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On Thursday, March 27th, Tuscaloosa Magnet Schools - Middle hosted their second annual Literacy Day, themed "Reading Across Genres: A Journey Through Literature." Students entered a simulated airport terminal in the gym and rotated through 12 genre-themed stations, each decorated to reflect a specific literary genre. At each station, they read a short passage and completed a related activity to earn a stamp in their "passport." The event encouraged exploration of diverse genres, promoted reading and writing, and fostered a community of readers! Faculty dressed as literary characters, and the day began with a skit by the Literacy Liaison team! 

Several students from TMSM were selected as 2025 Realizing the Dream Essay and Art Contest winners! They are:

Maya Diakenga Carter, Essay

Kensley Davis, Essay

Zoe Lassiter, Essay

Liam Patel, Essay

Kiran Shah, Art

Maxwell Snow, Art

Congratulations to the winners and we want to send kudos to all the students who entered the contest!

The Tuscaloosa City Board of Education recognized students who participated in the Future City Competition, where every middle school in the Tuscaloosa City Schools won an award or was placed in the top 5 in the competition.

Future City, which took place Jan. 25 this year, is an international competition that focuses on improving students' math, engineering, and science skills. As part of the program, students focus on sustainability and applying STEM principles to solve real-world challenges, often incorporating futuristic technologies. It involves research, design, essay writing, and a physical model presentation.

Student teams were limited to a budget of no more than $100 for the entire project.

This year’s theme was “Above the Current”. Students were challenged to design a floating city and provide two innovative examples of how their floating city works and keeps its citizens healthy and safe. TCS brought a total of 9 teams to the competition from across our 5 middle schools.

"My favorite part about the project was planning around the city, and making blueprints, researching. We used Google maps to see where a city would be, to put it near two cities, and put it on the gulf current so that our city could use a hydroelectric plant that could convert the gulf stream into power, to provide sustainable energy for the future," one TCS middle school student told the board Tuesday.

TCS Future City Winners:

Eastwood Middle:

Top 5 Team- Luna Tunes

IEEE Huntsville “Best Telecommunications and Power Systems”- Crawfish City

Northridge Middle:

National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying “Best Land Surveying Practices”

TASPA Middle:

Project Management Institute Educational Foundation “Outstanding Project Plan Award”- Cavington Hills

Tusc. Magnet Middle:

Top 5 Team- Poseidon’s Crest

Westlawn Middle:

American Society for Quality “Best Use of Quality Tools”- Idle City

In TCS, we are growing critical thinkers, leaders and problem-solvers through a focus on math. Tuesday night, the Tuscaloosa City Board of Education recognized students from across the district who placed in the recent Perennial Math Competition. The competition was held Dec. 7, 2024.

Students, ranging from 3rd to 8th grade, won a total of 41 awards. TMSM team winners include a team led by 7th grader Maxwell Snow that won three awards, and a team led by 8th grader Will Sterritt that won three awards. Congrats students!