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Monday
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Boys Soccer Game @ 6:30 Mason Park #5 vs. Challenge
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Tuesday
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Robotics: Bag Day - Support our team by buying a
Team Shirt
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PTO Chick-fil-a
Annual State of the Air Gala:
AP Biology & Senior Project Showcase
NHS Induction Ceremony
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Thursday
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Organization of Black Aerospace Professionals Speaking
Engagement for Senior students.
African American Culture Club Open Mic Night 5:00 - 6:30 pm
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Friday
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PTO Breakfast with the Principal
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Saturday
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Walk for the Woods Event |
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February 27th
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Business Chat Guest Speaker (B Lunch - see more details below).
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February 28th
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InvenTeam: Community Open-House for Mid-Grant Technical Review
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March 7th
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Cohort 1 Exhibition
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March 9th
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Juniors: ACT Payment Due
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March 12th - 16th
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Spring Break
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March 20th
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Cohort 5 Exhibition
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Important Message from Principal Lambropoulos
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Dear Energy Families,
You have received one letter from Energy today informing about a threat that was made by one of our students to others. Energy is taking this threat very seriously especially after last week's national school tragedy. HISD Superintendent Carranza sent out a community email last week stating that the safety of our students and staff is our top priority. The Energy campus could not agree more.
This letter is to inform you of Energy's current safety measures and our plans to put extra safety precautions in motion effective immediately. These immediate practices are being put in place at Energy to increase situational awareness and monitoring of students on the campus.
To continue reading please visit
here.
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For the class of 2018, Energy held its senior breakfast for the top 15% on Thursday, February 15. During the event, seniors gathered for breakfast in the BP spot and received their official ranks of the school year. They also shared their best experiences at Energy with their fellow students and the administration. For example, Alexandra Hernandez said, "I love the opportunities the school has offered me in the energy industry, and it helped made me realize what I wanted for my future." Moreover, special shout out to our valedictorian and salutatorian, Trisha Litong and Christian Kelly, of the second class in the school's history. Congratulations to the top 15%! Energy is so proud to have a hard working class and wish you all the more success in college!
On Thursday, February 15th, Cohort 3 sophomores welcomed parents and guests for an evening full of Medieval experiments and presentations. In the cafeteria, students displayed the contraptions they created in their Principles of Engineering class, including cranes, trebuchets, and ballistas. Each of these contraptions solved a particular problem that took place during the Medieval times. For the project's Chemistry aspect, students performed live alchemy demonstrations onstage, displaying an array of chemical reactions. Throughout the freshman hallway, students dressed as important historical figures from the Medieval Period and presented to visitors in front of hand-painted backdrops. The presentations, which students prepared in their World History and English classes, detailed the life and achievements of their figure. Parents, teachers, and guests were thoroughly impressed by the outcome of Cohort 3's Medieval Festival and look forward to what they will accomplish in their next PBL project.
The Woods Project will have its annual fundraising event, Walk for The Woods Project, on February 24 at the Ripley House Neighborhood Center. Registration starts at 8 AM and the Walk begins at 9 AM. The Walk for The Woods Project is a 5K walk around the historic East End. Participants can enjoy activities including a rock wall and live music and can meet past and current Woods Project members. This event helps fundraiser the summer trip, a two-week expedition to a national park where students spend five days backpacking and exploring the beauty of nature. During the trip, students strengthen their environmental awareness, critical thinking, perseverance, collaboration, and independence skills. You can help our Energy students have a one-of-a-kind trip by attending the Walk for The Woods Project event! You can register
here. If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Merino at
jessica.merino@houstonisd.org.
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On Monday, February 19th, Cohort 5 began building for their Future Farmers of Earth (FFE) project in urban farming. Their driving question is,
"How can we reimagine Texas's agricultural infrastructure to ensure a sustainable future?"
The students goal for each class is to increase crop yields in sustainable, efficient systems. Two weeks ago, the four cohort classes each chose a crop to produce and voted on a system to utilize and build. The classes have a budget of $100 and can raise an additional $50 through fundraisers or donations. Each class is divided into sub-teams: Leadership, Build, Irrigation, Documentation, Exhibition, and Growing. The Leadership team manages the class budget, sets daily goals, and ensures everybody is on task. The Build team and Irrigation team design CADs, work on water mobility, finalize the supply list, and record dimensions. The Documentation team records the building progress through images, videos, and time-lapse recordings. The Exhibition team will plan and coordinate the final project exhibition, and the Growing team researches soil nutrients, plant types, and other important factors the crop needs. For their exhibition, each class will present their sustainable garden, which will either be an aeroponic or hydroponic system, to parents and community members March 20th. The cohort will also attend a field trip to Texas A&M University to tour the campus potato field and learn how students manage such a large crop region.
For the past five weeks, junior cohort 6 studied biofuel production methods to answer their driving question,
"How can we transition to more sustainable energy sources?" The students will re-design and make improvements to the production methods, using their own sketches and drafted solutions. They will also enter their ideas in a clean technology competition this April. On Thursday, February 15th, the students congregated and shared their solutions with advisory board members; Ken Piddington and Paul Niznik, and their colleagues. During this time, the students were given input on their projects and advice on what it means to be a professional in the energy industry. The students plan on using the feedback to refine their ideas. They will see their mentors again in March for their final presentations.
