The Details On Project Lead-the-Way Credit

Dear Parents and Students in Project Lead The Way Courses:

We hope you are experiencing a rewarding school year, and feel that the pre-engineering courses through Project Lead the Way (PLTW) have been beneficial. There is no better time than right now to contemplate a career in STEM areas as there are many more jobs in the United States than qualified people to fill them.

Since your child attends a PLTW-certified school, she/he can get a head start on engineering-related career and add prestige to their college admissions applications by receiving college credit from University of New Haven (UNH).

Rising Ninth and New Student Orientation

This is for students and parents who had to miss the orientation at UNH a couple of weeks ago.

Today, 2:00pm - 3:30pm, Engineering and Science 130B Leeder Hill Dr., Hamden

Orientation for current Grade 8 students going into grade 9 and New students to ESUMS who could not make the session on May, 21. Math testing will take place for NEW students only.

2015 CT Student Innovation Expo Awards for ESUMS

NOaH won 3rd place 11&12 grade independent science, and gHIVe won for "3D Modeling & Animation."  Two students with the gHIVe group, Isaac Faustino and Nicole Roman, won the Game Design and Development award.  
http://innovationexpo.skills21.org/  
gHIVe3d website
NOaH videos
NOaH blog

gHIVe team

Celebration of Learning & PTO Meeting on Monday

The Celebration of Learning event will be held on Monday, June 8, 2015 from 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm. This event features yearlong projects,  engineering design challenges, and technology integration from our middle school students. Hope to see you there!
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Hi Everyone,

The next PTO meeting will be Monday, June 8th at 7 pm (right after the Celebration of Learning).  Hope to see you there!

Regards,

Cathy

Mrs. Zenait Wins a TAPS Award -- Congratulations!

Please join us at this year’s TAPS Awards ceremony from 4-6 p.m. on June 2 at Hill Central School.

2015 TAPS Award winners:

 Teachers

1. Michelle Paulishen- Edgewood Magnet School
2. Abir Zenait- Engineering & Science University Magnet School
3. Gloria Rodriguez- Wilbur Cross High School
4. Danielle Zito- Davis St. School
5. Chevaunne Breland- James Hillhouse High School

Rain Date for Field Day

Due to the weather forecast of rain for Tuesday, the middle school field day will be held on Thursday, June 4th.  Please confirm (esumspto@gmail.com) if you are still available to help.

Volunteer Opportunity

Register for ESUMS Summer STEAM Program!

STEAM Summer Program.

Field Day

Middle School Field Day this year is scheduled for Tuesday, June 2 (Rain Date June 4) at UNH Charger Gymnasium, 300 Boston Post Road, West Haven. The purpose of this email is to ask that you help however you can to make this the best day possible for the students. Outlined below is the schedule for the day, along with suggestions for possible parental involvement.

Two Excellent Free Summer Programs

The Yale Center for Analytical Science (YCAS) has slots open for its Young Scholars Biostatistics Program. The Young Scholars will participate in a two-week, free program in July, where they receive an intensive introduction to biostatistics, learn in the statistical modeling program “R,” and tour aspects of public health alongside Yale students, faculty, and alumni. We are looking for promising high school students who have an interest in math and science, and are either planning on taking, or have taken AP Statistics. To apply, please go to: http://publichealth.yale.edu/ycas/scholars/index.aspxApplication is due June 19^th. If you have any questions, please contact alicia.lakomski@yale.edu.

The Yale Daily News is looking for high school students interested in journalism to attend a the Yale Daily News Summer Journalism Program! This free program runs from August 17–21 in New Haven. Over the course of the week, you will learn how to think of ideas for stories, conduct interviews, and write engaging and informative articles. You will be able to report on real stories at Yale and in New Haven, and by the end of the week, program participants will have produced their own newspaper! Along the way, you'll hear from guest speakers, including accomplished journalists and other media professionals. Applications are attached and are due by May 31 — please contact us at sjp@yaledailynews.com if you have any concerns about the application or deadline, or with any other questions!

