8 Oregon Homeschoolers are National Merit Semi-Finalists
8 of Oregon’s elite National Merit semi-finalists are homeschoolers
In a first for Oregon, eight of its top-scoring National Merit semi-finalists in the class of 2016 are homeschoolers. Students who score in the top 1 percent of students on the PSAT test are deemed semi-finalists, and there are 177 of them in Oregon’s senior class this year, including 28 at Westview High in Beaverton and 16 at Lincoln High in Southwest Portland.
Editor’s note: 3 of the 8 semi-finalists are from the Mowrey family (pictured above).
Unschooling Programs Teach Outdoor Survival Skills
Academic Success, Hunger Games-Style?
Trackers Earth, a radical homeschool program, teaches archery, blacksmithing, and survival with an “unschooling” philosophy. One school-day morning, a 7-year-old girl with black rain boots, a quiver of arrows, and a bow in hand stands in a line with three other children. Another group throws metal ninja stars. Meanwhile, at six anvils surrounding three furnaces…
Oregon Homeschoolers: Design a Space Patch Contest
Space Patch contest underway
A competition is underway to design patches that will accompany a local student science experiment on a space mission next spring. The homeschool community is encouraged to get involved.