Eagle News:

 

Congratulations to Ting Li. She is a finalist for the U.S. Presidential Scholars Program. Read about it in the Baltimore Sun… http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/education/k-12/bs-md-presidential-students-20170505-story.html

 

We are very proud to announce that Tricia Park won an award at the Junior Portfolio Art Show, for her "Diptych Self Portrait", which is currently on display at the Central Office.  Maria Rodriguez Cordona also won an award for her oil painting "Bloom" which is part of the Senior Show.  Both of these very competitive juried exhibitions are currently at the Board of Education Gallery until May 18th.  Other Centennial students who have their work in this show includes:  Junior Portfolio Development students - Skylar Cordiano, Abbigail Hong, Ethan Kwon and Hyejun Yoo.  Senior Show participants include: Sanya Ahmed, Annika Marthinuss, Ye Sun Park, Meghan Reynolds, Rachel Scheetz and Kara Taylor.  This exhibition is astoundingly professional looking, and we encourage you to take a quick visit over to Central Office.

 

CHS Celebration of Excellence was held on May 2nd. Students in the Gifted and Talented Intern/Mentor program presented their research and products. Congratulations …it was an amazing event!

 

The Advanced Culinary Science and Culinary Science classes prepared a banquet for 250 guests at the Intern Mentor Celebration of Excellence on Tuesday, May 2.  The Advanced Culinary students - Jenna Baruch and Ka’Meera Lee, planned the banquet.  They created the menu, priced out ingredients, and created a schedule directing the Culinary Science students in preparations.  Jenna and Ka’Meera’s hard work paid off and all the guests enjoyed the food.  Jenna also helped to ready all dishes the afternoon of the event and Culinary Science students Shelby Adams and Annie Cheung helped setup, serve guests, and clean up after.  I am very proud of my students’ amazing skills!

 

Congratulations to the following students who have met the requirements to be in the Educators Rising Honor Society: Grace Calloway, Greg Costello, Anna Crowe, Tori Green, Megan McGuire, Kyla Mitchell, & Rachel Truitt.  They receive a certificate and a graduation cord.

 

Congratulations to Maddie Griffin on signing to attend Robert Morris for lacrosse and Ali Krahe on signing to attend Stevenson University for track.

Wynn Lekhavanija will be attending Ohio State University for OSU rifle team. CHS is on their website… http://www.ohiostatebuckeyes.com/sports/c-rifle/spec-rel/050217aaa.html

 

The Senior Cruise is Sunday, May 7th. We are meeting at CHS by 3:00pm and returning around 8:15pm. All students MUST ride the bus, as this is a field trip.
Please wear comfortable shoes, as you cannot be barefoot on the boat.

 

The Theatre Department inducted the following students into the International Thespian Society on Wednesday:

Nick Baker

Piper Berry

Allison Brown

Lacey Gelfand

Victoria Harvey

Noah Katz

Caroline Pekrul

Carolina Requejo

Carolyn Reynolds

 

Our Speech I and II students ran the Women Empowerment Speaker Series this week: Link: https://chstalks.wordpress.com/empowerment-series/

Contributors and project directors include:

Abby Vall

Dimple Patel

Mevie Henderson

Ally Wilson

Maddie Caldis

Ka'Meera Lee

Ginni Knight

Paulina Balderas

Sanya Ahmed

Meghan Hudson

 

Friends of Music are hosting a food truck festival in the bus loop on Friday, May 12th, 4-7pm.  Jazz band and other musical groups will be performing.  Come and enjoy some great food and music!

 

CHS German students who scored high on this year's National German Exam were recently recognized at an Awards Ceremony at the Zion Lutheran Church of Baltimore. Students received a cash award from the Maryland German Society and other prizes by the Goethe Institute and German Embassy. Those students who were recognized are: Caroline Aissen, Naige Correal-Winters, Saraf Islam, Ivan Khokhlov, Thomas Luo, Nadine Meister, Carolyn Reynolds, Simone Sabnis, Malika Shah, Jerry Sun, Ryan Sutton and Brian Tran.

 

Charu Dwivedi participated in November 2016 in a 36-hour Hackathon for Social Justice event focused on Gender Equity for girls and women in STEM fields, organized by Arizona State University and hosted by Applied Physics Lab, Johns Hopkins University. Her team of five students (including a college student and some junior high school students) won first place for planning, researching, designing, problem-solving, and creating a mobile app within 36 hours. Charu was one of the youngest members of that group. 

As part of the grand prize for the winning team, her team received full-scholarship (including airfare, registration, and hotel accommodations for all members of the team) to attend and present their project at the March 23-25, 2017 Women of Color STEM Entrepreneurship Conference in Arizona (organized by ASU) for which her team members prepared their presentation via virtual sessions for several weeks prior to the conference. ASU also wants to help the team in developing, accelerating, and incubating their app further to become a viable commercial app someday, in which the attending entrepreneurs of the conference expressed interest as potential customers. Charu and her team members were the only students who were invited to present at the conference among well-known invited speakers, and they did a great job. The presentation was broadcast live. The link for some of the conference-related info is at the links below: 

https://cgest.asu.edu/

https://cgest.asu.edu/TheNewNormal2017

 

Congratulations to the Project Lead The Way groups that presented their engineering design prototypes on Thursday.

 

Thank you LAC for our Cinco de Mayo Breakfast…it was a great way to start a very rainy Friday.

 

Have a safe weekend.

Claire Hafets