Community Middle School - Accomplishments

Accomplishments

• The Community Middle School Science Olympiad Team was the National Champion at the National Science Olympiad Tournament held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2005. The team included some of the best and most talented students of the school, most of whom have won medals at the Regional, State, and National level. They beat out the reigning champion, Booth Middle School, who had won the National Award for nine of ten years. The Community Middle School team has also won the state title the past nine years; their most recent being in March 2009, where they set an all-time New Jersey record of 36 points. They also won the 2007 Nationals tournament held at Wichita State University. On January 8, 2008, the Community Middle School Science Olympiad Team won the Regional Finals with a total of 42 points. On March 11, 2008, the Community Middle School Science Olympiad Team also won the 2008 New Jersey State Finals and will be proceeding onto the National Science Olympiad Competition held at George Washington University on May 30–31.

• Karen Galley won teacher of the year award honors. She also was nominated for ACS Chemistry teacher of the year.

• Daesun Yim, the 2006 National MathCounts champion, attended Community Middle School and won the MathCounts competition in eighth grade.

• During the year of 2006-2007, a Future Problem Solving team from Community Middle School became the first team in CMS to attend the Future Problem Solving International Conference at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. Every year since, a team from Community has attended the international conference, going as far as placing 5th in the middle division during the 2008-2009 school year, and most recently 8th in the middle division during the 2009-2010 school year internationally.

• During the 2007-2008 school year, the school's Middle School Science Bowl (MSSB) team came in 2nd place in the regional competition. Thomas Grover Middle School, CMS's "rival" and the other WWP middle school, came in first and Witherspoon (from Princeton) came third. During the 08-09 school year, the Science Bowl team came in 3rd place in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Grover Middle School came in fifth and Witherspoon came in 1st.

• During the 07-08 school year, a sixth grade violinist became concertmistress for multiple youth orchestras, including the Regional Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra.