Eagle News
Congratulations to Kevin Xu. He has qualified as a Semifinalist and is part of the top 10% of students nationally who took the USA Biology Olympiad Open Exam. Kevin performed extremely well in demonstrating his exceptional knowledge of the biological sciences.
Congratulations to Mr. Jason Piluk who supported all the students at Centennial who participated in the 2017 USABO.
Congratulations to the Centennial Math Team earning first place in the county division 1 Math competitions again this year. We took the county by storm with a perfect season. Centennial members also did well individually. Not only did we take 1st place for team honors but our members also earned awards for top Senior in the County – Suzie Byun and top Sophomore – Steppan Konoplev while Thomas Luo was highest scorer at Centennial. In addition to the individual winners we had nine additional students recognized to represent Howard County at the regional ARML competition in June (determined by the top 40 students countywide). Those addition members joining those above representing Centennial and Howard County are: Chris Cha, Christina Cha, Frank Kou, Sayak Maity, Nadine Meister, Swadhin Nalubola, Emma Qian, Arthur Tseng, and Joyce Zhang. Congratulations to the entire math team for another fabulous year.
Time is running out - buy your yearbook before it's too late. Go to www.yearbookordercenter.com and use code 5591 to place your order.
SGA’s March Madness Zaching Against Cancer Basketball Tournament was a huge success and congratulations to our champions Hudson Graves, Ryan Maher, Alex Fant.
Congratulations to Jason Kraisser. He was named First Team All –Metro in Wrestling by the Baltimore Sun yesterday.
Congratulations to Miguel Fernandez's. His play, Pasta Night, will be performed at Center Stage’s 2017 Young Playwrights Festival. His play was selected from over 400 entries. Only 5 other plays are being awarded in this way. This is the second year in a row that Miguel has won this playwriting competition. Bravo, Miguel!
If you would like to see it, the performance is a 7pm on Monday, May 1st at Baltimore Center Stage. The evening is free and open to the public, but tickets are required. Reserve your tickets in advance by calling the Center Stage Box Office at 410.332.0033 or going online to centerstage.org.
Suzanne Malveaux, a CHS graduate and CNN national correspondent, has agreed to share her journey from CHS to CNN with us. We are trying to find a date when she might be able to come to CHS to meet with students for an hour. Stay tuned!
The Baltimore Science Fair was held March 26th and 27th at Towson University. Congratulations to the following winners:
Honorable Mention
Physical Science - Sayak Maity
Biological Science - Ting Li, Malini Sarkar, Chy Murali, Priya Gajendiran
Second Place
Physical Science- Kevin Huang
Biological Science - Neil Rabb
Many Independent awards were given to the following students. For a complete list of winners and companies go to baltimoresciencefair.org
American Meteorological Society - Gordon Wu
American Society for Quality - Malini Sarkar, Ting Li
ASU Walton - Swadhin Nalubola
US Public Health - Malini Sarkar, Chy Murali
Fisher College - Danny Hemani
INCOSE - Danny Hemani
National Gay and Lesbian Scientists - Sayak Maity, Chy Murali
NSA - Suzie Byun, Shardul Rakshit
National Society of Black Engnineers - Danny Hemani
Optical Society - Niki Gooya, Samyukta Rao
Raytheon - Adharsh Babu
US Coast Guard - Malini Sarkar
US Army - Swadhin Nalubola
US Navy - Emma Qian
Yale - Arnav Sinha
National Space Society - Adharsh Babu
Centennial Mock Trial Victory! After beating Mount Hebron, Centennial is now the Circuit Champions of Howard and Anne Arundel County. This is the farthest any Howard County school has progressed. We are now in the top 8 teams of Maryland and we hope to play our first regional match on April 3 or 6.
