NOTAM 111714 Raisbeck
Aviation High School
November 17, 2014
Film Club meeting, Room 3530 3:45 PM to
5:00 PM
Youth and Government, Room 2310
3:45 PM to 5:15 PM
Tuesday: Six Period Day
Freshmen - Link Crew Meeting during lunch
in your normal spots
Wednesday: A Block:
Periods 1, 3, Advisory, 5
Speech
and Debate Room 3560 - 3:30PM to 5:30 PM
Math Club Room 3180 - 3:30 PM
to 4:45 PM
VIP External Review Team for RAHS
Accreditation on campus
Thursday: B
Block: Periods 2, 4, Advisory, 6
FTC
Team meeting Room 1610 – 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
FRC
Team meeting Room 1610 – 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Speech and Debate Room 3560 – 3:30 PM to
5:30 PM
VIP External Review Team for RAHS
Accreditation on campus
40
police officers will be on campus for School Resource Officer Training
Spirit
Shack Open during Lunch
Speech and Debate Competition at Tahoma
High School
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Principal’s Message
Raisbeck
Aviation High School bubbled over with Phoenix pride last Thursday night. Over 150
RAHS student ambassadors stayed late to support our first Information Night—thank
you students! Many visitors shared with
me how impressed they were with you, our teachers, and support staff. I am very
proud of everyone. Based
on the number of brochures distributed to each prospective family, the RAHS family helped over 650 visitors become better acquainted with
our program.
Do
you know of a prospective student who may be interested in RAHS? Invite them to our final Information Night on
December 4. If you know of a student or
family who cannot attend, please forward the following link that features our
new promotional video. It is available
for the next two weeks at https://app.box.com/s/1kuwcf7cfa8ree950re7. With striking aerial
photography of our school, the video wonderfully captures the heartbeat of our
school climate and student culture. The PTSA
Board Members deserve my deep gratitude for their support of the
promotional video project.
This coming Wednesday and Thursday, an external team from AdvancED,
a certified accreditation provider, will be on site to conduct a comprehensive
review and evaluation of RAHS. Public
schools are required to undergo accreditation every five years. I consider the review another opportunity to
share our program and learn how we can improve our practices. Specifically, AdvancED requires that educational
institutions must:
· Meet
the AdvancED Standards and accreditation policies.
· Engage
in continuous improvement.
Ms. Nurzhanov earns a giant gold
star for her efforts to lead the accreditation intake process and our teachers
deserve praise for their collaborative work to meet every deadline. Thank you
staff! We expect to receive the executive
summary from AdvancED’s by mid-December.
I’ll share the highlights in a subsequent NOTAM and post the summary to
our website as soon as it becomes available.
I believe the external review team will be amazed by our unrivaled
programs, stellar achievements, and Phoenix spirit.
Thank you Drivers! Your
cooperation is greatly appreciated. Last
week, we noted a significant reduction in the number of U-Turns in front of the
school.
U-Turns
in front of the school—I’ve
observed and learned about a number of close calls involving cars making
U-turns in front of the school. As a
courtesy to our student drivers and other parents, please follow the
directional signs in the parking area. The safest place to turn around is to
follow the directional arrows at the west end of the building. Drivers, please avoid making a U-turn in
between the speed bumps. Thank you for
your cooperation to keep everyone safe.
A Round of Applause—acknowledging those who make RAHS a
better place.
Sydney Gardner, Deanta Kelly,
Maryam Shafa, Timothy Wang, and Grace Zoppi,—they are a very accomplished stringed quintet and
have performed for the Pathfinder Gala, the PTSA Auction, and the Joe Sutter
Dinner. Superb performances!
Ms. Wombold and Mr. and Mrs. Joshi for chaperoning the Joe Sutter Dinner.
All 150 students who stayed late for
Information Night!
