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Ms. Ball Wins “Teachers are Heroes” Award

Posted on November 15, 2016 by pattersonpress405 Leave a comment

Ms. Ball, winner of ABC2 Teacher Hero award (Photo: John Dingzon, Patterson Press)

Ms. Ball, winner of ABC2 Teacher Hero award (Photo: Amadou Bah, Patterson Press)

By John Dingzon,

This year’s nominee of Teachers are Heroes was Ms. Sharon Ball. She was nominated by her colleague Mr. Nicolas Yates. Ms. Ball used to be an Engineer; now she’s a teacher at Patterson High school. She teaches Engineering classes, coaches Robotics, and mentors students in STEM programs.

She won the award of Teachers are Heroes, sponsored by MEW & ABC 2 News. Ms. Ball said when she found out she won, “I was surprised and excited.”

Ms. Ball would like to thank her colleague Mr. Yates for getting nominated so she could receive the award of Teachers are Heroes.

BONUS CONTENT: Student Bookbinding Contest winners

Posted on May 11, 2016 by pattersonpress405 Leave a comment

Here are the cover pages and inside spreads from all of the winners of the Patterson bookbinding contest. More information is available on the front page of the May 2016 print edition of the Patterson Press.

Door-Decorating Contest Focuses on Colleges

Posted on February 3, 2015 by pattersonpress405 Leave a comment

A student shows off Ms. Rivera’s winning door (Photo: Jamal Artis, Patterson Press)

By Ramatoulaye Goloco,

Patterson High School held its annual door decorating contest in November. The theme of this year’s contest was colleges and universities. Each homeroom chose a different college, wrote information about that college (GPA requirements, etc.), and posted some pictures about the college on the front of their door to show how precious those colleges are.

Some of the teachers chose to feature the college that they attended. For example,Mr. Wagoner’s room put up pictures and information from Virginia University, because he graduated from there. “It’s great place”, Mr. Wagoner said. Mr. Scott’s choice was his undergraduate school, the University of Baltimore, while Mr. Gagne decided to use his son’s college to celebrate his recent graduation. “My son just graduated from Morgan State with a degree in civil engineering”, Mr. Gagne explained.

The goal of this contest was to encourage higher education, post-high school.”Statistics’ show that when students pursue higher education they make more money and have more career options available to them”, explained Ms. McIntosh, a guidance counselor for the school. “The College Door Decorating Contest’s purpose was to showcase colleges and universities across the United States and to educate students on the requirements needed to be accepted into college. Surprisingly, many of our students do not understand the requirements needed to be accepted to college and wait until it is too late to increase their GPA and study for standardized tests such as the ACT and SAT.”

The door decorating contest is just one of many activities the School Counseling Department sponsored during College and Career Readiness Month. The school hopes that these activities will help prepare Patterson students to pursue and achieve their dreams after high school.

FIRST PLACE WINNERS:

Class of 2018: Ms. O’Brien

Class of 2017: Ms. Tuballa

Class of 2016: Mr. Baron

Class of 2015: Ms. Rivera

Life Skills: Ms. Clark

: A student shows off Ms. Rivera’s winning door (Photo: Jamal Artis, Patterson Press)

(Photos: Jamal Artis and Rama Goloco, Patterson Press)

Robotics club gears up for competition

Posted on April 15, 2014 by pattersonpress405 Leave a comment

Students build a robotic vehicle (Photo: Regina Bell)

By Stephanie Megginson,

Last year, our Patterson High School Robotics Club won the 2013 Hopkins Robotics Cup. After working with another school, Ms.Ball wanted Patterson to have its own robotics club.

The robotics club hasn’t won a competition this year yet but their next competition is coming up this April at John Hopkins. They believe they will win 1st place again this year.

Every Thursday after school students meet in Ms.Ball’s room to participate in Robotics Club. All students are welcome to join.

Students choose to join the robotics club because it’s exciting, they get to use their own imagination, problem solving, teamwork and innovation skills. They get to go to different cities and states to compete against other schools.

