Eagle News
On Thursday, January 12th, 98 students were inducted into the National Honor Society. These students were invited to join NHS after undergoing a selective application process that asked students to demonstrate their embodiment of the four pillars of NHS: character, service, leadership, and scholarship. Students celebrated with music provided by NHS students and speeches from guest speaker Courtney Watson, Principal Claire Hafets, and their NHS faculty advisers and board members. Students pledged to serve NHS with character and to continue their commitment to being active members of our Centennial community. Congratulations to all the new NHS members and their families!
Thank you Ms. Shipp and Ms. Duran (Advisors)
Congratulations! National Academic Quiz Tournaments has selected Centennial High School in Ellicott City, Maryland as its High School Quiz Bowl Team of the Week. Please see the attached Press Release and photo of the teams from the 2016 High School National Championship Tournament.
This past weekend, Centennial sent three teams to the Philadelphia area to compete in the Downingtown Tournament. In a field of 32 teams from the Northeast, the A and B team came out 3rd and 4th, winning a trophy. However, from a statistical point of view, the A team dominated all the other teams in all categories. The performance of both teams garnered the attention of the National Academic Quiz Team (NAQT) organization. They are honoring us as the Team of the Week nationally. We also qualified both teams to compete in all the national tournaments in May and June.
A Team: Siri Neerchal (captain), Jason Li, Rohan Laljani, Jakob Boeye
B Team: Sahil Saini (captain), Emmy Alme, Fayyaz Zaidi, Yashas Lokesh.
While all these players had exemplary performances, special note must be made for Emmy Alme on the B team. She was the 3rd highest scorer out of more than 150 participants. Congratulations!
Four JV Teams participated in a JV tournament at Richard Montgomery High School. Our A team finished 5th reaching the top bracket of the playoffs.
JV A team: Steppan Konoplev (captain), Thomas Luo, Vivek Laljani, and Ben Landrum. Adam Knox and Toby Moser were the highest scorers from the high school (7th and10th place). Thank you Coaches Eric and Sara Seifter.
Two recent Centennial graduates Clarissa Santori (Class of 2013, now at Northeastern) and Gary Tse (Class of 2016, now at the Naval Academy) both alumni of It's Academic Championship Teams, just completed taping Jeopardy for the College Tournament series in Los Angeles.
Please tune in on February 15 to see Clarissa and February 17 to see Gary in their first round performances on Jeopardy with Alex Trebec. They might have advanced further, but who knows? We'll have to watch.
They are among the 15 finalists chosen nationally for this! Go Eagles…
Superintendent, Dr. Renee Foose visited Centennial High School and spoke with our seniors on Friday, January 13th and had an informative discussion about their high school experiences and their preparation.
9th Grade Mid Term Review sessions:
Midterm Review Resources
Midterm review sheets are now online. We are continually updating this page as we receive more review packets from teachers. To see what is currently available, go to: http://chs.hcpss.org --> "Academics" --> "Academic Resources" --> scroll down to see Review Session Schedule and Review Packets.
We have an activity bus that will pick students up at 3:45 from January 17th through January 19th, but you need to sign up on Sign Up Genius.
“Midterm Review Sheets cannot be accessed with a personal gmail account. The student must sign-in with their school active directory (computer login) account.”
Midterms are the week of January 23rd-January 26th.
Exam schedule
January 23rd - Period 1
January 24th - Periods 2 and 3
January 25th - Periods 4A and 4B
January 26th - Periods 5 and 6
The Senior Luau is January 31, 2017 from 5-8pm
Mission BBQ: Margarita Man: Slushies, Ms. Fleegal: desserts (cake and brownies)
DJ, Karaoke, Limbo
*Wear your Hawaiian shirt**
Applications for the G/T Intern/Mentor Program and the G/T Independent Research class are due on Friday, 1/20. The applications can be found at the CHS website linked to Mrs. Bagley.
https://sites.google.com/site/michellebagleychs/assignments
I/M students should sign up for an interview on the sheets outside Room 901. IR students should hand their applications directly to Mrs. Bagley in Room 901 or Mr. Drechsler in Room 911 and they will interview you at that time.
Students should not put these courses on their course selection sheet. After the interview Mrs. Bagley will notify the counselors. Make sure you tell them which course you will drop to take the g/t research course.
CHS' Chapter of She's the First presents a student lead panel w/guests on "How to Survive High School" on Wednesday, February 8, 6-8pm in CHS' Media Center. Learn about: Navigating Honors, GT, and AP classes, college applications, and succeeding academically. This learning session is for CHS' students in grades 9-11 as well as rising 9th graders. Show up and become empowered.
Have a great weekend.
Claire Hafets