CLEMENTS HIGH SCHOOL CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE

CLEMENTS NEWS

WEDNESDAY 04/10/13

UIL CONQUERED
CLEMENTS HAS ONCE AGAIN ONE THE UIL DISTRICT OVER ALL COMPETITION CHS HAS ONE THIS TITLE SIX TIMES IN SEVEN YEARS WAY TO GO, CLEMENTS!

SENIOR PANORAMIC
PICTURE WILL BE @ 8:45 ON 4/18/13 SENIORS WILL BE DISMISSED BY ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE
PICTURE

CHOIR GARAGE SALE

Got old stuff you are throwing away? Donate it to Choir Garage Sale Drop off donations on Wednesday, April 24through Friday April 26, between 2 -7 pm. truck available to pick up large items. Come buy new treasures! Any questions? Contact Janis Pulliam at (281) 499-4661 orpulliamh@hotmail.com Saturday April 27 8am to noon-- CHS Auditorium

ACADEMIC DECATHLON
Academic Decathlon members were recognized by FBISD school board April 8.
Students being recognized: Maisam Arif, Lavin Chellaram, Ashley Chen, Zoe Fu, Gene Hsu, Quan Nguyen, and Phillip Pan.

 Clements art students had incredible results this weekend in Bryan TX at the State VASE competition. Over 24,000 art students from 25 different regions across the state participated in the Visual Arts Scholastic Event. Only 1,500 made it to State and approx. 1,000 won State medals. Then, only the top 1% was selected as Gold Seal, which represent the Best High School Student Art in Texas. Though most TX districts are proud to just claim 1 gold seal piece for their entire district, Clements alone has 6 of the best high school art pieces in the entire state of Texas!

ART NEWS

State & Gold Seal Winners:

Grace Collins, Suzanne Ctvrtlik, Rukmini Das, Elaine Eberhardt , Reshad Hoque, Nick Gee (2 State Pieces) & (2 Gold Seal!), Bryant Ju (2 State Pieces) & (Gold Seal), Kelly Lin, Deanna Lu (Gold Seal),Annie Ma, Kara Moats(Gold Seal) , Sneha Peri, Kat Shelly, Diane Sun, Tiffany Wu (Gold Seal), Allison Yeung

BLOOD DRIV E
April 10th, St. Lukes at Clements High School conducting annual spring blood drive in Girls gym. Donors have to be at least seventeen years old. 17 year olds must have signed a parental consent turned in these are due immediately.

DODGE BALL RESULTS

Thank you from the PALs to everyone who participated and watched the dodge ball tournament last week! 32 teams participated and CHS raised over $1000. The profits will be donated to the ASPCA. Congratulations to the winning team - the Trojans.

DANCING W/THE STAFF

TONIGHTat 7:00 pm is Dancing With the Staff Auditorium The winner is decided by the audience and you can buy extra ballots for only $1

GLOBAL SUMMIT
Global Studies Academy to Host Global Issues Summit: Saturday, April 20th, 8:30AM 1PM in auditorium Admission free. all high school students, families, and community members invited.

Prom 2013 Information:

May 11. 2013 JW Marriot - Galleria 8pm-12am Prom Theme: Fire and Ice Prom colors: Red, Orange, Silver, and Blue

PROM INFO
Late Ticket Sales:
Students will have the last opportunity to purchase tickets on May 9 and 10th. The ticket price will be $75 dollars a ticket. Cash only!!!! No tickets will be sold at the event. All juniors and seniors can purchase 2 tickets. They must have their school ID to purchase the tickets. Students must be cleared of all outstanding fees at the time of purchase. All individuals attending prom must not be older than 20 years old. Prom Favors: first 700 tickets sold will receive picture frame.

UIL DISTRICT RESULTS

Accounting Emily Dyess 6th Calculator Gene Hsu 2nd, Edward Hu 6th Current Issues Ryan Bullard 1st, Arjun Talpallikar 4th, David Wilkinson 5th, Bowen Wang joins them for 1st Team Current Issues Computer Applications Annie Chang 1st Computer Science Michael LoPiccolo 1st, 3 way tie for 2nd among Raymond Chee, Jim Ren, Brian Wang, 1st Team Comp Sci Editorial Writing Yasmeen Yahya 6th Feature Writing Diane Sun 1st Headline Writing Diane Sun 2nd, Huixin Liu 5th Informative Speaking Arjun Talpallikar 3rd, Josh Yang 5th Lincoln Douglas Debate Tayor Horton 1st Literary Criticism David Wilkinson 1st, Huixin Liu 2nd, Steven Jiang 3rd, Quan Nguyen 4th, 1st Team

 Mathematics Steven Jiang 2nd, Aditya Jain 4th, Tiffany Wu 5th, Shomik Verma joins them for 2nd Team Number Sense Aditya Jain 3rd, Steven Jiang 5th, Angeline Rao 6th, Tiffany Wu joins them for 2nd Team News Writing Sophia Hu 3rd, Jennifer Matthew 5th Persuasive Speaking Sakshi Bhatnagar Poetry Interpretation Linh-Thoai Le 2nd Ready Writing Hope Weng 3rd Science Martin Ma 1st, Gene Hsu 2nd, Lilly Shen 3rd, James Diao 6th, 1st Team, Gene Hsu Top Physics, Martin Ma and Aditya Jain tied for Top Chemistry Social Studies Anish Rao 1st, Linh-Thuy Le 4th, Harmonii Odinga 5th, Sophia Hu joins them for 1st Team. Spelling and Vocabulary Aanandh Chandrasekar 2nd, William Wang 3rd, Beryce Garcia 5th, Pooja Ohja joins them for 1st Team.

