From the Principal's Desk
There's lots of good news and students to recognize this week at Chantilly. Have a good weekend, and I'm sure I'll see a lot of you at the Purple Tie Bash tomorrow night.
Scott Poole
Principal
News around Chantilly HS
 CHS Capitol Hill Day 2019
Calendar Reminder: Students Dismissed Three Hours Early on March 11
As a reminder, students will be dismissed three hours early on Monday, March 11, for a staff development day. Classes will resume on Tuesday, March 12. See the complete 2018-19 school year calendar.
Recognitions
Chantilly High School is among 12 schools nationwide—and 1 of 2 of the only schools in Virginia—selected as recipients of the 2019 First Amendment Press Freedom Award. This is the fifth consecutive award for Chantilly. The award is bestowed by the Journalism Education Association, the National Scholastic Press Association, and Quill and Scroll International Honorary Society.
Congratulations to Gayatri Chintala for receiving the Silver Key in the 2019 Regional Scholastic Writing Awards competition, for her entry 'Tear Identity From My Mind.'
A/B Honor Roll for second quarter
Chantilly High School has over 1200 students on the A/B Honor Roll for second quarter. Congratulations to all of these outstanding Chargers. Their names are posted on the bulletin board outside of student services. All recipients can pick up an Honor Roll sticker in the Student Services Offices.
Chantilly Forensics Team
The Chantilly High School Forensics Team won the Super Regional Forensics Tournament. The following students placed and qualified for the State Tournament next month:
First Place:
Maxwell Taborrok – Impromptu Speaking
Lillie Jerome – Storytelling
Kylee Downey – Humorous Dramatic Interpretation
Susannah Kratt – Serious Dramatic Interpretation
Shreya Surapaneni and Matthew Mendoza – Humorous Duo Interpretation
Lila York and Garrett Jones – Serious Duo Interpretation
Second Place:
Grady Jones – Extemporaneous Speaking
Adriana Gao – Serious Dramatic Interpretation
Amro Ibrahim – Poetry Interpretation
Jared Belsky and Cullen Kendrick – Humorous Duo Interpretation
Jordan Hundley and Molly Marsh – Serious Duo Interpretation
Third Place:
TJ Maher – Extemporaneous Speaking
Trevor Belsky – Storytelling
Rosa Broadberry – Humorous Dramatic Interpretation
Haley Herman –Prose Interpretation
Elise McCue – Poetry Interpretation
Fourth Place (Alternate):
Mallory Bedford – Prose Interpretation
Chantilly Robotics
CHS was undefeated 11/11 matches in qualifying rounds. Moving to quarter, semi and finals, thery were the Top Alliance team leader and won by a hair-raising 1 point ranking first out of 38 team. CHS also won the Team Spirit Award. Students displayed their team spirit, gracious professionalism, and engineering creativity. The second competition will be March 23-24 at Oxon Hill High School
Chantilly Drama Department
Chantilly Drama made a strong showing at the VHSL One Act State Competition, missing second place by only three points. Kudos to the cast and crew for their hard work and dedication and for representing Chantilly High School at the State level!
DECA Student Competition Winners
The following students qualified for the DECA International Career Development Conference in Orlando, Florida.
Model UN
 CHS Model UN students
Last weekend, MODEL UN competed at the Virginia Invitational Model United Nations Conference hosted at Langley.
Best Delegation
World Food Programme | Priya Viswanathan & Varun Yadav (Sweden)
UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific | Vasanth Mathivanan & Mark Chitre (Palau)
International Atomic Energy Agency | Prithvi Kinariwala & Varish Devarashetty (Sweden)
JCC Cali Cartel | Vanshika Vijayram (Laura Botero)
Outstanding Delegation
Disarmament and International Security | Vraj Desai & Sumanth Patil (Sweden)
National Rifle Association Board of Directors | Asha Maran (James W. Porter II)
Area 51 | Khai Nguyen (David Adair)
United Nations Security Council | Yukta Ramanan (Russian Federation)
Honorable Mention
Disarmament and International Security | Siddharth Krishnan & Rishi Sarraf (Ethiopia)
National Rifle Association Board of Directors | Rohit Alladi (Leroy Sisco)
United Nations Security Council | Krishna Dhavala (Ethiopia)
Verbal Commendation
UN Office for Drugs and Crime | Snehal Oberai & Ishi Bansal (Sweden)
Seaworld 2014 | Manu Balasubramanian (Chris Dold)
JCC Cali Cartel | Vihar Shah (Juan Vejegas)
Congo 1960 | Nayana Celine Xavier (Christophe Gbenye)
Chantilly also won the Secretary-General's Award for the Best Large Delegation!
FBLA
Congratulations to the following FBLA students who placed in their events at the Regional FBLA Conference at Robinson SS. They qualified and will be moving onto the State FBLA Conference April 5-6th:
Accounting 1 – Kevin Phillips – 2nd place
Computer Problem Solving – Nicolas Brave – 3rd place
Economics – Iris Duan – 2nd Place
Health Care Administration – Aryan Bangalore – 1st Place
Intro. To Business – Olivia Grindall – 3rd Place
Personal Finance – Han Bao – 2nd Place
Spreadsheet Applications – Anushri Baskar – Top 3
E-Business Team – Sofia ballam, Katie Chan, Kavya Shankar – 1st Place
Electronic Career Portfolio – Kamal Mazhar – 1st Place
Emerging Business Issues Team – Shravan Mohan, Ethan Tsoi – 1st Place
Publication Design – Caitlyn Kantapam – 2nd Place
Website Design – Abenezer Sitota – 1st Place
Recent Student Successes
This is the next installment for the school year of what has become a weekly segment aimed at recognizing students for demonstrating recent improvement or achievement in academics, behavior or citizenship. At the end of each recognition, you will see the name of the nominating teacher or staff member. On a rotating basis, departments will nominate students. I meet with recognized students each week to congratulate them in person.
Tam Hoang is a model student and a wonderful person! She is conscientious, diligent, well organized, and task oriented. In my classroom, she consistently displays character traits such as cooperation, thoughtfulness, cordiality, and integrity. I applaud her industrious, pleasant, and gracious spirit. Ms. Maricel Fernandez
Kimberly (Kimmy) Lee does such great work for French Honor Society. She is a strong and conscientious leader in the club and also in the classroom. I don't know what I will do without her next year! Ms. Elaine Gonzalez
On a recent speaking test, Samuel (Sam) Lepiksaar did an outstanding job despite being very nervous beforehand. I was very proud of him and see real progress. Great job Sam! Ms. Mary Bea Bouchet
Dakota Meny completed a cooking show video project in French where he didn't use a script and was truly speaking French the whole time. It was so entertaining and the entire class was very engaged watching. We were able to see his personality shine! Ms. Renee Kendley
Kimberly Nguyen has made great progress in Spanish 3 this year. She is tackling a difficult concept and applying it correctly! I am looking forward to her presentation next week. Way to go, Kimberly!! Mr. Todd Whitesell
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