Benton High School STEM News
  • Two students participate in SMART Program
    Wesley Adams and Eduardo Lopez participate in the SMART program (Science and Medicine Academic Research Training at LSU Health Services. The BHS students work in the LSU Lab on million dollar research projects with the LSU trained professionals. They learn science techniques and scientific methods from the lab work...

  • Six students to attend LATechSTEP engineering workshops
    Benton High School is once again excited to partner with Louisiana Tech and their TechSTEP program. This is the second year that BHS has participated in this program along with Airline, Captain Shreve, Ouachita, Bolton, Ringgold, Ruston, and Lovejoy (TX). The students will attend 3 workshops in Ruston through the...

  • Centenary to hold math & science open house
    Centenary is hosting a math and science open house on Tuesday Sept. 16 from 6-8 pm at Mickle Hall of Science. Students (and their parents) who are interested would have the opportunity to see the facilities and meet their faculty. For more information see Mr. Feaster.

  • The Shreveport Times: Benton High to offer new program
    Benton High School is set to offer a new program to students next year. STEM — short for science, technology, engineering and math — is an honors curriculum that focuses on those subjects. Twenty incoming freshmen have already applied for the new program and current Benton High students interested in...

  • Two BHS Students to Attend LA Tech CEnIT Program
    Two students from BHS, Hannah Cherry and Mark Gragston, received full scholarships for the 2008 summer session of the Louisiana Tech Innovative Venture Research (IVR) program. The program, hosted by the Center for Entrepreneurship and Information Technology (CEnIT), covers tuition, housing, meal plan, and fees...

  • The Shreveport Times: High school students' robots battle
    Local high school students weren't discussing movies or music, rather degrees, rotations and seconds Saturday at the Northwest Louisiana Autonomous Robotics Competition. Benton High School teacher Marvin Nelson said this is the first year for a high school-level robotics competition, possibly even statewide, held from 9 a.m. to 12:45 p.m....

  • Eight students complete LATechSTEP engineering workshops
    Eight students from Benton High School completed engineering workshops at Louisiana Tech on Saturday, April 5th. Four teachers also participated in the program. The workshops were part of the Louisiana Tech STEM Talent Expansion Program (LATechSTEP (http://latechstep.com/)). This program is funded by a National Science...

  • Math & Science Departments team up to offer “STEM Scholar” program
    The Benton High School math and science departments are excited to offer incoming freshman (and upperclassmen that qualify) a newly-developed, one-of-a-kind advanced study program – Benton High School STEM Scholar (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). Students enrolled in the BHS STEM Scholar Program will participate in an advanced academic program...

  • Spring science fair results announced - regional set
    Winners have been announced for the BHS Spring Science Fair. The winners from the spring along with the fall science fair winners will now go on to compete at the BPCC Louisiana Region I Science and Engineering Fair on February 28 at the Bossier Civic Center. Students set up their...

  • BHS Science Fair set for Dec 13
    The BHS Science Fair will be held on December 13, 2007 and January 31, 2008. Students must set up their projects in the library the day before the event. A former teacher, Heather Duckworth, is coming to help judge, and the BHS Science faculty will judge as...

  • "Tiger Tech" Update
    BHS Tiger Tech students are currently building a “BOE Bot.” This educational robotics kit is used by Louisiana Tech College of Engineering and Science (http://www.latech.edu/coes/) for freshman engineering projects. The students are learning to program the robot and to control its motors and sensors. The club,...

  • Students prepare for LA Tech STEP
    Benton High juniors and seniors will participate in the Louisiana Tech STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) Talent Expansion Program (LA Tech STEP) during the spring semester, 2008. The program is funded by a National Science Foundation grant. The goal of the program is to identify, recruit, and...

  • Students attend Engineering Day / Build Trebuchet
    In April, BHS students attended Engineering and Science Day at Louisiana Tech. After a welcome and the traditional Welding of The Link in front of Bogard Hall, the students heard from Mr. John Dansby, Plant Manager of General Motors Arlington and Tech graduate. Mr. Dansby gave an informative...

  • Parmater takes first-place in the Microbiology-Senior Division
    Students from schools across northwest Louisiana claimed numerous top honors in the 2007 Louisiana Science and Engineering Fair last week in Baton Rouge. Benton High School's Alexander Parmater garnered a first-place for his entry in the Microbiology-Senior Division, Human Cytomegalovirus Activation of Phosphatidylinositol 345 Triphosphate Kinase Prevents Apoptosis in...

  • BHS to offer AP Chemistry next school year
    Benton High School is proud to add Advanced Placement (AP) (http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/about.html) Chemistry to our course offerings for the 2007-2008 school year. AP Chemistry will be a two-semester (full-year) course taught by science teacher Dan McClellan (component/option,com_comprofiler/task,userProfile/user,87/Itemid,213/). Chemistry will be the fourth AP course offered at BHS. AP English Language, AP...

  • Parmater state winner in BioGENEIus Challenge
    Benton High School senior Alexander Parmater has been named a state winner in the sanofi-aventis International BioGENEius Challenge (http://biotechinstitute.org/programs/SoutheastRegionalBioGENEiusChallenge.html). The Challenge is sponsored in part by the Biotechnology Institute (http://biotechinstitute.org/). Alexander was 1 of 2 state winners who will compete in the 9-state regional competition on April 14th at...

  • Parmater/Nelson place in Region 1 Science Fair
    This year's Bossier Parish Community College Louisiana Region 1 Science and Engineering Fair is in the books. Benton High School students both Nate Nelson and Alexander Parmater placed in their respective categories. Alexander took home first place in Microbiology, and Nate took third in Engineering. Congratulations to both guys for...

  • Spring Science Fair Winners
    Winner of the Spring, 2007 Science Fair is Janee Greer. Honorable mention goes to Heather Bright and Ander Boggs. The Louisiana Region I Science and Engineering Fair will be held March 1-3 at the Bossier Civic Center. Parents and friends will be able ...

  • Tiger Tech receives a MindStorms NXT robotics kit
    Tiger Tech received a MindStorms NXT robotics kit this week, thanks to the Reiser Group Sonic Mgmt. Co. and the Benton SONIC Drive-In (Mr. Gary Alexander). The NXT kit is brand new for 2006 and represents the latest generation of robotics technology for education.

  • Parmater named semi-finalist in Siemens Westinghouse Competition
    The Siemens Foundation has announced the Semi-Finalists in the 2006-2007 Siemens Westinghouse Competition in Math, Science Technology, the nation’s premier science research competition for high school students. Students from 41 states were chosen as Semi-Finalists out of the nearly 2000 students who registered to enter the competition...

"Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) is the future for our students. Not only is Maryland in the thick of the nation’s economy-driving technologies of aerospace, defense, and systems engineering, computer software and network engineering, and bioinformatics and biotech but also the nation’s biggest beneficiary of Base Realignment And Closure (BRAC). The Department is committed to helping our schools prepare globally competitive graduates with the skills necessary for tomorrow’s world and the resulting work environment." - Dr. Nancy Grasmick