CHS Updates

Congratulations, Chemathon Team!

CHEMISTRY TEACHER Yuanjun Liu is pleased to annonce that the CHS Chemathon Team scored Second Place in the Level I "Avogadro’s Tiebreaker" challenge, Fifth Place in the "Chemysterie Challenge," and Fourth Place overall at the 28th annual Chemathon competition held last Saturday at the University of Maryland at College Park (UMCP). The following students participated in the competition:

Lucas Cheng
Ilana Harris
Jason (QiCong) He
Vikas Kante
Ta-Chung (Morris) Mou
Joohee Ryn
Sciam Salelm
Sulin Wu
Minjie Wei

The Chemathon is a  competition for high school chemistry students in Maryland, Northern Virginia and the District of Columbia. The Chemathon competition is organized by a committee of area high school chemistry teachers and chemists, and is hosted by the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UMCP. 

Scholarship alert: "America the Beautiful" Essay Contest

Sponsored by Rand McNally and USA Today. Students in grades 7 - 12 can win a $10,000 college scholarship, a nook Tablet, publication in an eBook, and a trip to Washington, D.C. Teachers can win a nook Tablet and $5,000 worth of product for their schools. The challenge for students is to describe the one place in the United States which truly inspires them. Visit contest website at (www.bestoftheroad.com/education). DEADLINE: MONDAY, MAY 14

Ellicott City Historic District Photography Contest

OPEN TO ALL amateur photographers; all photographs must have be taken in the Historic District of Ellicott City, MD. Cash prizes will be awarded in three categories: Junior (17 years and under), Adult (18 years and over), and a yearly special category. All submissions become the property of The Ellicott City Restoration Foundation and may be used in future publications. Click here for 2012 Contest Application with rules, regulations. DEADLINE: FRIDAY, MAY 18.

Two CHS students are writing contest finalists

CONGRATULATIONS to junior Jennifer Baik and sophomore Jing Wang, whose short stories have earned them the distinction of being two of the 13 high school students selected as finalists in the Gaithersburg Book Festival's Student Short Story Contest. Click here for Book Festival Contest announcement and to read the short stories that Jennifer and Jing submitted.

CHS "It's Academic" quizbowl teams succeed

CENTENNIAL HIGH SCHOOL'S "It's Academic" Team traveled to St. Anselm's Abbey School in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, March 17 to compete in a Regional History Bowl Tournament,and one of our teams won the Junior Varsity Championship with an overtime victory in the Finals. The winning team was captained by sophomore Nancy Zhang and included freshman Ryan Heslin, sophomore Qian ("chen") Mei, and freshman Anant Mishra. Another JV team qualified for the National History Bowl by making it to the Semifinals; this team was captained by sophomore Christy Tse and included freshman Weijia Cheng, sophomore Hyun An and sophomore Allen Keimig.

Our school's Varsity team had previously qualified for the National Tournament in November; this team and the two JV teams will travel to Washington, D.C., the weekend of April 28 to test their mettle against 200 other quizbowl teams from around the country at the National History Bowl tournament.

Centennial High School's "It's Academic" TV team of Captain Matt Keimig, Miles Young and Nancy Zhang will tape their playoff match against Calvert Hall and Atholton at WJZ TV-13 studios on SATURDAY, APRIL 14. The winner will tape their Semifinal and Final playoff matches at WJZ the following Saturday (April 21).

Friday: Howard County Student Film Festival

FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 7:30 PM -- Kossiakoff Center, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL), Laurel. CHS PTSA Quicknotes has received notice that Centennial High School students have entered films and/or are serving on the Film Contest committee. Come see the films -- enjoy an ice cream social -- maybe you'll win one of the door prizes! Howard County Film Festival website is HERE.

CHS sweeps HCPSS History Day

CHS Gifted & Talented (G/T) Resource Teacher Michelle Bagley is delighted to report a "CHS sweep" at the 2012 HCPSS History Day Competition held at Reservoir High School this weekend. CONGRATULATIONS to:

Daniel Goldman, First Place, Senior Individual Performance
Sale Salehi, First Place,  in Senior Web Page category
    and Matt Keimig, Second Place, Senior Web Page category

Daniel, Sale and Matt are enrolled in the school's G/T Independent Research Program; their award-winning research qualifies them to compete at the state level at the 2012 Maryland History Day Competition on SATURDAY, APRIL 28 at The University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC).

Find out about the school's anti-bullying campaign at the PTSA meeting

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 7 PM -- Media Center.

Parents, guardians, school staff and students are invited to come to this month's PTSA meeting to see a special presentation about the new school-wide anti-bullying campaign. All this week, CHS students will engage in bullying-awareness activities; the meeting Wednesday night will provide parents with an overview of the students' week. Highlights will include information from Guest Speaker Dr. Sameer Hinduja, Co-Director of The Cyberbullying Research Center (www.cyberbullying.us) who will deliver presentations at student assemblies tomorrow.

At this special PTSA meeting, parents also will view anti-bullying video presentations created by students and will hear what the Howard County Police Department has to say about bullying behavior; there will be a discussion period. For details, please see PTSA President Bonnie Sorak's monthly Letter to the Community in the March Eagle's Eye newsletter (click on Eagle's Eye link above).

 

American Mathematics Competition qualifiers

CONGRATULATIONS to the following students who achieved a score of 100 points or more (out of a possible 150 points) on the Mathematical Association of America's (MMA) American Mathematics Competition (AMC12) exam earlier this month:

Aneesh Agrawal
Ashi Agrawal
Michael Koo
Eddie Krahe
Brian Lee
Seung Lee
Chris Lo
Sauradeep Sinha
Vivian Wang
William Yang

The ten students have qualified to take the MMA American Invitational Mathematics Exam (AIME), a 15-question, three-hour examination, next month.

HC DrugFree Student Film Contest

 in partnership with

The 2012 Howard County Film Festival

 CALL FOR ENTRIES:   Students are invited to create
a Public Service Announcement (PSA) about ways for teens

to make the right decisions about underage drinking, youth binge drinking and/or preventing accidents involving youth and alcohol.

 PRIZE:   $100 VISA gift card; the winner and his or her PSA will be recognized at the Howard County Film Festival on
FRIDAY, MARCH 23.

 AND  the winning  PSA  will will receive county-wide exposure by becoming one of  HC DrugFree's media tools.

 

CLICK HERE for  CONTEST GUIDELINES  

DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES:  MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27