Eagle News:
Congratulations to CHS Teacher-of-the-Year 2018 ……... Mr. John Sharbaugh!
It was a great experience for the Centennial Science Olympiad team to compete in the 2018 Princeton University Science Olympiad Invitational on Saturday Feb 10th. The Princeton campus was gorgeous and the tests administered by former Science Olympiad alumni difficult. Overall, Centennial earned 16th place amidst some of the top tier schools from around the nation. Overall, an incredibly challenging day but more than worth it.
News from It’s Academic:
Congratulations to Anthony Duan. He not only qualified for the National History Bee, but he won the Maryland Regional Championship for JV with a gold medal. And as for the team oriented National History Bowl, we won the Maryland Regional Championship and 9 students qualified for the National History Bowl for JV: Adam Knox, Anthony Duan, Carter Matties, Toby Moser, Peter Wilschke, Ameya Sriram, Ian May, Ashwin Iyer, and Caio Goolsby.
Five of the students also qualify for the International History Bowl and Bee to be held in Berlin in July (Anthony, Adam, Toby, Carter, and Caio). Jakob Boeye had previously qualified for Berlin in the Varsity field.
On February 24th, 2018 from 8:30am - 2:10pm, Centennial High School will be hosting its third annual Mu Alpha Theta Math Tournament. The competition will consist of an Individual Test, a Speed Round, and a Countdown Round. Students will compete in the following 3 levels: Algebra I and Geometry, Algebra II and Precalculus, and Calculus AB/BC, and the top 3 students in each level will be recognized and awarded prizes. We encourage you to participate! It is a great learning experience as we will have Centennial High School National Math Honor Society volunteers help the participants learn from their mistakes by reviewing the problems they missed during the break.
Please visit our website at centennialmao.weebly.com for more information and to register! Feel free to email us at chsnmhs@gmail.com with any questions or concerns.
Congratulations to our 14 National Merit Finalists:
Emmaline Alme, Jisoo Choi, Katie Gao, Kayleigh Hasson, Xiuying Lin, Vaishnavi Mahalingam, Pujit Mehrotra, Mary Moser, Chythanya Murali, Anagha Rama Varma, Samyukta Rao, Chance Xie, Kevin Xu, and Franklin Yang.
The Berklee High School Jazz Festival is the largest high school jazz competition in the country. This year, over 138 schools participated from 15 states. There were over 3,000 young musicians that competed. Centennial High School placed 4th in the highest and most competitive division.
Congratulations to Ashley Xu and Ms. Yuanjun Liu for their performances at the Chinese Lunar Celebration.
Congratulations to CHS Model UN at the Johns Hopkins Model UN conference.
Alex Na - Honorable Mention
Robert Gao - Honorable Mention
Congratulations to Jake Watson for signing his letter of intent to play baseball at Southern Virginia, Zach Trimper for signing his letter of intent to play lacrosse at University Mount Union, Todd Hendrix for signing his letter of intent to play baseball at York College, Jeremy Wilson for signing his letter of intent to play lacrosse at Washington College, Alex Crocamo for signing his letter of intent to play baseball at Ursinus, and Kelli Dunaghan for signing her letter of intent to play soccer at Shippensburg.
The Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (JSHS) is a national research symposium designed to challenge and engage students (grades 9–12) in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM). High school students present the results of their original research efforts before a panel of judges and an audience of their peers. Michelle Bagley awarded a $500 award for her contribution to advancing student participation in research. Four of our students were also selected to present their research: Katie Gao, Swadhin Nalubola, Chy Murali, and Nicole Meister.
The competition will be held on Wednesday, March 14 at UMD.
The following students will be participating in a Women in Engineering Conference on Friday Feb 23rd.
Lori Zhao
Luam Russom
Alaura Willis
Girija Mallampalli
Noelle Deal
Victoria Pearson
Sydney Thomas
Shahd Alhadari
Ishita Banerjee
Neha Rehman
Hemen Tessema
On Feb. 21st, PAWS will be holding a fundraiser at the Uno's in the Long Gate shopping center. Uno's will donate 20% of each order to our club. All funds will be donated to an animal shelter or animal rescue group.
February 21, @2:20pm in Mrs. Holt’s room #501, a representative from the National College Resource Foundation will be hosting a information session about their upcoming Black College Expo for March 3rd at Bowie St. University. All students are invited to attend the information session which should not be any more than an hour.
The facilitator will be Ms. Destiny McGhee.
At the BCFL Speech and Debate Meet held at Reservoir High School on Saturday, February 10th, our freshman public forum team of Sean Lee and Lain Lee continued their impressive rookie season by earning a bronze medal! Congratulations!
UPCOMING ATHLETIC EVENTS
WEEK OF FEBRUARY 19th
February 20th
Indoor Track @ PG Sports Complex (4:00)
*MPSSAA 3A/4A State Championship Meet*
*Stay tuned for when girls and boys basketball will play following seeding*
Have a great long weekend!
Be safe.
Claire Hafets