UIL DISTRICT RESULTS

ATTN: SENIORS

Submission Deadline for YES Medal is April 8th:

FFA places 8th out of 151 schools at contest

FFA teams traveled to Stephenville for the Tarleton invitational Judging contest which is the largest judging contest in the nation for FFA members. There were over 8,000 FFA members from across Texas competing in various contests. In the Horse Judging event, our team consisting of Lexie Clearman, Abbey Davis, Michelle Goss, Lauren Elliott, and Elizabeth Ennis placed 2nd out of the 245 schools competing. Great job Girls!!! In the Livestock Judging Competition, our team consisting of Riley Thompson, Micheal Dromgoole, Natalie Somerville, Kendyl Harper, and Kaitlin Villoutreix placed 16th out of 271 schools competing.

SHEN AND WU WIN SIEMENS

two seniors have been chosen by the Siemens Foundation, one for a national award and one for a state award. The nations top achievers in Advanced Placement STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) courses are honored each year with the Siemens Awards for Advanced Placement. These students are being recognized for earning the greatest number of scores of 5 on exams in STEM AP courses. Each state has two winners, and then two national award recipients are chosen as well. Lilly Shen was selected as one of the two national winners and will receive a $5,000 scholarship award. Tiffany Wu was named as one of the two winners in Texas and will receive a $2,000 scholarship award.

SPEECH TEAM NEWS

The Clements Academic Speech Team received recognition as one of the top ten schools at the Texas Forensic Association State Tournament. The team earned a total of twenty-four qualifications through competition in local tournaments held September through February. South Grand Prairie High School was host to the 210 participating schools May 6 through May 9.

UIL SPEECH RESULTS

Of the 114 competitors, junior Xueyue (Diane) Sun won first place in the house division of congressional debate, while junior Patrick Deng advanced to the semifinal round of the senate. This placed him in the top thirty of the 100 students competing in this division. In public forum debate the sophomore team of Mohammad Asif and Joshua Yang ranked among the top sixteen of the 126 teams competing. In Lincoln-Douglas debate, sophomore Rebecca Gelfer ranked among the top thirty-two of the 187 competitors. In extemporaneous speaking, Diane Sun advanced to the semifinal round and sophomore Steven Jiang advanced to the quarter final round. Sun ranked among the top eighteen of the 113 competitors in the domestic division. Jiang placed among the top forty of the 105 participants in the foreign division.

JETS ADVANCE TO STATE

The JETS competed at the Northlake College Regional Science Olympiad Competition where they placed 1st and 3rd overall. They won 13 of the 22 events that were offered. They will compete in the state tournament on May 3rd.

SPEECH TEAM
Representatives of the Clements Academic Speech Team have qualified to compete at the National Tournament of the National Forensic League June 16-21 in Birmingham, Alabama. Students qualified through competition at the East Texas NFL District Tournament held February 28 through March 2 where Clements won the sweepstakes award. Qualifying students are: Sarah Bernardo International Extemporaneous Speaking (1st) (after receiving 1st place in each of the 6 rounds held prior to the final round) Diane Sun United States Extemporaneous Speaking (2nd) Ashley Chen and Mustafa Shekhani Public Forum Debate

VASE RESULTS
Clements art students had incredible results again this year at their regional UIL VASE competition! They competed by discussing their thought process and techniques in a personal interview, as well as by artwork evaluation. 2013 FBISD VASE Results:

29 of the 45 state-bound art students are from Clements!

COLLEGE VISITS

Oklahoma City University

Thursday - April 11,2013 9:30am Rm.1326
Friday, April 12th Georgia Tech 10:30am Room 1326

COLLEGE VISITS

Mini College Fair Wednesday 4/10/2013 11:10-12:40 Rm 1326

ALREADY????
May 21st is Senior Spring Awards Day
Details to follow

SENIOR RECEPTION
The annual Senior Reception will be held on Thursday, May 9th at 3:15 in the Colony Meadows Elementary library. A Yahoo/Boohoo gathering for parents will be at Skeeters Restaurant during the students reception. Below is a link to the sign up page. http://www.cmepto.org/clements-seniorreception.html

THE ROUND UP
FIND OUT WHATS GOING ON! CHECK OUT THE MARCH EDITION ON THE STANDS IN FRONT OF THE MAIN OFFICE NEAR THE ENTRANCE

REMINDER / WARNING
DUE TO RASH OF THEFTS, BE SURE TO: SECURE YOUR CELL PHONE, iPAD, LAPTOP, ETC. USE A BICYCLE LOCK ON YOUR BIKE AND PARK IT IN BIKE STANDS KEEP PERSONAL PROPERTY SECURED IN YOUR LOCKER

DRESS CODE
MAKE SURE YOU ARE IN DRESS CODE HALL SWEEPS WILL START AT ANY TIME REFER TO STUDENT HANDBOOK FOR ANY DRESS CODE QUESTIONS.

NOTICE
The EOC assessments will NOT count as 15% of a students final grade for this year. Note: This change involves freshman and sophomore students taking EOC assessments. Current juniors and seniors remain under TAKS assessment requirements, not EOC.

YEARBOOKS ON SALE
Students, you can purchase the 2013 anniversary yearbooks now. Go to http://www.balfour.com/ and add the book to your cart. You can add a la carte items and then checkout. This book will not only highlight this year, it will also celebrate Clements last 30 years!

SEE HISTORY LIVE!

European History trip scheduled for June 2013 See Ms. Schliesser for details