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Important Deadlines for Seniors!
Yearbook
• If your Senior portrait is being taken by Prestige Portraits, you must have your picture taken by October 1, 2010.
• If your portrait is done by someone other than Prestige Portraits, YOU are responsible for turning it in to Mr. Thelen by October 1, 2010.
• Senior quotes must be turned in by October13, 2010. These quotes must be appropriate and will be reviewed by Dr. Humble. Quotes must be submitted using the Sr. Quote form received in Advisory.
• Senior Ads – all pictures, words, etc. to be on the ad must be turned in by October 21, 2010. You may submit the completed layout on a CD or submit the actual picture layout. Senior ad guidelines and order form are available for download here.
Send questions about the layouts or deadlines to:
Bill Thelen - Art Teacher, Yearbook Advisor Graduation Videos
Class of 2010
Attention all 2010 Graduates! The RCHS graduation ceremony DVDs are available in the office. Sustaining Roots Music's Concert for Elderly Blues Musicians Wins!
#8 In the RefreshEverything Grant Contest – Thanks to the RCHS Community
SOOTS (Sustaining Roots Community Project) is a finalist for a $5,000 grant from PepsiCo. The RCHS community came together in the month-long online voting campaign to place SOOTS’ program in the top ten nationwide. Once paperwork is processed, SOOTS will become an official grant recipient in late June. Then SOOTS will be able to award more medical mini-grants to Piedmont blues artists. Then SOOTS will be able to fund a bigger, better Piedmont Blues revue next spring. Keep your eyes and ears open for details.
SOOTS is also proud to announce that the RCHS Class of 2012 won the class competition to log the most votes for SOOTS. Next year’s benefit concert will welcome the entire class of 2012 to the 5th Annual SOOTS Blues Benefit with free tickets. Thank you rising juniors! CIVICULTURE at RCHS is alive and well.
Visit www.sootsblues.org to learn of other ways to help RCHS students help our treasured NC artists. Together we can sustain the roots of music.n
2010-2011 Phoenix Fund
Fundraising
1% Family Participation
Thank you for considering a contribution to this year’s Phoenix Fund. As a charter school, RCHS receives public funds on a per-pupil basis from the state and from counties whose students attend. While state funds have been reduced, the cost of operating a school has continued to increase.
The annual Phoenix Fund helps pay for the yearly expenses that come with offering a quality
education including small class sizes, college counseling, fine arts and sports programs to name a
few. In other words, the Phoenix Fund pays for today.
RCHS 2010 Phoenix Fund Goal: 100% participationWe have based our budget on the assumption that we
will receive a contribution from every family.
Your gifts may be mailed to the school, dropped of at the office
or you may donate online at
https://www.raleighcharterhs.org/giving/onlinegiving/
All contributions are tax deductible. Contribute via the Combined Federal Campaign
(CFC) and State Employees Combined Campaign (SECC).
Donations can be spread over the year. You may set up an automatic bank draft. All gifts are welcome. Thank you for your
support!
RCHS Science Olympiad Team is 1st in NC
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The Science Olympiad team competed at North Carolina State University on Saturday, April 24 and took 1st Place defeating over 40 of the best schools from around the state including NCSSM and Enloe. The team won a record number of six gold medals in addition to two silver and five bronze. For additional details see 2010 State Results. Eight students received a $2,500 scholarship to NCSU for their acheivements. The team will now compete at the National Tournament at the University of Illinois- Urbana Champaign from May 20-22. The State Science Olympiad Team consisted of: S. Challener, D. Hash, B. Huddleston, B. Izzat, G. Izzat, E. Law, E. Ryan, G. Sanka, S. Allison, M. Lochbaum, S. Mahate, L. Ord, D. Rao, P. Shetty, A. Thakkar, P. Breen and J. Tseng. The Coaches were Whit Hames and Amy Koch. Congratulations to the whole team! We the People Southeast Regional Champions
History
The RCHS We the People team earned the Southeast Regional Award at Nationals.
