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THIS WEEK @ ENERGY
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Monday
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ALGEBRA STAAR
AP Environmental Science
AP Chemistry |
Tuesday
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BIOLOGY STAAR
AP Computer Science
AP Physics 1
AP Spanish Language & Culture
SDMC Meeting from 3:15 pm to 4:15 pm @ BP Spot
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Wednesday
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US HISTORY STAAR
AP English Literature
Class of 2018: Getting Ready for Next Year
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unior parent meeting for parents interested in supporting prom, graduation, senior activities, and fundraising at 6 pm in the cafeteria.
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Thursday
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AP US Government & Politics
AP Capstone |
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Friday
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AP US History
AP Computer Science Principles
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May 1 - 19th
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AP Testing
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| May 25th |
Last Day of School
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| May 27th |
Senior Graduation |
WEEK 1
WEEK 2
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PTO will begin selling Chick-fil-A sandwiches and chips during lunch on Wednesdays for $5. They will go fast, make sure you stop by the table set up outside the dean's offices. |
Click icon above or visit:
www.energyinstitutepto.org
for information on Teacher Appreciation Week volunteer opportunities, your newly elected PTO Board Members, how funds raised are being used to support students and teachers!
You can also buy a polo or update your membership!
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Magnet Schools of America
School of Excellence
Saturday, April 29th in Los Angeles, California, Energy Institute High School was honored with the Magnet Schools of America School of Excellence Award. This is the second year in a row Energy has received this honor. The award is given to schools that exemplify what it means to be a true magnet school: commitment to diversity, innovative curriculum, academic excellence, high quality instructional systems, and family and community partnerships. We are so excited to be recognized and are very proud of the students, staff, families, and partners that have contributed to Energy to make our successes happen!
TRAVIS MANION WEEK OF SERVICE:
By Chance Bednorz
This past week, Energy held yet another successful week of service called "Operation Legacy". Partnered alongside the amazing Travis Manion Foundation, Energy's very own National Honor Society helped to plan a week's worth of activities that attracted 180 volunteers everyday after school, totaling an amazing 1150 hours of volunteer service throughout the entirety of the event. From butterfly gardens to making pillows and blankets, everyone had something to work on and rack up those volunteer hours. As a participant, seeing the school community come together to successfully conquer outstanding projects that give to others, really inspired myself to do better. In total, $495 were donated to help fund the various activities and many others gave things like plants, fleece, craft supplies, and tools. The final accomplishments include a recycled crafts project, hospital crafts and blankets, 5 benches for outdoor classrooms, items for teacher appreciation week, and campus courtyard beautification. On top of all of this, there were no catastrophic meltdowns or student injuries! All-in-all, this service week was just another example of the amazing things that Energy students are capable of and all of the good work that the Travis Manion Foundation is doing for communities everywhere.
SPECIAL THANKS:
Sara Garcia and her family for donating the plants for the butterfly garden and mulch. Hipolito De La Rosa (Ms Rebecca De La Rosa's father) for donating plants for the butterfly garden and courtyard, loan of tools, and loan of pressure washer. Cress Clippard for loan of garden tools and coordination with TMF. Kaleigh Davis and family for donating fleece for no sew blankets. PTO Anonymous donation through the main office and magnet office of pillowcases, s-hooks, fleece and fiberfill, and $115. Ms. Kristick for donating craft supplies. Robotics and Engineering for loaning the saw and drill. Dr. Hall and Mr. Tate for operating the saw and drill. Cindy Wallace, president of the Garden Club of Houston, for arranging for Diane Foss, Texas Parks and Wildlife to come out and speak with the students on butterfly gardening.
ENERGY'S PEP RALLY
By Matthew Diaz
This past Friday, our campus held its very first pep-rally parade to honor our the achievements of our FIRST and Vex robotics teams this past year. For this academic year, at the Houston World Champions, our team "5892" won the Newton division, allowing us to advance to the final division held at the Minute Maid park. It was here where our team earned second place, which is an amazing achievement for a second year team. In honor of their hard work and dedication during the intense six-week building season, the school recognized the team with a school parade to celebrate their success. The team led their robot down the halls as students stood by cheering them on and congratulating them on their achievements while sporting the team's signature orange color. Please visit the team Facebook page to congratulate our team.
Thank you for an amazing 2016-2017 year of the ACE Mentor Program. I already knew it was a great year based on how much fun we had, but winning sure tends to put cherry on top of the whipped cream on top of the ice cream on top of the ACE brownie. This was the downtown team's
best finish ever in the local competition, so you should all be really proud of your achievements!
