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AMDOR VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL “School of Champions”
Daily Bulletin
Friday, February 10, 2012
COLLEGE & CAREER CENTER NEWS: (2/6/12 – 2/10/12) Open Monday ~ Friday, 9am - 1pm
(Off
campus 2/10 – in
by 11:00a.m.)
FEBRUARY IS NATIONAL CTE MONTH ~ enter a free drawing in the
Career Center to
win a Jamba Juice
or Starbucks gift
card! Enter as many
times as you visit
the Career Center
(one per day!) and
receive a FREE pencil!
Drawing takes place
every Friday in February
and LEAP DAY ~ 29th!
Our first winner is Minerva Lin
~ congratulations!
GetSet: February
16th ~ field
trip to Genentech Sign
up starting Jan 30th ~ FULL
March
1st ~ workshops “Motion
Graphics-Get Animated
With Video Games!” and “Math-Bungie Barbie”
Career Center Visits:
Sign-ups at Career
Center (no sign-ups
cancels visit)
²Navy Informational Visit: Feb.10th Where Will You Accelerate? ~ lunch
Student
Days at Tao House presented by the Eugene O’Neill Foundation,
Tao House and The
National Park Service
Student Day Application deadline is February 14 for the following dates:
ART Thursday,
March 1 DRAMA Saturday,
March 3
PHOTOGRAPHY Wednesday,
March 7 WRITING Thursday
March 8
Summer Academic & Internship
Programs:
²Santa Clara University: Engineering
for Sophomores and
Juniors – Spring
and Summer workshops
²Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory: 2012
High School Summer
Internships ~ runs
from June 13 through
August 3, 2012 For
more information: csee.lbl.gov Some restrictions apply.
²CSSSA: California State Summer School for the Arts ~ four week
program in Valencia Applications
must be postmarked
before Feb 28, 2012
²UC Davis:
COSMOS program, California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science will
accept applications
February 1 – March
1, 2012. COSMOS
Open House at
UC Davis on Saturday,
January 28, 2012
from 10:30 a.m.
– 12:00 p.m. Please RSVP by emailing cosmos@ucdavis.edu or
calling 530-754-7326
²Arthritis
Foundation: now accepting applications for our 2012 Summer Science
Internship Program. This
program places 12
outstanding students
in leading rheumatology/immunology
laboratories at the
University California,
San Francisco and
Stanford University.
Students can learn
more about the internship
and apply through
our Summer Science
Internship Website:
www.SummerScienceInternship.kintera.org
Scholarships & Grants: General
information is always
available !
²FAFSA
applications due March
2, 2012
²Asian
Pacific Fund scholarship
application deadline
March 15, 2012 (open
to all ethnicities)
²Student-View
scholarship drawing
for seniors deadline
April 22, 2012 ~ take
a 15 minute survey
to qualify for drawing
up to $4k scholarship! www.student-view.com
²Oakland-Alameda
County Coliseum Foundation
has 3
different scholarships
for $3k each for four
years. Must be a graduating
senior, other criteria
apply. Applications
due April 30, 2012
Is Your
Future On Time? Come by for your academic planning checklist ~ Freshmen,
Sophomores, Juniors & Seniors
SENIORS: Mid-year
transcripts (with first
semester senior grades)
are now available to
send to your prospective
colleges, BUT you must
request that your mid-years
be sent. Please
contact Ms. Jones,
Mrs. Montague, or Ms.
Graef, the Registrar,
in the Counseling Office
to request that your
mid-years be sent to
your colleges.
HONOR STUDENTS: Honor students one and all! It is time
to obtain and submit
your applications for
the Honor Society of
Amador, the California
Scholarship Federation.
Freshmen are eligible
to apply based on the
grades from fall semester.
Come to G 1 to pick
up the application
from Mrs. Hunt. The
applications are due
in three weeks, February
10, with the first
meeting for the semester
on February 16. Seniors looking at life membership! Get yours turned
in this semester! Please
come at lunch or after
school to pick up or
leave the application.
VISION SCREENING: Vision screening for
9th grade
Health Education students
will beon February
15, 16, 17. Additional
students will also
be tested. Passes
will be delivered to
the classroom.
ACADEMIC
BLOCK APPLICATIONS: Academic block applications are now available in the counseling office, front desk. To earn an academic block, students accumulate
points based on their
GPA, participation
in academic clubs
and/or holding elected
positions. Please
see application for
complete details. Applications are DUE on Friday, March 2nd, 2012.
MULTI-LINGUAL RECOGNITION SEAL: Applications
are available in the
counseling office for
graduating seniors. Due May 1.
FRENCH HONORS SOCIETY: AVHS French Honors Society is now accepting
applications for French
2 students. There will
be an informational
meeting Thursday ,
2/9 , lunch time ,
in I3/ Madame Genard.
Applications must be
returned no later than
2/23.
COLORGUARD: Do you like dance? Martial arts? Performing? Theater,
gymnastics or music? Then
colorguard at Amador
might be the activity
you are looking for. Come
learn more about joining
the Fall 2012 competitive
team at lunch on Thursday
2/9 in the band room. No experience necessary and for the class
of 2015, it may count
as PE credit next year.
ART
CLUB: Art Club meets this Friday in M6 during lunch. Be sure to
bring in your cartoon
character drawing!
It’s time for basketball on Tri-Valley
TV
Amador Valley at Cal, the third of four
basketball games to
air on Tri-Valley Community
TV, will be taped on
Friday, February 10th and
air the next day. Tri-Valley
Sports Final personalities
Ian Bartholomew and
George “Dr. B” Baljevich
will be providing commentary.
Tri-Valley
TV30 will begin broadcasting
the game on Comcast
TV channel 30 and AT&T
U-verse via channel
99 on Saturday,
February 11th at
7:00 p.m. In addition,
the game is scheduled
to stream live and
be available via Video
on Demand on the Tri-Valley
TV website at www.trivalleytv.org. DVDs of the games
may also be purchased via
the website.
Amador
Valley at Cal broadcast
schedule:
Saturday,
7 p.m., Sunday at 5
pm., Tuesday at 9 p.m.
and Thursday at 10
p.m.
PURPLE & GOLD HALLOWEEN: On Friday the 17th be creative
and dress up like you
would for Halloween
but in all purple and gold! We play Foothill that night so wear your
costume to the game.
TEACHER SUPERVISION:
Feb. 9-Boys’ Soccer-Thiel, Brix
Feb.
10-Girls’ Basketball-Dennis
Feb. 14-Girls’ Basketball-Blake Feb. 17-Boys’ Basketball-Hanson, Larsen
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