle problems. 

Author Cherie Priest visited the Rose Hill Middle School library to chat with students on the process of writing and being an author.

Staff at Finn Hill Middle School put a new spin on their traditional curriculum night with their first ever Falcon Fest on October 18. The event welcomed the entire Finn Hill community and featured food trucks and parent education sessions on a wide range of topics.

Valerie Yob’s students have been learning about Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) in October. The Rose Hill Middle School Spanish teacher had her students create an ofrenda (offering) at their school.

Students at Kamiakin Middle School (KaMS) were in for a special treat. A best-selling and award-winning author stopped by their school on September 26.

Math is one of those subjects in school where children learn at different speeds. Eva Sharma, rising eighth grader at Timberline Middle School, wrote a book about this experience. Her book, entitled “Peanut and the Math Mystery,” is about a girl named Peanut who does not like math.

Affan Sheikh, rising seventh grader at Inglewood Middle School (IMS), has done more than most adults at the age of 11. Affan recently published his first eBook that is now available on Amazon. “A Journey of a Thousand Z's” is a short fiction story that follows the writer’s future self as he creates the world's first time machine and how he chooses to use it.

Three International Community School (ICS) students took their skill of writing and turned it into prizes at a recent essay contest. Anusha Bharadvaj finished third in the nationwide contest, while Marianna Druzhkova and Suniti Srinivasan each finished as honorable mentions.

Inglewood Middle School (IMS) offered a brand new, two-week intramural sport this year: Cricket. 

Nineteen robotics teams from Lake Washington School District (LWSD) traveled to the VEX Robotics World Middle School Championship in Dallas, Texas, May 3-12. 785 teams from all over the world competed in 10 divisions.

The sixth graders at Rose Hill Middle School worked on an exciting new unit on ecosystems restoration in science this fall. During this unit, students not only learned what makes a healthy forest ecosystem but also got the opportunity to plan and execute their very own restoration project for a damaged ecosystem on Rose Hill’s campus.

Twenty-eight students representing Evergreen Middle School recently attended the We the People National Invitational sponsored by the Center for Civic Education. The team was invited to attend the national event in May after they competed at the high school level, Washington state showcase in January.

Bobby Jones, eighth grader at Finn Hill Middle School, is having a big year, and it just got a little bigger. Bobby will be on hand to raise a giant Progress Pride flag at Lumen Field on Thursday, June 24.

A painting by Nivedha Neelakandan from Redmond Middle School was good enough to win first place in a recent regional contest. The eighth grader was best for her age group in the 2021 Junior Duck Stamp program

Sara Sunil, an eighth grader at Inglewood Middle School, took home first place and best in show for her artwork in the 2021 Junior Duck Stamp program.

The Green Team at Timberline Middle School created a video for classmates to watch on Earth Day. They explained the dangers that single-use plastics pose to wildlife and encouraged students and staff to use reusable water bottles at home and at school.  

Lake Washington School District is pleased to announce a team from Timberline Middle School (TMS) was selected as one of the regional winners of the 29th annual ExploraVision program. This is the largest K-12 science competition designed to build problem-solving, critical thinking and collaboration skills. Team Project: LAMP (The Localized Alzheimer’s Microneedle Patch), from TMS, will advance to the national phase of the competition, where participants will have a chance to win $10,000 in savings bonds and other great prizes.

Would you wear a watch and slippers made from carbon dioxide emissions? Or brush your teeth using toothpaste made from CO₂? Before the pandemic, students at Evergreen Middle School were learning about real products that capture and store carbon dioxide that would otherwise go into the atmosphere.