The STEM Academy at HVA

FIRST Alumni, we need your help! Please consider volunteering as a JUDGE at the East Tennessee FIRST LEGO League Championships, February 8 at Tennessee Tech! We need 10 more people to help make this a successful and fun day for our FLL teams.

Training is provided. And lunch. And a limited-edition 25th Anniversary FLL in TN T-shirt! Teams, please repost and share this opportunity with your alums! Link in bio or the QR code. Current college students are welcome to apply!

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STEM night is coming up! Make plans to come learn about all the STEM related career!

🍪Cookies and cocoa? Yes, please! Our Hardin Valley PTSO spoiled our staff today with delicious treats, and we are so appreciative! Thank you so much!

Congratulations!!

👏Congratulations to Tim Smyrl for winning the General Bruce Holloway Teacher of the Year Award from the East Tennessee Chapter of the Air Force Association! Mr Smyrl teaches engineering and coding in the Academy of STEM and also sponsors the AeroHawks. The AFA recognizes STEM teachers throughout the country, especially those that promote aerospace education.

The STEM Academy at HVA

📋More special guests in the Nest! Local business leaders visited us last week as a continuation of our guest speaker panels for freshman seminar students. This time the emphasis was on career pathways in the Academy of Business & Law. Thank you to our guests from Adam Wilson Realty, Y-12 Credit Union, Rather & Kittrell, Connor Concepts, FBI, 21st Mortgage Corporation - Your Manufactured Home Lending Source, U.S. Marine Corps, and United States Air Force. We appreciate your time!

The 865 Academies

🩵Looking for a way to give back this holiday season? Here you go! A total of 339 students at Hardin Valley Elementary, Hardin Valley Middle School, Hardin Valley Academy and Mill Creek Elementary need your help.

You can sign up to purchase a gift for one of these students here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0A4BAEA929A3FBC70-53186762-hvangel #/

No time to shop? Monetary donations are welcome as well. The HV Angel Tree has a team ready to shop for you! You can drop off monetary donations at any of the schools or give online here: https://app.givebacks.gives/hardinvalleyangeltree/Campaign/Details

Questions? Please email [email protected].

Thank you for loving our students so well!