September 21, 2016


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Listen & Learn
Magnet Tour
NHS volunteers
Prism/Ally Week
Europe trip
CVHS honors
Picture retakes
College visits
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PRINCIPAL'S CIRCLE
Laurel Agris & Steve Cole
Adrian and Lisa Baer
The Hsu Family
Deepak and Joan Khosla
The Family of Michael Yang

COURTYARD CADRE
The Bittner Family
The Hunsche Family
Caroline and Dave Quenemoen
The Sandweiss Family

BALCONY BUNCH
The Cai Family
The Kansara Family
The Giorgberidze Family
The Go Family
The Grimsinger Family
Prashant and Hira Lotlikar
The Numata Family
Lundin and Teresa Schneider
The Vaca Family

GREEN ROOF GANG 
The Argudin Family
Erin Brau
The Cheek Family
Laura Dew and Paul Revilla
The Goodfriend Family
Nicolas Jeanjean Family
Lawler Kelly Family
Shiawyih Lin and Kaiyi Li
The Liu Family
Stephanie Pedigo and Kent Maulsby
The Coleman Family
Catherine Nanson
Lien and Gordana Nguyen
David & Spencer Redding
Kirk and Bay Rummel
Lana and Scott Ward
The Whitley-Akin
The Williams Family
The Wolfe Family
The Yu Family
 
Listen & Learn Tour
Come meet the new boss

HISD Board of Education trustees will be hosting a series of town hall meeting with newly appointed HISD Superintendent Richard Carranza.

Superintendent Carranza will be available to listen to input from the community about the district's future and learn about key issues that are important to stakeholders.

Nine meetings have already been held, with 11 still to come. The closest meeting to Carnegie still to come will be at Lamar High School at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 21.

There are opportunities at the Listen and Learn meetings to ask questions and speak out. The following are meetings hosted by Trustee Diana D�vila, whose District VIII territory includes CVHS:

Sept. 21 at 6 pm at McReynolds Middle School
Sept. 27 at 6 pm at Austin High School

If you're having trouble making out the fine print on sites and time in the picture above, click here.
 
Magnet Tour Help Needed

Calling all volunteers! Parent volunteers are needed to help with weekly Magnet tours, starting Oct. 6th and continuing each week through Dec. 8th. Tours will be held on Thursday of each week except for Nov. 24, which is Thanksgiving.

Tours will include a presentation in the CVHS theater in the Fine Arts Building followed by student-led tours. Parents volunteers are needed to accompany and assist with these weekly tours.

Magnet tours are an excellent opportunity for potential students and their parents to get better acquainted with Carnegie's program and our wonderful CVHS community. The parent perspective is an important one and our Magnet Coordinator, Ms. Moumni, has requested 10 parent volunteers for each weekly tour. That's 100 volunteer slots that need to be filled!

You can sign up for as few (1) or as many dates (10) as your schedule allows. If you would like to help, click here to sign up or for more information.
 
Volunteer chaperones needed
 
NHS is going on a service field trip to Galveston on October 28th to help with beach/state park clean-up. We are looking for parent volunteers who can help chaperone.

Can you help? If so, please contact Ms. Amalia Masiglat at [email protected].

 
Prism marking Ally Week

Prism, Carnegie's LGBT club, is celebrating national Ally Week from Sept. 26-30. Students, faculty and staff are encouraged to stop by the cafeteria at lunch and sign the ALLY pledge to support LGBT students. Allies will receive rainbow ribbons for their lanyards while supplies last.

For more information about ALLY WEEK click www.glsen.org/allyweek.
 
Trifecta of Fun

A message from the Trifecta:

How would you like to spend part of your summer sharing in some *amazing* adventures with the family & friends of CVHS!? Please join the "Trifecta of Fun" (also known as: Ms. Scott , Mr. Savage & Ms. Casperson), next summer (2017) as we explore our way across six countries in 20 days!

We will be traveling with the EF tour company as we visit iconic and historical sites in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, London, Paris & Amsterdam. Our itinerary is full of amazing destinations and experiences; you do not want to miss out.

Parents!! Students!! - On Thursday, September 29th at 6:00 p.m. (in Ms. Scott's room, #215) - we will be holding an informational meeting to share our travel offer with you. We will discuss all of the itinerary, the EF tour company, and the travel details that you need to know! And - we will happily answer any questions that you may have!

