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Information included in today’s Oakton Updates includes the following:
- Important Upcoming Dates
- Reception Honoring Dr. Banbury – from the PTSA
- Feedback for School Website
- Parent Volunteers for
Baccalaureate 2017
- AP Proctoring – Parent Volunteers
Needed!
- Temporary Hold on Pantry Donations
- Produce and Volunteers Needed for
Spring Break Food Boxes
- Boys Lacrosse Plant Sale
- Science Fair Results
- Sports Physicals
Important Upcoming Dates
March 24 – Student Holiday
March 30 – Cultural Festival, evening
March 30 – No
Cougar Time; modified schedule for tomorrow’s assembly
March 31 – No
Advisory; Cultural Festival during the day for students
Tuesday, April 4 and
Wednesday, April 5 – Exhibition of Learning! Modified
schedule on April 5.
Tuesday, April 4 after
school – faculty Exhibition of Learning!
Wednesday, April 5, 7 –
8:30 PM – PTSA reception honoring Dr. Banbury
Friday, April 7 – Two
hour early release, last day
of 3rd quarter
Monday, April 10-Friday,
April 14 – Spring Break
Monday, April 17 – Student
Holiday
Tuesday, April 18 –
First day of 4th quarter!
Reception Honoring Dr. Banbury
Save the Date: Wednesday, April
5th, 7 - 8:30 PM*
After thirteen incredible years as Oakton High School's Principal, Dr. Banbury
will be leaving us to begin his new job as Executive Principal in the FCPS
Region 1 office. Please join us for a reception as we honor and thank Dr.
Banbury for all that he has done for Oakton High School, and wish him well in
the next phase of his career.
All members of our extended Oakton community are invited to stop by, say hello,
and share memories with Dr. Banbury. Please feel free to share this evite with
anyone who would like to attend.
Light refreshments will be served. Please RSVP by 4/1/17.
Thank you and we look forward to sharing this festive evening with you!
*Please note, this reception will take the place of our PTSA meeting previously
scheduled for this time.
Feedback for School Website
We are going to be upgrading our
school website this Spring. As we prepare for this big change, we are looking
for your feedback on how we can make the site better for your needs. Please
take a few minutes to provide input on Oakton's website. Your input will impact
the new layout of our website.
The feedback form can be found here.
If you would like to see what the new website will look like, please visit the
websites of Westfield
High School or West
Potomac High School, who have already upgraded to the new format.
Parent Volunteers for Baccalaureate 2017
We are looking for parent
volunteers to help organize the Baccalaureate 2017, a very special event which
will be held the evening of June 14. The "BACC" is a
non-denominational event in which senior-year students have a chance to reflect
on the milestones they have achieved and look ahead to the possibilities before
them. The hour-long event will include inspirational talks from students and
leaders from the community as well as musical performances from our talented
Oakton seniors. If interested, please contact Lisa Curtis at clhmcurtis@msn.com.
AP Proctoring – parent
volunteers needed!
We are looking for parent volunteers to help with AP test proctoring!
Oakton High School students will take over 3400 AP exams over two weeks in May,
and parent support will help administer them smoothly. AP Exams are the weeks
of May
1 and May 8.
If you are able to give your time, we ask that you sign up online.
You may proctor any exam as long as your child is not taking that exam and you
are not a teacher or professor in that subject. We also ask all volunteers to
attend an information session at Oakton on April 28 at 8:30 am.
Email Alyson Calvello (acalvello@fcps.edu)
and Martha Rodeheaver (myrodeheaver@fcps.edu)
with any questions. Thank you for your help!
Temporary Hold on Pantry Donations
Thanks to the incredible
generosity of our community, our Pantry is not only stocked, it is overflowing.
From now until Spring Break we are going to temporarily hold off on accepting
any more donations until we can use the supplies that we have. Large boxes of
food and other items will be going home with families in need for the week-long
break. Thank you so much!
Produce and Volunteers Needed for Spring Break Food Boxes
In preparation for Spring Break,
The Pantry team is planning to provide large boxes of food for students (and
their families) in need. We are in need of donors willing to contribute produce
and bread, and volunteers to help pack up the boxes. Since we do not have
access to a refrigerator, we can only accept produce on THURSDAY, APRIL 6,
which is the same day that we will be packing the boxes and the families will
be picking them up. If you can help, please sign up here.
Boys Lacrosse Plant Sale
THINK SPRING!! Contrary to our
current conditions, spring really is just around the corner. Prepare now
for a beautiful summer garden by supporting the annual Oakton Boys
Lacrosse Plant Sale! Offerings include top quality hanging
baskets, assorted annuals and seasonal vegetables. See order form for
complete listing.
Please submit your completed order
form along with payment to:
Oakton High School
Attn: Boys LAX Plant Sale
2900 Sutton Road
Vienna, VA 22181
(Make checks payable to OAKTON HIGH SCHOOL)
Orders are due no later than March 31, 2017.
