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Century Student Leads Team to NASA

Nick Lobue

Congratulations to Nicholas Lobue and his NASA INSPIRE team (FireFly) on their success in the NASA Space Habitat Innovation Challenge sponsored by the National Space Grant Consortium through Oklahoma State University (OSU) and NASA's Interdisciplinary National Science Project Incorporating Research and Education Experience (INSPIRE). Nicholas formed a team of four high school students participating in INSPIRE to meet the challenge of designing a habitat capable of supporting a crew of 4 for a minimum of 90 days, for near Earth missions, or up to 500 days, for deep space destinations such as Mars or the asteroid belt. The team used Google Sketchup to design a 3D model concept of NASA's next Space Habitat. Their cylindrical design allows future astronauts to move about through several different floors with docking ports for exploration vehicles and more. They were selected as 1 of the top 3 designs out of many groups throughout the country that participated. After presenting their design to professors and associates in the OSU engineering department and a rigorous question and answer session, they were selected as the challenge winners and will visit Johnson Space Center Thursday, April 26 through Saturday, April 28, 2012 to present their design to a panel of NASA scientists.

Century & District Report Card

Adequate Yearly Progress The No Child Left Behind Act requires the annual determination of whether schools, districts, and states have made adequate yearly progress (AYP) toward the goal of having all students meet rigorous state academic standards by the 2013-2014 school year. Each year, the performance of all students in the school and district, as well as subgroups of students, is measured against annual performance targets.

Speech and Debate Highlights

Century's Speech and Debate Team competed at Sam Barlow High School this past Sunday, here are the results:

  1. Mike Hansen - 2nd place in Open Expository
  2. Micah Eulberg - 3rd place in Novice After Dinner Speaking
  3. Christian Geddes & Nick Carleson - 3rd place in Open Cross Examination Debate
  4. Jayce Smith & Joe Christie - 3rd place in Novice Public Debate

Volunteer Information

New Online Volunteer Application: This school year was the first in which Hillsboro School District required an application and background check for all volunteers—an important step in ensuring the safety of our students. We truly appreciate the time each of our volunteers took to go through the required steps.

Now, however, the District must humbly ask volunteers to repeat this process for good reason—the District is pleased to announce its new completely automated system for managing volunteers. The current manual process was extremely time intensive, both for schools and the Human Resources department. The online system is quick and efficient, returning background check results and populating them to a database that can be checked by staff within minutes, allowing volunteers to begin helping our schools and students right away.

Please complete the application as soon as possible—the District will not be charged for any background checks completed by October 1, 2011. Please note that all interested patrons are asked to complete the application even if they filled out paperwork and were cleared this school year. Thank you very much for your assistance and your interest in helping our schools!

Congratulations Future Jags Scientists

Congratulations to the below mentioned Century students who competed in the 9th Annual Beaverton - Hillsboro Science Expo, which was held on February 18.

Three of the student researchers will compete in the state science fair, the Intel Northwest Science Expo, April 1, at Portland State University. Awards listed below with 1st or 2nd place are eligible to compete at NWSE. Award recipients are as follows:

  • Amy Bortvedt, Honorable Mention, Environmental Analysis and Effects; NOAA's Taking the Pulse of the Planet Award
  • Braxton Adams, Honorable Mention, Earth Science
  • Brenna Baker, Second Place, Chemistry
  • Christina Nguyen, Mikayla Leishman, First Place, Chemistry
  • Rylan McFarland, Eric Bigwood, Third Place, Animal Science

Important School Information

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In the event that school is closed or will open late because of inclement weather, the following radio stations will begin announcing school closures by 5:30 a.m.: KUIK (1360), KEX (1190), KXL (750), KKRZ (100.3), KKCW (103.3) or television stations KATU (2), KOIN (6) and KGW (8).