On Monday, February 12th, seniors from Mr. Johnson's class launched their last project of the school year. The students were tasked with
designing a roller coaster for Six FlagsFiesta Texas
. At the beginning of the project, the students researched Six Flags roller coasters to gather information, such as height and speed, to inspire their own designs. Project criteria include that the roller coaster must run on a "friction-less" track, is dependent on energy alone after it leaves the first hill, and it must reach at least a minimum of 6 different heights from ground level. To meet such requirements, students will calculate velocity, kinetic energy, and potential energy. The final product of this project is a hand-drawn poster that contains the work, force, and power of the roller coaster.
Last Wednesday, February 15th, Energy Institute's Nexus Novas cohort had their second PBL entry event of the year. The event took place in the media lounge, and students, along with their new groups, were tasked with designing a device to fulfill the objective of launching bananas as far as possible. Each group was given a hundred units of fake currency to spend on supplies to construct their devices. Once the groups completed their launchers, they tested them against each other in a competition for the farthest distance. Afterwards, the teams all chose colonies of the past that will be involved in the project through the order of their placement in the competition. The project will include programming robots, mystery boxes, and colonies. Besides these details and the driving question, "How do we as 21st century learners use advancements in science to solve the problems of imperialism?," many details about Cohort Four's project are yet to be disclosed. After an extremely successful PBL 1, the Nexus Novas will certainly impress the Energy Community with their upcoming project.
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National Engineer Week
February 18th kicked of National Engineer Week and to celebrate on campus, engineers from Siemens visited campus today. While at Energy they held a panel discussion with students from the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers student organization and Energy InvenTeam members. The engineers discussed their college experiences, first jobs, and their experiences as young professionals in the energy industry. They also discussed career options at Siemens for engineers. We are very appreciative these young engineers took time to speak with students today and look forward to having them back again next year!
Business Careers Lunch and Learn
February 27th during B lunch in Room 121. Sadaf Jaffery is a C.P.A. and a graduate of University of Notre Dame.
She has worked for Deloitte and Touche in oil and gas, healthcare, and other industries but has spent most of her time in oil and gas auditing.
The goals of this information session will be to introduce students to the career field
of accounting.
The facilitator will lead students through an example balance sheet to expose them to real accounting work.
She will elaborate on the opportunities and challenges that surround becoming an accountant.
She will cover the requirements to take and pass the CPA exams. This session will be a brief snapshot of the Accounting career field from a young professional who has worked in the Oil and Gas industry in Houston. The facilitator will close with a Q&A session.
There will be light snacks and refreshments available for attendees. To register email:
syed.jaffery@houstonisd.org
with your name, grade, and college plans.
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ENERGY INSTITUTE HIGH SCHOOL ADVOCACY GROUP
To stay up-to-date with upcoming changes and connect with other Energy families, please consider joining this group on
Facebook.
EIHS YARD SIGN!
Missed purchasing your EIHS yard sign at the last PTO meeting? No worries, visit the EnergyInstitutePTO.org for details!
"FUTURE SO BRIGHT, YOU GOTTA WEAR SHADES!"
Friday, April 27th, 7:00 - 10:30 pm
Grab your "sunglasses" and come socialize and support Energy Institute High School at our first ever school Auction!
For all the details, to purchase tickets or volunteer visit the PTO website,
EnergyInstitutePTO.org
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BREAKFAST WITH THE PRINCIPAL!
Friday, February 23rd, 9:00 - 11:00 am
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It's not too late to join PTO at the "Electric" level or increase your current membership to $250+.
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On Monday, February 12th, chemical engineer Karen Swindler, and civil engineer Robert
Miesen from the
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSM&T)
visited the Bazinga Cohort. Both engineers shared their field experience and emphasized the importance of problem-solving. When asked what makes students at SDSM&T special, Karen shared that "p
rofessors at SDSM&T help future engineers understand and build each component when creating their product, [whereas] other college [professors] typically give their students [already-made] components. In result, SDSM&T students develop a strong work ethic."
After sharing the benefits of attending South Dakota Mines, Ms.Swindler and Mr. Miessen worked with each project group. Some project groups discussed their inventions that will use landfill waste to harvest either heat, hydrogen gas, or methane gas
to power electricity. Other groups chose to improve the hydrothermal liquefaction process--a thermal process that converts wet biomass into bio-oil--to convert food waste into biodiesel. After sharing their invention ideas, the students received valuable feedback from the engineers to answer their third PBL driving question,
"How do we transition away to sustainable energy sources?"
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Deadline:
February 20, 2018
Amount: Up to $50,000
(12,500 per year)
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Deadline:
February 20, 2018
Amount: $1,000
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Deadline:
March 1, 2018
Amount: $5,000
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Attention Juniors
Deadline:
March 1, 2018
Amount: $5,000
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M
arsha P. Johnson was an African American transgender woman and an outspoken advocate for trans people of color. Born as Malcolm Michaels Jr., on August 24, 1945, she rose to stardom as an Andy Warhol model, drag queen, LGBTQ activist, liberationist, and Stonewall riot instigator. She became the voice of the African American transgender community and co-founded STAR, the
Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries for homeless transgender youth, with her friend Sylvia Rivera. Her eventful life came to an end in 1992 when she was tragically murdered. Today, Marsha is honored for all she has done in the LGBTQ community as a revolutionary trans activist.
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At Energy Institute, students participate in summer Fantastic Learning Opportunities (FLOs) offered by
DiscoverU. DiscoverU aims to encourage students to bring their personal vision into reality by providing resources, educational experiences, and the attitudes and skills necessary for success. Through FLOs, Energy students have opened their minds to new perspectives, by taking on leadership roles, preparing themselves for the future, and immersing themselves into different cultures. So please, help these students by donating to help cover the cost of program tuition and fees.
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