We hope you had an opportunity to participate or attend one of the many wonderful events to celebrate Centennial’s 40th Homecoming. Thank you Boosters, PTSA, and our 40th Anniversary Committee….
Congratulations to Andrew Zhao and Nadine Meister. Siemens just announced they are finalists. Sayak Maiti is a semifinalist. We are the only Howard County school to have finalists. They are in the top 108 entrants out of 2500 applicants.
https://www.siemensfoundation.org/fileadmin/user_upload/USA_Foundation/Programs/Siemens_Competition/2016_Nationals/2017_Siemens_Competition_Semifinalists_website.pdf
The Siemens Foundation established the Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology in 1999. The Competition is the nation’s premier science research competition for high school students and seeks to promote excellence by encouraging students to undertake individual or team research projects. It fosters intensive research that improves students' understanding of the value of scientific study and informs their consideration of future careers in these disciplines.
We will be hosting a Marching Band Showcase on Monday, October 23 at 7PM in the CHS Stadium. Centennial, Howard, Hammond, Long Reach, and Reservoir High School marching bands will perform their halftime shows. Admission is $2. Show your staff ID and get free entry for two people. Boosters will be selling concessions.
On Saturday, October 14th, Centennial sent nine teams (36 students) to Georgetown University for a tournament of 24 teams from the DC Metro area. Our A Team (Captain Emmy Alme, Jakob Boeye, Anthony Duan, Tobias Moser) came in 3rd with a 9-2 record and qualified for 2 national tournaments in the spring (HSNCT in Atlanta and PACE in Reston, VA). In the playoffs, our A team had the HIGHEST PPB (points per bonus, the truest measure of a team's intelligence) at the tournament at 25.74 (final combined PPB was 26.09).
Our B team (Captain Fayyaz Zaidi, Adam Knox, Steppan Konoplev, Peter Wilschke) came in 6th and qualified for the national tournament at PACE.
If you want to see the statistics, put this URL in your browser:
http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/4521/stats/playoffs/
Saturday, October 21st is the TV taping at WJZ TV studios at 10AM on Saturday. Good Luck!
Students must sign up on “sign up genius” on our website in order to ride the after school bus home on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Thank you.
Centennial will be celebrating American Education Week the Week of November 13th:
November 14th Bring Your Parent to School
November 15th School Improvement Meeting in the Media Center 2:15-2:45pm
November 16th Meet and Greet the Administration in the Staff Lounge 8:00-8:30am
Salvation Army will be holding its annual Autumn Canned Food Drive from October 30th - November 17th. All unexpired, non-perishable goods will be accepted, and will go to local Howard County families.
First period classes will compete against each other to collect the most non-perishable goods possible. ARL students can leave their donations in the Front Office. We greatly appreciate it if you regularly mention the drive to your students. Healthy competition leads to more donations for us! The two first period classes that collect the greatest number of goods will win a Dunkin' Donuts party.
The club has already started to distribute boxes that store donations to first period classes as of Wednesday, October 18th. Box distribution will again occur on Wednesday, October 25th. If you are not in your classroom next Wednesday afternoon, members will leave your box outside of your door. Please bring the box into your classroom ASAP.
Thank you for your participation!
The CHS Photography Department is in great need of film cameras (35mm SLRs)! If you or any family members or friends have working cameras around the house that are collecting dust, we would greatly appreciate any donations so that we can provide and preserve the art of darkroom photography for our students. Additionally, if you have upgraded your digital camera (DSLR) and have an old one that isn’t being used, we would happily take those as well for our AP photo students. Camera donations can be brought to the art room (301). Please contact Hannah Elliott (hannah_elliott@hcpss.org) with any questions. Thank you!
Playoffs start next week…
Have a great weekend
Claire Hafets