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Door-Decorating Contest Focuses on Colleges

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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

 

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

NFL playoff results

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By Joshua Carr,

The NFL Playoffs started on Saturday, January 3, with the Arizona Cardinals vs. the Carolina Panthers. The Panthers won 27 – 16 to move on to play Seattle, and the Seahawks won by 31-17. Baltimore played the Pittsburgh Steelers in Pittsburgh and the Ravens won by 30-17 to play the New England Patriots, who won 35-31 in that playoff game. The Colts played Cincinnati with the Colts winning by 26-17. The Lions play Cowboys and Cowboys won 24-20. Carolina played Seattle and Seattle won 31-17 on Saturday to move on. The Cowboys played Green Bay and won 26-21, to then play the Seahawks with Seattle winning 28-22. Denver vs. Colts had the Colts win 24-13 to play Patriots, with the Patriots winning 45-7.

There has been some controversy over “deflategate,” where 11 out of 12 of the New England footballs were underinflated. The Colts said the footballs were underinflated in the game, the refs agreed and the NFL is investigating it.

The Super Bowl will take place on Sunday, February 1 at 6:40 p.m.

Teacher Talk: January 2015

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By Xavier Williams,

Welcome to the New Year and the first month of the year, which is January! On this month to mark the beginning of the new year I decided to ask some of the teachers in the school,”What is your New Year’s resolution and why?”. Here are the answers.

My New Year’s resolution is to allow students to undergo activities that will help enhance their scientific writing skills. I hope to be able to elicit or encourage them to read more and be able to come up with argument supported by evidence from texts that they’re read and phenomena that they’re examined and observed in the lab.

 

-Ms. Samar (Chemistry and Environmental Science teacher)
  My New Year’s resolution is to reach my goal in losing weight, get my finances in order and quit smoking.

 

-Ms. O’Brien (Flores) (Heritage Spanish teacher/staff developer)
  My New Year resolution is to be fluent enough in Spanish to have a Spanish only conversation).

 

-Mr. Scott (English teacher)

 Next month’s question will be: “What do you love the most about Patterson?”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Students create puzzle cubes

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Students try to put together the puzzle cubes their classmates created (Photo: Ms. Varela)

By Leonard Fields,

Editor’s Note: Ms. Varela’s engineering class made puzzle cubes (three dimensional puzzles) for other students and staff members to solve. This is one student’s reflection on the project.

Unit 4 was mostly about a box that my classmates and I had to create. The hardest part about the box creation was the start. When I had to pick on piece and begin from there. My teacher was a big help for me, she helped me with my brainstorming and my creations of my box but she did not create the box for me. She made sure I knew what I was doing. My classmates where a big help, they helped me understand everything also, when I was confused and my teacher was already helping someone, someone that knew would explain it for me. I didn’t really realize how much my teacher helped me understand everything until we had visitors to come and test out our puzzle cubes, and everyone was struggling to put my puzzle together.

One thing that runs in my family is creativity. So when I had a chance to use my creativity I was determined to make it the best one in the class. My determination level rose when I realized how much fun this could be for me, and how much it could help me understand better.

The brainstorming was a good part for me, it took me a long time to brainstorm the rest of my cube. To tell the truth my time management was a little bit bad. If my time management was better I would have finished a lot earlier, when I was almost done I stayed after school to finish my work.

When I was presenting my puzzle and the work I completed on the computer I had to be professional I couldn’t be playing around because when I get older I’m going to have to be a professional and be mature. It’s not easy to talk professionally about something as complicated as this. I thought it was going to be easy but in all honesty it really wasn’t, I thought it was going be easy because I understood the work I just couldn’t explain it fully, but I did it eventually.

The thinking outside the box wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be, like I said starting off my box was arguably the hardest part of my project. So when I had to think of a couple more pieces to create a 3×3 box wasn’t that hard. The easiest part of creating my pieces was the measuring and putting it all together for the final piece.

This project helped me understand the ipt files, the iam files, the idw files, and the ipn files. When we first started working with inventor pro 2015 it wasn’t easy for me. Now that I have experience doing all 4 of the files, is became easy.

When everyone was struggling to put my box together that was a sign of achievement for me. All my work payed off. My teacher, my classmates, myself I don’t just give the credit to myself I give it to everyone that helped me complete this.

Passionately Pink Day Attacks Breast Cancer

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(Photo: Patterson Press)

By Joshua Carr,

Did you see Passionately Pink Day go by? That was the day students and staff wore pink to raise money and awareness to fight breast cancer on October 16. The day may have passed, but you can still give money.  See Ms. Edwards in room 230. It was a great success, and we are still fighting!