Please plan to attend this meeting so that you can get all of the information that you need to make this decision! Space is limited!! Sign up NOW to reserve your spot & lock in the cost of your trip. (After an initial $95 deposit, you can select the payment plan that works best for you.)

For additional information on how you can sign up, please email any of the trip sponsors, or follow us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/trifectaoffun) & Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/cvhs_europe2017).
 
Do you know a remarkable Rhino?

Do you know a Carnegie Vanguard employee that has gone above and beyond? Do you want to honor someone at CVHS for their stellar service? Nominate that CVHS employee by filling out the form at this link: Employee of the Month nomination form.

The selection of the employee of the month will be made by a committee consisting of one teacher, one staff member and one administrator. If any of those individuals is nominated, then a replacement for that individual will be asked to stand in on the committee for that month.

You can view information about previous employee of the month recipients here.

Let's hear from you!
 
Picture retakes

If your Carnegie student missed picture day this past Monday, or when the pictures come in, there's a previously unseen problem with the image (Hey, we've all been there.), no need to worry.

Picture retakes have been scheduled for Oct. 24th for anyone who might need one.

If you have any questions, e-mail Ms. Paget at [email protected].
 
Colleges want Carnegie

Every year, a host of college reps head to the Houston area, and our campus in particular in search of the best we have to offer to apply to their schools. This year is no different as Ms. Chapman, Mr. Frau and Ms. Hooker have put together an incredible list of opportunities.

We are already a week into this process, but here is the remaining schedule. Juniors have all been informed of this, but everyone else should also know if for no other reason than to get information on the schools in question. As Ms. Chapman informed the students, they should be willing to give a hearing to any of these schools, whether they've heard of them or not (ESPECIALLY if they've not heard of them).


Sept. 22: Rensselaer Polytechnic, Johns Hopkins, Reed College

Sept. 23: Cooper Union

Sept. 25: Coast to Coast College Tour at Sheraton Brookhollow

Sept. 26: SMU (again)

Sept. 27: Trinity University, Rose-Hulman

Sept. 28: Harvey Mudd

Sept. 29: U. of Chicago, Vanderbilt, Mary Baldwin

Sept. 30: Williams College, Franklin and Marshall, Washington U. of St. Louis

Oct. 3: Knox College, Millsaps, St. John's University-Queens

Oct. 4: Carnegie Mellon, Sewanee: The University of the South, Wesleyan Univ., Duke, Purdue

Oct. 5: Hofstra, Missouri U. of Science and Technology

Oct. 6: Villanova, Clark, American University, Indiana, Lafayette College

Oct. 7: Scripps, Tulane, Skidmore, Smith College, Elon University, Notre Dame

Oct. 10: Colorado, Northwestern, Baylor, Austin College

Oct. 17: Worcester Polytechnic

Oct. 19: UK University consortium presentation at the British International School, 2203 N. Westgreen Blvd in Katy, featuring University of Bristol, Durham University, Newcastle University, Univ. of Southampton, Univ. of Warwick and Univ. of York. 6:30 p.m. Sign up here.

Oct. 25: Case Western

Oct. 26: New York University, Wellesley College
 
Upcoming Events

Sept. 21
Early dismissal, 1:30 p.m.
Carnegie vs. Lamar volleyball, Butler Fieldhouse, 5:45 p.m.

Sept. 23
Carnegie vs. Heights volleyball, Barnett Fieldhouse, 7:45 p.m.

Sept. 27
Carnegie vs. Sam Houston volleyball, Barnett Fieldhouse, 4:30 p.m.

Sept. 30
Carnegie vs. Westbury volleyball, Barnett Fieldhouse, 4:30 p.m.

Oct. 4
Carnegie vs. Bellaire, The Pavilion, 4:30 p.m.

Oct. 7
Carnegie vs. Westside, Barnett Fieldhouse, 5:45 p.m.

Oct. 10
Carnegie vs. Chavez, Barnett, 5:45 p.m.

Oct. 11
Early dismissal, 1:30 p.m.

Oct. 12
Fall holiday. No school.

Oct. 14
Carnegie vs. Lamar, Barnett, 7 p.m.

Oct. 18
Carnegie vs. Houston Heights, Pavilion, 7 p.m.

Oct. 19
PSAT testing

Oct. 21
Carnegie vs. Sam Houston, Pavilion, 4 p.m.

Oct. 24
School picture retake day

Oct. 25
Carnegie vs. Westbury, Butler, 4:30 p.m.