Vanguard Academy of Broken Arrow

Check out the @ArrowVisionBA story on Holden Lord, a passionate senior at @BAVanguard, who channels his enthusiasm into after-school activities at Timber Ridge. He has aspirations to one day become a teacher and this has been a great opportunity for him to invest in his future!

Attention 8th grade families! @BAVanguard is NOW accepting applications for the 2024-25 school year! Discover an engaging learning experience with a focus on hands-on and project-based activities. Check out the video below for more details and apply today: bit.ly/3tGQzNN

Vanguard yearbooks will be available in the Vanguard office from 4-6 on Tuesday, June 13!! We do still have a limited number of books available for purchase. They are $40, and we can take cash or a check to Vanguard. Not sure if you ordered? DM us and we will check for you!

Come join us for our First Annual XPO Poetry Slam! This student-led evening will highlight the leaders and heroes of our past, present, and future. Be ready to enjoy a night of beautiful artwork and spoken poetry. Wednesday, May 10, 7 p.m.

Yesterday was the perfect day for some bubbles on the promenade! 🫧

Prom with the #vanguardians last night was so much fun! We loved seeing everyone dressed up and having a great time together!

Tonight is the night for pizza from @PapaJohns from the Elm Street location! 🍕 Every purchase will benefit Vanguard!

Design Rotation innovators are practicing creating prototypes by designing solutions for shipwrecked amputees.

Fusion juniors graphed the speed of homemade slime to explore non linear functions and relations today!

Thank you so much to innovator Grace Bell for organizing a string quartet for advisory this morning! 🎼

Innovators in Primitive Skills prepped their fire pits yesterday, and today they used flint and steel or hand drills to create fire. They then charcoal grilled deer meat on sharpened skewers. (One innovator brought chopsticks from home in order to eat the tasty treat.)

BAdLab freshmen and juniors learned proper handling of the microscope, how to properly find a focus a specimen, and how to record proper observations. They even had a chance to collect specimens if their own from outside to examine!

Preston was at the top of the world. Now, he’s out for revenge. Tickets are $7 at the door and $5 with a reservation. Reservations link in bio as well!!

XPO innovators have been hard at work on their original production, ”The Blizzard,” which is a modern comedy adaptation of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.” The production will take place on January 13 and 14 at Kirkland Theatre. Ticket information will be announced soon!

Our Drones elective spent time this morning constructing an obstacle course for their drones. Drones is an elective that is open to enrollment for BAHS and BAFA students on the Vanguard campus.

Don’t forget about our Holiday Spirit Week this week! 🎅🏻🎄

Flintknapping is the process of chipping flakes of rock off to create an arrowhead. Outward Bound innovators have learned so much during this process and would like to thank PTSA for funding this project!

Vanguard Design Rotation students visited the state capitol to set up a display to represent the fallen soldiers of Oklahoma from 9/11. Each star represents an individual. The display will be up for public viewing in the Supreme Court hallway from November 28th to December 16th.

Vanguard Design Rotation innovators visited Leisure Park Elementary to discuss how our Human-Centered Design class could help them solve shade problems on the playground, as well as implement a system to paint the blacktop surface.

Scimatics 2 innovators combined their understanding of Trigonometry and Physics to make predictions on trajectory and distance at multiple angles of incidence.