Raisbeck Aviation High
School
NOTAM 111813
Nov. 18, 2013
WHAT’S HAPPENING THIS WEEK
November 18-22
is American Education Week! Celebrate the joy of learning and thank your
teachers!
Monday: Science
Olympiad (studiers)--8:00-8:50
a.m., Room 2350
Tuesday: Science Olympiad (builders) --8:00-8:50
a.m., Room 2350
Speech and Debate--3:30-5:00 p.m., Room 3560
FTC Robotics Team
Meetings 3:30-5:00
p.m., Room 1610
FRC
Robotics Team Meetings 6:00-8:30 p.m., Room
1610
Wednesday: A Block: Periods 1, 3, Advisory, 5
Science Olympiad (studiers)
8:00-8:50
a.m., Room 2350
Speech and Debate 3:30-5:00 p.m.,
Room 3560
12th grade FAFSA Presentation
1:00-1:40 p.m., BPC
RAHS Ski Bus Parent info Night 6:00-7:00 p.m., 2nd Floor Commons
Thursday: B Block: Periods 2, 4, Clubs, 6
Science Olympiad (builders) 8:00-8:50
a.m., Room 2350
Speech
and Debate 3:30-5:00
p.m., Room 3560
FTC Robotics Team
Meetings 3:30-5:00
p.m., Room 1610
FRC
Robotics Team Meetings 6:00-8:30 p.m., Room
1610
Friday: Science Olympiad
(studiers and builders) 8:00-8:50 a.m., Room 2350
SPIRIT SHACK during lunch in the Cafeteria
Early Dismissal at 2:00 p.m. for students; Staff
Professional Development 2:15-3:45 p.m.
Principal’s Message
We
are getting closer to holiday breaks, so the following is provided to help you
with planning:
·
Student-led
conferences are being scheduled after school on November 25 & 26. If you
haven’t scheduled your conference, please do so this week.
·
There
is no school for students on Wednesday, November 27.
·
November
28 & 29—Thanksgiving break; no school.
·
Winter
break is December 23 – January 3. School resumes on Monday, January 6.
·
January
20 will be a non-student day in celebration of Martin Luther King’s birthday.
As
a reminder, family vacations taken during regular school days, will be
unexcused, per state law. Please plan accordingly.
A
big thank you to everyone who attended the Highline Public Schools’ board
meeting that was held at our school last Wednesday. Your show of support was deeply
appreciated. Special thanks to those who
provided tours and presented to the board. We received many compliments about
our new school and the focus of our instructional program. Thank you to PTSA President Steve Burke for
attending the meeting!
Thank
you, ASB, for planning and facilitating the Student of the Quarter Assembly last week. Congratulations
again to recipients who were honored for demonstrating CLASS—Character,
Leadership, Attitude, Scholarship, and Service: Freshmen Kaeden Wile and Mariam Mayanja, Sophomores Kara de Leon and Senay Emmanuel,
Juniors Kristen Lemley and Emilio
Anselma, and Seniors Sasha Friedrich
and Andrew May.
Congratulations
to the following students who were selected to attend the Joe Sutter Dinner Lecture last Saturday, sponsored by the Seattle
Branch of the Royal Aeronautical Society: Noah
Kramer, Brian Gonzales-Montoya, Noah Palmer, Jaclyn Wing, Ian Demaree, Jade
Jordan, Emilio Anselmo, Xhelan Sylve, Natalie Carmichael, Julia Shettler, Katie
Burell, Yenni Lee, Meleake Wubbie, Nicole Diaz, Najib Osman, Kouga Rollins,
Aileen Nguyen, Colin Marvin, Tatayana Jenkins, Joanmarie Aoanan, Alfiya Yesuf, Meg
Vader, Lona Medhane, Zakaria Sharif Hassan, Darci Franklin, Sasha Friedrich,
Logan McSwain, John Copeland, Harkarn Baines, Emory Eng, Dwight Aoanan, Rachel
Demaree, Teal Dowd, Camila Palacio, Sophia Gut, Savan Vekaria, Elsa Aguilar,
Emma Finnsson, Andrea Wooley, Lily Johnson, Mamesa El, Loren McDonald, and AHS
alumni Hunter McSwain. Special
thanks to chaperones Mr. & Mrs. Wooley, Mr. Kelly, and Mr. Joshi.
Last
Saturday, our Skunkworks Robotics Team
hosted approximately 100 Boy Scouts for a Robotics
Merit Badge Fair. Praise for the
program our Skunks provided was exceptionally high from those in attendance,
including scoutmasters and parents. Thank
you, Skunks, for your amazing outreach efforts, and congratulations on another
stellar program that excites youth about robotics and informs them of the
importance of STEM education.
