Centennial High School proudly hosted Howard County's oldest and largest high school sponsored Model United Nations Conference. For the eighth year in a row on Saturday, November 11th the Centennial High School Model United Nations Conference (CHSMUNC) has pushed the boundaries of what is considered possible at a high school conference.

Congratulations to Centennial High School’s Model UN. They hosted a very successful and well attended conference. The following Centennial students won awards:

• Chris Lidard - Honorable Mention Delegate - SOCHUM

• Aditi Soogor - Best Position Paper – Historical

• Robert Gao - Best Delegate - JCC 1

• Victoria Chiu - Best Position Paper - JCC 2

 

It’s Academic sent four teams (2 Varsity and 2 Novice) to Johns Hopkins University to compete against 20 other teams. Centennial’s A (with Emmy Alme, Jakob Boeye, Anthony Duan, and Brian Reed) took second place. We played for the championship against Richard Montgomery A and lost by one question. Jakob Boeye and Emmy Alme won book awards.

Our next tournament is at St. Anselm's Abbey School in DC for History Bowl and Bee on December 2nd.

We qualified for both National Tournaments HSNCT in Atlanta and PACE at Reston, Virginia in May and June with this performance. Eric and Sara Seifter and John Heslin - Coaches Centennial It's Academic

 

American Education Week

Thank you for visiting during American Education Week. We hope you had an opportunity to participate in some of the events.

 

XC State Results: Congratulations!

 

Boys Team: 2nd in the State:

 

Greg Costello 10th, Justin Ziegler 27th, Jacob Cole 28th,Jason Kraisser 32nd, Chris Bieberich 33rd

David Riina 38th and Zach Deming 42nd.

Girls Team: 4th in the State:

Kirsten Wikner 6th, Alison Betler 11th, Marisa Thomas 29th, Cora Blount 56th, Christina Stavlas 57th, Apoorva Ajith 70th, and Katerina Talanova 74th.

 

 

Almost, Maine: a real romantic comedy opens

November 16-19 at Centennial HS

 

“A higher-concept and more clever version of Hollywood hits like ‘Love Actually’ and ‘Valentine’s Day’.”- The New York Times

 

Welcome to Almost, Maine, the way life should be! One cold, clear Friday night in the middle of winter, while the northern lights hover in the sky above, Almost’s residents find themselves falling in and out of love in the strangest ways. Knees are bruised. Hearts are broken. Love is lost, found, and confounded. And life for the people of Almost, Maine will never be the same. The show runs November 16-18 at 7pm and November 19 at 2pm.

Almost, Maine was developed at the Cape Cod Theater Project in 2002, and received its world premiere at Portland Stage Company, where it broke box office records and garnered critical acclaim. Almost, Maine opened Off Broadway in the winter of 2005 at the Daryl Roth Theatre. To date, Almost, Maine has been produced by over 3000 theater companies in the United States (and by over twenty companies internationally) making it one of the most frequently produced plays of the past decade.

The cast includes Ethan Kinstler, Christina Dee, Sydney Grossman, Fayyaz Zaidi  

Kieran Newell, Gillian Rossbach, Lacey Gelfand, Caroline Pekrul, Ben Roseman, Vaishnavi Mahalingham, Andrew Lee, Sabrina Ochoa,  Allison Brown, Matthew Sorak, Abby Zoller-Gritz, Casey Stratton, Ed Luiggi, Blair Bryant, and Noah Katz. Stage managers are Nick Baker and Emily Dahlgren. The show is directed by Kathryn Carlsen and Holly Pasciullo.

 

Parents: Please remind your son/daughter to cross Centennial Lane at the light and not to “dart” across the street against traffic.

 

There are still well over 60 seniors who have not had their portrait taken. We have scheduled a final senior re-take session with Lifetouch on December 7th. They will set up in the back of the auditorium. We are hoping this allows all seniors ample opportunity to have their portrait taken.

 

The first round of the University of Maryland Math Competition are in and a total of 1,924 students in the state of Maryland took round one.  Seventeen of our students make up the total 249 students who qualified for round 2.  Part 2 will be given on Wednesday November 29th.  

Congrats to the following Eagles: LUO, THOMAS, KONOPLEV, STEPPAN, ZHU, ERIC, MAMMEL, ISAAC, HSIEH, JUSTIN, KYUTAE, SIM, KORALOV,DAVID, NAWATHE, SUMITW,        

NALUBOLA, SWADHIN, MAITY, SAYAK, CHEN, KELVIN, ZHANG, CARPENTER, ETHAN,        

MEISTER, NADINE, CHA, CHRISTIN, SHAH, MALIKA, and REED, BRIAN  

 

Congratulations to Shardul Rakshit. He was selected for and will perform at the NafME All National Honor Ensembles (Mixed Choir) at Disneyworld, Orlando Florida November 26-29. Eagle Pride!

 

Next week will be busy with parent teacher conference schedule and the early school closing.

We are thankful our students engage in conversations about diverging views with civility, dignity and respect. On behalf of the Centennial High staff… have a Happy Thanksgiving.

 

Have a Safe and Happy Thanksgiving…

Claire Hafets