Oct. 2011
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 College report - 2011
More than 97 percent of Glenbrook North's graduating class of 2011 is attending college this fall at 126 different campuses throughout the nation and select parts of the world.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Oakton Community College and Indiana University remain the top three college choices selected by the former Glenbrook North students.
Some of the other top attended colleges include University of Iowa, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Missouri, University of Wisconsin Madison and Illinois State University.
About 58 percent of graduates decided to go to school out of state, which is a 1 percent climb from the previous year. Two 2011 graduates are attending college out of the country - at the University of British Columbia in Canada and the Hellenic American University in Greece.
Two former GBN students have also entered the military, and three are employed.
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Homecoming week:
North goes Nintendo, Spartans play to win
 Sunday, Oct. 16 Decorate the school, 12 to 4 p.m.
Monday, Oct. 17
Paint-the-town, 3:30 p.m.
Monday - Thursday, Oct. 17-19 (all welcome)
Float Building in Auto Shop
Friday, Oct. 21 Homecoming Assembly
1:30 p.m., Main Gym
(Parents, Alumni welcome)
Homecoming Queen and Court announced
Homecoming Parade 4 p.m., begin downtown Northbrook; proceeds west on Cherry to Western
Football vs. Maine East
4:30 p.m./ Soph; 7.p.m./Varsity
(special half-time show)
Fireworks following game
Saturday, Oct. 22 Homecoming Dance
8:30 - 11 p.m., Student Cafeteria |
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Calendar Highlights
October
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3- Band Parents' Org. Mtg., 7 p.m. 4 - Choral Parents' / Theater Parents Org. Mtg., 6 p.m. 5 - Parents' Assoc. Mtg., 7:30 p.m. 10- Booster Club Mtg., 7 p.m. 12 - Student Late Arrival, 9:40 a.m., PLAN and PSAT testing 13-15 Fall Play (see article) 17-22 Homecoming Week (see article) 24 - Board of Education Mtg., 7 p.m. @GBS 25- Fall Choir Concert, 7:30 p.m. 27 - Fall Strings Concerts, 7:30 p.m. 31 - Community Halloween Party, 4-5:30 p.m., @GBN
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Homecoming Dance
8:30-11 p.m.
| · Semi-formal (sport coat and tie for guys; no jeans)
· Bids: $20 per person in advance; $25 per person at the door · Average attendance: 1,000 · Most students do not take a limos · For student safety, all vehicles are subject to search · Parents are advised to verify supervision of any pre-or-post- dance parties · Students must be at the dance from 9:30 to 10:30 p.m. |
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Students named National Merit semi-finalists
Fifteen Glenbrook North students have been named National Merit semi-finalists in the 2012 National Merit Scholarship Competition. They include: Peter T. Arvanitis, Anna Burichenko, Patrick J. Carey, Jason Y. Chen, Jordan S. Cotler, Alexandra W. Damisch, Andrea M. Gershuny, Austin B. Gundry, Jason Hirschman, Aaron M. Jankelow, Julia A. Schuman, Charles J. Serota, Vivek Singam, Nathan Strange and Stella Tu. These academically talented students will continue on in the competition for 8,300 National Merit scholarships worth more than $34 million that will be offered next spring. About 1.5 million high school juniors in some 22,000 high schools entered the 2012 National merit Scholarship Program by taking a preliminary SAT or National Merit Scholarship qualifying test. The nationwide pool of semi finalists represents less than 1 percent of U.S. high school seniors and includes the highest-scoring entrants in each state. |
| Student science experiment takes flight, defies gravity
A Glenbrook North High School science experiment literally reached new heights after two current and two former teachers of the school brought it on board a micro-gravity aircraft charted by NASA.
Dane Fox and Maureen McDonaugh, science teachers at GBN, and Lynne Zielinski and Vince Pinelli, both of whom recently retired, participated in NASA's Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program over the summer. It is operated out of NASA's Johnson Space Center's Ellington Field in Houston.
As part of the program, the group of four was brought onboard the aircraft known as the "Weightless Wonder" that can produce periods of zero gravity for 18 to 25 seconds at a time. This period of weightlessness is created when the plane makes a steep climb and then free falls while flying over the Gulf of Mexico.
To read more, click here.
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| Market Day provides experience for business-minded students
Market Day, a monthly food service, offers families restaurant-quality foods at great prices. Run by the DECA business club, the Market Day program at GBN offers DECA students a valuable business management experience.
The next pick up is Thursday, October 13, from 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. in the cafeteria. Order online at www.marketday.com by October 10th.
For more information please contact gbnmarketday@glenbrook225.org. Proceeds will be used to provide business students with professional experiences.
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| Glenbrook North presents 'Romeo and Juliet'
This year's fall play, Romeo and Juliet, will be performed Thursday through Saturday, Oct. 13 to Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. in the Sheely Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets are $7 and can be ordered online at
www.seatyourself.biz, during lunch periods in the Student Activity Center or at the box office before the show. For more information, go to www.gbntheatre.com.
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| Community Halloween Party
Monday, October 31 - 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Planned by GBN students, hundreds of community children from preschool to 5th grade attend this Halloween Party, which has become a popular Halloween tradition in Northbrook. Various clubs and groups plan games/activities, decorate rooms and offer treats and prizes. An adult must accompany all children.
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 High school antics turn into charitable effort, unites schools
It started off as a simple prank.
Five students from Glenbrook North marched down to the McDonald's of Plaza Del Prado in Glenview loaded with dollar bills in anticipation of buying out the food chain's entire supply of hamburgers.
One hundred burgers later, the feat was proved impossible. Regardless, the five agreed this was a prank that needed to be passed on to future generations of students.
Eight years later Burger Day lives on, only it is has taken on a different mission - a mission that not only has united both Glenbrook North and Glenbrook South, but surrounding high schools as well.
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| District establishes goals for next school year
The Glenbrook High School District 225 Board of Education received a recommendation during a presentation by the administration to implement district goals and initiatives to be completed during the 2011-12 school year.
"The goals and initiatives presented tonight are intended to focus on improvement as a district during the coming school year," said Superintendent Dr. Mike Riggle. "As always, the district and schools will complete extensive work this year to improve beyond what state and federal mandates require of us."
The plan presented to the Board includes numerous tasks designed to accomplish a total 12 high-level goals. The goals are divided into targeted categories that include curriculum, employee relations, environmental, financial, organizational planning, public relations/communications, strategic vision, and technology. Each goal contains specific initiatives, tasks, and timelines, and notes the administrative team members responsible.
To read more, click here.
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