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Discovery Middle School

    August 23, 2017
    Discovery school open house Aug. 30
    Discovery Middle School will host an orientation session for new students, including incoming sixth graders, and an open house for all students on Wednesday, Aug. 30, using the following schedule: Sixth grade: Students with yellow schedules will meet from 3:30-4 p.m.; students with...
    lifeAugust 23, 2017 - 6:33am
    August 2, 2017
    Science teacher Morgan Olson was hired this summer as Woodland Elementary School's first garden manager. (Karen Tolkkinen|Echo Press)
    School district's first gardener growing into the job
    Woodland Elementary School's first-ever garden manager was trying to teach middle school students how to build houses to attract pollinators,...
    lifeAugust 2, 2017 - 1:49pm
    June 30, 2017
    Assistant principal named at Discovery
    Alexandria Public Schools announced a new administrative appointment effective for the 2017-18 school year — Heather Timm, the current...
    newsJune 30, 2017 - 2:30pm
    May 22, 2017
    Eric Bjurman
    Bjurman resigns from assistant principal
    School District 206 is expected to accept the resignation of Eric Bjurman, the current assistant principal and activities director at Discovery...
    newsMay 22, 2017 - 4:38pm
    Trenton Tuey, a sixth-grader at Discovery Middle School, helps manage and organize The Shelf, the school's food shelf. (Contributed)
    Discovery Middle School partners with church to stock food shelf
    As she was driving to work one day last school year, Lynn Ransom asked herself, "Why can't we have a food shelf? Ransom, a paraprofessional...
    lifeMay 22, 2017 - 7:59am
    May 11, 2017
    Dylan Nelson, an eighth-grade student at Discovery Middle School, puts together a computer he worked on. Nelson is one of eight students on the school's Genius Team. (Celeste Edenloff | Echo Press)
    Young 'Geniuses' keep computers running for Discovery Middle School
    With a tiny screwdriver in his hands, Dylan Nelson set out to put back together a Chromebook he was in the process of rebuilding. A couple of...
    newsMay 11, 2017 - 4:00am
    April 5, 2017
    Students and staff at Discovery Middle School react as School Resource Officer Darcie Zirbes gets a pie in her face Friday. (Lowell Anderson | Echo Press)
    Paying up for pie-in-the-face fundraiser
    What would it take for you to have a pie thrown in your face? For teachers and staff members at Discovery Middle School in Alexandria, it was...
    newsApril 5, 2017 - 4:23pm
    March 31, 2017
    The cast and crew of the Discovery Middle School theater department's spring play, "Whodonut," pose for a photo in the auditorium. The show will be Friday, March 31, at 6 p.m. and Saturday, April 1, at 1 and 4 p.m. (Contributed)
    Find out 'whodonut' in Discovery Middle School spring play
    The Discovery Middle School theater department will present "Whodonut," an 80s-style school mystery for all ages, on Friday, March 31, at 6 p.m....
    life/entertainmentMarch 31, 2017 - 9:00am
    March 15, 2017
    Students from Discovery Middle School who attended the regional Mathcounts competition include (left to right) Ethan Johnson, Jacob Tiegen, Zach Kent and Bryant Johnson. They stand with their advisor, Denise Murken. (Contributed)
    Discovery Middle School Mathcounts takes first at regionals
    The Discovery Middle School Mathcounts team traveled to Moorhead in February to participate in the regional competition. The Discovery team took...
    life/schoolMarch 15, 2017 - 8:00am
    February 10, 2017
    Middle schoolers attend choir festival in North Dakota
    Contributed
    life/schoolFebruary 10, 2017 - 11:00am
    February 8, 2017
    At the recent Discovery Middle School spelling bee, Alexus Klimek (left), sixth grade, was the runner-up, and Dekker Olson, seventh grade, was the champion. (Contributed)
    Dekker Olson advances to regions at DMS spelling bee
    Discovery Middle School in Alexandria hosted a spelling bee on Friday, Jan. 27. The winner was seventh-grader Dekker Olson, with the winning...
    life/schoolFebruary 8, 2017 - 9:00am
    January 25, 2017
    (Left to right) Isaac Carns, Peter Sansted, Wyatt Odland, Lucas Bitzan, Preston Peterson, Zachary Kent, Ru Zhong and Christian Fleming qualified to compete in Discovery Middle School’s recent Geography Bee. Bitzan placed first. (Contributed)
    Nine students compete in Geography Bee
    The Discovery Middle School Geography Bee was held on Wednesday, Jan. 18. Nine students qualified to compete: Sam Wicken, Isaac Carns, Wyatt...
    life/schoolJanuary 25, 2017 - 7:00am
    December 21, 2016
    Madison Houghtaling and Slade Ritter, both 6th graders, utilize the rolling trays in the middle school’s new media center. The design aims to give students choices about the environment they’d like to learn in. (Beth Leipholtz | Echo Press)
    A middle school metamorphosis
    Discovery Middle School in Alexandria no longer has any classrooms. It does, however, have learning spaces. This change in terminology is...
    newsDecember 21, 2016 - 6:00am
    November 11, 2016
    Brooke Jahnke and Lauren Heseltine make tie blankets to donate to police and fire stations to give to people in times of emergency. Community members will be able to make tie blankets and more at First Lutheran Church's Service Blast on Wednesday, Nov. 16. (Contributed)
    Ready your hands for community-wide Service Blast on Nov. 16
    First Lutheran Church in Alexandria will host a Service Blast for the entire congregation and community on Wednesday, Nov. 16, from 3 to 6 p.m....
    life/faithNovember 11, 2016 - 1:00pm
    October 5, 2016
    Discovery Middle School to hold conferences
    Discovery Middle School will hold fall student-parent-teacher conferences on Thursday, Oct. 13, and Monday, Oct. 17, from 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. and Wednesday, Oct. 19, from 7:30 to 11:30 a.m. Fall conferences will be held with the student's homebase advisor, but there will be "open time"...
    life/schoolOctober 5, 2016 - 2:15am
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