Harrison Jerome, Isabella Torres,
Deborah Ferede, Quinn Edgington,
Xhelan Sylve, Isha Singh, Kory Watson, Melissa Will, Carlos Navarro, and Emilio Anselmo—our student Information Night
panelists.
Honored
to serve as your Principal—Bruce Kelly
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From your PTSA:
Final Auction Results will be announced at the next
PTSA General Meeting on December 10th it’s a secret till then.
Be sure to attend and hear the news first about what great givers and community
support we have – we are blessed by all participants and donors.
Reminder:
Please be sure to ask your company if they will match any of the funds that you
spent at the auction. Every dollar counts!
There
are other ways you can support RAHS – see the link here Shop and Earn for RAHS for ways you can donate funds
with your regular purchases.
If you
or anyone you know took any pictures of this amazing event and are willing to
share, please email them to ahsauction@aviationptsa.org, or bring them to Mr. McLaughlin
on a thumb drive (which will be returned). Thank you!
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NEW
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Parents, students must not stay
at a school after 6 PM
unless they are directly supervised and participating in a school event/club or
extra-curricular activity. This is to ensure student safety and adult
supervision while on the school campus.
If you
are unable to pick your child up before 6 PM on a regular school day, please
arrange a carpool (connect with the PTSA) or make other arrangements for
transportation. For liability reasons, your child must be supervised or
find a way home by 6PM. Thank
you!
Calling
All Athletes!
If you
want to be in the sports section of the yearbook please submit your sports
photos to maryam.e.shafa@gmail.com
The External Review Team for RAHS
Accreditation
will visit our school on November 19 and 20. During this visit, team members
will be engaged in a variety of activities (classroom observations, stake
holder interviews, artifacts review, school data analysis, etc.) to identify
and document evidence of meeting the accreditation standards by our school.
School will be operated on the regular block day schedule.
Thursday, November 20, we will
have 40 police officers
and some district facilitators on campus for the South King County Council on
Gangs School Resource Officer Training.
We expect many of the officers will arrive in their patrol cars. We endeavor to keep you informed. They will be here for a meeting and some
training. They will meet in our Professional Learning Center 9:00 AM until NOON.
Attention
freshmen and Link crew leaders! There will be a link crew meeting this
Tuesday at lunch in your normal spots. This is for all freshmen. See you there!
World Language Credit by Proficiency test
process is coming soon! We will have two meetings and the final testing day the
first week of December. More information and the steps to take in order to test
coming soon during advisory.
Student Lead Conferences November 24 and 25
1.
Please note: if you are NOT
notified, you may attend your first choice of conference time
2.
If you need to change your time
once submitted please email your student’s advisor to make arrangements. Do not telephone the attendance office.
Interact Club and National Honors Society are having a food drive November 10-21 to help
families in need during Thanksgiving. Please bring in non-perishable food items
to school there will be boxes at the top of the stairs on the second floor!!!
This is a class competition for spirit points so by bringing in food you are
helping families in need and your class.
After the first week of the food drive the sophomores are in the lead with 103
non-perishable goods. The freshmen are trailing them by quite a lot with only
16 items with the juniors not too far back having only 9 items, the seniors are
in dead last with 0 items. The food drive is going for another week so show
your class spirit and help people in need.
Robotics
News
The 1st FTC Competition is fast
approaching on
November 22nd! In preparation, FTC will hold extra meetings on the following
days:
Tuesday,
November 18th, 3:30 - 8:00pm
Wednesday,
November 19th, 3:30 - 8:00pm
Thursday,
November 20th, 3:30 - 8:00pm
Speech
and Debate Competition Results
The
Speech and Debate Team performed with great excellence at the Snohomish
Panthers Invitational.
Our
Flaming Penguins had many competitors place in their respective events:
Super
Congressional Debate Finalists - Fatima
Firoz, Toshi Take, Nicole Diaz.
