Clubs and Extracurriculars

Scripps National Spelling Bee
Advisor:  Robin Woodson

Danville Public Schools will continue its tradition of division-wide participation for students in grades 3-8 during the 2025-26 school year.  Forest Hills Elementary has been registered with Scripps and now has access to all materials at spellingbee.com.  We are excited for Danville Public Schools students to have the opportunity to participate in the National Scripps Spelling Bee Competition.  Word lists are available for each level of the competition.

 

Math Competition Team
Advisor:  Megan Evans

The competition goals are to stimulate enthusiasm and love for mathematics, develop mathematical flexibility and perseverance in solving problems, strengthen mathematical intuition, and foster mathematical creativity and ingenuity. Furthermore, mathematics drives the innovations that shape our society and is useful in a broad range of careers, even those that are not traditionally mathematical, scientific, or technological in nature. By offering this competition, our goal as the Math Curriculum and Instruction Team is to challenge and inspire students to become lifelong learners of mathematics.

 

Historical Exhibition Competition Team
Advisor: Noel Michalski

This competition will be open to 4th and 5th grade students from all DPS Elementary schools. Each school may have as many teams as they desire; however, only four students are allowed per team. Only one team will be entered into the district competition for each school. Each team will submit a collaborative product to be entered into the competition.

 

Ruby B. Archie Reading Bowl
Advisors: Lindsey Huckstep and Melanie Thomson

The Ruby B. Archie Reading Bowl team is open to twelve 4th and 5th grade students each year.  Students on the team read and discuss ten books from the elementary Virginia Readers' Choice list and participate in quiz bowl challenges about the content of the books.  The annual district competition will be held in February.

DPS Science Competition
Advisor:  Baylee Lynch and Kalee Smith

The Science Curriculum and Instruction Team will host its fourth annual Science Symposium Competition.
The Science Competition is an annual competition for Danville Public Schools that engages students in grades 3rd-5th in
scientific research. The Danville Science Competition's mission is to improve science teaching and
learning through scientific inquiry and research. Students learn science by selecting topics of interest,
engaging in research, and presenting their findings. The competition will be held in January.