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Monday
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Cohort 6 Port of Galveston Field Trip |
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Tuesday
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Cohort 6 Port of Galveston Field Trip
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PTO Chick-fil-a
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Thursday
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Guest Speaker Becca Cook from Ethical Choices Program |
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Friday
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SPRING HOLIDAY - No School
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April 2nd
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Energy Oilers Baseball @ 1198 Quitman St. 77009
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April 3rd
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ACT In-School Exam
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April 4th
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April 7th
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Energy Day of Service - Block Walk
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April 14th
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April 18th - 21st
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April 21st
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April 24th
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SAT In-School Exam
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April 26th
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Energy Oilers Baseball Game @ 2500 S Loop 77302
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April 26th
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PTO Silent Auction
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April 28th
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Senior Prom -
8 pm to 12 am
5430 Westheimer Rd. 77056
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May 18 - 19th
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UIL Robotics Tournament at Austin Convention Center
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HISD is seeking parent and student input on the district's magnet programs in an effort to better understand our families' needs. The survey is open to students or parents of students who:
- Attend a magnet program
- Do not attend a magnet program
- Live within HISD but do not currently attend an HISD school
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Attention, students! Energy's National Honor Society has partnered with the Travis Manion Foundation - once again - and is looking for volunteers for its Spring Service Project. These projects will allow the school to establish a close relationship with the Third Ward community surrounding the new campus while teaching students about leadership and service. There will be four major events held on April 7th, 21st, and 22nd. On April 7th, there are two choices for service: Character and Leadership Training or a block walk. The Character and Leadership Training takes place in Jacinto City, where volunteers learn to improve their leadership skills and earn up to seven hours of community service. Also on April 7th, volunteers will be visiting the neighborhood around Energy's new campus to complete service projects in the community. Groups of three (two students and one adult) will be trained on how to talk to people on a block walk. April 21st is Energy's Day of Service, during which volunteers will weed, plant, and harvest on the 3rd ward community garden, continue their service projects from April 7th, and have a STEM Showcase. Lastly, on April 22nd, Ms. Mein will take sixty volunteers from Energy and participate in Earth Day Houston, a zero-waste event.
Please be mindful that you will have to provide your own transportation to downtown. If you're interested in any of these projects, sign up here: http://bit.ly/signupoplegacy. Please contact Ms. DeLaRosa if you have any questions.
We hope to see you there!
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From Thursday, March 22nd, through Saturday, March 24th, the Energy HEROs competed at their second regional event in Kenner, Louisiana. The team began the competition by attaching their new climbing mechanism, checking their pneumatics, and improving the implemented intake. Afterward, they conducted practice matches to test for mistakes to improve. On the second day, the team prepared for qualification matches which would determine the Top 8 Alliance Captains. Team 5892 had an amazing first few matches, scoring most of the points for their alliance and carrying many of their teams throughout the matches. The team did an outstanding job at achieving their goals: placing cubes on the scale, switching at a fast pace, and climbing one foot off the ground.
On the third day of the competition, qualification matches continued and the Top 8 Alliance Captains were announced. Each captain chose two permanent alliance members. Team 6005, Boss Robotics, and 3337 Panthrobotics all selected the Energy HEROs to compete in the quarterfinals. In the first best-of-three matches, Team 5892's alliance lagged behind by a few points, but succeeded in the second and third matches. Although Team 5892 lost against the #1 alliance in the tournament during semifinals, the members were ecstatic about the outcome and how far they made it in the competition. Energy Institute and Team 5892 are proud of their performances and will continue to innovate their robots' concepts and designs to compete in future events, including the World Championships held in Houston at the George R. Brown Convention Center.
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Tuesday, March 20th, Cohort
5 showcased sustainable garden prototypes for their Future Farmers of Earth exhibition. They were given the driving question "How can we reimagine Texas's Agricultural infrastructure to ensure a sustainable future?" Students set up their prototypes across the school: potatoes in the BP Spot, quinoa in the Media Lounge, soybeans in the cafeteria and Pinto Beans in the main hallway.
Each class had different subgroups contributing to their project. The Build Team displayed the prototype's design process, current challenges, and future plans of commercialization. The Irrigation Team discussed how water would flow throughout the garden. The Grow Team focused on what type of crop the team would grow, how it would mature, and how much daily water and nutrients it would need. The Leadership Team explained the team's magazine, which contained student-written articles about the crop's history, its nutritional values, and various facts. Each class greeted the visitors with a taste of their crop in multiple forms. For example, the Potato Team served fries and chips, while the Pinto Bean Team passed out chips with bean dip. The exhibition ended at 7:30 and, after tallying up the votes for the best presentation, the Soybean Team and Potato Team tied by a 25-ticket count. Overall, the students and staff were proud of the Atomic 5 exhibition.
