On Tuesday March 31st Galveston Police Department’s outreach program visited Odyssey Academy. They visited all students and discussed their jobs as police officers, safety, drugs and answered a number of questions. Special Thanks to: Sgt. Michael Gray Officer Archie Chapman Officer Jeremy Attaway Officer Chris McNeil Officer Kevin Mach
Monthly Archive for March, 2009
Odyssey Academy had a group of teachers visit the school in February from the United Kingdom. The group travelled to Texas and the Houston/Galveston area to visit premier Texas public schools and selected Odyssey Academy for their visit to find out more about Texas charters. They spent the day visitng classrooms, observing teachers, support staff [...]
Odyssey Academy students Adam Thompson and Edward Sienko won first place and second place, respectively, in the Computer Science category of the recently concluded 2009 Galveston County Science and Engineering Fair. Edward Sienko’s entry, Robotest, is a multilevel video game that he designed with colorful and artistic graphics and backgrounds created from Microsoft paint. Adam [...]
Clear Creek ISD’s Gilmore Elementary Student Council donated Library Books and Die Cuts to help Odyssey Academy recover from Hurricane Ike. Special Thanks to Trent Martin from Gilmore’s PTO for coordinating the relief efforts. Both Gilmore and Odyssey Academy’s Student Council Groups are pictured.
It was an exciting day for two preparatory schools on Galveston Island thanks to a large donation by the Galveston District. After losing all their computer equipment Sept. 13, 2008, to Hurricane Ike, O’Connell College Preparatory and Odyssey Academy collectively received more than 200 computers, monitors, keyboards and mice for use by the students and [...]