This past weekend, the Speech & Debate
team competed with a dozen other teams at UW Tacoma. RAHS walked away with numerous accolades.
Benton Coblentz, Maryam Mayanja,
Hanan Diriye, and Sierra Parsons all received superior awards for
Extemporaneous Speaking, Congressional Debate and Public Forum respectively( Benton
received two awards). Katie
McConville and Nicole Diaz received excellent awards in Extemporaneous
Speaking and Congressional Debate respectively. This is great news in
preparation for our next tournament at Tahoma High School where we are aiming
for our first state bid.
In
closing this week, I am compelled to share that I am now a grandmother of a
beautiful little girl named Cameron who arrived on 11-12-13. She has already
captured my heart, and in between cuddling, I’m having conversations with her
about what her future could be if she attends Raisbeck Aviation High School. :-
) Imagine that!
Please
read the Announcements section for information and opportunities that add to
your preparation for college and career.
Cheers to babies and a joyful week of learning. Honored to be your principal—
Reba
G.
NEW
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Student-Led
Conferences:
On
Monday 11/25 and Tuesday 11/26 we will be holding student-led conferences from
3:40 – 6:10 p.m. During the
conference, your child will outline his/her academic goals, explain what s/he
is learning in his/her classes, and support his/her explanations with evidence
chosen from his/her body of work.
Student-led conferences will last approximately 20-25 minutes.
From your ASB:
This week,
faculty and ASB members will participate in the fundraiser for India's Pillar of Education. You can
donate money in order to reach a ceiling amount individual to each participant.
When a ceiling amount is reached for a particular participant, they must shave,
dye, or style their hair for the following week. You can see the participating
faculty members posted in the spirit shack corner of the Commons. Donating will
take place next week, and participants will return the week after with their
individual hair styles. The following faculty members and ASB members are
participating: Mr. Gudor, Mr. Joshi, Mr. Shiroma, and Ms. Adams, Gabby Rivera,
and Jonah Graves.
Thank you all again for showing great
school spirit and appreciation to the students and teachers in last week's
Student of the Quarter Assembly. Congratulations again to Kaeden Wile, Mariam Mayanja, Kara de Leon, Senay Emmanuel, Kristen Lemley,
Emilio Anselmo, Sasha Friedrich, and Andrew May for being last quarter's
recognized students. Work hard for another semester, and we hope to be
recognizing you at the next one!
This Friday, the Spirit Shack will be
open in cafeteria. We have new Seattle stride socks and v-necks! All t-shirts
will be $5 and sweatpants will be $15 for ASB Card Holders, so please make
sure to show your ID card at the time of purchase. New items are on the way!
The birthday wall will be up soon!
Check out the wall and greet everyone a happy birthday!
If you ever want to come to know what ASB is up
to, please stop our meetings and see what we're doing! The meetings are open to
all students. They are on Wednesdays starting at lunch, come and say hi!
Got Kleenex?
The
cold weather has arrived! For those of
you who are able, please consider donating a box or two of Kleenex to the front
office. We can never have too much
Kleenex here at RAHS!
Community
Service Forms:
Please
be sure to fill out your community services forms in full before turning them
in to the career center. They cannot be
approved if they are missing student information, parent and/or advisor
signatures. Blank community service forms
will be available in the Career Center.
See Mr. Sarver for details.
Science Olympiad:
Science
Olympians,
a friendly reminder that studiers are required to come to Science Olympiad on
Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, while builders are required to come on
Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays.
Start
saving the dates for our Mandatory Marathon Saturdays where you get to
practice, work, and compete against your Olympian peers!
7 December 2013
18 January 2013
1 February 2013
15 March 2013
Expectations
are that students come for any three hours between 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Mentors and other advisors of students are
warmly welcomed!
Phoenix Flyer:
"RAHS
to Ground Control! Commencing countdown to initial flight!
Do
you have personal questions to be answered about school life, relationships,
education or your future? Looking for advice or support from other peers? Need
someone to relate to about this year's homework cram? Radio into the Phoenix
Flyer's new advice column, Ground Control!
Our
communication lines are now open! Submit your anonymous questions to ahsphoenixflyer@gmail.com, or tweet
them to @ahsphoenixflyer #groundcontrol, for a published response in the
upcoming issue!"
National
Honor Society:
ATTENTION RAHS - We have an update for Sister Schools! The seniors are currently in
the lead with 582 links, the juniors come in second with 264, the
sophomores in third with 236, and finally the freshmen with 92. That's a total
of 1,174 links, $391, and 196 backpacks for the children in Uganda!
You guys are doing fantastic! But we know by the end of this next week
that number will be increased by an exponential function! (C'mon, we're a
STEM school guys, you should know that that means a really big number).
