CHS Fine Arts presents The Winter Spectacular December 2nd at 7pm!

Get into the holiday spirit at The Winter Spectacular with performances by Dance Company, jazz band, madrigals, musical theatre, and orchestra students! Over 150 students are involved in this family-friendly and fun-filled performance. 

Tickets are $10 each.

 

Student Government Association sponsors an annual Jingle Bell Banquet for senior citizens living in fixed/low-income housing.  Seniors are provided with bus transportation and invited to Centennial for a traditional turkey dinner.  While they are at Centennial, they are treated to a performance by the drill team, given a scarf or other small token gift, and attend the Winter Spectacular.  The free tickets for the senior citizens to attend the Winter Spectacular are graciously provided by the Fine Arts team.

 

Congratulations to the following students who were accepted into the Maryland Jr. All State Orchestra:

Hannah Kim Cello

Genevieve Lee Cello

Amanda Wang Violin

Andrew Zhao Viola

Oluwatobi Ajiboye, trombone

Congratulations to these fine musicians and their hard work!

 

Congratulations to the following students on their acceptance into the Maryland Jr. All-State Band:
Nadine Meister, clarinet
Christina Cha, alternate alto saxophone
Norman Zhang, trombone

 

Congratulations to the following CHS students who have been accepted into Maryland Junior and Senior All State Chorus:

2017 Junior All State Mixed Chorus

Meenaskshi Adiyodi

Charu Dwivedi

Ali Ibrahim

William Qu

2017 Senior Chorus Alternates

Antariksh Tulshyan

2017 Senior All State Mixed Chorus

Miguel Fernandez

Duo Hong

Shardul Rakshit

Matthew Sorak

Jack Goodman

2017 Senior All State Women’s Chorus

Lauren Herr

Sabrina Ochoa

Caroline Shimeall

Srija Makkapati

 

Congratulations to Dennis Howser-Doty for achieving the rank of Eagle Scout with the Boys Scouts of America.

 

Congratulations to Maryam's Ellabashy. She competed in the Dubai International Quran Competition, where she won 12th place. There were competitors representing seventy-three countries from six continents. The girls, ranging in age from 9 to 25, competed over 15 days. Maryam was presented with her award from the wife of the founder and first president of the United Arab Emirates, and the mother of the current Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi.

 

Our Centennial Speech and Debate Team participated in the BCFL/BUDL Speech Tournament at Dulaney High School on Saturday, November 12th.  This was one of the largest tournaments ever held in Maryland and our team did extremely well!  Two of our experienced Public Forum teams earned medals for their performance:  Katie Gao and Polly Moser earned a silver medal and Amber Fang and Kristen Lee earned a bronze medal.  Our novice Public Forum teams also made a great showing! The team of Daria Cara and Summer Shen won two out of three rounds in their competition.  Our brand new team of Lauren Brown and Velina Chapoval also made a great start with two rounds decided by a tiebreaker and many positive comments!
We are so proud of our debaters and look forward to our next tournament on December 17th at Notre Dame Preparatory School in Baltimore!

 

The following students placed in Round 1 of the University of MD Math Competition and competed in Round 2 on Nov 30th. 
Thomas Luo
Siang Tseng
Hanmin Qian
Steppan Konoplev
Suzie Byun
Frank Kou
Sayak Maity
Nadine Meister
Nicholas Zou
Kelvin Chen
Christina Cha
Nicole Meister
Mohammed Billah
Sahil Saini
Grace Zhang

 

CHS Key Club sponsored by Mrs. Katie Parker, collected over 100 letters written by students and sent a care package to our troops in Afghanistan. Carolyn Frommer was one of the organizers.

On Monday, November 28th we received a phone call from Aubrey D. Russell
1SG, USA First Sergeant, "Headhunters" TF Fighting Eagles from Bagram, Afghanistan (DSN 318 481 9729). They were overwhelmed by the support and had to personally call to express a big thank you to the students and the School for all of the support. Sergeant Russell is currently on his 8th deployment and has seen the difference between Soldiers having Support and not having support so, every letter made a difference. Sergeant Russell wanted the students and staff to know that they had a huge impact on the "Fighting Eagles.”
One of the Officers has taken his personal time to record their deployment on Facebook. It is not an official page, however, it gives family and friends an idea of what they see every day.
When searching Facebook "faces of the 2-1 fighting eagles"

 Courtney Tse, is a member of the “Girl Up” Club at Centennial High School. During the month of December, the club will be collecting hygiene items and toiletries for Grassroots. A box collecting these items is in the front lobby.

César Coloón Montijo was a guest on Friday, December 2nd. César wrote "Viaje a la Casita"; a book that describes the impact the Casita de Chema, or Ricón Criollo has had in the preservation of the cultural identity of the Puerto Ricans in New York as well as in the development of Plena in the diaspora.  He is a doctoral student of ethnomusicology at Columbia University where he also teaches.
Our students from Spanish 4 and 5 have been reading and discussing his book as they relate it to the Cultural Identity Unit.  There was a Questions/ Answers session after the presentation.

 

Congratulations to the following CHS students who have been accepted into Maryland Senior All-State Orchestra:

Violin 1

Nicole Lee

Alice Lin

Violin 2

Joshua Qiu

Angela Kou

Nicole Lee

Daniel Zheng

Viola

Jisoo Choi

Suzie Byun

Steven Hu

Ethan Lin

Cello

Julianna Torres

Peter Ho

Bass

Sahil Saini

Sean Cooley

These students will be rehearsing and performing in February among the finest high school musicians in Maryland.

 

Centennial High School will be proudly hosting the 2017 Blue Ocean Entrepreneurship Competition. This competition, started in 2013 by CHS student Nicholas Benavides, is the largest student-run high school entrepreneurship competition in the U.S. Year after year, it encourages students to think outside of the box, and create new markets with their innovative business ideas. This year's competition will take place on April 1, 2017 at Centennial High School and registration is now open at: http://blueoceancompetition.org/register.

 

Have a great weekend!

Claire Hafets