Monday, March 21st, juniors from the Bazinga Cohort participated in the Learning Across New Dimensions in Science program (L.A.N.D.S.) from the Texas Wildlife Association (TWA) at Memorial Hermann. The TWA is a non-profit organization, focused on building ethical relationships between landown
ers and their land. LANDS is a year-long educational program that facilitates natural resource literacy within schools to create tangible connections between the outdoors and students' academic skills. The purpose of the field trip was to bring wildlife education to inner-city students by teaching them conservation practices, different vegetation, and environmental lit
eracy. Students split into groups to work at five hands-on stations, where they viewed the life of quails and their role as a keystone species in the prairie ecosystem. At the TWA volunteer-led stations, students acted as land stewards, completing various tasks. They worked with radio telemetry to show how predators are sensed, conducted a quail necropsy to study its body functions, investigated scent stations from quail predators, learned the importance of land stewards, and identified organisms within a vegetation system. Thank you to the Texas Wildlife Association for expanding our juniors' environmental literacy!
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Monday, March 3rd, the Lightning Volts cohort launched their new project for this nine weeks. Their driving question is:
How can we create myths and stories about the evolution of a species?
They began their project launch by reading "The Story of Everything", which is about the creation of the Earth and of human evolution. In Biology, students will trace the ancestry of their species to develop a timeline of the evolution. In World Geography, students will research a chosen continent and produce a geographical timeline to compare the human population to the species population. In English, they will learn about the components of myths and stories and then write a story of their own over the evolution of their species. All of this will be portrayed in an interactive pop-up book that students will create in Engineering. We can't wait to see their interactive pop-up books!
Last week at Energy, students in Ms. Kristick's and Ms. White's Algebra II classes began constructing projectile launchers including catapults, slingshots, and trebuchets, as part of their Salmon Shooter project. The project's driving question is,
"How can we, as an environmentally conscious energy company, mitigate the effects of dams on salmon migratory patterns?"
The Salmon Shooter Project is designed to assist students in learning a variety of algebraic skills, including mapping trajectories through quadratic functions and predicting salmon populations through exponential functions. The launchers are being designed to aid salmon traversing long distances throughout their migratory life when they would otherwise be blocked by dams. Students are currently testing their prototypes and will redesign them to further accommodate their constraints before formally presenting them.
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Last week, members of the Energy Institute Art Car Club began working on this year's art car! The club has been planning since February, and they eventually settled on a design that features an "electric octopus" modeled out of Styrofoam and EIFS (synthetic stucco). On Wednesday, March 21st, the group had their first after-school work day and initiated the building process by breaking down an eight-foot-long block of Styrofoam into two parts.
From there, they started to carve out the octopus's head and tentacles. The team will be working hard for the next few weeks for the
31st Annual Houston Art Car Parade
on Saturday, April 14th. Energy is excited to see what these creative students will be able to accomplish, and we are extremely grateful for Noble Energy's generous contributions to our Art Car. Be sure to mark your calendars to see the finished product at the Houston Art Car Parade.
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Friday, April 27th
The Parent-Teacher Social & Auction is just one month away! Online bidding is open NOW through Sunday for premium tickets to the upcoming Rockets vs Wizards game, April 3rd. Go to the Auction website to bid on this item, view other items, or purchase your tickets to the event. Even if you can not attend the actual event, bidding is available to our entire community online for most items.
PARENT MEET AND GREET
Do you know any prospective parents that are on the fence about their child attending ENERGY in the fall? Are you a prospective parent who knows ENERGY is the right place for your child and would like to meet other current parents? If either of these apply to you, please join us for coffee this Saturday March 31st from 9-11AM. CLICK HERE for more information.
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The student-run fellowship starts with a FREE, week-long, residential intensive program at Rice University from June 10th-16th. All rising sophomore, juniors, and seniors in high school in the Houston area are welcome to apply! Applications close on April 20th at 11:59PM. The Institute of Engagement seeks to help young people take responsible ownership of their Houston. Curated by young, for the young, the Institute of Engagement is a year-long civic fellowship for Greater Houston Area high school students.
Twenty fellows will explore the present and past civic framework of their communities, engage in project management workshops, and ultimately lead their own community based project.
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