Organizations

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The Current Clubs at BMS
FBLA
The mission is to bring business and education together in a positive working relationship through innovative leadership and career development programs; its motto is Service, Education, and Progress.

Jr. Beta Club
The National Junior Beta Club recognizes outstanding achievement, promotes character and social responsibility, encourages service involvement to school and community, fosters leadership skills and provides settings for your child to develop interpersonal relationship skills.

Academic Quiz Bowl Team
The Academic Quiz Bowl Team is a team of students that participates in academic competitions against other middle school students in the Middle Georgia Area.  The purpose of this team is to boost student confidence and self-esteem, to inspire students to excel academically, to promote good citizenship, to stimulate our youth's competitive spirit, and to recognize student scholastic aptitude.

Ambassadors
The goal of the O Ambassador Club is to empower young leaders and educators to dream big and accelerate global change through a step-by-step exploration of active learning, idea-sharing, and taking action.  Club members should strive for change in order to find solutions to global challenges.  The club will inform others of the many issues that are facing the children of East Africa and stress why it is important for others to get involved to promote change.  The O Ambassador Club members will brainstorm about strategies to tackle the social issues that many children their age face.  Club members will join the global community in working toward the UN Millennium Development Goals. 

Amateur Radio Club
The purpose of the Byron Middle Amateur Radio Club is to promote interest in Amateur Radio.  Through the club, students have the opportunity to earn an Amateur Radio license and use the club radio station to communicate with other amateurs world-wide, including students in other schools and astronauts aboard the International Space Station.  Amateur radio promotes knowledge of technology through its use of electronic communications--two-way radio, computers, and the internet.  Amateur radio also promotes discipline in its participants.  amateur radio is also jut plain fun!
The club is sponsored by Mr. Timothy Hardy, an employee of the school who is an FCC licensed Amateur Radio operator holding an Extra-class license.  Mr. Hardy is certified as a Volunteer Examiner through the American Radio Relay League's Volunteer Examiner Coordinator (ARRL-VEC).  The BMS Amateur Radio Club is affiliated with the American Radio Relay League, the national organization for amateur radio. 

Biotech Club
Students will have guest college professors come in to assist in performing experiments; perform lab activities of both short term and extended length; and take field trips to tour college laboratories.  The number of students will  be limited to 20 seventh and eighth grade students. 

Math Team
This club is open to all grade levels.  Math team has been organized to promote academic achievement in all content areas by providing opportunities for critical thinking skills by completing peer assisted hands on activities that enhance or facilitate the Georgia Performance Standards.