Slideshow photos of the tournament courtesy of Kristi Braun and other photographers. On Saturday, March 3, the OPEF 2018 Battle of the Bots set a number of records, including the most teams in attendance (42!) and the largest crowd of spectators ever. It also kept...
Fresh off their one-week in-school Spoken Word residency with Spoken Word artist Christian Robinson, Brooks’ seventh graders were eager to perform their poems to audiences of parents and classes throughout the day the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. Robinson...
 Our Spoken Word residencies are off to a great start. Our new spoken word artist, Christian Robinson, worked with more than 100 7th graders from Ms. Nefret Stringham’s Language Arts classes last week at Brooks Middle School. The 5-day residencies are planned to...
On a beautiful fall evening that felt more like summer, about 50 people gathered at Gwendolyn Brooks Middle School for the dedication of the Gwendolyn Brooks tribute mosaic. The 330-square-foot mosaic includes depictions of Brooks, Maya Angelou, Jane Addams,...
OPEF VEX Robotics is thrilled to announce the In-House League program will be introduced at Brooks Middle School this year. This program was tested at Julian last year and got raves from students and parents. With the introduction of this program, OPEF hopes to be...