And now for the hardware:
Congratulations to our
First Place Finisher - Visio Group
with Aidan, Mariana, Ben, CJ, Daynmon, Sergio, Anthony, Ricardo, and Mark with mentors Inga and Russel.
Congratulations to our
Second Place Finisher
(really it was a tie for first...) -
Sub Sydney Connections
with Kamil, Leo, Dranat, Carla, Claire, Jacob, Kimberly, and Nicolette with mentors Chris and Morgan.
Congratulations to our
Finalist - Presidential Legacy
with Ana, Francisco, Ariel, Josh, Christian, Hector, and Bryan with mentors Derek S., Jorge, and Enrique.
Congratulations to our
Best 3-D Model Award
Winner -
Innovative Construction Upgrades
with Matt, Gerardo, George, Gabby, Alfonso, Jocelyne, Giselle, and William (special shout out to William on his beautiful model!) with mentors Shelley and Kenny.
I hope you all enjoyed the year as much as I did, and I hope you are all planning to join us again next year. This program wouldn't be a success without such amazing students. You were a joy to hang out with every week, and it was incredible to watch your projects come together throughout the year. While winning is great, the most important part of ACE is building relationships with outstanding students like yourselves. Please feel free to stay in touch with your mentors over the summer, we would love to hear from you!
Last Thursday, one of the Junior Cohort presented their final PBL. The driving question for this
assignment was:
Using proven
propaganda techniques, how can we, as an energy company, persuade a community to prioritize alternative power solutions?
Students created an energy company to design an alternative fuel power plant to serve a community. The companies created a "propaganda" portfolio, drawing from historical examples and using the argumentation strategies that they learned in English. Students competed in a "head to head" presentation to determine which groups would present their solutions to an energy panel. During presentations, each company had a certain amount of time to market their alternative fuels to the judges.
Groups presented their company and their alternative fuel and then explain what they will use it for. In this explanation, students talk about how their alternative power will benefit/ harm the environment, how they will market it to the public, why it is better than other alternative powers
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the economic benefits of their alternative power. The judges then ask questions to the presenters to get a more detailed description of their idea. In the end, the judges chose a winner. Congratulations to the first place winners, Gilbert Alejandro, Christian Vicencio, Leah Werline, and Kalef Ramierez, and great job to all the students that presented.
Teacher of the Year
Back by popular demand is the "HISD Fan Favorite" award, which will be announced at the May 19 Educators of the Year banquet. All campus-based Teacher of the Year winners are eligible for this award, which will be determined by their biggest fans-colleagues, parents, students, and former students.
The first round of voting ends Friday, May 5, at 5 p.m.
Energy friends and family - Help us recognize our Teacher of the Year Ms. Harris! Click on the link below, select high school, scroll down to Energy (it's alpha) and select Ms. Harris!
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STUDENT SPOTLIGHT
By Matthew Diaz
This week, we are highlighting Ruby Shampine - a freshman who has took the initiative to start Energy's first Chicken Club! The creation of the club first stems from Ruby own love for animals. As a Girl Scout, she participates on weekends volunteering to teach young girls about horses. Over the last three years, she has achieved an astonishing 530 hours of volunteering with her work with horses. During middle school she participated in a very similar chicken club where she was affectionately named the "Queen Chicken". Ruby wanted to recreate this club at Energy because she wanted to "spread my love of animals and give students a chance to learn responsibility." Soon, Ruby will have a work day where she hopes to invite Energy students to build our very first chicken coop. We here at Energy applaud Ruby's initiative and cannot wait for her success over the next three years.
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by Chance Bednorz
A student will have many teachers
In their lifetime
Many just teach school subjects,
Math, science, English, history.
Others teach kindness, compassion,
What it means to inspire and be inspired
How to set your goals so high
That you can't reach them
Not even on your tippy toes,
But learning how to overcome even that obstacle.
And to never give up.
To have one person teach both
The curriculum and creation is
A challenge surpassed by few.
To find this teacher in a public school
Is equivalent to discovering
A red rose blooming
From a crack in the pavement
And it seems as though our school
Has quite the bouquet.
John Steinbeck once said
"I have come to believe that a great teacher
is a great artist and that there are as few
as there are any other great artists.
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts
since the medium
is the human mind
and spirit.
All Energy teachers are
amazing artists
Despite living by the
Rules of STEM.
They aren't the reincarnation of
Picasso
And don't hold a candle to
Shakespeare or Hemingway
But their creations have a far larger impact
On our society.
To be a teacher is to be underappreciated,
Overworked, and
Undervalued
But just know, that
We see you.
