To all of the mothers, guardians, grandmothers, auntes, and anyone who has or is caring for a child, Happy Mothers Day! We warmly wish you the best day on this Mother's Day 2021.

James Screven, Assistant Principal

JOSSELYN IGLESIAS won FIRST PLACE and an Apple IPAD mini, and ASHLEY AYITEY-ADJIN won SECOND PLACE and an Apple Airpods Pro in the 2021 CLF TRAC BRIDGE BUILDER INVITATIONAL. The other students who participated in the said competition were the following: Ryhanna Mbakop, Tovel Young, Christian Sherrod, Munachi Ikechukwu, Samuel Adenola, and Heba Mobaidin. All participants received a TRAC bridge shirt and $15 Amazon Gift Card. This invitational challenge was designed to allow students the opportunity to develop a Truss Bridge that can be tested for strength-to-weight ratio. Each student RESEARCHED the bridge type, DESIGNED and CONDUCTED experiments to test for strength-to-weight ratio, and then DESIGNED a bridge resulting from those experiments, DEVELOPED and WROTE a report portfolio describing the design and testing of the bridge, CREATED a video presentation of their bridge, and TESTED the bridge, called Performance Test which was held last April 24 at CMIT North High School Gym.

Mrs. Crespo-Montano Science Teacher TRAC Bridge Coach

Eight Grade students created a poster showing their message on how they can help restore our earth. Earth Day 2021 theme is "Restore Our Earth", which focuses on natural processes, emerging green technologies, and innovative thinking that can restore the world's ecosystems. The following are some of student's work.

Mrs. Crespo-Montano (Science Teacher)

Q: Is CMIT North MS a public school? 

A: Yes We are a public charter school who is staffed by PGCPS teachers and administration, and support staff who work along side of a limited CLF staff. We have access to PGCPS support but also benefit from additional guidance, management and financial support from Chesapeake Light House Foundation, whose educational concept this school is based on. 

Q: Do siblings get preference in applying to CMIT?

A: The process of gaining entry to any charter school in Prince George's County is through a lottery. However, siblings of already attending CMIT students are weighted differently during the lottery process. This different weighting gives preference to siblings. 

Q: What makes CMIT different then any other school in the district? 

A: Although we are a PGCPS public charter, we are given some autonomy over curriculum. This autonomy allows us to fast track students, who are academically ready, through selected high school courses in math, foreign language, science and technology. It is that fast tracking that opens up opportunity to more advanced  coursework on the college level while still in high school.  Additionally, we offer students supports and enrichments to every student, not available at most schools. Lastly, we are a uniform school which takes away the distraction, the competition and the social stratification that is brought on by non uniform dress in a school. 

Our test scores oustrip not only county averages but also state avaerages. This, along with other metrics has made us a 5 star school. 

Q: Do you offer everything the big middle and high school's offer? 

A: Unlike many school in Maryland, we do not have a  full spectrum offerings in sports.  Instead, our focus is on STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics). Therefore, our sports offerings are more limited.  We offer, boys and girls soccer, basketball, girl's softball, boy's baseball and club lacrosse in the middle school. Additionally, boys and girls basketball, track/field and volleyball at the high school level. With that said we recently (2017) won the girls county basketball championship and made it to the playoffs in soccer. Our high school opened a multi-million dollar, state of the art gym complex, competitive with all schools of their size. The middle school has also added an indoor gym space.  Lastly, we do offer special educational services, but becuase we are a school of choice, the amount of service hours we can provide is limited to 7.5 hours a week, split between literacy and math. Services hours are delivered by special education teachers but are limited to literacy and math courses.