Junior
Public Forum Debate - Emily Readey and
Elizabeth Van Flandern 1st place, Lona
Medhane and Karl Nielsen 3rd place Open Public Forum Debate - Zahnae Aquino and Shailee Stevens 2nd
place.
Novice
Impromptu - Zahnae Aquino 1st place,
Kevin Diego 3rd place out of 53
people total in the event.
Open
Extemporaneous - Karl Nielsen 2nd
place.
Novice
Extemporaneous - Jacob Simmons 1st
place, Elizabeth Van Flandern 2nd
place.
Novice
Interpretive Reading - Shailee Stevens
2nd place, Nicole Diaz 3rd place.
US
Transportation Secretary Raise Award – Deadline December 30, 2014 (looking for
more high school applicants) http://www.dot.gov/office-policy/aviation-policy/secretary-transportations-raise-award
2015 International Aviation Air
Contest -World Air Games Dubia! Due by January 12, 2015 (I have a few brochures and would
love to mail them if you can provide me your mailing address)
- 2014-2015 Real World Design
Challenge Registration is open
- Challenge focus unmanned
systems and precision agriculture through design and implementation of a
UAS to support precision agriculture.
§ $50,000 scholarships from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical
University to each student on the national winning team.
§ A $1,000 stipend to the
teacher who best integrates the Real World Design Challenge into their
curriculum
State Challenge 2014/2015
State Challenge Issued
|
October
1, 2014
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Team Registration Deadline
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December
1, 2014
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Solution Submission Deadline
|
March
31, 2015
|
State Challenge Digital Submissions Scored by
Judges
|
April
1- 10, 2015
|
State Winners Announced
|
April
10-20, 2015
|
National Challenge
2014/2015
National Challenge Issued
|
April
21, 2015
|
Solution Submission Deadline
|
November
2015
|
National Challenge Digital Submissions Scored by
Judges
|
November
2015
|
National Challenge Event
|
November
2015
|
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Parent Portal/Illuminate
For
parents who have not yet received Parent Portal/Illuminate Registration Codes
they may be obtained by contacting Mrs. Hiranaka by phone or email. 206.631.7200
or theda.hiranaka@highlineschools.org
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FROM
THE CAREER CENTER
ALL
STUDENTS
--- Are you currently involved in an internship this semester? In
order to receive academic credit for your efforts ---paperwork is needed to be
filed with district personnel. If your internship is a continuing process
from either the summer 2014 or earlier ---be sure and let the CAREER CENTER
know of your collective hours. For academic credit on your permanent
transcript; .5 credit will be awarded for 180 hours and 1.0 credit (maximum)
will be awarded for a total of 360 hours. Credits are issued on semester
grade report only.
Δv SPACEFEST: ACCELERATING DISCOVERY -- Participate in the
Museum of Flight’s Spacefest on November 20-22. Space X,
Planetary Resources, Blue Origin, CASIS, Virgin Galactic, Boeing Commercial
Space and more will be represented by individuals in presenting specific
programs and demonstrations. If you are interested in volunteering please
contact Julia Cannell at jcannell@museumofflight.org or 206-768-7162.
Assistance with social media, speaker escorts and other activities will be
needed on all three days of Spacefest.
MENTORS/MENTEES –The second breakfast of the
2014-15 school year will take place on Wednesday, December 3 at
7:30AM. Roughly half of the sophomore class has been paired with their
new prospective mentors and the December breakfast will be a chance to “meet
and greet”. This month, we’re pleased to present perspectives on
mentorship and how the program has been the “key” in forming new relationships,
new understandings and new perspectives on aviation, academics and professional
growth ---for both mentors as well as mentees. Mentors have received
notification of needed district paperwork in order to be “matched” with
sophomore mentees. As that paperwork is returned, the remaining sophomore
students will be matched with prospective mentees.
Contact
Mr. Davolt @ steven.davolt@highlineschools.org. for further information and
your chance to participate.