Students elect Homecoming Queen and King

Posted on November 17, 2013 by pattersonpress405 Leave a comment

The 2013 Homecoming Court (Photo: Patterson Press)

By Tamika Addison

Patterson High School held the elections for Homecoming King and Queen on Friday, October 25, 2013. Among the seniors, Sherrod Hawkes won the title of Homecoming King and Gerleene Garcia won the title of Homecoming Queen. Hawkes believes that he won the election because he is very popular, he gets good grades, and he is good at football. He was interested in running for Homecoming King because he wants everyone to know about him.

Underclassmen also elected a Homecoming Queen and King for their graduating class. The winners were:

9th Grade: Blanca Bellso (Queen) and Coine LaRose (King).
10th Grade: Savannah Morales (Queen) and Marquise Chamberlain (King).
11th Grade: Kensy Licona-Linares (Queen) and Victor Banks (King).

All of the winners were presented with sashes at the Homecoming rally on the football field. The senior King and Queen also received crowns.

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STEM competition returns for 5th year at Patterson

Posted on November 28, 2012 by pattersonpress405 Leave a comment

Students arrange mirrors to reflect a laser as part of the STEM competition (photo: Patterson Press)

By Jevaughn Taylor

Patterson High School held its 5th annual Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) competition on November 15,2012. We first met in the auditorium for a orientation until we were called to go to our different sections. We started the STEM competition at approximately 10:30.

We played an interesting game with lots of challenges we were put to the test to build things and use the time we had wisely. For this activity we were split into different stations (A,B,C and D). In order for contestants to win the STEM competition, they had to compete in all areas and fulfill all requirements, In each station, students receive a score based on how well they did in that area.

For example, in one competition, students were given five mirrors and they had to arrange them in a certain position so that a laser could go through the other side of the board. When that happened, the laser light would reflect on a certain score to give you your grade in that area. Each person who participated in the STEM competition worked in teams of four.

In addition to Patterson students, we also hosted visiting students from Baltimore Polytechnic Institute (Poly). Our students also had a lot of fun alongside some of the judges. During the STEM competition, students were very competitive to see who was better and faster at making things.

Ms. Ball and Mr. Yates were two of the people who help to organize this event and make sure everything went according to plan. Ms. Ball was the one who prepared the lunches and made sure that all STEM participants were properly fed. Students reported to lunch at approximately 12:30 to 1:00 PM. After lunch, Mr Benton (the principal of Patterson High School) announced the winners. Although the team from Poly won first place in the competition, we Patterson students tried our best and came in second and third in this competition.

Some students were frustrated that another school won the competition. When asked for comment about this, Mr. Benton replied, “Students now feel what I feel when other schools come into my stadium and beat our basketball team and other teams that we have here at Patterson, but all we can say is we did our part and participated and we are all hoping for the best the next time we keep a next STEM competition here at Patterson.”

The STEM competition has been a fun and educational experience for all of the students who participated in it. The sixth annual STEM competition is scheduled to take place at the same time next year. It is our hope that we will do even better next time and win first place.

(photo: Patterson Press)

Homerooms Compete in Door Decorating Contest

Posted on November 28, 2012 by pattersonpress405 Leave a comment

A student helps decorate Mr. Laqui’s classroom door. It would be chosen as one of this year’s three winners, along with Mr. Wagoner’s and Ms. Berdin’s rooms. (Photo: Brennan Meeks, Patterson Press)

By Brennan Meeks

Patterson continued an annual tradition this year by hosting a door decorating competition to celebrate Homecoming week from Oct 22-26.

Students in each homeroom class worked together to create an original design promoting Patterson pride on their classroom doors, using whatever materials they could find. A team of judges announced a winner for each of the three floors in the building.

The homerooms that won the contest are Mr. Wagoner’s class (1st floor), Mr Laqui’s class (2nd floor), and Ms. Berdin’s class (3rd floor). Mr. Wagoner’s door was decorated with a clipper ship, paper footballs, and images of Patterson students.

