Annoucements

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Lottery Announcement

The Hammond Academy of Science and Technology (HAST), first proposed by Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott, Jr, is currently accepting applications through January 30, 2012, for incoming 6th graders for the Fall of 2012. The lottery for enrollment selection will be held at 33 Muenich Court, Hammond, IN 46320 on February 13, 2012, at 7:00 p.m. and would like to welcome all applicants. Please feel free visit the HAST campus to complete an application. Our current office hours are Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Inquiries can be addressed to Leslie Otero, Executive Assistant, at lotero@hammondacademy.org, or by calling 219-852-0500. Hammond Academy is chartered by Ball State University. The HAST curriculum, produced in partnership with Purdue University Calumet, is focused on project-based education in which students learn state and national standards in a wireless, primarily paper-free environment. The Academy opened in September 2010 with 310 students in grades six through nine, and will grow each year until it reaches a maximum student body of 560 students, 6th through 12th grade.

Mission

The mission of the Hammond Academy of Science and Technology is to provide the highest quality level of education to students by implementing state of the art technology and research-based instruction in an environment that is conducive to learning.

The mission is supported by the following vision/core beliefs:
Every student deserves a quality education, one that is designed to best serve their developmental needs, and provide them with a holistic approach to education
Technology should be embraced in the classroom and readily available to each and every student
Education should be a collaborative effort of staff, faculty, parents, community, business, and most of all, students
Our success will be demonstrated not only by the academic accomplishments of our students, but by our ability to share our instructional approaches, breakthroughs and experiences with other educators and schools
The education that we provide our students must emulate, correlate and simulate the challenges that students will experience as they further their studies in college, as well as those that they will encounter as adults in the workplace
We need to prepare students to be life-long learners
Accomplishments of students should be celebrated and used as the basis of encouraging those students to pursue future successes and challenges.