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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We recently moved into the neighborhood near Hammond Elementary/Middle School to get our kids into Hammond ES.  We've been very happy with the choice.  The neighborhood is very family-friendly and the families with children are very open and friendly.  The school has been great for our kids.  The kids are walkers and we both periodically work from home so we can walk to the kids to school or home.  During good weather, after school we stop by the playground near the school and there are a number of families that regularly stop by.  The parents are a mix of SAH and WAH and everyone is very friendly.   Our kids have done well and are very happy in this environment and so are we.  We are currently zoned for Atholton HS which is a good school, but we have several years before we get there and HCPSS is known for rezoning every 2 years in order to shift students from overcrowded schools to under capacity schools, so who knows if we'll stay zoned for AHS.

We haven't been here for a summer yet (moved in around the start of the school year), but many of the neighborhood parents have mentioned that a lot of the neighborhood kids go to the neighborhood pool over the summer and there is a lot of community with the kids who go to the neighborhood school and pool.  It's expensive, and we have already have access to another private pool, but we're considering joining just so that our kids bond more with the neighborhood kids.

Several of the HCPSS high schools have robotics teams:
[url]https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/howard/columbia/ph-ho-cf-robotics-regional-competition-0409-20150406-story.html[/url]

And apparently, our middle school (Hammond MS) has a good robotics team:
[url]https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/howard/laurel/ph-ho-n-north-laurel-0130-20140122-story.html[/url]

My kids participate in an after school activity through Howard County Parks and Recreations (it's at the ES), called Lego Robotics.  They build robotic parts/bodies out of Legos and attach them to motors that are connected to a laptop and they program the laptop to do different actions with the motors.  It's fun but the second session is a repeat of the first session (with a different instructor) so they're getting bored.  But we'll see if the third session is different.  But it's something that the 1st-4th graders can do with robotics.  And if there was enough interest, the school could try to start a 6-10 yo robotics team (I notice the MD First program has a Junior Robotics competition for ages 6-10).[/quote]

A few areas seem to feed into Hammond Elementary. Would you mind sharing the name of your neighborhood?[/quote]

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