- Ochoa STEM Academy
- Campus Highlights
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Regular Features
- Fully certified and highly qualified teachers/staff
- Adherence to all state of Texas curriculum requirements
- Data-driven school with focus on literacy programs
- Year-long instruction in music, art, and PE
- Active Parent Teacher Association (PTA) participation
- Comprehensive guidance counseling program
- Student Council
- Extracurricular clubs
- Family Academic Information Night
- Pep rallies
- Family Multi-Cultural Night and Parent Enrichment Classes
Special Features
- Engineers in the Classroom program in partnership with Lockheed Martin, offering students the opportunity to work with and learn hands-on from engineers and scientists from a national leading corporation dedicated to aerospace, defense, information technology, and space innovation
- Dedicated curriculum Engineering in Education produced by the National Center for Technology Literacy in conjunction with the Museum of Science-Boston.
- Expanded school day to allow for lab work, experiments, and dedicated STEM coursework with GPISD School Board approval
- Expanded extracurricular club program focused on STEM principles, including clubs such as Robotics Club, Engineering Club, Space Club, in addition to sports and other campus club offerings
- Outdoor classroom and Learning Lab with 2 high school-sized science labs
- Expanded media center and library
- Technology expansion as a bring-your-own-device school that also offers student netbooks and tablets to accommodate enhanced study
- Emphasis on social media (i.e. Twitter, Google+, Facebook, podcasting), including a dedicated Eduvision Channel to provide student-produced presentations, parent information
- A Parent Involvement Center that serves as a portal for STEM-focused enrichment lessons and experiments where students and parents can work on together at home, receive academic support, and increased computer training for Milam parents
- Breakfast-in-the-classroom program, offering a nutritious breakfast to all students every morning
- Standardized dress with GPISD School Board approval