Friday News 1/14

FRIDAY NEWS 1/14/2022

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Provide a learning environment which fosters critical thinking, collaboration, creativity, and communication to prepare all students for the challenges of the 21st century.

NO SCHOOL MONDAY, JANUARY 17TH

Martin Luther King Day

LION PRIDE!

Congressional App Challenge Winners!

Congratulations Leighla-Marie Dantes & Violet Wilson!

Pictured: Mr. Berkowitz, Leighla-Marie Dantes, Violet Wilson, Mr. Spinetti

Congratulations Violet Wilson and Leighla-Marie Dantes on winning the Congressional App Challenge, a competition for students across the region that is sponsored by United States Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro’s office.

The app they created named “Olive” was selected over numerous other entries across the region. “Olive” is a nutrition app that promotes healthy eating habits by focusing on both physical and mental health. Violet and Leighla-Marie will be honored by Congresswoman DeLauro at a ceremony later in the year.

Thank you Mr. Spinetti, Foran Computer Science teacher, for encouraging and supporting students throughout this competition.

Congratulations Violet and Leighla-Marie on this major accomplishment!

Foran Welcomes

Edgar Morales to our Security Staff!

The deadline for Senator Murphy's Essay Contest has been extended until Jan. 21st. Interested students can get more information from either their English or Social Studies teachers.

Here are the Mane Street Mirror articles that were posted this past week:

Cal Wrigley and Brian Massey - Student Spotlight: Maguire Casey

Hannah Salsbury - Seasonal Street Signs Pop Up Around Milford

Azam Hostetler - Interstate 95: A Compelling History

Thomas Gauthier - Pet Adoption During the Winter Season

Evan Kerzner and Austin Lermayer - NFL Player Picture: Who's in, Who's Out?

Students in AP US History participated in their own version of “Shark Tank” to evaluate the impact of Gilded Age “Captains of Industry and Robber Barons” and determine where to invest their money if they were living in the early 20th Century.

Culinary l has ended our beef and poultry unit, with a warm bowl of chili and a vegetable chicken soup, prepared with a homemade chicken stock. This week, our students began presentations on their At Home Food Waste Project. This has been an ongoing lesson in Culinary l. Students needed to use what they had in their kitchen to prepare a dish, using leftovers, soon to be expired food, half used produce, or items that would need to be thrown out soon. It was an eye opening experience for them. We are proud of all the creativity that went into this project.

Culinary ll completed our International cuisine unit with Thai noodles, sheet pan fajitas, and a gyro pita burger. They really showed their knife skills, and enjoyed traveling to different destinations with their taste buds.

Students in Intro to Early Childhood Education prepared interactive book projects for the children in the Foran Child Learning Center as part of their mid term exams.

Before winter break, Advanced Photo I&II students had some fun being inspired by the creations of the Instagram artist Nikolai Tolsytyh. The various Foran Folidays decorations that were hung around the school are secretly featured in some of these images. See if you can guess which decorations were used in these photos. Hint- Thanks, Mr Spinetti :)

Student artists: Mia Coppola, Nora Hayes, Max Howland, Amelia McGonigle, Amanda Pompa, Kaylah Sommervil

Google reports that in 2015 its Android devices took 93 million selfies per day (www.inc.com). Imagine what that number is in 2022! If you are not into taking selfies you can explore taking “posies” which are pictures of people taken by someone else. Most of us call these types of photos “portraits”. With that many selfies and posies being taken, it’s essential we know how to take a good portrait and not just a crooked, poorly exposed snapshot in the mirror. Digital photography students spent some time working with models in both indoor and outdoor lighting scenarios to capture portraits of family and friends. A huge THANK YOU to the parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, siblings, and friends that modeled for our young artists.

Images captured by: Isabella Fallon, Dayana Kismetova, Griffin Lucy, Chloe Marchesseault, Cam Paisley, Matthew Preneta, Connor Stafford

A monoprint is a single impression of an image made from a reprintable block. ... When you create a monoprint, it is possible to copy work from separate pieces of artwork onto one monoprint. Monoprints are known as the most painterly method among the printmaking techniques; it is essentially a printed painting. Here are some examples from Ms. Plude’s Art for Seniors class.