Pick-up date is Saturday, April 29, 2017 between 9:30 am - 11:30 am in the
Oakton High School front parking lot.
Thanks for your support of Oakton Boys Lacrosse!
Science Fair Results
Oakton had
22 projects (21 individual and one team) represented at the Regional Science
Fair and each project received at least an Honorable Mention. Students
invested a lot of time and effort in their research, project design,
implementation, data collection, analysis, conclusions, and preparation for
their presentations before numerous Category and Organizational judges.
Many of these judges were physicists, environmentalists, doctors, chemists,
computer scientists… and students got to present to the specialists in their
fields. Science fair is a beautiful blend of project based learning with
the essential skills of a portrait of a graduate. Though rigorous, it is
profoundly rewarding and the skills they develop through the process can be
applied to all disciplines and life- long learning. We are developing a
culture of “repeat” science fair students -- those who continue to do it year
after year even when it isn’t required because of their passion for
experimentation and learning.
Congratulations
to the students listed! We are so proud of you!
Category
Awards:
Grand
Prize:
Translational
Medical Science: Shannen Prindle. She will go on to International
science fair for the second year in a row, a rarity. She was also one
of nine projects in the entire county that was chosen. Oakton was one of
six schools in the entire county.
First
Place: (will be eligible for States)
Animal
Sciences: Clare Sparling
Earth and
Environmental Sciences: Wen Ip and Harin Ok (team)
Materials
Science: Ella Jones
Second
Place:
Animal
Sciences: Malvika Venktaraman
Biochemistry:
Neha Pavuluru
Biomedical
and Health Sciences: Ankisha Singh and Jonathan Montenegro
Computational
Biology and Bioinformatics: Arthur Liao
Earth and
Environmental Sciences: Charlotte Peterkin and Emma Szczesniak
Mathematics:
Troy Neubauer
Third
Place:
Environmental
Engineering: Margaret Sparling
Physics and
Astronomy: Rebecca Rainhart
Plant
Sciences: Emily Bach
Honorable
Mention:
Animal
Sciences: Ana Borges
Earth and
Environmental Sciences: Mona Tuli, Kaan Turhan, Sitara Sastry
Physics and
Astronomy: Meghan Kenefick
Plant
Sciences: Erin Lee and Yeganeh Garoossi
Corporate
and Organizational Awards:
Shannen
Prindle- Commissioned Officer Association, Public Health-Distinguishing
Achievement Certificate and USPHS Medallion, and Patent and Trademark Office-1st
place and Certificate
Rebecca
Rainhart –Aerospace Corporation-invitation to present at Robert Herndon
Science Competition, NOVA Armed Forces Communication, Cox Communications,
Society of Women Engineers-Outstanding Engineer Award
Charlotte Peterkin- American Meteorologist Society-Invitation to present
at DC-AMS Event
Jonathan
Montenegro-Commissioned Officer Association-Achievement Certificate and
USPHS Medallion and Virginia Dental Association-1st-Certificate of
Merit
Ankish
Singh- Commissioned Officer Association-Achievement Certificate and USPHS
Medallion
Kaan
Turhan-Federal Water Quality Association: Certificate of Merit, ribbon and
t-shirt
Margaret Sparling-Society of Women Engineers-Promising Engineering Award
Sports Physicals
To participate in sports next
school year, your child must have a physical on file dated on or after May 1,
2017, on the new form (Revised April 2016). This includes working out in the
weight room, conditioning, “green days” and try outs.
The Oakton High School Athletic Training Program is offering an opportunity for
students to receive a sports health screening and pre-participation physical
(PPE) on Monday May 15, 2017 from 5:30-8 pm. Our team physicians, as well as a
staff of nurses, physical therapists and certified athletic trainers will be on
hand to provide a thorough screening. If during the screening or physical, the
physicians find something that is questionable to them regarding your child’s
health, they may request further evaluation by another physician. We are asking
for a minimum donation of $50 in exchange for the PPE. Registration is not open
yet, however, to register for a PPE, go to: www.oaktonathletics.org and
follow the links for sports physicals. There is also a link for the new form
there as well. Walk-ins are also welcome on that evening but we ask for a $60
donation at that time. This physical is good for the entire following school
year.
This is the Athletic Training Program’s method of fund raising. All the funds
for equipment and supplies are raised at this event. The county provides no
funding for any of the supplies or equipment in the athletic training room that
is used to take care of our athletes. Your support would be greatly
appreciated. You too benefit from this process. Once your child’s VHSL physical
form is completed that night, it stays on file at the school, as well as a
digital copy is kept on our server, so if you need a copy just email one of the
ATCs and we can sent you a copy.
PPE’s are being offered in the same format at every high school in FCPS and are
fund raising efforts at those schools as well. If you cannot attend the PPEs at
Oakton H.S., there may be another local high school offering the opportunity on
a date that may be more convenient for you. If you have any questions or
concerns, contact Paul Rupp, MS, ATC at prupp@fcps.edu.
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