 

(Photos: Patterson Press)

Asesinato de estudiantes en México provoca protestas (SPANISH)

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Editor’s Note: This article is written in Spanish for the benefit of our Spanish-speaking readers.

Por Jacqueline Morales,

El mundo está preocupado por lo que pasó el 26-27 de Septiembre en Iguala Guerrero de la Escuela Rural Isidro Burgos Raúl donde 43 estudiantes de la escuela iban en tres autobuses después de haber completado actividades para su escuela. Al terminar las actividades de regreso a Chilpancingo policías trataron de bloquear la ruta de los autobuses y comenzaron a disparar balas sin aviso y se perdieron 43 estudiantes a cual aún no saben dónde se encuentran si son perdidos o muertos y aún no saben que les pasó.

Hasta ahora han supuestamente encontrado a un estudiante muerto a cual tienen a muchos padres preocupados y en zona de protestas de lo ocurrido en varias zonas de México.

Pa’Lante students attend rally for Anthony Brown

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by Ms. K. O’Brien (formerly Flores),

Students from the programs Pa’Lante and PGC attended a rally in PG County in support of Maryland’s Lieutenant Governor Anthony Brown last October. At the time, Brown was running for Governor of Maryland.

Students heard speeches from Congressman Elijah Cummings, Governor Martin O’Malley, Lt. Governor Brown, and even President Obama. All of the speakers sent the urgent message to get out to the polls and vote and to remember the rights that we have fought so hard to gain.

The students who attended were Franklin Aguilar, Jennifer Aristy Moran, Charles Jennings, Adiya Mason, and Heidy Ramirez. Ms. O’Brien (formerly Flores), her daughter, and Mr. Benton and his wife and son also attended the event.

Lockheed Martin talks to students about engineering

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Students pay close attention to Lockheed Martin presentation (Photo: Patterson Press)

By Alex Hunt,

The Robotics Club brought in an engineering contractor for the government to talk to students about pursuing a careen in engineering and technology. The guest speaker came from Lockheed Martin, a Maryland-based company that is making the F-35 Lightning II  airplane for the Air Force.

The U.S. government has hired Lockheed Martin to produce a wide range of aerospace and defense aircraft, ground vehicles, missiles, guided weapons, missile defense systems, naval systems, radar  systems, sensors, situational awareness tactical communications, training and logistics, and safety management unmanned systems. Lockheed Martin also makes non-military high tech devices, such as a “food printer” that uses food coloring and other materials to make food.

“The Robotics Program at Patterson is great friends with Lockheed Martin”, explained Ms. Ball, an engineering teacher and the faculty advisor for the Robotics Club. “Lockheed Martin helps kids to become interested in the engineering career and also give kids a main set of ideas of what to say and do when you become an adult engineer.”

According to Ms. Ball, Patterson students benefit greatly from the encouragement and knowledge about real-world education and careers given by companies like Lockheed Martin.

Clipper Corner Predicament (OPINION)

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By Taj Beatty,

I love going to the Clipper Corner (Patterson’s school store). However, the teachers don’t necessarily want us to chew, eat or drink anything that we buy from the Clipper Corner. You know we all have multiple teachers that will not hesitate to say, “No Gum! No Drinks!”. Yet when they sell it at the Clipper Corner you think, “Oh–they sell gum, so I guess since they sell it, I’ll be able to chew it in class”. So where does the confusion end?

Studies show that when you chew gum while taking notes on a test, if you chew the same flavor of gum during the test, it”ll help you remember your notes. Crazy, huh? Well, I guess teachers just want us to rely on pure brain memory, and to see if we’re actually paying attention.

So don’t be mad at the teachers, they’re just trying to do their part. If you want things to change, ask your teachers and Coach Kelley about this Clipper Corner predicament.

While you’re at it, ask yourself another question: Do your health and gym teachers want you to eat unhealthy snacks before class starts? The candy and chips cause loss of energy and tire you out. You wouldn’t want that–especially if you have a swim meet or a football game. In fact, in all sports we all know that we need a lot of energy and fuel to dominate and destroy the other team. You don’t want to pay the price and lose the game. So maybe eat some fruit and drink some milk.

Still, everybody wants a tasty candy bar once in awhile, which is why you should get your snacks after school ends so you can have it as a treat to yourself, knowing you survived another day of school. Just make sure you make it to school fast enough to get to the Clipper Corner. That’s one more reason to get to school early!

Those are my thoughts on the subject. Do you agree? What are your thoughts? Spread the word and we’ll figure out the Clipper Corner Predicament!

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