November 12th

 

View this email in your browser Friends of HTH Familias Unidas de HTH HTH PA HTH School Storm Athletics "Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today." — Malcolm X HTHPL Calendar 2021-22  School Hours M- F from 8:40 AM - 3:40 PM.  Click here for the latest information regarding Covid-19 and HTH Site Manager Vanessa vamartinez@hightechhigh.org 619.243.5000   HTH FAQ sheet  HTH HAPPENINGS THIS PAST WEEK!             College Day!  Seniors met with reps from a dozen different colleges to work on essays and the FAFSA and then enjoyed a bbq lunch 10th graders toured either UCSD, SDSU or USD. HTH alumni met with the students to talk about what their experience and what they have learned about college and the admissions process.  9th grade students spent the morning with CARPE Jonathan Villafuerte talking about what the road to college looks like, they spent the afternoon bonding with their advisories outside on the field.  11th and 12th-grade students on John Santos and Pat Holder's team were featured on Channel 8 news as they spent the day planting trees at Balboa Park. This project was a collaboration with SDGE and Forever San Diego.  MECHA created a beautiful Dia de los Muertos altar to remember the dead.  COVID-19 Testing We are offering FREE antigen testing on the PL campus daily (7:30-9:30), weather and circumstances permitting. All staff and students can test during those hours. Staff and students that registered or were here last school year will have to register again. But once you do that registration and consent is good for the 2021-2022 school year.   Please register on the Primary Health website.  Registration Landing Page  - https://my.primary.health/l/HighTechHigh Required for testing:  Students that are on modified quarantine or participating in indoor sports can use our onsite antigen tests, as well as staff that are unvaccinated.  If a student or staff member has COVID symptoms, they must go home and return with a PCR test through a County site, pharmacy or physician. A simple rapid Antigen test will not suffice, If antigen negative, confirmation with PCR must also be negative! DEEPER LEARNING What Happened to Lauren Serio?  By HTH Journalist Mia Dahlgren At the end of Thursday, October 29th, Lauren Serio, the 9th grade Humanities teacher, announced to her students that the next day would be her last at High Tech High. “It was an incredibly difficult decision to make,” she said. “I know how this negatively impacts my students, my teaching team and the general morale of the teaching staff. Losing a teacher is a huge inconvenience and it hurts everyone.” But what circumstances led to Lauren leaving what she “thought… was [her] dream school”? Read more.... The Junior Year Experience By: HTH Journalist Samira Burovic In March 2020, schools shut down and we transferred to an online school. At that point, we, the current juniors were finishing our freshman year of high school. As a result of that, we haven't had a full year of high school yet. Now, we are back and adjusting to physical school as juniors and we are starting to focus on what we want to do with our futures. Read more..... PARENT ASSOCIATION NEWS Join us on Tuesday, November 16th at 6:30pm via Zoom for Virtual Ask Andrew and Cafetito Con Andrew. We will have translation available. Both sessions will be at 6:30pm this month. We will hear from HTH director Andrew plus we will learn about the resources and programming available at HTH for our EL students. You must pre register for this event.  The cohort in the first HTH Family Partnership Project met for the second session in the series. This time in person at school with 12th grade Art teacher Lucera Leon. The group took their designs from the first session and applied this to clay tiles.    Thank you to everyone who flooded the staff and teachers' inbox with kind words last Friday and thank you to the Parent Association for the yummy donuts at the staff meeting.  Some reactions from the staff: I can’t begin to tell you how needed this was. As a parent and a teacher here, thank you for this prompting - 10th-grade Humanities teacher Lisa Griffin Thank you for your kind words!  - 10th-grade Humanities teacher Ryan Urie What a nice email to receive on this Friday. - 10th-grade Math teacher Molly Poole  (619) 726-3548 or msarriz@pointmtg.com;  https://www.facebook.com/marialuisasarriz And thank you to Sensations Salud, LLC.  for supporting HTH for a second year!          COLLEGE NEWS SAVE THE DATES: FAFSA/DREAM ACT Workshop Wednesday, November 17th at 4 pm at HTHI RSVP here HTH Village Virtual Family College Advising Night (for grades 9-11):  Dec. 9 at 6 pm Opportunities: Belmont Park will be hosting a " Mini Hiring Fair" Friday, November 12th from 2pm-7pm! The Hiring Fair will take place outside our bowling alley, Belmont Lanes, and we will be hiring part-time seasonal employees for our Rides & Attractions Team and Food& Beverage Department (both hiring minors,16+). Predicting Refugee Displacement in Somalia with Weather Pattern Analysis where students analyze recent weather patterns in Somalia to predict the movement of climate refugees combines political theory, environmental justice, and computer vision, this AI + Humanitarian Aid focus will be the newest addition to our project-based curriculum taught to 4500+ students from 75+ countries.

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