AVIATION HIGH SCHOOL
12 March 2012
WHAT’S HAPPENING THIS WEEK:
Classified Employees Week
Monday: LIGO Observatory presentations throughout the day in Gym
Robotics 6:00-9:00 PM
Tuesday: Testing: HSPE—Writing
Student Interviews 4:00-6:00 PM
Robotics 6:00-9:00 PM
Aviation PTSA Ultimate Frisbee Team Practice 3:40 – 5:30 PM on Campus
Wednesday: Testing: HSPE—Writing
Aviation English & 99’s 6:00 – 8:30 PM
Film Club after school in Mr. Savishinsky’s room
Robotics 6:00 – 9:00 PM
Aviation PTSA Ultimate Frisbee Team Practice 3:40 – 5:30 PM on Campus
Happy Birthday Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955)
School Board Meeting 6:00 – 8:00 PM District Office
Thursday: Testing: HSPE—Reading
Culture Club in Room 24 3:45 – 4:45
Aviation PTSA Ultimate Frisbee Team Practice 3:40 – 5:30 PM on Campus
Friday: Testing: HSPE—Reading
PEP Assembly!
Saturday: Science Olympiad Regional Competition at HCC 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Soaring Expo 2012 - 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM MoF Side Gallery
Glimpse into the fascinating world of silent flight
Interviews for Class of 2016
Sunday: MoF T.A. Wilson Great Gallery 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Join Museum Docents for a talk on the 80A-1
Soaring Expo 2012 - 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM MoF Side Gallery
Glimpse into the fascinating world of silent flight
PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE:
Hearty congratulations and thanks to the following good people:
• Our classified employees—Ms. Hiranaka, Ms. Suiaunoa, Ms. Sorensen, Mr. Delano, and Mr. Mullis for your stellar work to make AHS a great place to work and learn! This week is Classified Employees Week, but we honor you for the service you provide each and every day! Thank you one and all!
• Honor Society students and Advisor Ward for organizing a very successful Pennies for Patients fundraiser! I’m not sure about the total amount raised so far but I believe it may be a record for AHS. What a marvelous example of caring and citizenship!
• Everyone who helped us interview another 64 students this past Saturday! Special thanks to parents Tamera Nason and Connie Sanders for facilitating the parent orientation, to mentor extraordinaire Mike Borfitz for again leading an interview team, and to AHS alum Natalie Nason for serving on an interview team. We are so fortunate to have such great support from parents who no longer have students at AHS and from others who aren’t at AHS on a daily basis. And…I continue to be impressed with the extraordinary AHS students who commit their time and expertise to help out. We value your input and participation in the process!
• Our Skunkworks Robotics team, their mentors, parents, and supporters returned late Saturday from competition in Portland, Oregon. As many speculated after watching the robot perform on our practice field, it was the star of the show! Our Skunks came home tired but exhilarated as well they should! Coach Steele reported that the team made it all the way to the finals after being the 3rd seed during qualifying but then lost in the finals 2-1. The Skunks were teamed with another Washington team and a team from Hawaii. “The entire team performed extremely well and we were awarded both the best Website award and the Motorola Quality award for our robot. Our record was 13 wins and 4 losses for the weekend. We learned quite a bit and should be even better in Seattle”, stated Coach Steele.
The past week was indeed exciting for our Skunks. They reported to AHS at 5:30 a.m. last Monday where they were filmed by KING TV reporter Christie Johnson for segments that ran throughout the day. If you didn’t get a chance to see them on TV, you can still do so: http://www.king5.com/video/featured-videos/Students-gear-up-for-Seattle-Regional-FIRST-Robotics-Competition-141449723.html
A reminder to all students that the next big event for our Skunks is occurring on March 23 and 24 at Century Link Event Center in downtown Seattle. We will be taking an all-school field trip to watch our Skunks perform on Friday, March 23. Students and parents: Please get your permission forms returned ASAP! Reminder, too, that admission is free both days, so parents and families, you may want to plan a Saturday field trip, too!
Sophomores will be taking the HSPE exams in reading and writing this week. We encourage you to get a good night’s rest and be ready each day to perform at your best! Thanks to parent donations, there will be some nutritious snacks and water to keep you going.
My best for an inspiring week of learning! Honored to be your principal—Reba G.
NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS
Attention sophomore parents: We are looking for chaperones for the University of Washington field trip on April 20 from 9 AM to 2 PM. We will take a campus tour and hear a special presentation from the Aeronautics/Astronautics department. Please contact Katie Carper at katie.carper@highlineschools.org if you are able to help!
