Principal’s Message
Great opportunities continue to come your way, students! Some that you may want to consider include:
College!
- A summer trip to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott Arizona campus IF you intend to apply to ERAU in your senior year. Exact travel dates have not yet been determined but we are hoping for last week of June. ERAU covers the cost of airfare and houses you in one of their dormitories. The duration of the trip is usually two nights and three days. This opportunity is open to students in grades 9-11. If interested, please email me at gilmanrj@hsd401.org, explaining your goals for college and career and what you hope to experience as part of this college visitation. Emails due by this Friday, 20 May.
- Scholarships
· The AHS packet is posted on our website and hard copies are available from senior advisors. Completed applications and essays are due to Ms. Carper on or before 23 May @ 1600 PDT.
· If you have been selected as a SoDo Rotary Student of the Month this year, please plan to have lunch (pizza and pop) with a few Rotarians TODAY, 16 May from noon to 1:00 p.m. in Room 2. This meeting provides another opportunity for a possible scholarship that will be awarded this year.
Career!
- Summer Internship at AeroTEC! Do your research on the company and see Ms. Burr if you are interested in a $15/hour, full-time, eight-week experience this summer. Preference goes to seniors who plan to attend the UW this fall to pursue an Aerospace Engineering degree, but others will be considered as well if highly motivated and qualified (and 17 years old or older). Application materials are due on or before 1 June.
- Internships continue to be posted on the internship board outside the office as they come available. Many students have already found theirs and are looking forward to working at places like Blue Origin (rocket ship company), OMAX (manufacturing company), with the Blue Angels, etc. Be sure to investigate and apply for these opportunities!
Citizenship!
- Student-led conferences are taking place tonight and tomorrow night. It is your chance to articulate what you have learned and to explain how the work you are doing know will prepare you for the next step towards your goals.
- A reminder to all that the PTSA is holding its General Membership Meeting this Thursday, May 19, from 7:00-8:00 p.m. in our gymnasium. Please plan to attend in support of our ASB officers and representative who will be providing a summary of this year’s activities and thanking the PTSA for their generous support. Incoming freshmen and their families have also been invited, so it’s a great opportunity to meet, greet, and welcome them to our learning community. There’s no school for students on the following day, Friday 20 May 20, so you can attend without the worry of getting your homework done that night! And…did you know that the S in PTSA stands for “Student?”
- As most of you know, the State’s economy is not thriving. The legislature is working hard to balance the state budget, but that means across-the-board cuts in most everything, education included. In anticipation of a greatly reduced State budget, Highline Public schools must make plans to reduce costs for next school year. A ‘laundry list’ of considerations will be presented for community feedback at a Budget Workshop that is being held this Saturday, 21 May from 9:00-11:00 a.m. at Midway Elementary School. There are likely to be proposed cuts that will impact Aviation High School (last year, for example, one of the proposed cuts included changing the starting and ending time for our school day). District leaders do listen to what the community shares with them, so your attendance is important. Hopefully, you will also be able to express your thoughts online but we have not yet been given that information. Stay tuned!
Some congratulations and thanks are also in order:
- Kudos to everyone who ran for ASB Executive Office; congratulations to those who were elected. Your officers for the 2011-2012 school year are Jenny Gao, president; Kevin Schilling, vice-president; Tran Tonnu, secretary; and, Karan Grewel, treasurer.
- Hearty congratulations to two more AHS alumni from our inaugural Class of 2008 who have graduated from college! Natalie Nason earned her degree from Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana; and Joey Marco earned his degree from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida. Natalie and Joey are the second and third AHS alumni to graduate from college.
- We had two groups of students submit entries into the Port of Seattle video contest; both won 2nd place. Congratulations to Kevin Schilling, Dustin Abrahamson, Jenny Gao, and Allison Do. The 2nd place prize is a $4K cash award!
- AHS women were out in force at the Women Fly Day in Renton on Saturday. Over 65 girls and young women flew. Check out the following blog for more information: http://karlenepetitt.blogspot.com/2011/05/54-guest-fly-out-of-renton-airport.html
- Skunkworks Robotics thanks all the students that prepared welcome home signs for the team. It was wonderful to see the support!! Thank you so much!!
My best to all for an exciting week of learning! Honored to be your principal—Reba
NOTE:
Continue checking the AHS website or logging on to school computers to get updated information on events and meetings. For example, on Tuesday, 17 May, the Royal Aeronautical Society is hosting a lecture by Guy Norris, an award-winning journalist, who will present “787 Dreamliner – The Story Behind the Story” at the Museum of Flight.
Quote of the Week:
As you pass from sunlight into darkness and back again every hour and a half, you become startlingly aware how artificial are thousands of boundaries we've created to separate and define. And for the first time in your life, you feel in your gut the precious unity of the Earth and all the living things it supports.
— Russell 'Rusty' Schweikart, returning from Apollo 9
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