May 19th 2023

 

Mark your calendar: May 24th at 8:30am HTH Volunteer Breakfast  May 29th Memorial Day, No School May 30th - June 9th Intersession   June 1st at 6:30pm All Village PA Parent Social at HTHI  Quick Links  HTHPL Calendar 2022-23       Attendance: Send an email to hthpl-frontdesk@hightechhigh.org Calendar 2023-24 HTH Family Portal - New look!  HTH HAPPENINGS Internship Project Update 11th grade Zach Popov: "The first project I worked on at the University of San Diego’s Jacobs Institute was helping one of my mentors with a project that would be showcased at the 10-year anniversary of USD Engineering School. I worked alongside an engineering professor to create a “Rube Goldberg” machine that would use a robot to create a drink from many chain reactions.  The engineering event went splendidly, and the reaction worked practically every time we needed it to work. People were able to create a drink using the machine." The 9th grade Chase/Juli/Ari/Chet Team working on creating their geometric Epic Journey mural. Woohoo! 11th grade HTH Biology teacher Kalle Palmer received a $10,000 2023 Innovation in Education Impact Award from the North Island Credit Union for the Urban Oyster Project. Read the press release here!   Seniors Elaine and Sophia have their ceramic bag sculptures on display at Mingei International Museum. The work is up now until Sept 17th and the opening reception is this weekend!  Opening Reception Please mark your calendar for an exhibition opening celebration on Saturday, May 20 from 2 - 4:30pm.  RSVP here and share with students and families: mingei.org/student-craft-opening HTH Seniors are out their 4 week Endersession experience. Endersession can include an internship, service opportunity, volunteer opportunity, certification or course or credit recovery. It’s one of those unique experiences offered at High Tech High. Thank you to 11th grade HTH student Brandon Ridgeway for creating the graphic. Brandon also talked to our seniors about their college application journey and future plans. Check that out below.  Last year, the HTH students who participated in the 100 Degrees of Freedom Intersession Experience were featured on KPBS.  We are excited to offer Intersession again this year. It is a novel and unique opportunity for students and teachers to direct their own learning, create new relationships and experiences, and cultivate inspiration from the simple joy of discovery and learning by doing.  We believe that Intersession provides students and teachers with the freedom to learn without the typical school constraints. It’s another beautiful way to infuse play, passion and purpose in learning, work and life. Intersession runs from Tuesday, May 30th to Friday, June 9th for a total of nine days of classes.  We will follow a traditional school day schedule (8:40am-3:40pm) with lunch from 12:00-12:40pm.  Check out the Intersession Catalog 2023 This San Diego Diplomacy Council will host the 2023 Global Leadership Youth Program from Late-June to the first week of August.  This program is open to rising or current high school students, grades 9 - 12. Need Based Scholarships Available.  This summer’s program will feature some exciting innovations including a new program location and expanded for-credit options. CLICK HERE to learn more! If any students are looking for jobs, summer or otherwise, check out this folder of opportunities.  Link here! FAMILY CONNECTIONS Our community is stronger because of you and now it is our turn to thank you for your support. You are invited to join us on Wednesday, May 24th from 8:30am-9:30am for breakfast in the HTH commons. Whether you drove on a field trip, guest speaker on a panel, interviewed students,    project tuned, hosted an intern, helped find internships, took photos of sports teams, cleaned the school, coordinated an event, volunteered at an event, participated in the HTH Partnership Project, served on the WASC panel, supported a classroom, attended Facetime with Fahima, donated funds, or anything else, come enjoy breakfast with us!  RSVP here Join us for an all village parent social to celebrate the end of another school year on Thursday, June 1st at 6:30pm. Socialize with your fellow HTHSD parents, share ideas, win raffle prizes and more. Food and drinks will be provided. RSVP here SENIOR SPOTLIGHT Lex Patino, Class of 2023 What are your plans for the fall?* San Diego State University  Tell us about your favorite HTH memory When I saw a familiar face in school on the first day of 9th grade. This person was Marcello Olave. Tell us about an HTH teacher you appreciate and why All of my teachers because they helped me be successful. What is your advice for the incoming 9th grade HTH students? Try your best, study when you have time, ask questions when you don’t understand, and enjoy your High School years at High Tech. What will you miss most about HTH The teachers because they are all the G.O.A.T And thank you to Sensations Salud, LLC.  for being a community partner for a third year!

COLLEGE NEWS HTH Families and Students,  A big congratulations to the HTH Class of 2023 -- 95% will be entering college in the fall!! Our seniors submitted 637 applications to 135 different colleges across the United State and internationally.  We have one student attending college in the Netherlands and another in Italy! They celebrated last Wednesday with a Chalk Art & Red Carpet Celebration! Check out some of their wonderful art in this slideshow of all the fun!  As always, you can email me anytime at nwyatt@hightechhigh.org  Nicholle   STORM SPORTS                           HTH Storm Athletics       Athleticclearance.com Donate Now STORM TRACK AND FIELD Coach Figge and 3rd place winners for 4x800 relay Nick Ugarte, Kai Lange-Del, Michael Moura, Max Arola and Coach Mike Strong at Ctiy League Finals.  (L) Kai Lange-Del voted athlete of the City League finals track meet at Kearny High School aftrer coming in first in the `1600 and 3200  (R) Seniors Regan Gonsalves-Allen and Nick Ugarte after the City League finals. Both hit personal records in this high school meet  All participating HTH track team members earned at least one personal record at the City League Finals. (Below) Trinity Aleman running in the 200 and Kingston Matthews came in 3rd in Men's 200    CELEBRATING OUR SENIORS Alejandro Huerta Storm Track and Field Where did your love for track start? “My love for track started around Junior year. As I began getting better at running and medaling in races, my dedication finally paid off, creating a loop where I worked even harder to achieve better results.” What made you decide to join Storm? “I joined the Storm Track/XC team freshman year to get in shape  because I knew I needed to get more active and play fewer video games. As time went on, I stayed on the team because I was enjoying the process of running with the team.” What is your favorite memory while playing for Storm? “My favorite memory on the Storm Track team has been hanging out with my teammates between races knowing that you have a couple more races to run. Although you are all nervous and it may be an individual sport, you share the experience together.” If you could give one piece of advice for student athletes just joining Track, what would it be? “Some advice I would give to people joining the team would be to have fun with the process and stay focused and ready to endure pain in the races because, at the end of the day, no matter how hard you have trained, if you are unable to overcome the mental barrier of running a race it will be hard for you to enjoy the sport."