Mar 30 2009
Mar 24 2009
Videos created by two groups of CommArts students won top prizes in the Teens in the Driver Seat PSA contest. “Another Saturday Night” (directed by Rolando Rodriguez Ruiz-Healy, featuring Ben Baxley, Johnny Coppins, Danielle Garcia, Anthony Peterson, Emily Tam and Anastasia Holl) won the First Place award of $1000 for our school. Second place winner ($500 prize) was “Reasons Not to Wear a Seatbelt,” an animated film created by Matt Hallstein, JM Berlet, Kelsey Peña and Crystal Clark.
You can find out more about the Teens in the Driver Seat campaign at their website, http://www.t-driver.com. Scroll to the bottom of the homepage and watch “TDS TV” to see the winners from our school.
Mar 23 2009
by Caitlin Stives and Liseth Vazquez
An opportunity available to just a lucky few: getting assigned a mentor. This new project based in Mrs. Driggers’ Leadership class helps freshman learn the ropes of high school by being paired with an older student. “Overall [my mentor] is trying to get me through my first year of high school,” Mentee Michael Frazier says about his mentor/mentee experience.
First time mentee Fernanda Reyes and her mentor, Elizabeth Stewart, “got to know each other.” The first few meetings mentors and their mentees learn each other’s likes, dislikes, hobbies and favorites. As they get better acquainted, they talk about school in general, their goals, and how they plan to reach those goals.
For some, having a mentor means having someone who is willing to listen; to others it means getting guidance on how to survive freshman year. Whatever the case may be, every Wednesday during lunch, two people, with only a three-year age difference, get together and share good and bad experiences with hope of success all four years of high school.
Mar 23 2009
The end of the school year is approaching and deadlines for many scholarships are upon us! Mrs. Crowson has the scholarship applications, but students need to come by her office, pick up those applications and complete them.
Spring is here and that means it’s the best time for juniors to sign up to take the SAT. It may seem that your senior year and college applications are still far away, but taking the test now will ensure that your scores will be available in time to decide if you need to retake the test. (If you wait until fall to take the SAT, then you might not have enough time to retake the test if you need to!)
Juniors and Seniors should also visit the Go Center website not only for scholarship information, but to check out summer programs that may be of interest to you.
Important Dates to keep in mind:
SAT: May 2 test—deadline to sign up is March 31
SAT: June 16 test—deadline to sign up is May 5
Mar 05 2009
Sophomore Erica Hylemon recently won third place in the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum Essay Contest, sponsored by Allegiance Credit Union.
The prompt for this essay contest was to write about a time you made an important decision. Erika wrote about when she was in middle school (living in Germany) and she turned down a cigarette that someone offered her. She found out about the contest through fastweb.com, a website where you create an account, then input your likes and dislikes. It finds essay contests that are specifically suited to your talents and characteristics.
Erika discovered that she won when the Dean of the Museum called her mom to tell her a diploma was being mailed to her English teacher, Mr. Scott.
