After School Clubs
Encourage your student to attend a Murchison after-school club! Participation provides students an opportunity to build positive relationships with adults and peers outside the normal classroom setting. After-school clubs are sponsored by Murchison teachers and the PTA supports these clubs by paying teacher stipends as well as providing additional volunteer support as needed.
Clubs generally meet on Tuesdays and/or Thursdays for about an hour after school and may be offered in either fall, spring or both semesters. Note: Late bus service is dependent on the availability of additional district funding, so the late bus will not begin until sometime in or around October.
Please contact the teacher sponsors listed below to learn more about each club or to confirm the scheduled start dates and regular meeting days:
FIRST LEGO League (FLL)
Learn to design, build and program LEGO Mindstorm Robots. Participate in FIRST Lego League competition by building a robot and competing and presenting a research project. Coached by volunteers including MMS parents, teachers and National Instruments mentors.
Meets the fall semester: Thursday afternoons, 3:35-5:30pm thru December. FIRST Lego League Qualifying competition is in November, followed by Central Texas Championships in December.
Registration information distributed Super Saturday. Parent meeting is the 1st Thursday of the school year 3:35-5:30pm in Mr. Solorio's classroom.
Sponsored by Mr. Solorio (JSolorio@austinisd.org).
Green Team
We will be cleaning up the beds and greenhouse to get it ready for use this fall. Students will be able to plant seeds and watch them grow. Along the way students will be watering, weeding, and ultimately harvesting and getting to eat what they have grown. Everybody gets to have fun and get dirty if they want. If a student has some special project they want to complete and they need some space to grow things we can help them. Each meeting will begin with snacks and socializing in Room 206 until 4:00. After that we will go outside to work. Meets every Tuesday & Friday from 3:30-4:45 p.m. beginning mid Sept.
Co-sponsors: Bret Korba (bkorba@austinisd.org) and Patricia Carpenter (pcarpent@austinisd.org).
Ultimate Frisbee Club
Ultimate is a highly athletic sport that combines the jumping of basketball, the running and cutting of soccer, and the field sense of football with a flying disc. Teams of seven players advance down a field the size of a football field and try to score in an end zone by throwing the disc to each other. Ultimate Frisbee is entirely self-officiated and includes a rule called “Spirit of the Game,” which prioritizes sportsmanship and respect among players. This element of ultimate makes it a valuable sport for young adults, teaching them conflict resolution, self-advocacy, and responsibility.
MMS Ultimate Frisbee formed in the fall of 2005 and the club rapidly grew to include 28 students from all grade levels by the spring of 2006, and now includes over 40 members comprising two full teams. The competitive season takes place during the spring, with games on the weekends against Kealing, Lamar, O. Henry, and other Austin teams.
Practice times and beginning date to be determined soon.
Sponsored by Kevin Gaffney (8th Grade Science) kevin.gaffney@austinisd.org
If you’ve got a suggestion for a new club or have any questions, please email the PTA After School Club Chair.