We see your passion
For students' learning and growth
And we see daily lessons and intricate projects
Crafted with your free time
We see those stacks of papers disappear from your desk
And numbers in the grade book that follow closely behind
No, we don't see how long
It took for those papers to disappear
Or the stresses you experienced as
You graded those papers
We don't see the amount of money spent on classroom supplies
Or the amount of patience it must take to deal with us
5 days out of the week.
But this week is for you.
It is the school's acknowledgement of all you do
Even if you feel like your hard work is in vain
It is a celebration
An awards ceremony
A reflection and a realization
A thank you card so big it wouldn't fit on paper
And this poem is yours
You, who teaches day in and day out
You, whose work doesn't end when the students go home
And you, who have given so much with so little in return.
To teachers everywhere, no matter the subject
Or the school.
Thank you.
I couldn't have written this poem without you.
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By Ms. De La Rosa
Energy High School students and teachers just completed and incredible week of service honoring Travis Manion's service and sacrifice.
We began Operation Legacy: A Week of Service by setting our intentions. Cress Clippard from the Travis Manion Foundation presented the "Character Does Matter" presentation to help our volunteers fully understand why we had the week of service
. He gave an inspirational talk on character, service, and integrity.
The Numbers:
5 Days of Service
17 Hours Total (counting Butterfly workshop previous week)
180 Volunteers
- 5 community members through TMF
- 15 Energy Faculty and Staff, 3 administrators
- 160 EIHS Students
1050 Hours Served
$495 donated by clubs and organizations and individuals
5 Projects Completed
(with many sub-projects)
- Recycled Crafts Project - made decor for teacher's classrooms for Teacher Appreciation Week
- Hospital Crafts and blankets - made two boxes of craft projects and blankets and pillows for MD Anderson and Texas Children's hospitals, made tie dye pillowcases for TX Children's
- Built 5 Benches for outdoor classroom. Bench wood needs time to cure, benches will be painted out to honor sponsoring organization and the Travis Manion Foundation
- Teacher Appreciation Week - got survey of teachers likes, began making cards for Teacher Appreciation Week
- Courtyard Beautification - Installed a butterfly garden in the courtyard, cleaned and powerwashed the courtyard, removed dead plants from courtyard, planted Texas Wildflower seeds in the raised beds, painted inspirational rocks with words from Character Does Matter presentation from Travis Manion
Zero injuries or meltdowns!
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Apply now for the chance to shadow engineering researchers at Rice University!
The
Rice Institute for Dynamics Research (RIDR) is a 6-week program for four current 11th grade students (2016-2017 academic year) to shadow graduate students and postdocs in their engineering research at Rice University. Dr. Matthew Brake is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Rice University. Prior to joining the faculty of Rice, Dr. Brake founded and directed the predecessor to this institute, NOMAD, hosted at Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico.
While students will assist with experiments and learn more about mechanical engineering, they will also experience cross-cultural collaboration through their work.
Location: Rice University
Date: June 26 - August 4, 2017
Applications and documents are due by May 15, 2017
Contact: Visit stem.rice.edu/ridr-2017
Summer STEM Mentoring positions are available through the Children's Museum especially for Energy students! You will receive training on the different STEM activities to present to students through the month of June. Go to Discover U now for the Summer STEM Mentoring program.
This summer, city departments are opening their doors to provide opportunities for you to earn while you learn about what it takes to serve the residents of the nation's 4th largest city. Most
positions are for 32 hours per week, at $8.00 per hour. Opportunities will be available in a variety of City departments, and include: Health and Human Services, Houston Police
Department , Library Operations and Support, Houston Fire Department, Office Clerical, Public Works Engineering, Information Technology, and many more!
Start Date: June 12 - August 3, 2017
Eligible Grade Levels: ALL SECONDARY GRADE LEVELS (Must be 16 years old)
The Youth Leadership Institute (YLI) is a four-day, overnight, college empowerment conference for Latino high school juniors. It is designed to give young leaders the practical tools they need to successfully apply to top universities, have full access to scholarship and financial aid opportunities, and set a course for academic and career success. Attendees will enhance their leadership abilities and expand their professional networks by participating in college and career workshops, live on a college campus, and interact with college students and professionals who serve as their mentors.
Who is Eligible: High school senior in the fall of 2017-2018 academic year
3.0 GPA or above on a 4.0 scale, or equivalent based on your school scale
Identify as being of Hispanic Heritage
Dogs, cats, and critters, oh my! If you love critters and kids become an animal counselor with the Houston SPCA at Camp Critter. This program is only open to freshmen, sophomores, and juniors. The cost is only $50, so log onto Discover u to be apart of Camp Critter.
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ENERGY IS THE PROUD RECIPIENTS OF THE
2016 NATIONAL MERIT AWARDS |
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