Summer is almost here. We have a lot of new students joining the
School of Engineering and the STEM Academy.
We want to make sure you have as much information as possible. More will be coming out as it is available. All summer activities are open to both
current and future students. If you know
someone who missed this newsletter, please forward it to them.
All STEM students and (EXCITE IV + Infinity II) students
will be going to 6 flags for our end of the year field trip. Students must be passing all classes on the 6th
6 weeks progress report. The trip is on
May 23. We will return to CHS at
approximately 7pm. The cost of the trip
is $35 ($10 if you have a season pass).
Money and permission forms are due by Monday 5/21. If you do not bring your season pass with
you, you will have to purchase a full price ticket at the gate. Students who do not bring their form and
money, or are not cleared by their teachers, will stay at school and have
assignments for the day.
The Engineering Banquet is on Monday, May 21 at CHS. Tickets are $10 each. Information can be found on the Booster Club
Website at chsengineeringboosters.com
All 9th and 10th grade STEM students
will be taking a free practice SAT test on Friday, 5/18. The test will be like the SAT, but without
the essay. The test is being sponsored
again by C2 in Coppell. There is no
obligation to utilize any C2 services, but parents must meet with the C2 staff
to obtain the results. Taking the
practice test serves a number of purposes.
First, students are able to get more practice taking the SAT and
SAT. The more comfortable students are
with the test, the better they perform.
There are a number of scholarships associated with PSAT scores. The second main purpose is for the Academy
staff to have more information on the students for curriculum development
purposes this summer.
The Student Design Teams are working to put on a number of
workshops this summer for the current and future team members. Most of these workshops will take between
30-90 minutes. We have a long list of
potential workshops. This summer, we are
starting with several that we feel will have the largest immediate impact on
the programs. We are also looking for
parents or organizations that would like to help put these on. Possible topics include:
- Safety
- Tool Training
- Project Management
- Budgeting
- Social Media and Marketing
- Small business operations (our teams are essentially small businesses)
If you would like to help with these, please contact Mr.
Yakubovsky at myakubovsky@coppellsid.com. Any students interested in joining the teams
(including current 8th graders) are welcome to come this summer.
We will be having an orientation session for current team
members and students interested in joining our teams this summer. The meeting will be on Monday, June 4 at 6pm
in the lecture hall. Any student
interested in either the Solar Car Team or the FIRST Robotics Team is welcome
to attend and start working with the teams this summer.
All
2012-2013 STEM students are invited and encouraged to attend the STEM Boot Camp
on August 10th and 11th.
We will be rolling out our new mentoring program and welcoming everyone
back to school. Wrapping up the boot
camp will be our first Annual STEM Family Picnic. We will be providing hamburgers and hot
dogs. Students/parents will need to
bring a side dish or condiments and something to drink. More information will be posted on the
announcements blog. There are no sign
ups required for Boot Camp or for the picnic.
The solar car team will be
competing in the Solar Car Challenge this summer at Texas Motor Speedway from
July 16-July 19. We invite everyone to come
out and see the team and cheer them on.
The Engineering Expo is on November 4th this
year. We are having a
robotics/automation theme. We are in
need of assistance with several parts of the expo and preparation. The work is not a full time job, but each of
the roles are extremely important for the program’s success. Each year, many of our students are helped
out with college admissions and scholarships because of the Expo. Colleges across the country know our program
and the great work our students do. We
will be posting a list of needed roles on the engineering website at
www.coppellisd.com/engineering/expo
Dual Credit registration starts Monday, June 18. To help out the students, STEM instructors
will be meeting the STEM students in the west parking lot at the Coppell campus
of Northlake College on Monday, June 18 at 8 am. All current 10th and 11th
grade students taking STEM next year (rising 11th and 12th
graders) are taking Dual Credit courses as a part of the STEM Curriculum. All students meeting us that morning can turn
in their DCCCD course schedules after registering to the STEM faculty right
then. We will turn them in to the CHS
counselors for you to get your fall CHS schedule fixed. Students not able to meet us that morning can
take care of registration later, on their own, and then bring the course
schedules to their counselor at their earliest convenience. If you have registration questions, please
contact your counselor.
We will use our blog at http://coppellengineering.blogspot.com/
to help keep everyone up to date on all announcements and information about the
program. From this location, you can
choose the best manner of digital communication for you. You can subscribe to the blog by rss feed or
email update. The blog is fed to our
STEM Facebook page which also allows for text updates. Finally, the blog is also fed to our STEM
Twitter account. Hopefully, one of these
methods will work for you and allow you to keep up to date on all STEM and
School of Engineering information. On
the blog page is a link to our calendar.
This calendar is also linked with the EBC calendar so you can keep up
with everything going on.
