Clubs

Students in the Fluid Power Club attended a workshop at Daman Products, a manufacturing company in Mishawaka, where they received training on how to build a pneumatic/hydraulic lifter and rotator. 

NJHS will be collecting money for The Kilted Cops/Ronald McDonald House the week of Sept. 23-27.  Each advisory room will receive a collection "bucket".  An NJHS student will be collecting the money each day that week during 6th hour.   Please encourage your students to donate to this worthy cause throughout the day!  This is a grade level competition...the winning grade will get lunch outside one day!  SMS has a long standing relationship with the RM House, so we are excited to work toward our school wide goal of $1000!

 Art Club had the unique opportunity to travel to Grand Rapids for a field trip to Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park.

Schmucker and Grissom National Junior Honor Society students joined forces Friday, May 10 on a service project.

Students worked for 2.5 hours working to help beautify Mishawaka’s Merrifield Park by spreading mulch, planting flowers and painting fence posts. Click to see the full photo gallery.

On Saturday, Feb. 2, Schmucker's VEX Robotics team 775, the SpartanBots, competed at a tournament in Plymouth.
Our 4 teams, 775S, 775X, 775Y, and 775Z had a great day!  The tournament was a blended middle school/ high school tournament. Out of the 53 teams in attendance, there were 12 middle school teams and 41 high school teams. 
Our teams finished the qualifying part of the tournament this morning ranked 16th, 18th, 35th, and 42nd. This is great, considering our 6th, 7th, and 8th graders were competing against some teams of juniors and seniors!

The Penn Chinese Club is hosting a Chinese New Year Celebration this year in the Schmucker Cafeteria on February 6 from 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm.

There will be free Chinese Food and other activities!

Check out the flyer!

The NFPA Fluid Power Action Challenge is a competition that challenges middle school students to solve an engineering problem using fluid power. Students work in teams to design and build a fluid power machine, and then compete with other teams in a timed competition! 

We had multiple teams from SMS join the challenge on January 19th!

Penn Robotics Team 135 is once again holding workshops for 1^st ​- 8th grade students over two days of Winter Recess (Thurs., Dec. 27 & Friday, Dec. 28).

Schmucker’s Spell Bowl Team went to Purdue on Saturday Nov. 10 to compete in the State-Wide Spell Bowl Competition.

Perfect spellers were Sobia Ahmed, Sakina Al-Fadhl, Ansar Fitwi, Alex Birong, and Matias Dahl. Ashley Oh, Inas Heryadi, and Tasneem Ahmed also competed.

Olliver Broecker traveled with the team as an alternate, and unfortunately Charles Cain couldn’t participate.  Coach Dale was very pleased, as 68 out of 72 was well above expectations! 

Congratulations, SMS Spell Bowl Team!