Get Ready for EXPO!

       EXPO is just two weeks away - June 6th at the XL Center in Hartford! This is a professional event where your student will be presenting to other schools, industry professionals and government officials. We invite all parents, friends, relatives and supporters to attend and witness the culmination of the students’ work this school year. The event is open to the public and the opening ceremony begins at 9 am for the general public. Students must meet at the school at 6am to load supplies and equipment, and the bus will leave promptly at 6:30 am. Attendance in compulsory, and student participation, professionalism and the exhibition of content knowledge will factor greatly in their EXPO project grade for all related courses. Please remember thatappropriate behavior is a baseline expectation, not to mention a key judging criteria, and will be monitored and assessed at all times by faculty, 

Student appearance plays an important role in their presentation grade.  That being said, please review the dress code specifics:

The 11th Grade Meeting is Thursday As Well!

YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO ATTEND…

 Student and Parent Information Session for current 11th graders!

Please join Assistant Principal Idris Trotman, School Counselors Michelle Ryan and Cindy Andrien, Parent Liaison Valencia Goodridge, and Caitlin Marquis, Admissions Representative from the University of New Haven to discuss the following:

v   Postsecondary Planning

v   Senior Year Events

v   Fall College Tour

v   The AP Program

v   Fundraising for Senior Activities

v   Community Service Requirement

v   Capstone Engineering Course

Date:         Thursday, May 21, 2015

Time:        6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

Location:  331 Buckman Hall, University of New Haven

(If you have any questions, please contact Mr. Trotman, Ms. Ryan, or Ms. Andrien at (203) 946-5882 or e-mail: idris.trotman@nhboe.net, michelle.ryan@nhboe.net, or cindy.andrien@nhboe.net)

8th Grade Meeting Thursday

May 21, 2015 -- Meeting for families of 8th grade students, new and continuing, about ESUMS High School

AGENDA: High School (Current Grade 8)

University of New Haven, Tagliatela Engineering Building, 300 Boston Post Road

5:45p.m.    Sign In/Welcome  

6:00p.m. Engineering Presentation

6:20 Math Presentation

6:30 Science Presentation

6:40 Technology Presentation

6:50 English/History

7:00 Art/Music

7:10 Foreign Language

7:20 College before College

ConnCAT Middle School Summer Program Still Accepting Applications

Program details.
Online application.
Free of charge; grades 5-9; seven weeks; theme is Harlem Renaissance.

Welcome New ESUMS Families!

Event:   New Student Orientation

Date:     May 21, 2015

Time:     5:15 pm – 7:30 pm

Location: UNH Campus – 300 Boston Post Road, West Haven, CT 06516

Events will be held in the following buildings:

1) Building #10 Dodds Hall (Bucknall Theatre, welcome, orientation)

2) Building #9 Buckman Hall – Tagliatela College of Engineering (math testing)

Easy Fundraiser

https://corporate.target.com/article/2015/05/thanks-a-billion?fb_action_ids=10205937113294205&fb_action_types=og.shares

You do have to login with your facebook or twitter account, but if you write a short thank you to an ESUMS teacher and tweet it, the school gets $25 (at least until Target runs out of funds).   ESUMS is listed with zip code 06517.

Congratulations to Ms.Blue-Ellis!

Ms. Blue has won the Greater New Haven NAACP education award -- NHI Article.

Congratulations to ESUMS Winners of New Haven Science Fair!

New Haven School Climate Survey

Parents should have received their survey by email from Panorama; please fill it out soon.  Past survey results.

Free Event: Conquering Cancer, May 19

SCIENCE IN THE NEWS: Conquering Cancer. Medicine of the Future

Science in the News at Yale is a free, public lecture series given by Yale graduate students and postdocs that explains science in a way that everyone can understand. Each month, three scientists will speak for about an hour on a different science topic. All are welcome!