New Internship: LUMA Technologies has offered an AHS student from the class of 2013 a one month, full time paid internship this summer. Deadlines due soon for Raisbeck Engineering internship. Find out more information on the Career Bulletin Board or the Career website, www.aviationhscareers.org
New articles daily at www.ahsphoenixflyer.com
You may have noticed that the March edition of the Aviation High School Phoenix Flyer has been for sale in the past few days, but did you know about the newspaper’s fancy schmancy new website? www.ahsphoenixflyer.com posts new articles almost every day, and offers special extra content not available in the print edition, including photo galleries, comment and discussion forums, in-depth interviews, guest columnists and interactive features. And best of all, it’s free! We’re really proud of our new site, and we do all this work for you, the students of AHS. So support your student journalists – buy a copy in school and check out the Phoenix Flyer online. Thanks for your support—The staff of the AHS Phoenix Flyer.
"Hey kids! Do you want to be featured in the yearbook? Well, look no further!
Yearbook is in dire need of pictures from this year's Aviator's Ball, a.k.a homecoming. If you have any pictures that you took, not by Yen Lui, that you would like to have featured in the yearbook, please contact Jane Yu or Mary Robins of the junior class. Or, you can also send an e-mail to janeyutastic@yahoo.com or mary.robins@ymail.com. Please contact us right away to experience the joy that is having your picture featured in the yearbook. We will credit you and your fabulous photography skills!"
Congressional Nomination to one of the U.S. Service Academies Info Meeting: Congressman Adam Smith’s office is hosting and information session about what students need to know to receive a nomination to: Military at West Point, Air Force, Naval, Merchant Marine & Coast Guard Academies. It is open to students who reside in the 9th congressional district. Date is April 10th from 6:30-8:30pm at Columbia Junior High in Fife.
Enter to Display Your Artwork! Every year, Members of Congress are allowed to display one piece of artwork by a high school student from their district in the U.S. Capitol for one year. Congressman Adam Smith holds an annual judged art competition to select which art from the 9th Congressional District receives this honor. In order to reduce out of pocket expenses for students, entries are not required to be framed, only matted. Each student is limited to one submission. Work must be original in concept. Copies of copyrighted work will not be accepted. Students who apply must submit their entry with two copies of a completed release form. The guidelines and release form can be downloaded at: http://www.house.gov/content/educate/art_competition/ All entries should be submitted to Congressman Smith’s District Office, located at 2209 Pacific Avenue, Ste. B, Tacoma, WA 98042 by 5:00 pm on April 20, 2012. Entries for the 9th Congressional Art Contest will be on display at Tacoma Art Museum located at 1701 Pacific Avenue, Tacoma through the 2nd week of May. Due to space limitations, it may not be possible to display all work. The winner of the competition will be announced at the Art Exhibition and Reception on Sunday, May 6, 2012 at 1:00 pm at Tacoma Art Museum. Tacoma Art Museum has graciously offered to waive admission for contest entrants, their families, their teachers, and sponsors. If you are interested in attending this reception, please RSVP by Wednesday, April 25, 2012 to Christine Choe at (253) 593-6600 or email: OfficeAssistantWA09@mail.house.gov. The selected student will win prizes and be invited to attend the national reception for a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday, June 20, 2012 in Washington, DC. Two round-trip airline tickets are donated for travel to DC. The winning entry will be displayed in the Cannon tunnel of the U.S. Capitol for one year. If you have any questions please contact Mr. Linh Thai at (253) 272-1488 or email: linh.thai@mail.house.gov.
Teens for Jeans collected 1,020,041 pairs of jeans this year! Aviation High School donated over 100 pairs of jeans with the Junior class wining the spirit competition! A huge thank you to everyone involved. Some fun facts about the campaign:
• 1500 pairs of jeans were donated per hour
• 26 pairs of jeans donated per minute
• 1 pair of jeans donated every 2 seconds
• If folded and stacked, the jeans collected would rise 32 miles, or 6Xs the height of Mount Everest (or 137Xs higher than the Empire State Building)
• 1 in 3 American High Schools participated
• Most importantly: These jeans will clothe 2 out of 3 homeless teens
QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
“We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years
and underestimate the change that will occur in the next 10."
--Bill Gates, American businessman, software engineer and philanthropist
PREVIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS BUT STILL RELEVANT
Sniffles are high and Kleenex is low. Kleenex Box Donations will be appreciated!
Sophomores and Juniors are invited to be Seafair Ambassadors, which includes a $1,000 scholarship and an exchange trip to Kobe, Japan! Applications are due March 15. Visit www.seafairfoundation.org for more information and the application.
NEW Internships are posted regularly, check the Career Bulletin Board AND the new website, www.aviationhscareers.org for application requirements, including deadlines. The latest is a paid internship, open to all schools, at the Baliga Institute for Systems Biology.
