Friday News 12/17/2021
Our Mission Statement:
Provide a learning environment which fosters critical thinking, collaboration, creativity, and communication to prepare all students for the challenges of the 21st century.
Thank you for all of your donations for the Toys For Tots.
Students from the Foran Child Learning Center helped load the gifts into the Fire Truck!
Foran Interact students were back supporting the Milford Fire Department’s collection of Toys for the annual ‘Toys for Tots’ campaign. Club members were able to come in and help the fireman and other community volunteers organize the toys collected in our city at the Margaret Egan Center’s gymnasium for this weekend’s distribution.
Natural Helpers Adopted a Family through the Milford Family Resources! Thank you to all the Natural Helpers who contributed. Pictured here are a few but we had a LOT of help to make this family's season BRIGHT!
Foran Raised $639 for Connecticut Children’s Hospital on PJ Day!
This year several new members will be inducted into Mu Alpha Theta
Foran's Math Honor Society:
Tighe Duggan
Grace Foley
Gerold Gutierrez
Kevin Chen
Johann Chen
Maria Korman
These students qualify with teacher sponsorship, superior performance in their math classroom, and top percentile scores on their PSAT assessments! Congratulations to all!
Forever Friends Club Holiday Party
Some Furry Friends Visit Foran!
In Spanish I students have been reviewing vocabulary for classes, school supplies and time. This week they got a first hand look at class schedules at University High School in San Juan, Puerto Rico. They then made their own schedules of the classes offered at University High School, (UHS) and compared school life at UHS to their school lives at Foran. They found that a lot of things were very similar!
AP chemistry did RedOx titrations; Chemistry and Earth Systems looked at the combustion reaction of magnesium.
Students in Physics of the Universe recently finished building towers of different heights and measuring their resonant frequencies. They generated data to verify the trends found from earthquakes in the past with the 1985 Mexico City earthquake being our case study. We successfully determined that different frequencies affect buildings of different heights!
Students in Ms. Plude’s Pottery class have just finished their textured vessel projects. The textures you see on the handbuilt mugs and cylinders were created from stamps the students designed and constructed during the last marking period.
The students in Ms. Plude’s Creative Arts class have been experimenting with using traditional materials in an unconventional way to create melted wax paintings using crayons on canvas boards. Each design they created exemplified a specific color theory as defined by the German poet Wolfgang von Goethe.
Computer Science
This week Computer Science students attended an in class field trip where four guest speakers spoke to various careers in computer science. Speakers included Dr. Drew Conway (A data scientist from Two Sigma), Dr. Lisa Lancor (A professor from Southern Connecticut State University who spoke on cybersecurity), Lauren Ribordy (an artificial intelligence and machine learning engineer for Lockheed Martin), and former Jonathan Law graduate Melissa Chodziutko (Current IBM Z OS developer and Indi Game Dev). Students listened to presentations and asked a variety of questions. This is the start of some work to have more industry connections for Capstone mentors and Internship advisors for Computer Science in Milford.
Wood Tech & Power Tech
Reporter of the Week
Congratulations to Lauren Ardolino!
Here are the Mane Street Mirror articles that were posted this past week:
Chloe Nittoly and Julia DeEll - Holiday Season in New York City
Luke Thomas - Covid-19's Holiday Season in the Neighborhood
Julianne Yasona and Ivy Glidden - Sleepy Sloth Club Creating Better Sleep Habits
Joseph DeFreitas and Elizabeth Tran - School Take on Asian Hate
Cynthia Pan and Fiani Lin - Fun, Fresh, and Fulfilling: Milford Prevention Council's Frosty Fest
Journalism 2 students worked on a project using the Society of Professional Journalists' code of ethics. Students talked about photo manipulation, plagiarism, being first, covering politics, and more!
Mentoring met with Dr. Golesky to go over building relationships with students.
Seniors worked together to reflect on their experience!
Students in Mrs. Cassell's English 2 classes have been working on presentations related to the historical and cultural background of The Crucible by Arthur Miller. Working alone or in groups, students researched a topic of their choice and then presented their findings to the class.
Boys Ice Hockey!
Saturday, Dec 18th 5:15pm
Monday, Dec 20th 4:00pm
Girls Basketball
Friday, Dec 17th 6:30pm
Wednesday, Dec 22nd 7:00pm (vs Law)
Tuesday, Dec 28 2:00pm
Wednesday, Dec 29th 2:00pm
Boys Basketball
Saturday, Dec 18th 1:15pm
Saturday, Dec 22nd 5:00pm (vs Law)
Monday, Dec 27 5:30pm
Boys Swimming
Monday, Dec 20th 3:45pm
Tuesday, Dec 28 10:00am
Wrestling
Tuesday, Dec 21st 3:45pm
All State Class M Football
Congratulations Jason Cruz!
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Attention Skiers & Snowboarders:
This year's Foran Ski & Snowboard Club will be offering 3 Saturday trips this winter to Vermont. Students can go on as many as they desire.
The mountains we will be traveling to include:
Pico Mountain on Saturday Jan 22, 2022
Bolton Valley on Saturday Feb 12, 2022
Burke Mountain on Saturday Feb 26, 2022
This year's Trip Packet is below with all the information. If a student would like to attend, they will need to return permission slips with money to Mr. Willaims in Room 201 no later than Monday December 20th. Please note, this year's Trip Packet was also emailed to all students who had signed up at our November meeting. If you have any questions you can email Mr. Williams at twilliams@milforded.org or your child can see Mr. Williams in Room 201 Red Hall.
Excellent debate by Foran Debate teams on the pros and cons of increasing the federal minimum wage. Great turnout to see the debate as well! New members are always welcome!
AP Exam Payment for 2021-2022
Payments are due January 28, 2022
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