REFLECTIONS
ART CELEBRATION PROGRAM
-- The World Would Be a Better Place If… RAHS students are invited
to enter a national program of competition in artistic impression and
expression. Forms and full details are available at www.aviationptsa.org. Students may enter in as many
as six distinct categories:
·
Photographic
arts
·
Visual
arts
·
Video
arts
·
Performance
arts
·
Music
composition
·
Literary
works
Jury
selected entries are advanced to council, state, and national exhibitions
throughout spring 2015. National outstanding artworks receive cash prizes of
$800, a gold medal, and a trip for two to see their work on exhibition at the
U.S. Department of Education in Washington D.C. Thanks to the generous
support of the RAISBECK PTSA ---various levels of support are available to
applicants. See website for details.
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Counselor
Corner
Ms. Carper will proctor BYU
Health exams in the career center at 3:40 on the last Wednesday of every month. Remember,
you must order the test from BYU at least two weeks in advance.
MIT
Inspire Competition: Students
are invited to enter MIT Inspire, a national research competition. For
more information, visit getinspired.mit.edu. The first submission
deadline is January 7, 2015.
There
will be a FAFSA how-to presentation at 6 PM on December 10 in the third floor
PLC.
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ASB
Thank
you for all of your generous donations! You donated more than 38 boxes for
Operation Christmas Child!
Attention freshmen and Link crew
leaders! There will be a link crew meeting this Tuesday at lunch in your normal
spots. This is for all freshmen. See you there!
THANKSGIVING CHARACTER DARE WEEK
This is it! It's Thanksgiving Character
Dare Week. Each day ASB challenges you to step out of your comfort zone and do
the dare for each day at school. This Character Dare week is intended to bring
RAHS together, and get people to start thinking about what all we have to be
thankful for.
Monday: Day of
Compliments
Tell people in real life and online how
you appreciate them and love them etc. (Use our RAHS Compliments page to remain
anonymous!)
Tuesday: Day of Spark
What is your spark? Slow down during
passing period and get to know new people.
Wednesday: Day of Gratitude
Introduce yourself to a staff member you
haven't met, write a thank you letter to them.
Thursday: Day of Giving
Donate canned and nonperishable food to
the food drive.
Friday: Day of Veteran
Appreciation
Write a thank you letter to an active
serviceman or thank our own staff and teachers for their services such as Mr. Sarver,
Mr. Delano, and Mr. Hoehne.
If you do not know where to send your
veteran letter, there will be a box at the flight attendants desk that you can
drop off your letter, and ASB will deliver your thanks for you.
As always, if you want to know what
ASB's up to or if you want to share your input in one of our meetings Mrs.
Fitz's doors are always open during lunch on Wednesdays!
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MS. HIRANAKA NEEDS
YOUR COOPERATION EVERY DAY!
If you are tardy, please report to class, Ms. Hiranaka
does not provide admit slips.
If you are absent, please call the
school’s attendance line or access the Quicklinks
section on the school’s web page: Report Absence Attendance Line 206.631.7217, or
http://www.highlineschools.org/aviation/Pages/Home.aspx
In the event that you will be absent or tardy for any reason,
please have your parents/guardians call our attendance line and leave a
message. When they call, they should
leave the following information:
- your
name
- their
name
- reason for the absence and the date of absence
Your parents/guardians are required
to call each day you will be absent from school.
Remember, it is required by law to
follow up with a written note excusing your absence when you return to school.
To comply with regulations, notes for absences must include the
following details:
- Student’s
name
- Parent/guardian
name
- Reason
for the absence
- Date
of absence
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Attendance Reminder for Parents and Students: Attendance line 206-631-7217.
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Quote of the Week—submitted by Maren Gibson, RAHS sophomore.
I
have discovered that a screw-shaped device such as this, if it is well made
from starched linen, will rise in the air if turned quickly.
— Leonardo Da
Vinci, Codice Atlantico, describing his Helical Air Screw, 1480.
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