National Honor Society is having their annual Pennies for Patients fundraiser, starting Monday, March 5th and lasting three weeks. Pennies for Patients is a fundraiser that raises money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society to help with cancer research. This fundraiser is for a great cause, but it is also a very fun competition. The winning advisory at the end of the three weeks will win a lunch sponsored by Olive Garden. Each advisory has a box in it that you can put money into any time of the day, except the boxes will be collected every day and counted. The same rules apply as last year, meaning that coins will add to your advisories total, while bills will take away from it. So add coins to your advisories box, and put bills in other advisories boxes to help your advisory win! Each teacher will have an update of which advisories are in the lead every day, and there will be an updated sheet outside of the office and in the cafeteria as well. Join NHS in helping to raise money for cancer research, and let's have a fun competition for a lunch sponsored by Olive Garden!
Want to play Ultimate Frisbee? Our team is looking for more players, especially girls, even if you have not played before. Interested? Contact anyone on the team including Teal Dowd, Chris Lu, Sasha Friedrich, Jennifer Luoma or check us out on one of our fields after school Tuesday, Wednesday or Th.
IMPORTANT: AP test DEPOSITS ($15 per test or $5 for free/reduced lunch) were due by February 16, 2012.
FINAL payment is due by April 20, 2012.
Any tests ordered after April 13, 2012 will cost an additional $50 per test.
Each AP test is $87 per test or $5 if student is on free/reduced lunch.
ASB ANNOUNCEMENTS for March:
Spring Fling: (originally named MORP) The theme for our third dance of the year, "Drop it in the Tropics", is Hawaiian. The Freshman class is planning this event and it will happen on March 24th from 8-11pm. Ticket prices will be $7 with ASB and $10 without ASB. In addition, Raj (Junior) will be our DJ, and he volunteered to do it for free. Spring Fling Pep Assembly will be held March 16. ASB plans to hold the Spring Fling Pep Assembly on March 16th, one week before the dance.
$5 Fridays: Starting March 2nd, ASB will sell our regular t-shirts, sunglasses, water bottles, tube socks, & lanyards for $5, but our Limited Edition Crewnecks will be on sale for $20 and students will receive a free t-shirt with that purchase.
Shamrock Game: Much like our Valentine's Day Heart Game ASB is hosting a Shamrock Game in March. This time Aviation boys will be given the chance to play the game. In the morning ASB will be handing out shamrock necklaces to each male student in the school. During passing time, male students are not allowed to speak to female students and if they do, they will give her their shamrock. The female student with the most shamrocks at the end of the day wins spirit points for her class and free tickets to Spring Fling. This event will happen before March 17th, St. Patrick's Day.
Mr. Aviation: Attention students! Aviation High School ASB/Leader is proud to present the very first Mr. Aviation Pageant this year! We have a total of 30 contestants who are ready to display their hidden talents, charming personalities, and amazing fashion styles. Mr. Aviation will be held on March 30th from 6-8 pm in the gymnasium. Tickets are $5 for everyone and children 10 years old and under are free. We are inviting all students, staff, and friends/family members. It's going to be a great show and we hope to see everyone there!
Attention, team members and fans of the Skunkworks Robotics Team: If you are interested in purchasing a team t-shirt, contact Drew Wall at thecommanderd@aol.com to provide your shirt size and learn the details about payment and when you can expect to receive your shirt. Wouldn’t it be nice if everyone had an AHS Skunks shirt to wear on March 23?
The Washington State Board of Education is pleased to announce the start of the third-annual student video contest. This year’s contest will focus on the importance of social studies and language arts courses in high schools. The contest due date is Tuesday, May 1, 2012. This is a great opportunity for all secondary students to showcase their appreciation for social studies and language arts, their creativity, and their video skills. Past participants have found the contest rewarding and educational. Plus, the contest is a celebration of what you and your staff are doing every day, helping students grow and learn. More information about the contest, including the winning videos from last year, is available at www.sbe.wa.gov/.
