Recognitions and Awards
2023-2024 Accomplishments:
Coming Soon!
2019-2020 Accomplishments:
The State Science Fair,
The State Science Fair, (Hoosier Science and Engineering Fair, HSEF). Oluwanifemi and Lainkho attended the Virtual State Science Fair on Saturday, March 28, 2020. Oluwanifemi Sarah Makanjuola got the following awards:
- THE 3rd PLACE AWARD among 9TH Graders in Indiana
- PLAQUE AND $100
This is the first time for IMSA North, getting the Placement Award at State level.
Unfortunately, this year HSEF didn’t announce the team members, because of cancellation of ISEF, due to Coronavirus. It would be held on May 10-15, 2020 in California. Oluwanifemi would be one of the Indiana State team members who would go to California for ISEF. All expenses would be paid by the Science Education Foundation of Indiana, Inc.
Only 2 students advanced to ISEF at the CONCEPT Schools Network in 21 years. If the ISEF was not canceled, Oluwanifemi would be the 3rd ISEF qualifier student in the Concept Schools’ 21-years history.
Regional School Science Fair
IMSA North has participated in the Regional Science Fair with four students. Two of the 9th Graders are qualified For the State Championship, Hoosier Science and Engineering Fair. This is the first time, our school will be represented in the State Science Fair. Grand Champion (State Qualifier) – Lainkho Linga, Reserve Grand Champion (State Qualifier) – Oluwanifemi Makanjuola. Additionally, Lainkho was honored with 4 more awards
Robotics Vex-IQ State Tournement
Our middle school Robotics team Altf4 participated in the Vex IQ State tournament on March 9, 2020. Their energy and enthusiasm for the event and robot were unbelievable. This competition is the largest state Championship in the country, Our team members met Robotics Kids all around the state. We had 8 matches during the qualification and got 9th place out of 50 in our division. We were able to play finals. We got 6th place after the finals and not able to go to the World Championship. Please Congratulate our team members; Patrick, David, Kobe, Justice
Our journey ended in the Vex IQ State Tournament at Lucas Oil Stadium placing 7th place. My robotics team not only enjoys the game but we are proud of ourselves representing our school at the State level. Please congratulate our team members, Brian, Peter, Jonatan, Tyrei.
Middle School Girls Basketball Team
Our middle school girls basketball team had their 4th undefeated season in 5 years as well as winning there 5th straight ICSAA championship against IMSA West on December 6, 2019. Congratulations to our Lady Knights.
2017-2018 Accomplishments:
Our Middle School Girls Team won their ICSAA division
Our middle school girls basketball team had another perfect season, they didn’t lose any games this season, Go lady Knights !
We won the Concept Spelling Bee Again
IMSA North attended the 2017 Concept Schools’ Annual Spelling Bee. Jazzimyne Hill, a 5th grader at IMSA North, competed in the Bee for the first time. Jazzimyne lasted 3 rounds and was defeated when she missision, Eric Mwasinga did an awesome job in the bee by spelling challenging words such as: “deluge” and “linguist.” Eric lasted 6 rounds and was defeated when he misspelled the word “receivable.”
Victory Sampson, another participant in last year’s contest, came with victory in mind! Victory won the 2017 Middle school title with ease. Victory lasted 17 rounds by correctly spelling word such as “amaryllis,” “languorous,” and the winning word “dysfunctional,” We are very proud of the Spelling Bee Club members and most importantly, we are proud of Jazzimyne, Eric, and Victory for earning their way to the Bee and helping us continue to reign as Concept’s Overall Best Performing School! Thank you to all of the parents, students, and staff who supported and rooted for our team as we traveled to Chicago to defend our title! We came, we saw, we conquered!
We won the ICSAA Championship again !
Our middle school girls won the ICSAA championship this past week 37-25 over Andrew J. Brown. This is the IMSA girls 3rd straight championship in the ICSAA. Congrats ladies! Our team was also recognized at the Indiana Pacers game on December 15, 2017 for winning their division.
2016-2017 Accomplishments
Our charter was renewed for another 7 years
On November 9, 2016 IMSA North was granted a 7-year charter renewal by Mayor’s Office.
IMSA North was represented by Mr. Onder Secen (IMSA North Principal) and Dr. Kent Millard (IMSA School Board President), with supporting commentary by Dr. Christopher Murphy (Director of Communications & Growth, Concept Schools), Mr. Ahmed Young (Director of Office of Education Innovation, Indianapolis Mayor’s Office), and 9 students/parents/staff members, who shared positive public comment.
We won Concept Spelling Bee as the Elementary Team
Eric Mwasingo took first place and Jason Gibson helped them with their 321 point total by staying in until the 6th round for first place in the Elementary Division! Isis Lockett took 4th place in the middle school competition and Jaden Mickens stayed in until the 6th round helping the team with their 70 point total and 3rd place finish in the middle school division!!!
We won Concept Spanish Spelling Bee
Congratulations to Tim Spearman on a 1st place win in the high school division and to Leo Perez on his 4th place. We came first as the high school team at the Spanish Spelling Bee in Lorain, Ohio.
