Girls' Hoops
Lanier's 7th-grade girls basketball team are the district champions! Congratulations to Coach Cabell and all the young ladies on a fine season.
Yearbooks
If you haven't purchased a yearbook yet, there's still time. Click the link to order your annual.
MathCOUNTSClub members took 5 timed Math Olympiad math contests throughout the year that tested students’ strategies for problems solving, strengthened their mathematical intuition, and fostered mathematical creativity and ingenuity. Ms. Wu would like to congratulate the following top scorers: David Alexander, David Lok, Sonya Tkachman, Michelle Tang, Jakin Cordova, Ian Matejka, Larry Zhang, Rachel Jama, George Tan, and Jonathan Trujillo. Photo
Lanier Earns Top-10 Ranking
The respected advocacy non-profit group Children at Risk ranked the best schools in the greater Houston area. Lanier ranked among the top 10 middle schools for the third year in a row! Read the Houston Chronicle story.
Robotics Teacher MIT Bound Paulette Bogert has been chosen as one of 30 participants who will participate in the 2012 Science and Engineering Program for Teachers (SEPT) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from Sunday, June 24th - Saturday, June 30th. She has also received the 2012 Leadership in Education Award from the MIT Club of South Texas. They will sponsor and pay her expenses to attend the 2012 MIT SEPT. The weeklong workshop aims to fuel participants’ passion and interest in science by exposing them to MIT professors, researchers and scientists in a variety of fields. To date, they have secured lecturers in the fields of Aero/Astro, Climate Change, Biology, Computer Science and Brain research. Congratulations, Ms. Bogert!
Lanier Living Library On Friday, April 5, the students at Lanier Middle School, took part in a project called The Lanier Living Library, which teaches about the many issues – political, economic, cultural, etc. - related to culture, migration and/or immigration and legacies. In other words, they learn about culture, migration/immigration and the idea of living legacies by researching related issues and interviewing a volunteer subject - someone who may have migrated and/or traveled widely and/or moved from one part of the world to the other. The interviews lasted 45 minutes and took place in students' GSG classes. Click the link to see a slide show of our guest speakers. Slideshow
Joyful Noises
Lanier's symphony orchestra and choirs received sweepstakes at the UIL Contest and Sight-Reading on March 8th
District Names Lanier Champions
Odyssey of the Mind
The 2012 Lanier Middle School Odyssey of the Mind Team brought home 4th place medals in the “To Be or Not to Be” Problem on Saturday March 3rd in the Houston Area Regional Odyssey of the Mind Competition. 6th Graders: Tommy Hayes, Caleb Herrera, Christopher Levitt, Caroline O’Connor, Katherine Powers and Samantha Su and Parent Coaches: Jill Herrera and Shannon Hayes will now advance to the State Competition, once again proudly representing Lanier Middle School against competitors from around the Lone Star State. Come join us for laugh out loud fun and cheer on the team at the Texas Odyssey of the Mind Competition on Saturday April 14, 2012 at Westchester Academy for International Studies, 901 Yorkchester Dr., Houston 77079, near I-10 and Wilcrest.
ADL Honors Lanier Teacher
Mr. Mike Giroir will be this year’s recipient of the ADL (Anti-Defamation League’s)2012 Walter KaseTeacher of Excellence Award for exemplary programming that promotes awareness and appreciation of diversity. The award is limited to only three outstanding teachers per year from all around the Houston and surrounding school districts.
Smart Kids, Big HeartsLanier's chapter of the National Junior Honor Society recently had a "wish list" drive for Houston's Ronald McDonald House. Over 2,000 items were donated by Lanier students and delivered by NJHS officers to the house for use by families of children being treated in the Medical Center.
Makin' Waves
The 8th-grade girls swim team captured the District Two Swimming Championship. Way to go, ladies! YET ANOTHER AWARD!
The Gold Performance Acknowledgment (GPA) system acknowledges districts and campuses for high performance on indicators other than those used to determine accountability ratings. These indicators are in statute (Texas Education Code) or determined by the Commissioner of Education. Acknowledgment is given for high performance in Middle Schools for: Attendance Commended Reading Commended Math Commended Writing Commended Science Commended Social Studies Comparable Improvement in Reading Comparable Improvement in Math Lanier Middle School received Gold Performance Acknowledgements in seven of the eight indicators. Congratulations to our Purple Pups! I am so proud of the hard work our faculty, staff and students do each day! ~Ms. Smith
Lanier Robotics Team Lanier Robotics Team members will advance to the FLL District Competition on January 7, 2012 as a result of their hard work and good fortune this past Saturday at the Browning Qualifier Tournament. Dark Prodigy led by team captains Jacob Morgan & Jose Silva with team members Adam Capfer, Rhian Martinez, Yaritza Serrano, George Tang, Henryk Viana, and George Zenner earned the Best Robot Design Trophy. Los Robos led by team captains Jamison Miles and Dillan McDonald with team members Veronica Blum, Robert Hooks, Zara Huerta, Gan Liu, Martin Logan, Michelle Lugo, Laura Miles, Canyon Schwartz, and alternates Karen Breedlove and Ian McDonald brought home the Champions Trophy as the overall winner of the competition.
Lanier Drama captured 2nd place at the district one-act play UIL competition. Click here to see the additional awards the cast and crew earned.
Students from Ms. Chen's Chinese Club take top honors at 10th annual Greater Houston Area Chinese Speech Competion. | 
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