Monday, June 13, 2022

June 3rd 2022

 

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Mark your calendar! First Day Of School Wednesday, August 24th
HTHPL Calendar 2021-22  School Hours M- F from 8:40 AM - 3:40 PM. 
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HTH HAPPENINGS THIS PAST WEEK! 
9th Grade Exhibition 
"Play and Walk Through History". - Exhibited products were math history portraits, clay tablets and modified history, ancient civilization booths and a physics catapult demo.
9th Grade Exhibition
  • Life on Mars - Students "pitched" their proposed communities on Mars, a community plan for their communities, and a draft bill based on their community plan.  A Mars Rover and students will demonstrate different physics topics learned from the semester

  • Math: The Desmos Art Project and a Scale Model of their proposed communities on Mars.

10th Grade Exhibition

The Amistad Project, a collaboration and friendship project with students from IMAN Preparatoria in Tijuana Mexico, captured in four digital magazine issues.  We were thrilled to co-exhibit with 19 of our partners at HTH 

Issue 1 (food and health): https://issuu.com/.../1.001amistad_cover_issue_1-combined...
Issue 2 (art, video games, film):
https://issuu.com/eco.../docs/amistad_issue_2_spring_2022...
Issue 3 (activism, art, video games):
https://issuu.com/eco.../docs/amistad_issue_3_spring_2022...
Issue 4 (tv, music, film): https://issuu.com/ecoproject.../docs/amistad_issue_4...

The Doorways Project, where students explored five ideas of what they might do when they graduate in two years,  interviewing people in careers and colleges and opportunities they are interested in, doing a cost-benefit analysis of their options as well as writing Spanish poems about themselves in the past, present, and future.

10th Grade Exhibition

10th grade Ryan, Molly and Michael’s team previewed their cookbook where students went into depth with their dish to find out how policies, society, culture and environment affects the food we eat and choices we make. Students took their dish apart in its chemical formation and used quadratics to create a business proposal to find the best price for the cookbook 

10th Grade Exhibition

Team JAV Exhibition 10th Grade. Belonging, Assimilation and Resistance. Students explored the connections between these three ideas and then focused on one word to create  either a map, album cover or fashion piece that reflected their group’s connection

9th and 10th Grade Intersession
Intersession got off to a fast start! Wow! Students got to choose one of the following: Yoga, Swordfighting, Play:She Kills Monsters and Theatre Tours, 100 Degrees of Freedom (hiking the PCT trail), Lego Challenge, Baking, Mojo Health and Fitness, Battle of the Bands, Create and Relate: Community Building, Film as Lit: History of Horror, Urban Cycling, Skates of Glory, Creating Comics, Museums and Art, and Learn Sign Language. 

Huge thank you to the staff for creating such great experiences! 

***Yoga Deck in Bankers Hill wants to offer ANY HTH FAMILIES and students  one free week of yoga.
12th Grade Endersession

HTH Seniors like Frida Sanchez are doing their Endersession right now. Endersession is a five week period where students can do a second internship, travel, work on a passion project, take a course for credit or credential or other options. It’s a unique experience to High Tech High. 

11th Grade Internship

Our juniors are one week in to their 4 week internships! Some placements include Chosen Foods, Scripps Research Institute, US District Court, Kids Adelante, North County Motorcycle, Partners Therapeutic Riding, Voices of City Choir, Blueshift Info Systems and Gallery AKA. We really appreciate all of these businesses for opening up their doors to our students. 

Here are a few words from the Juniors about their Internships!

Jazmin Quintana-  I am loving it! I learn new stuff everyday. I learned the botox injection spot names. I meet sweet people everyday. Im happy im getting the experience especially since its something that I want to do in the future.” 

Bryant Baker, Lenwood Thompson, Paloma Martinez- “We are interning at Scripps Research Institute. We are researching the effect of alcohol on mice. It’s been a process but we are for sure getting accustomed to the new life here at the Scripps Research Institute!”

Gelene Valmeo- “Im interning at the Gary and Jerri-Ann High Tech Highschool. I work at the front office and I organize van reservations for the school. I am loving it!”


Have a life changing experience in your home! Host an international high school student. AFS is looking for host families for students arriving in August 2022. If you are interested, please click here for more information. 
June Breakfast and Lunch Menus
Antonio Maldonado

What are your plans for the fall?*

I'm attending UCLA as a Business Economics student next fall!
Tell us about your favorite HTH memory
My freshman year advisory (Kaleb's) trip to San Francisco. We were there for several days and it was a great time! We went to the Golden Gate bridge, Chinatown, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Fisherman's Wharf, Ghirardelli Factory, and downtown. Freshman year intersession for backpacking the PCT was cool (like really cold) and fun.

