Highland Middle Explore Consumer Science Pathway is highlighted in Courier Journal! #DiscoverthePossibilities Highland Middle School Marcella Minogue @JCPS_CAO JCPS Explore Pathways

Last week Highland Explore Ambassadors attended the Spring Leadership Conference and participated in workshops about leadership, service, and communication skills. #DiscoverthePossibilities Highland Middle School JCPS Explore Pathways

It’s cold outside, but it’s time to think about bringing the heat! The hottest of the peppers require a longer growing season so students at Highland Middle School are starting our hot peppers in the classroom now for a super hot summer! 🌶️🔥🌶️

🔦✨**Lights, Quail, Action!**✨🔦 Exciting news from our incubator- jumbo brown quail eggs are glowing with potential! 🥚🔍 We candled eggs to check on the tiny lives growing inside. Some are showing strong veins, so we’ve got baby quail in the making! 🐣💛

🔥🌱Our Demonic Goat peppers look innocent now…🌱🔥 …soon they’ll grow into some of the hottest peppers around! 🌶️ Starting seeds early in the classroom gives these spicy sprouts a head start for a fiery future. Stay tuned and watch them grow—turn up the heat! #SpicyScience

Wear your favorite Decade Spirit day at Highland Middle School. Staff participated and recreated a 1994 yearbook photo 🤣🎸📓💚 Highland Middle School

Emerging innovators at Highland Middle school are working to build a pea tower. This Enchanted garden structure will be perfect for any princess that also wants a snack. JCPS Explore Pathways Marcella Minogue

Do the Rot Thing and dig into compost! Students explore the tiny critters that turn food scraps into soil. #Composting #SoilScience JCPS Explore Pathways Marcella Minogue

Students in 3D Art & Architecture class design car models and sculpting in clay like automotive engineers. This allows for hands-on creativity and serve as physical protypes for better understanding of a car's form and proportions than from digital models alone. Marcella Minogue

READ ACROSS AMERICA WEEK! Highland Explore Ambassadors read books to Hawthorne Elementary students to celebrate the importance of reading and learning. #LeadershipThroughService Highland Middle School Dr. Terra Greenwell Marcella Minogue

Students are learning how to use power tools to build an enclosure for our quail project. 🛠️🪚🗜️🧰

Louisville Fire Dept presented Kitchen Safety information and demonstrated best practices in the culinary kitchen to students in the consumer science pathway.#DiscoverthePossibilities JCPS Explore Pathways Marcella Minogue Highland Middle School

🪺 Our environmental stewardship students are hands-on in sustainability! They're building one-board birdhouses for the school garden, creating safe spots for birds and boosting biodiversity. Small actions, big impact! 🌱 #DiscoverthePossibilities JCPS Explore Pathways Marcella Minogue

🚀 Engineering & Design Pathway students are researching inventors who paved the way for innovation by using design thinking to solve real-world problems. From bold discoveries to groundbreaking ideas, students are creating their Explore compass! 🛠 JCPS Explore Pathways JCPS Academic Innovation

The Highland Vendor Market is this Saturday! Come by to purchase student-made goods as well as local artists wares. We will be there ☔️ or 🌞! #HighlandPROUD

Atherton HS wowed 6th graders with a drone demo! 🚁 Students in our Engineering & Design pathway will code drones for manual & autonomous flight as part of the 8th grade curriculum! 🔧💻 #DiscoverThePossiblities Marcella Minogue Highland Middle School

Come out to the Spring Farmer's Market at Highland today from 10 am - 2 pm. Great weather and tons of vendors!

Explore Ambassadors helped package over 12,000 nutrient dense meals at Love the Hungry for National Day of Service today. #LeadershipThroughService Highland Middle School JCPS Explore Pathways Love the Hungry

They came. They saw. They sewed an army of avocuddles. Our students learned the whip stitch and running stitch to make these soft, squishy masterpieces—because nothing says ‘I love you’ like a hand-sewn avocado.🥑 JCPS Explore Pathways Dr. Terra Greenwell Highland Middle School

It’s draft season, and our 6th graders just got picked! Today, was the Explore Pathways Draft Reveal— with silent disco headphones and custom merch! Students were drafted into either the Consumer Science or Engineering & Design pathways. Marcella Minogue Highland Middle School