Mr. Laqui’s door had a lot decorations, including footballs and a cemetery with gravestones and ghosts, representing Edmonson High School’s football team (who Patterson would face in the Homecoming game). The graveyard theme also connected with the fact that Halloween was coming up. Some of the footballs were pink, in honor of breast cancer awareness month. The background of this door is a football field with a lot of images of football players.

Ms. Berdin’s door featured a clipper ship, blue streamers and photos of Patterson football players’ heads with bodies drawn on with markers. Even Mr. Benton’s head was included as a football player!

We would like to congratulate these three homerooms, along with all the other classes who participated, for their hard work and creativity in making their doors look nice for Homecoming.

Mr. Wagoner’s room, 1st floor winner (photo: Brennan Meeks, Patterson Press)

Mr. Laqui’s room, winner for 2nd floor (Photo: Brennan Meeks, Patterson Press)

Ms. Berdin’s room, 3rd floor winner (photo: Brennan Meeks, Patterson Press)

Ms. McDermott’s homeroom decorates their door. (photo: Brennan Meeks, Patterson Press)

A student works on Ms. Mahoney’s door (photo: Brennan Meeks, Patterson Press)

Ms. Varela’s door highlights the many different countries her students come from (photo: Brennan Meeks, Patterson Press)

students work on a poster that will go on their classroom door (photo: Brennan Meeks, Patterson Press)

Ms. Reyes’ and Ms. Hope’s classroom celebrates Breast Cancer Awareness Month (photo: Brennan Meeks, Patterson Press)

A student puts some finishing touches on Mr. Tola’s door (photo: Brennan Meeks, Patterson Press)

Mr. Pesa’s homeroom decorates their door (photo: Brennan Meeks, Patterson Press)

Community Fair brings school and neighborhood together

Posted on September 30, 2012 by pattersonpress405 Leave a comment

Participants join in a traditional Mexican dance (Photo: Patterson Press)

By Brennan Meeks

Patterson High School held a Back to School Night and Community Fair on September 20, from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. The event was held mainly in the cafeteria but spread out into hallways and classrooms because there were so many things to do and see. Many local organizations from the Bayview area came out to support our school and inform students and their families about the services they provide. Among the community partners present were Johns Hopkins University, the Building STEPs program, CASA de Maryland and the Refugee Youth Project. Johns Hopkins Medical Center even sent a giant truck that provided free HIV screening and other medical services. Patterson put its many different resources and programs on display, such as sports, career pathway programs, health programs and much more.

Patterson had many visitors from the community, such as a local McDonald’s, which came to support us by giving away free sandwiches. There were exciting entertainment acts, including a belly dancer, a hip-hop group and a a group of traditional dancers from Mexico. At the fair, the school also provided meals for teachers, students, staff, and families that were involved in the fair. At the fair, there were prizes that you can win just by completing a task. Also on display were many Patterson clubs that students can join. The Patterson Press table even featured old issues of the school newspaper dating back to the World War 2 era. The school store was open for anyone who wanted to purchase Patterson logo-ed shirts, mugs, pens, binders and much more.

Many Patterson students volunteered to help set up and run the fair, earning community service hours in the process. All of our Patterson family participated in this special event, making this year’s community fair a huge success. We hope to do it again next school year. We would like to see a lot of family, staff members and students come back next time. Our mission is to make our school one of the top 500 schools in the nation, and this year’s community fair showed that we are well on the way to achieving that goal.

Rayvis Mitchell contributed to this article.