Museum of Flight Climate Day Event: The Museum of Flight (MoF) is looking for students interested in the Climate Day event scheduled for Thursday, April 5th 5-9pm. It is going to be similar to the museum’s Space Day and Astronomy Night. The event is about climate change in general, the science behind it, research, solutions, conservation, energy efficiency, renewable energies, etc. MoF is looking for volunteers to host a booth, in particular, people working with green technology (renewable energy, alternative energy, reducing carbon emissions, studying climate change, etc.). AHS students working on related concepts are encouraged to step forward and relay interest to Mr. Kelly. Students can also attend the presentation by Michelle Gierach, the lead project scientist for the Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PODAAC) from JPL. Follow link for related calendar items: http://www.museumofflight.org/event/2012/apr/05/nasa-climate-day
The yearbook is doing a spread devoted to the innovation and imagination of the students of AHS. We want to know what clubs students want to start so we can advertise them in the Yearbook. Send your ideas and names to kevinschilling@rocketmail.com
Attention Juniors: Do you love math? Do you hope to study engineering in college? University of Washington Mathematics Academy is a great opportunity for students to prepare for an engineering major. Participants stay on UW campus and are exposed to real-world engineering/mat faculty. If you are interested, applications are available in Ms. Carper’s office. The deadline is March 15, 2012.
Republic Services is offering a $1000 Environmental Scholarship for students enrolling in a program pertaining to an “Environmental” field. Applications are available in Ms. Carper’s office. Deadline: May 18, 2012
UW Discovery Days – Engineering Discovery Days is free and open to everyone!
At Engineering Discovery Days, students and faculty from all UW engineering departments share their work with students, teachers, families and the community. Please join us for hands-on fun and learning. Follow the navigation path below to register (not required but requested.) http://www.engr.washington.edu/alumcomm/openhouse.html
Friday, April 20, 2012 — 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Saturday, April 21, 2012 — 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Paid Internships with Aerotec Engineering: Announcing 1-2 full time, paid internships with Aerotec Engineering for the summer 2012. Juniors and Seniors can apply, with application deadline March 15, 2012. Candidates should be pursuing an engineering career, and will need to submit a cover letter and resume, letters of endorsement, transcript and any supplemental materials demonstrating their qualifications. Intern/s will work directly with engineers in flight testing and many other areas according to their interests. Julie Burr, Coordinator of Work Based Learning, can answer questions and a full internship description is on the bulletin board outside the Career Center.
Research Science Institute - The Center for Excellence in Education (CEE) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) co-sponsors of the Research Science Institute (RSI) are looking for talented 11th Grade STEM Students! Are you one of them, and would you be interested in doing some really exciting cutting-edge summer research? If so, consider applying to the (RSI) program to be held on the MIT campus June 24 to August 4, 2012. Participants will meet some of the world’s most talented students and have an opportunity to conduct research in amazing labs! For application materials and more info about the program, take a look at the CEE web site: www.cee.org. If you have any questions, please contact Maite Ballestero, Vice President, Programs, maite@cee.org.
Continue checking the AHS website or logging on to school computers to get updated information on events and meetings
SCHOLARSHIP INFORMATION FOR AHS SENIORS (see attached addendum and note that all future editions of the NOTAM will include scholarship information as an addendum.)
Addendum to NOTAM 02-27-12
SCHOLARSHIP INFORMATION FOR SENIORS
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Tacoma International Airport (STIA) Scholarship - Application deadline is Friday, March 23, 2012: each year, the Highline Schools Foundation works with the Port of Seattle to offer the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (STIA) Scholarship to graduating seniors. These are needs-based scholarships awarded to three students who are pursuing a college education. Two $14,000 scholarships will be awarded toward a university/college education and one $8,000 scholarship will be awarded toward a vocational or community college education. All scholarships are distributed over a two-year period. Priority is given to students who have not received a substantial scholarship from other entities. The application is available online:
http://www.highlineschoolsfoundation.org/scholarships/stiascholarshipapplication.html
The Paine Field Chapter of the Washington Pilots Association (WPA) is proud to offer its annual Kurt Mason Aviation to students seeking opportunities in aviation-related education programs (such as Airframe & Powerplant certification, aviation or aerospace degree programs, etc.). Application deadline is March 31. To apply, please download the application at
http://www.wpaflys.org/Chapters/Paine/scholarship.htm
FIRST Scholarship News: Find out about two new FIRST Scholarship opportunities for 2012 and about LOTS of scholarships whose March deadline dates are fast approaching! Also read messages from some of the FIRST Scholarship Providers. See: http://www.usfirst.org/sites/default/files/uploadedFiles/About_Us/Scholarships/2012_Assets/FIRST%20Scholarship%20News%201-17-12.pdf
Abbot and Fenner Business Consultants are offering $1,000 scholarships. Applications are available at www.abbottandfenner.com/scholarships.htm. Deadline: June 15, 2012.
Big Sun is offering an annual scholarship to any young athlete. All students are eligible for this award, it does not matter what sport you are participating in. To learn more visit http://www.bigsunathletics.com. Deadline: June 22, 2012
Aerojet is offering a $1,000 scholarship to a student pursuing a STEM education and career pathway. . Pick up an application in Katie Carper’s office. Applications are due by April 1. See Ms. Carper for details.
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