Remember the fundraiser ends on Thursday November 21, THIS WEEK. So hurry up
and get that money in! :)
Interact
Club:
Help
take a bit out of hunger. We will be starting our Annual Can Food drive
starting Tuesday, November 12, 2013 and going to Friday, November 22, 2013.
Please bring canned food and place it in your class’s bins (located in the
commons). The class with the most cans will get spirit points as well as a
special treat for Interact Club. If you also choose to participate in the theme
days your class will get double points for the food of that theme brought in
each day. Stay tuned for theme days. Please help Interact Club collect 1000
cans for our local food bank!
Volunteer
opportunity: Have you ever wanted to help package food for a family in need?
Because we have something for you! Northwest Harvest is looking for students to
come and help package food to be distributed to families for holiday dinners.
If you would like to help, talk to Mrs. Burr and she will sign you up!
Northwest Harvest is about 20 minutes away from the school. The date for
volunteering is December 18 from 4-7. Come and help make someone’s holiday
better.
eScrip:
As
you may have previously heard, with eScrip, your grocery and retail
purchases earn money for RAHS. Now you can also earn money for our school
when you dine at local restaurants. Other merchants in our area
providing support include Safeway and Bartell Drugs. You may also
register your credit cards and your purchases will earn even more cash for RAHS.
If
you have previously enrolled in eScript, please log in and do the annual
reactivation. If you haven't yet enrolled, please join and support
RAHS. Go to http://www.escrip.com/. Please check to see that you're supporting
the Aviation H.S. in Des Moines (not the one in NY). Our Group ID is
500005738.
From the career center
Mentor
Program
–
The Career Center staff is working on making new mentor-mentee matches.
Be patient, sophomores, if you haven’t yet been assigned a mentor.
Counselor Corner–Katie Carper
Have
you checked the school website lately? There is valuable information in
the newly-updated Counselor section, including scholarships, admissions
information, and FAQ’s.
Michelle
Ho from the HCC Office of Financial Aid will be speaking about the FAFSA in the
BPC on Wednesday, November 20 at 1 PM. Families who were not able to
attend her evening FAFSA presentation on November 13 are welcome to
attend!
From Your PTSA
Thanks
to all of you for participating in the Raisbeck Aviation HS PTSA Auction on November
2nd. Your work has again shown that "The Sky Is Not The Limit" to
benefit this amazing school. While our final numbers are not yet in, it looks
like "you" helped set new records for net income along with overall
attendance and gross donations. We expect to have final number and more details
to present at the PTSA December 4th general meeting. We would love to have you attend that meeting
in the Boeing Presentation Center at RAHS at 6:00pm on Wednesday December 4th.
See you there!
- 2013 Auction
Committee
Reflections – PTSA’s Fall Art Festival
Believe.
Dream. Inspire. All students are invited to create an
original work of art that reflects this theme for the fall art
festival. Recognition and cash prizes awarded for
entries in any of 6 different categories: Photography, Visual Arts,
Literature, Music Composition, Choreography, and Film short. Art
will be accepted in the office until Dec 6th. More details are
available at http://www.aviationptsa.org/ Art that
starts at RAHS may end up in a select show at the US Department of Education.
Bonus: We’ll take care of the packaging for you.
RAHS Ski Bus
Mohan
Skiing & Boarding will be hosting a parent information night on November 20th
from 6:00-7:00 pm in the 2nd Floor Commons. The ski bus program dates are January 10, 17,
24, 31 and February 7, 17. No experience
necessary! View their website at www.skimohan.com for more information.
Community News
On
December 6, the Boeing Employees Choir will present a concert to benefit
Highline Music4Life. HM4L donates musical instruments for use by low-income
students in our district. To date, HM4L has provided dozens of band and
orchestra instruments, as well as guitars and ukuleles for our students.
Previous NOTAM
Announcements – but still Relevant
MAKE-UP DAYS—Everyone,
please remember that our late start to the school year means that we must make up the three days we missed at the
start of the school year. We have
made up one. Please plan to come to school on the following two days:
·
February
18, 2014—full day of school, dismissal at 3:30 p.m.
·
May
16, 2014—half day of school, dismissal at Noon
School
bus transportation will be provided for Highline students.
Attention
Seniors:
Please
don’t wait until the last minute to schedule your senior picture appointment. Senior pictures are due on Friday, January
10, 2014 to yearbook. Look for the flyer in advisory this week that lists
the specific requirements.
For
an updated copy of our
STUDENT
HANDBOOK
Click on the
student handbook link from our school home page from the district website
located at http://www.highlineschools.org/Page/53
Quote of the Week:
I
confess that in 1901, I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for
fifty years. . . . Ever since, I have distrusted myself and avoided all
predictions.
— Wilbur Wright, in a speech to the Aero Club of France, 5
November 1908.
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