 
Tell us about an HTH teacher you appreciate and why
Lisa Griffin is an amazing teacher. She helped me communicate my thoughts on paper and let me choose fun topics to write about like Who Killed Captain Alex. Her class was the first time I got excited about writing. Also Peter's class really taught me a lot and Pat's/John's had sick projects. 
What is your advice for the incoming 9th grade HTH students?
Take advantage of the project based curriculum. Don't burn bridges with your peers rather learn to collaborate and earn a "good partner for a project" reputation. Projects can be awesome or awful just off your partners. It can be your friends as long as they pull their weight. Also HTH practically has no homework!
Semaj Simpson

What are your plans for the fall?*
I’m gonna be in Florida! So that should be fun.
Tell us about your favorite HTH memory
Anytime I got to dance on front of a crowd of people. I loved the energy and I had a good time. Talent shows, intersession, all that.
What is your advice for the incoming 9th grade HTH students?
It may not seem important now, but get good grades and study for college with every moment you get. It’s worth it. But also, have fun and give yourselves a break. It’s needed.

 
PARENT ASSOCIATION NEWS
Meet the new HTH Director! Join us for via zoom on Thursday June 16th at 5:30pm (English) and 6pm (Spanish) 
 Register in advance for this meeting:
 After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Did you know you can get a discount if you shop at an HTHPL owned business? Check out the NEW HTHPL Businesses Directory with our Point Loma campus families.

If you have a business and would like to be included in the directory, please fill out this form. 

Questions email hthpacommunications@gmail.com 

(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

Hi HTH Families, 
Two great opportunities below for our students. Take a look at the USD STEAM program and the Women of Distinction program which is a fly in to Smith College. 
As always, you can email me anytime at nwyatt@hightechhigh.org
Nicholle

  • We are excited to announce the 2022 STEAM Summer Academy for middle and high-school students! This program is one of the flagship summer STEAM offerings of the University of San Diego. Led by faculty from the Department of Mathematics in the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Leadership and Education Sciences and the Shiley Marcos School of Engineering, this program provides two weeks of hands-on learning in science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM). This program is funded with a grant. The application is OPEN

  • Women of Distinction is an all expense paid fly-in program at Smith that serves as an opportunity for rising high school seniors (class of 2023) to learn about the unique opportunities at Smith for African American, Latina, Native American, Asian American, and first generation college students.

SPORTS
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All athletes must be registered and cleared on athleticclearance.com before they can play.     
Registration for Fall Sports opens in July!
 
HTHSD Athletics is proud to announce the Male and Female HIgh School Sports Association Athlete of the Year.


XC/Track and Field- Nate Osborn- 4.30 GPA
  • He is the school record holder for cross country (15:30 for 5k) and the 3200m (9:06) in track. 
  • He was the second ALL-STATE athlete in HTH history (Sienna Santiago was first). 
  • He will be attending UCSB on a track/cross country scholarship in the fall. 
  • He was academically accepted to UCLA, UC Berkley, UCSD and chose to attend and run for UC Santa Barbara (The strongest running program in the UC system).

Swim and Dive
Nicole Yeager 4.26 GPA – Varsity swimmer all 4 years.  Member of the Conference Team and CIF Team all 4 years.  Girls team captain 2022.  GPA 4.0  Going to SDSU in the Fall studying International Business.
 
HTH BOOSTER CLUB NEWS

2022-2023 Booster Club had its first meeting to plan for next school year.  HTH Booster Club is a group of parents who have come together to create an organization that will provide needed funding for all HTH sports.  All HTH Parents are welcome!  WE NEED YOU!  Please join us and help us plan an amazing 2022-2023 year for our Athletes, Coaches and Community! 

We will meet again on June 7 at 6:30 at HTH Mesa Campus.


LINK TO RSVP TO MEETING:  http://evite.me/2xk84kqexH

Meeting 5/17 RECAP:  We had a very productive first meeting.  The meeting was attended by 20 passionate and motivated parents, coaches and athletes from 3 of our HTH campuses.  We started with introductions and insights.  Many fun events and fundraising ideas were shared, parents stepped up to volunteer as team parents for next year, and the main concern for many was coach pay and coach retention.  Several stories involved coaches getting their experience at HTH then moving to SDUSD to get a $1,500-$2,500 stipend to coach. There were also a lot of big questions such as "how much money do we need to raise for sports to pay coaches? "How does the Foundation work/where does the money go?" "How is the booster going to be organized under the foundation?"  We will be diving deeper into the answers of all these questions as we form sub-committees and begin structuring the booster club.  The remainder of the meeting was spent brainstorming committee ideas. Thank you Victoria Rhee for being our time keeper and white board note taker!