We came first at Concept Spoken Word in the team category
On 3/11/2017 our school competed in Concept Spoken Words competition and we came first in the team catagory.
In Recitation: 2nd place Ayatallah Palmer
In Persuasive speech: 3rd place Montseratt Mayren
In Team category 1st place IMSA North
Team members: LaTavia Rivers, Paris Warsaw, Ayatallah Palmer and Jordan Hill. Congratulations guys.
IMSA North FTC Team (Knightbot #8435) advanced to State Championship
Our KnightBoats, high school first tech robotics team competed in the state finals on 3/4/2017. They ranked 14th at the end of the season among all 75 teams in Indiana, an improvement from last year and a great success in general. Good job KnightBots.
Our Middle School VEX team had a great year again
Our middle school VEX robotics team came 2nd out of the 58 teams. Great job guys. Although they didn’t make it to the state finals, they had another great season this year.
Our Middle School Girls Team won their ICSAA division
Our middle school girls basketball team had another perfect season, they didn’t lose any games this season, Go lady Knights !
Teacher of the Month – Concept
We are very proud to announce that the recipient of Concept Schools Teacher of the Month Award for January 2017 is Keith Brown.
Mr. Brown is the Social Studies teacher at Indiana Math and Science Academy North (IMSA North) which is a K-12 school with a diverse, high poverty student demographics. He has been working for IMSA over 10 years. In addition to teaching US History, Government, Economics, History 102 (Dual credit), AP World History, and AP US History, he is also the student council advisor and a senior advisor.
Mr. Brown is a very hardworking and loved teacher by all students in the high school. In his classes, every student is engaged in recording and representing their knowledge in their own words, be it simplifying, summarizing, and/or creating pictures, moving beyond just note taking. Mr. Brown engages his students in other rigorous learning activities through essay writing that has students utilize and employ writing skills from their English classes while applying historical knowledge learned in his class. He provides real-world connections to his students, and can always be found sharing positives with other staff.
IMSA North and Concept Schools Network is proud to have such caring teachers like Mr. Brown.
Please join us in congratulating Mr. Keith Brown for serving as an inspiration to us all through his dedication, commitment, love and care.
| School | Division | Student | Award | Category |
| Indiana Math and Science Academy – North | Junior | Amani Morgan | Bronze Medal Recipient | Biochemistry |
| Indiana Math and Science Academy – North | Junior | Amariah Hurt | Bronze | Electronics/Engineering |
| Indiana Math and Science Academy – North | Junior | Armond Jones | Silver | Physics |
| Indiana Math and Science Academy – North | Junior | Aundreaus Cole | Gold | Electronics/Engineering |
| Indiana Math and Science Academy – North | Junior | Ayatallah Palmer | Gold | Behavioral Science |
| Indiana Math and Science Academy – North | Junior | Dulce Zagal | Bronze | Botany |
| Indiana Math and Science Academy – North | Junior | Faith Morgan | Gold | Chemistry |
| Indiana Math and Science Academy – North | Junior | Grace Melrose | Silver | Behavioral Science |
| Indiana Math and Science Academy – North | Junior | Gulnur Aytekin | Gold | Chemistry |
| Indiana Math and Science Academy – North | Junior | Isabella Melrose | Gold | Electronics/Engineering |
| Indiana Math and Science Academy – North | Junior | Jan Batamuriza | Silver | Chemistry |
| Indiana Math and Science Academy – North | Junior | Jazmyn Gatson | Gold | Chemistry |
| Indiana Math and Science Academy – North | Junior | Makaila Shay | Silver | Chemistry |
| Indiana Math and Science Academy – North | Junior | Maynor Tepas | Bronze | Health |
| Indiana Math and Science Academy – North | Junior | Nya Russell | Gold | Biochemistry |
| Indiana Math and Science Academy – North | Junior | Samuel Iwu | Gold | Physics |
| Indiana Math and Science Academy – North | Senior | Charlton Taylor Ii | Silver | Behavioral Science |
| Indiana Math and Science Academy – North | Senior | Cristel Jimenez | Bronze | Chemistry |
| Indiana Math and Science Academy – North | Senior | Levi Stubbs | Best | Mathematics |
| Indiana Math and Science Academy – North | Senior | Octavia Rayana Moffett | Bronze | Earth and Space Science |
IMSA North FLL robotics team, RoboSharks won 2nd place in Gracious Professionalism at Indiana University
IMSA North Robotics team won 2nd place award at Purdue University Competition in their first year of competition.
IMSA VEX Robotics team got 2nd place at State Championship.
In 2013, we received 3rd and 4th place in the Robocon Sumobot competition
IMSA North earned the Highest Individual Score on a Team in the Mathcounts Chapter Contest
FLL – Qualifying Tournament received 2nd place in programming on November 17, 2012
IMSA North received 4th place in the girls Irvington Volleyball Invitational
IMSA North middle school boys were Champions in 2013 and 2014 of the ICSAA Track competition and IMSA North middle school girls won the Championship in 2013
IMSA North received 4th Place in the Concept Western Regional Middle School Boys Basketball Tourney May 19, 2012