The team consisted of Hadeel Hamoud (captain), Kayleigh Hasson (captain), Fayyaz Zaidi, Pujit Mehrotra, Tara Laneheart, Kristen Lee, Mary Slattery, Corinna Murphy, Shardul Rakshit, Anjali Gajendiran, Kunal Roy, Ting Lee, Brianna Lin, Judy Zhou, Priya Gajediran, and our wonderful advisor Ms. Shipp.
Congratulations to our CHS Speech and Debate team on their performance at the BCFL Metro tournament. Our Public Forum debate team of Amber Fang and Kristen Lee placed 7th overall and our Public Forum debate team of Katie Gao and Polly Moser took 1st place!
The Harambee Conference is sponsored by the Alpha Achievers of Howard County and brings together all of the student members throughout the county schools for an annual conference. This year the conference is titled: Social Entrepreneurship: Profits with a Purpose. Panelists include McKeever Conwell, founder of the Maryland Technology Development Corporation, Michael Washington, a web and mobile developer, Rodney Hawkins, CEO of Washington Technology Group, Kamron Redding, founder of 1ReddBag.org, and Kenneth Clark, project consultant for the Minority Business Development Agency (through U.S. Department of Commerce). Six of our Alpha Achievers attended the conference: Chris Agnew, Jonathan Muchiri Mbugua, Benny Mugo, Elijah Scott, Mekai Scott, and John Yayi Bondje.
From the Young Dems Club:
Speeches from TEDxCentennialHigh are up on YouTube!
Maria - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUbb5FreDw8
Rohan - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lerOECrR0Go
John - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFrrIqsP3XE&spfreload=10
Miguel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lerOECrR0Go
Allison - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i1sg6e5m6k&spfreload=10
Siri - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm4gLTt9_IU&spfreload=10
Sidney - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YaFghomBno&spfreload=10
Jenna - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1V8xhixlF0&t=52s&spfreload=10
Congratulations to the choir students at their performance at the Howard County Choir Assessment last night. All three groups received straight 1s, the highest possible score. With these scores, we are now the only high school in Howard County to have received straight 1s for every band, choir, and orchestra to perform at the County Assessments this year. Please congratulate the students on their hard work!
Congratulations to the following teachers on their nomination for the G/T Educator Recognition Award: David Riddler, Holly Pasciullo, Rod McCaslin, Stephen Lee, Jessica Landi, Robert Kennedy, Robert Astri, and Michelle Bagley.
They will be recognized April 19th from 7-8:30pm at the Howard High School Auditorium.
Come to Centennial High School’s first annual Walk-A-Thon for Wishes hosted by the Centennial Make-A-Wish Foundation Club on May 13! This 5K walk at Centennial’s track will feature fun games and events. Participants can come anytime between 9-11 AM to walk. All proceeds directly benefit Make-A-Wish Mid-Atlantic.
Buy your tickets ONLINE here: http://centennialmakeawish.weebly.com/ at the “Registration” tab.
Daniel Wu, Arthur Tseng, and Neil Rabb are asking: This part of the competition ends Saturday.
Our Blue Ocean team needs to market our video by encouraging people to follow the link and like the video on YouTube. Part of the competition is based on accumulating likes on the YouTube page for our specific video. This portion of the competition ends this Saturday, in the morning. If you are able to do so, I have attached the link below. Thank you very much for your generous support.
https://youtu.be/tiHwEyUeQkI
“She’s the 1st” sends WARM THANKS to the entire Centennial High School community for helping to make our SPRING Zumbathon a GREAT success! We had a blast! Lots of laughs were shared as we worked every muscle group. There were 27 participants, five of which were boys. We raised a total of $210. 00.
Special thanks to our spectacular Zumba instructor Kalindi Gohel who gave her time to our extraordinary event.
The monies from this fundraiser will help our Jayanthi from India continue to attend school. (Remember $400 sends a girl to school per year.)
Thanks again; we are grateful to each of you.
PARCC home reports were distributed today for students who tested in January. Please be on the lookout for them.
Have a great weekend!
Claire Hafets