The Teenage Brain, a project done by the 6th grade of High Tech Middle, was an investigation of the adolescent mind. Adolescence is a time of great change and development, students explored the guiding questions:

• What is a healthy teen brain? 

• How does the teen brain change and develop?

• How does the brain affect identity, personality, and emotion?

• How does technology impact a teen brain?

• What habits contribute to a healthy brain?

Kinecting History was an 8th grade exploration of American History through the process of researching Contitutional Amendments. Students wrote op-eds that analyzed the historical context, impact, and modern significance of a paticular Amendment, and then engineered a rolling ball sculpture to represent their research.

Imagining Other Worlds, a project done by the 7th grade of High Tech Middle school, is a cross between science and humanities, in which students wrote short stories based on real planets and moons, inside and outside our Solar System.