Geography Bee Students in Grades 5 through 8 compete in the school’s annual Geography Bee.  Answering questions about local, national and international geography, students vie for school top honor.  As part of this National Geographic Society sponsored event, the finals are held in the school gymnasium in front of all of the students.  The winner has opportunity to compete at a state and national level.  More information about the National Geographic Society and the Geography Bee can be found at www.nationalgeographic.com.

2019
Continuing a tradition that has spanned over 18 years, St. Joan of Arc students in grades 5 through 8 recently participated in the “National Geographic GeoBee.”  The school-level competition was the first round in the annual geography competition designed to inspire and reward students’ curiosity about the world.

Congratulations to Roman for qualifying for the State Level Competition.  The next round will be Friday March 29, 2019 at Western Michigan University.
Good Luck Roman!  We're Proud of You!
           
            We are proud of our grade winners:  
            Grade 5--Elle and Max
            Grade 6--Jacob and Arun
            Grade 7--Mary, Christopher, and Roman
            Grade 8--Nolan, Madison, and David
 
            We especially want to congratulate our school champions:
            3 ^rd Place—Jacob
            2nd Place—Arun
            1 ^st Place—Roman
           
            School champions from around the country, including Roman, will take an online qualifying test; up to 100 of the top test scorers in each state then become eligible to compete in their State GeoBee.  Those winners will receive an all-expenses-paid trip to National Geographic headquarters in Washington, D.C., in May to participate in the GeoBee national championship. We wish Roman all the best as he strives for geographic knowledge excellence!

Spelling Bee
Students in Grades 4 through 8 participate in this annual competition.  Competition begins in the classrooms, with winners moving on to the school competition which is held in front of the student body assembly.  From the school level, students can compete in regional and state contests.


Robotics
Students in Grades 5 through 8 can participate in the SJA Robotics program.  The school has multiple Lego Mindstorm sets with corresponding software.  Students work as teams to create robots and program them to perform assigned tasks.  Students compete with other schools regionally.  This group is teacher and parent led, and meets after school in the Science Lab.