On Saturday, January 19, 2020, the Future Innovative Rising Engineers (FIRE) NSBE Jr Middle School Robotics Team braved the wintery weather and competed in their first ‘Squared Away’ VEX IQ Tournament at National Christian Academy in Fort Washington, Maryland from 8:30am to 4:30pm. This team of local middle schoolers practice at CMIT North on Saturday afternoons assembling, programming sensors, and maneuvering their robot around a game board demonstrating driving skills and racking up points including 6th grade CMIT students Terry Bazemore III and Evan Smolen. Congrats to FIRE NSBE Jr, their Coaches and President as they prepare for their next tournament in February and annual convention in San Antonio, TX this March.

Nuri Bayram STEM Coordinator nbayram@cmitacademy.org

We will be having an interest meeting on January 30th @ 7pm at CMIT middle school room 108 for the July 2021 trip to Isreal ,to visit the cities of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Nazareth, Jericho, and Bethlehem. This trip is to experience the historical sites and cultural sites of a modern and ancient country that is representative of the Middle East. You will have the opportunity to see the important sites of the birthplace of 3 of the world's religions, walk the streets that historical figures have walked, explore ancient Jewish, Roman and Muslim architecture and eat authentic middle eastern food. Although this trip is open to families, all children under the age of 17 must be accompanied by an adult traveler. This trip is not a field trip and is not sponsored by PGCPS or CMIT. You must attend the meeting to get information for this trip.

James Screven, Assistant Principal

Dear Parents of 8th Grade Students: This Friday, January 31st at 9am, staff and students from CMIT high school will be meeting with 8th grade students to introduce them to academic and extracurricular activities for the next year and share other useful information about the high school experience. Students will learn about the ITEC and Advancement Placement application processes at this time, so if they have an interest in these opportunities, please be sure to follow up with them about what was shared. We are excited to meet your students and look forward to the prospect of working with them next year. All the best, Ms. Colandrea 9th + 10th Grade Assistant Principal

James Screven, Assistant Principal

PG County Middle School Cheer Competition is here and our Cheer team will be a part of this awesome event. Please see below for details: Date: Saturday, February 8, 2020 Time: 10 am Place: Oxon Hill High School Cost: $5 Please come out dressed in your best purple and gold, and help support our cheer team. We hope to see you all there!!!

Coach Bond cmitcheer1516@gmail.com

It's that time again CMIT parents. The annual 8th grade college road trip. This year we will be venturing out to Virginia Tech and Hampton University for their yearly open house. This trip is open to 8th grade students only and will be overnight. Plans are still firming up, but invitations should be going out within the next two weeks. If any parents would like to chaperone, please email Jim Screven at jscreven@cmitacademy.org. If you plan to chaperone please make sure you have been fingerprinted and had a completed background check by PGCPS first, before applying.

James Screven, Assistant Principal

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.