Ms. Diehl from Patterson’s Health Corps, demonstrates how to eat a healthy diet. (Photo: Patterson Press)

Latino rights organization CASA de Maryland promotes the Maryland Dream Act, which would grant more rights to undocumented immigrants in Maryland. (Photo: Patterson Press)

Patterson’s female coaches encourage students to get involved in athletics. (Photo: Patterson Press)

A belly dancer performs for the crowd (Photo: Patterson Press)

Ms. Bridgeforth’s nail tech students give hand treatments and manicures. (Photo: Patterson Press)

Students, family members, staff and visitors enjoy a meal together. (Photo: Patterson Press)

The school store (now called the Clipper Corner) sells Patterson T-shirts and other gear to students and visitors. (Photo: Patterson Press)

Health professionals provide free medical screenings on their mobile trailer. (Photo: Patterson Press)

Senior Superlatives

Posted on May 10, 2012 by pattersonpress405 Leave a comment

Every year the Patterson Press and the Yearbook committee ask seniors to vote for their favorite candidates for everything from “class clown” to “favorite teacher”. These are the winners of this year’s “Senior Superlatives” election:

*Category*	*Female*	*Male*
Cutest couple	Tionna Johnson	Daquan Milburn
Most Fashionable	Kabita Magar	Arjun Ghaley
Most Talented	Genisis Noboa	Salah al deen Al Batayneh
Most Artistic	Stella Matsangos	Mark Wilson
Most Helpful	Pabitra Gautam	Grace Monga
Most Athletic	Michelina Poindexter	Derrick Green
Class Clown	Amatullan Abdoullah	Leroy Clowney
Teacher’s Pet	Miquel Vazquez	Dominic Jones
Most Argumentative	Shaquane Hursey	Kenneth Troy
Best Personality	Bobbie Scott	Robert Joyce
Most Creative	Shawna Beckett	Ricky Gordon
Best Smile	Kristen Edwards	Jeffery King
Prettiest Eyes	Oni Nana	Shad Noori
Biggest Flirt	Breana Yancy	Devonte Britton
Most Likely to Succeed	Hawa Sall	Muluberhan Bahre

Favorites – Category	Winner
Singer	Triple tie – Beyonce, Trey Songz, Rihanna
Vacation Place	Miami
Car	Nissan
Candy	Snickers
TV Show	Family Guy
Phone	IPhone
Shoes	Nike
Fashion Accessories	Bracelets
Teachers	Ms. Franklin
Color	Blue
Movie	Twilight
Song	Climax by Usher
Clothing line	Tie – Polo & Levis
Fast Food Restaurant	McDonalds
Ringtone	The Motto by Drake

Patterson students win math competition

Posted on May 1, 2012 by pattersonpress405 Leave a comment

By Mengfei Chen, Patterson Press staff writer (with files from Mr. Gil Laqui)

Patterson students won the top 3 prizes of the 2012 National Technical Association (NTA) Mathematics Contest on Saturday, April 21,2012 at Morgan State University. The following are the students who joined the math contest and their respective awards:

Jialin Wang – 1st place ($100 as 1st place winner + $50 and a TI Inspire calculator for averaging at least 90%)
Fenyi Chen – 2nd place ($50 as 2nd place winner+ $50 and a TI Inspire calculator for averaging at least 90%)
MengFei Chen – 3rd place ($25 as 3rd place winner)
Elvyre Djiogo ($15 for participating in the contest)
Vinh Tran ($15 for participating in the contest)

In the two months before the contest began, calculus teacher Mr. Gil Laqui taught an after-school lesson every Tuesday and Thursday for the students who was joining the math contest. He was teaching not only the knowledge that already been taught in high school but also introduced some college level concepts. Every student in this group participated in these lessons and enjoyed the process. On April 28, after the intense competition, Patterson students took the top three places in Group A and everyone on the team participated and did well. The sponsor of this contest introduced Mr.Laqui and gave him high praise for preparing his students so well. “I am very proud of our students and the organizers were very impressed as well for this kind of feat”, said Mr. Laqui.

Success does not happen by chance. It requires both hard work and perseverance. All students can do what this team did if they put in the same effort. All Patterson students are encouraged to join this contest next year. Participants will get a chance to meet professionals in many areas of the scientific fields and will also be given the opportunity to attend an SAT workshop. That is not the exam itself but a training for students to sharpen their mathematic skills.

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