Congratulations to the Constitutional Issues class. This group of students earned the Southeast Regional Award at We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution National Finals in Washington, D.C
The Southeast Regional Award is given to the best non-finalist team in the Southeast. Fifty-two teams, one representing each state, plus the District of Columbia, and the Northern Mariana Islands, were in attendance.
The students competed in a simulated Congressional Hearing on April 24-25 in Arlington, Va. They prepared four-minute statements in response to questions on the history, principles, and application of the US Constitution and answered six minutes of follow-up questions from judges who included law and history professors, state and federal judges, elected officials, and political appointees. Their knowledge, reasoning, and ability to apply the principles of American government to modern issues, case law, and historical events was praised by the judges.
In addition to the competition, students heard oral argument in the Supreme Court, met with N.C. Sen. Kay Hagan, N.C. Congressman Brad Miller, and received a Capitol Building tour from a staff member for N.C. Sen. Richard Burr. Students visited the National Archives, the Library of Congress, and most of the D.C. area monuments.
They practiced for competition on the National Mall and got to sit in the seats of the Senators in the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing room.
Members of the Raleigh Charter High School Constitutional Issues class include:
To read more about the final results of the competition, please see:
http://www.civiced.org/final2010.html
Teacher – Shayne Klein Seniors – R. Austin, J. Hoover, A. Karsten, A. Le, T. Moore, S. O'Shea, I. Oglesby, E. Rock, and J. Tobia Juniors – R. Afzal, S. Chapin , M. Khater, G. North, and J. Rowan Sophomore – K. Grayson Shayne Klein Academic Dean and History Teacher Quiz Bowl Team wins State Competition
Clubs
On Saturday, March 15, the North Carolina Open Academic State Tournament (NCOAST) was held in Greensboro. We took four teams to the tournament, and three of them made the playoffs. Our C team bowed out in the first round; the B team made the quarterfinals but lost a very close match to the eventual third place finisher. Our A team defeated NCSSM 435-135 after spotting them a 95-point lead (the A team only allowed them 45 more points over the remaining 17 questions in the match). The teams: A: P. Schultz, G. Sanka, M. Lochbaum, E. Doyle, R. Self B: B. Gamble, D. Qu, B. Besser, P. Breen, R. Rajeev, D. Hash C: C. Allison, P. Sanka, J. Trinks, C. McGowan, J. Kariisa D: A. Iyer, B. Izatt, D. Friedenberg, Z. Butler, N. Crain P. Schultz was the top individual scorer for the tournament, as well as in NC for the season. This state championship was our eighth consecutive. We are the only school in the state to have won this quiz-bowl state championship, in the history of these state championship tournaments. We will be taking two teams to the NAQT High School National Championship Tournament in Chicago over Memorial Day weekend. We congratulate these players in their efforts and their accomplishments. RCHS Students Rank Highly, Again
Academics
On December 10, 2009, U.S.News & World Report ranked Raleigh Charter High School 24th among its America’s Best High Schools. The ranking is based on a sophisticated calculation of several factors, including state-mandated testing and AP participation and achievement in 2007-2008. Last year, Raleigh Charter High School had a ranking of 20th in US News. These rankings qualify for what US News calls the Gold Medal List, the Top 100 Schools.
Such rankings are informative and affirming, and they let colleges know the level of work that is going on at our school year in and year out.
Congratulations to our teachers and our students for their noteworthy achievements!
You may visit the magazine’s web site for more information, particularly about methodology and your old school: http://www.usnews.com/sections/education/high-schools.
Also, see this article in Raleigh's News & Observer about the U.S.News & World Report ranking.
Thomas E. Humble, Principal
RCHS in the WRAL News
News
On Thursday, October 29, WRAL aired a short story about Raleigh Charter High School as part of their Project Education series.
Renee Chou wanted to investigate why RCHS was ranked in national magazines. For your information, US News and World Report publishes high-school rankings each December and Newsweek publishes rankings each May.
These annual rankings are nice, and they tell one little part of our story. We feel that the high-school experience, however, is much more complex than these rankings represent.
To view the whole story, click on the following link: http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/6304828/
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