March 17, 2023

Around the Building

New Schedule Conversations

Mr. Nyhuis and Mr. Bailey have been meeting this week with juniors in their Health 11 courses to discuss next year's scheduling options with a later start time of 8:20 a.m. The students have been able to share their perspectives, opinions, and questions to have their voices heard. They have had great ideas! Similar conversations are occurring in Freshman F.O.C.U.S., Sophomore F.O.C.U.S., and Health 10 classes over the next few weeks.

Students Abroad

RHS VIAJÓ A ESPAÑA

La Alhambra

Sevilla

RHS students from levels 3 to 5 traveled to Andalucía in Southern Spain from Feb. 17-27th. Students explored Sevilla and saw la Catedral Santa Maria de la Sede, the grave site of Christopher Columbus, Roman and Greek ruins, and much more. From there, they experienced the colorful celebration of Carnaval in Cádiz for 5 days while taking Spanish classes, Sevillana dance classes, and a bike tour through los Toruños Park. Next they drove to Granada to explore La Alhambra and understand the ancient life and history of Muslims and Catholics. Finally, they took a quick trip to the modern, fashionable, bustling city of Madrid for some modern day Spanish shopping. It was an amazing whirlwind of language, historical, cultural, and modern day learning. The students and teachers that attended are Thomai Andreopoulos, Aidan Alegre, Almira Atakent, Carissa Austria, Noah Barker, Zoe Becker, Teddy Brassel, Chelsea Byun, Daniela Callejas, Kristin Cho, Maya Dowman, Elliot Ewell, Vivian Ewell, Olivia Fitzgerald, AJ Garcia, Kylie Gerena, Jack Inzerillo, Quinn Januzzi, Sarah Jeong, Kaitlin Lai, Summer McTigue, Charlotte Ran, Emily Rizzo, Bella Salerno, Scarlett Seybold, Brandon Shintani, Olivia Small, Ben Smilon, Ben Strauss, Sabrina Trama, Isabel Walker, Hannah Zadow Jayna Zivec, Barbara Barker, Patricia Galasso, and Angelica Cuellar.

Sevilla

In the Classroom

The Effects of Marijuana on Driving

The wellness department welcomed guest presenter, Shani Jarvis from AAA, who discussed “The Blunt Truth about Marijuana & Driving” in driver education. The program is designed to:

• Explain the effects of marijuana on the developing teenage brain

• Provide evidence-based information addressing myths about marijuana and driving.

• Explain the physical and cognitive processes affected by marijuana use.

• Stress the importance of planning ahead for safe transportation, and avoiding driving impaired or riding with someone who is impaired.

• Demonstrate a driver’s susceptibility to this impairment and severe consequences that car occur related to driving.

Sophomore students participated in an activity using marijuana impaired goggles which alter the perception of color & reaction time. They were tossed three colored balls and asked to dodge the yellow & red ones and catch the black ones. Easy without the goggles, not so easy with them!

Above: Vlada Pfund, Jack McCarthy, Kenneth Orr, Audrey Beckerman

Left: Ethan Patel, Luke Inzerillo, Owen Laffey, Melos Truesaw

Physics Engineering and Art Students
Participate in Super Science Saturday

This past Saturday, students in Mr. Mitchell and Ms. Shah's Physics Engineering and Art classes presented at Super Science Saturday. Morgan Tilyou and Sarah Malone showed off their rollercoaster, while Lindsay Seibold, James Harkins, Audrey Larson, Taylor Lem, Hayes Williams, and Reese Taubin presented their Rube Goldberg machines. A former student of Ms. Shah, Alex Rosen, visited with his son Bradley and tested the machines. Overall the day was a great success, filled with curiosity and learning.

Club Happenings

FTC Robotic Team Update

Above left to right back row: James Colicchio,Christopher Walker, PJ Kim,Sam Dinovo, Alex Meuller, Spencer Stephens, Tyler Lapp

Above left to right floor: Jackson Andreoni, Hyewon Park, Michael Ip, Anthony Alters,Benjamin Ujszaszi, Mark Shiroshita

Right: Michael Ip and Tyler Lapp With Chippy Version 2.0

The Woodchips finished their competitive season this month. Special awards this season included 2 Dean's List award finalists-- (captain) Tyler Lapp and Ritvik Katta, and highest score in a match by an alliance-- (captain) Michael Ip, Anthony Alters, Anna Williams. The team was excited to receive the Motivate Award at their conference tournament. The judged award is presented to the team that presents a general enthusiasm and philosophy of what it means to be a FIRST Tech Challenge team. Teams must present an engineering notebook documenting their challenges and submit to interviews. Teacher/Coaches John Wohner and Ryan VanTreuren are proud that these students are recognized for their teamwork and fun-loving attitude. Their dedication and work ethic, meeting weekly after school and Sundays for the past 6 months, was admirable. The team also showed their dedication to the community by creating a robotic experience area consisting of 3 challenge fields with over 15 robots at Super Science Saturday and handing out stickers of their mascot "Chippy."

Student Achievement

William Rae Obtained a Pilot License

Senior William Rae began his flight training journey in April 2022 during his junior year. To earn a private pilot certificate, he needed to pass two tests--the Private Pilot Written Knowledge Exam and the Private Pilot Checkride. He recently took the Checkride on February 7th, which comprised of two parts and lasted approximately 5 hours start to finish.

The first part of the Checkride was the ground (oral) section, it lasted approximately 2 hours. During this time, he was engaged in scenario-based questioning with the examiner one-on-one. After successfully completing the ground portion, he took to the skies with the examiner for 2 hours, flying in accordance with the FAA's "Airman Certification Standards." During this time, he demonstrated various flying techniques, including short-field landings, emergency procedures, stalls, and other maneuvers.

With license now in hand, he is now able to carry passengers for non-commercial purposes in single-engine piston aircraft.