School and Community News

Future Student Entrepreneurs from New Haven, Win Top Three Slots
in New Haven Citywide High School Business Plan Competition

Presented by the New Haven Board of Education –Career & Technology Education Services

NEW HAVEN, CT (May 23, 2007) – Jasmine Ortiz from Hill Regional Career High School; Jennifer M. Rivera; from Wilbur Cross High School; and Mathew Buono from Metropolitan Business Academy received first, second, and third place awards, respectively, today for outstanding business plans presented at the Fourth Annual New Haven High School Citywide Business Plan Competition coordinated by the New Haven Board of Education Career & Technology Education Services Program and hosted by Gateway Community College.

Impressing a panel of distinguished judges from government, business, and banking, Jasmine, walked off with $500 for her plan of a softball training program for girls (Around The Diamond); Jennifer $250 for her custom beaded jewelry (Jennifer’s Custom Beaded Jewelry) and Mathew $150 for his computer game parlor for teens ( End Zone) in prize money. They were chosen from among eight finalists. Other contestants included Paul Cantore, Ian Cordero and Daena Johnson from Hill Regional Career High School; Marquis Lee from High School In The Community and Kesjuanna Davis from James Hillhouse High school. All of these contestants received $50 for their participation.

This group of incredible, budding entrepreneurs created amazing products and are on their way to being our future business leaders of tomorrow.

Career High School’s Honors Physics Class
and the Robotics Team won 1st Place

The entry by Career High School’s Honors Physics Class and the Robotics Team
won 1st Place and $100.00 at the “Physics Day Competition” that was held last
Thursday May 24th at Lake Compounce Amusement Park.

The annual event is organized by the Connecticut Association of Physics Teachers (CAPT). This year’s task was to design and build a kinetic sculpture that would use potential energy to operate the device for at least one minute. The Career entry “Physicists” featured the animated ideas of Galileo, Newton, Einstein and Hawking. The device demonstrated, elastic potential energy, simple machines, levers, forces, rotational inertia, magnetism, gravity, sound, light, vibrations and waves. The project will be on display in Room 307 on Wednesday.

Please congratulate the following students on this achievement:

Honors Physics

Abdul Ahmad, Hajer Ahmad, Dante Burns, Fizah Chaudhary, Bobbi Crego, Jonathan Hodge, Kiamesha Holland, John Josef, Joon Hoon Lee Brittany Mills, Asia Maurow, Garland Patterson, Kushboo Shah, Neda Shahriara, Colin Sulivan, Jasmin Webb & Asha Wilder.

Robotics

Bobby Arel, Mohammad Badawi, Matt Baricko, Xiang Chen, Juan Galan, Lea May Gampon, Jonathan Lane, Maya McReynolds, Mark Nairn, Luis Quiles, Russell Rivera, Jessenia Rodriguez, Philip Schinis, Alexandra Serrano & Michael Wilner

CONGRATULATIONS to the ROBO SQUAD

Team 558 is heading to Atlanta for the finals with the
help of our alliance partners, teams 1124 and 195.

See the Team 558's web site click here

Robots Crew in Gear
The Elm City Robotics Squad under the direction of Ernie Smoker
Click here for the story about the Squad

Mr. Ernie Smoker	A student working on the Robot
A student working on the Robot	The Robot

Teen's plan to help elders who don't speak English - Click here for the full story
Hill Regional Career High School student Ivellisse Morales is headed for a career in mass communications, but first she had to learn a lesson from her grandmother about being understood.

Real – world training – Teens tough it out in EMS Cadet class - Click here for the full story
Hill Regional Career High School students Trusha Patel, Katiuska Centeno, Stacy Rodriguez, Laura Jiminez, Asha Wilder and Kushboo Shah were recognized in the New Haven Register for being selected to the New Haven Board of Education Fire Department EMS Cadet program.

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