Eagle News:
As we close the week, we say Good - Bye to our seniors - the Class of 2017. Wednesday was their last day. Graduation is May 22nd at 8pm. Congratulations on your accomplishments, your educational commitment is outstanding, and your dedication and hard work is relentless. You exemplify the tradition and character of a Centennial student…Eagle Pride, Eagle Excellence!
Over 140 seniors were recognized at the Senior Award Assembly, Friday, May 12th and Departments recognized the seniors at the Farewell Assembly on Wednesday morning. The seniors ended their week with a great Senior Picnic!
A quick reminder that all high school commencement ceremonies will be streamed live on our website at www.hcpss.org. Please direct your families to our site to watch the graduations live. On-demand viewing also will be available following each ceremony. You may order graduation DVDs now through August 31 online, directly at https://hcpss-commencement-dvds.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage. All graduation-related information can be found on the HCPSS site at http://www.hcpss.org/schools/commencement.
On Saturday May 13th, the Centennial It's Academic TV team (Siri Neerchal, Sahil Saini, Rohan Laljani, and Jakob Boeye) played a semifinal match defeating Friends School and Urbana 555 to 445 to 350. This show will air on WJZ TV channel 13 on Saturday June 3rd at 10AM. The championship match was against Severna Park and Dulaney. We entered the final 3 minutes competitive grab bag trailing by 55 points and in third place. Our team proceeded to get the next nine questions with blazing speed and domination that the game was no longer in doubt with 60 seconds to go. Final score: Centennial 570, Severna Park 395, Dulaney 375. The final score reflects a 230 point run in that 3 minute space. To quote Fayyaz Zaidi: "It was beautiful." This match will appear on WJZ TV channel 13 on Saturday June 24 at 10AM. Congratulations Baltimore Metro Champions!
Centennial will play in the TV Superbowl against the DC Metro Champion and Central Virginia Metro Champion this coming Saturday at WRC TV studios in DC.
We are sending 3 teams to the National Championship of Quizbowl (HSNCT/NAQT) in Atlanta over Memorial Day weekend.
Thank you Centennial Drill Team.
We appreciate the support at the studio of assistant principal Ms. Lynnette Moore, Humities teacher Ms. Nan Collins, Drill team Coach Ms. Jessica Hammers, many parents and students.
Each year, 81 schools start out in this competition. This is our 3rd consecutive Baltimore Metro Championship, 4th in the last 5 years, and 8th in the last 15 years.
Thank you Sara and Eric Seifter
National English Honor Society inducted 30 new members on Monday, May 15th. Below are the students who have been recognized with this honor:
Ivy Devadas
Emily Erle
Priya Gajendiran
Audrey Lawrence
Victoria Chiu
Jisoo Choi
Megan Daugherty
Lauren Herr
Ethan Kinstler
Basilica Arockiaraj
Corinna Murphy
Sydney Grossman
Lia Las Casas
Grace Rockefeller
Christopher Agnew
Anne Barnes
Armaan Bhasin
Christopher Bieberich
Ana Cehan
Velina Chapoval
Rishi Chary
Anjali Gajendiran
Joseph Hockersmith
Andrew Ji
Vivek Laljani
Mary Slattery
Naomi Smith
Karen Wiratan
Madison Wirebach
Christina Yang
Congratulations to Sieun (Sharon) Lee, has been selected as a Questbridge College Prep Scholar.
The English Department was given a signed copy of a book on Shakespeare written by Dr. Ayanna Thompson, the Aunt of Zane Haug (Class of 2017) and a former CHS student. The name of the book is Teaching Shakespeare with a Purpose.
Thank you KAPA for a delicious lunch on Wednesday, May 17th.
Just a reminder that High School Assessments in American Government is Wednesday, May 24th and Biology is Thursday, May 25th. Attendance is mandatory.
Sign up for CHS Lacrosse camp… Here is the link for the flyer:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-E2xx5ymx-CR3RuSERrd3pHcWs/view?usp=sharing
Have a great weekend.
Claire Hafets