Be The Change Club |
The goal
of the "Be The Change" club is to make Ore Creek a bully
free school. If you want to help make this happen, join the club.
The "Be The Change"
Club is a student driven club. Everyday 10 students from the club walk the
halls in their red "Be The Change" shirts. They address any
bullying that they witness in our school. The club has "Be The
Change" boxes placed
throughout the school to give students an opportunity to let the club know
that they are being bullied while attending school. "Be The
Change" members then address the bully and ask them to stop their
behavior.
The "Be The Change"
club also helps with Challenge Day and fundraisers like dances, Family Fun
Night, and Coupon Card sales. |
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Drama Club |
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The drama club,
directed by Mr. Lauzon, put
on a play called, Help, I'm Trapped in a Middle School. It was a story about
four students from the "valley" that accidentally got transferred
to a maximum security school. They must deal with the crazy student inmates
while trying to get out. There were lots of laughs and
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Geography Bee |
The
National Geography Bee, is a nationwide
geography competition, sponsored by the
National Geographic Society, for students in
grades four through eight designed to
encourage the teaching and study of
geography .
During
the Geography Bee students compete against
each other to see who can answer the most
questions correctly about all kinds of
topics related to geography.
The
school winner goes on to compete at the
state level. State winners can compete in
the national finals for scholarships in the
amount of U.S. $25,000, $15,000 and $10,000. |
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Lego League |
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In the robotics club
students build, program, and run robots. The club helps students learn
teamwork, cooperation, and problem solving skills. Teamwork and
cooperation are needed when deciding jobs and designing the robot.
Problem solving, teamwork and cooperation are all needed in building,
fixing, and programming the robot.
After many months of preparation
the teams go to a competition. The competitions are big and very
eventful. Students never know how well their robot is going to perform
on the various tasks that it is asked to do. There is so much suspense!
In past years, our teams have competed very well with several teams qualifying for state finals. In order
to go to the finals the teams must place in the top 6 on the day of
their competition.
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National Junior Honor Society |
The NJHS (National Junior
Honor Society) is a group of 8 th grade students who in
7th grade kept a grade point average of 3.6, all year
and have demonstrated qualities of good citizenship.
Each month these students must do four hours of community service,
to stay on NJHS. We do a variety of services for the
community and school. Some of these include: staff luncheon,
breakfast, carwash, school dance, tutoring, visiting nursing homes, donating
items to needy families and the firemen
and policemen luncheon. Each year we have between 80 and 100 eighth graders
in NJHS. |
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Optimist Oratorical Contest |
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Do you enjoy public speaking? Do you like to
write? Are you a positive person? If you said yes to
any of those then the Optimist Oratorical Contest is for
you.
The
Optimist Oratorical Contest is a contest for both 7th and 8th
graders in which students write and deliver a 4-5 minute
speech. The speeches are given before family and friends and
are judged by a panel of three judges. First, second, and third place medals
are awarded.
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Quiz Bowl |
| Quiz Bowl offers an opportunity for students to compete academically with other teams from around our area. In addition, qualiying students will have the opportunity to compete on WKAR's Quizbusters competition which takes place on the campus of Michigan State University. |
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Reader's Digest Word Power Challenge
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Do you like to read?? Do you
like words?? If so, you may want to participate in the Reader's Digest
National Word Power Challenge. All 7th and 8th graders have the opportunity
to participate in this contest.
The Reader's Digest National
Word Power Challenge is a nationwide vocabulary contest for students in
grades 4-8 in which students learn to think critically while they test their
knowledge of word definitions and usage. It is designed to help promote
literacy and communication skills.
Students who participate in
this contest can compete for a scholarship if they are one of the 100 top
scoring students from Michigan.
Each year we have a 7th grade
and an 8th grade school
winner who competes at the state level to try to become one of those top 100
students.
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Student Council |
| Student Council plans and organizes after school and evening
activities. It also plans and organizes fund raising activities for
various local charities, recognizes student birthdays, puts on
staff and teacher luncheons, and organizes the 8th grade trip to
Cedar Point. The four officers (president, vice-president,
secretary, and treasurer) are elected in the fall and serve for
the entire year. |
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Student Yearbook |
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Each
year there is a committee of kids who get together and take
pictures of different activities, pick out the cover of the year
book and basically design the whole yearbook with only little help
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Ski Club |
| Seventh and eighth grade students may elect to be a member of the ski
club. The club skis one day a week in season with staff and parent
volunteers. Students are responsible for all expenses. |
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