Our National Art Honors Society students are volunteering their services to help to create Poppies for Foran’s ‘ Poppy Project’ installation for Memorial Day

Paintings created by students in Mr. Czajkowsi's Art for Seniors and Intro Art and Design classes. The masterpieces were produced by Aiden Davis, Brayden Young, Caroline Leszko, Carly Zieman, Brygid Sawitsky, and Rebecca Scicchitano.

Wood Tech building footstools and making birdhouses from all the scrap wood to be donated to Eisenhower park.

Mr. Dillon’s Engineering classes are building mousetrap racers as part of their mechanical engineering unit.

Marking Period 2 T.E.A.M.S Champions.

3rd period:Traffic Cones- Jahnvi Bulusu, Olivia Jones, David Maslar, Cameron Luth & Adam Rajewski

8th period:Goated Green- Gianna Pach, Bella Valentin, Katrina Zeolite, Carlos Loaiza & Jack Pia

Happy New Year! Check out this month’s Foran Learning Commons Lowdown! MIDTERMS ARE COMING: Wind down and engage in some de-stressing activities in the Library in between your midterms. Find the link to these resources in our Lowdown! The Teaching and Learning Commons is looking for YOUR HELP! Find the presentation and video link that explains how YOU can assist in the library. Still having Google Search and Image issues? Try out the strategies that are listed to help you work around these issues. Finally, check out some New Year book recommendations and what current magazine issues are available on our Flipster database!

The Foran High School Athletic Department and The Foran Sports Booster Club have teamed up to honor a deserving varsity athlete each week of the season throughout the 2018-2019 school year. Each recipient will be recognized for their performance in the “Friday News” and they will also receive a tee shirt.

The Foran Sports Booster Club Athletes of the Week

Sophomore, Kelly Aspras has been named Foran High School’s “Athlete of the Week” for her outstanding performance in Wrestling. Kelly won her first varsity career match vs. Fairfield Prep with a second period pin. The victory was the first varsity win by a female wrestler in Foran High School history. Congratulations Kelly!

Senior, Barry Held has been named Foran High School’s “Athlete of the Week” for his outstanding performance in Wrestling. Barry went 4-0 in his matches over the weekend to help lead the Lions to a 7-0 team record for the season and a #6 ranking in the state wrestling poll. Congratulations Barry!

Swimming

The Milford Boys Swimming and Diving is currently 0-3 after being defeated by Amity on Tuesday. As a team, we recorded 18 best times and continue to show significant improvement. Sophomore Jacob Collette placed 1st in the 50 free with a time of 23.98 and 3rd in the 100 free with a time of 53.05. Both are lifetime best performances! Senior and Captain Logan Griffin dropped 6 seconds from last meet and placed 4th with a time of 6:35.42. Our next home meet is against Bunnell/Stratford on Thursday at 4:00 p.m.

Boys Basketball

Foran 35 - West Haven 61:

Charlie Diamantis had 12 pts, 6 rebounds, and went 6 for 6 from the free-throw line

AJ Edmond had 8 pts and 5 rebounds

Foran 54 - HMTCA 20:

Charlie Diamantis had 14 pts, 9 rebounds and 4 assists

Matteo Tonelli had 9 pts, 3 rebounds and 2 steals

Joe Gateano had 7 pts, 8 rebounds 2 blocks

Liam Young had 8 pts

Gymnastics

Boys Hockey

Your @HamdenSport player of the game is @MarinersMilford’s tendy Max Howland. Max had a bunch of great saves down the stretch to keep the game a 1-1 tie. Congrats Max and best of luck the rest of the season. @CTHKReport

The Giving Table Club

The Giving Table prepared a Tex-Mex meal for the Milford Police Department, to show appreciation and gratitude, for all they do for our community, and keeping us safe.