Senior Graduation Announcements

Jostens will be at school for graduation announcement orders on Thursday, Dec. 18th during lunch hours in the CCC.  All seniors received their ordering packets in their Division classroom earlier this month.  Please remember to bring in your order form during lunch hours on Thursday, as the custom Lane Tech Graduation Announcement is only available for a limited time.  Orders may also be placed online at Jostens.com.

Modified Bell Schedules

Not sure when the bell rings? Scroll down to our calendar on lanetech.org and click on the event for the day. The description will include the modified bell schedule.

Lane Tech's Computer Science Open House

December 6th, 2014 – RSVP at http://goo.gl/mms7VI

We are excited to have Brian Fitzpatrick, from Google, come speak as our keynote speaker. Brian started Google’s Chicago engineering office in 2005, and currently leads Google’s Transparency Engineering team, which uses data to help protect free expression and free speech on the web. He also founded and leads Google’s Data Liberation Front, a team that systematically works to make it easy for users to move their data both to and from Google (e.g. via Google Takeout). He serves as both thought leader and internal adviser for Google’s open data efforts and has previously led the Google Code and The Google Affiliate Network teams.

In addition to this great opportunity, we will be offering the workshops listed below. These will be taught by Lane Tech’s Computer Science department so this will be a chance for you to interact directly with our teachers. The titles of the workshops and the agenda are listed below. If you’re interested, RSVPing can help us plan which workshop you’ll attend.

Workshop Titles
“Making Music in Python”
“Make your first Android App in App Inventor”
“Android App Development with Eclipse”
“Make Your Own Key Chain or Earrings with a Laser Cutter”
“Creating Interactive Games with a Finch Robot”

Open House Agenda
9:00 am – 9:15 am – Student and Parent Arrival

9:15 am – 9:50 am – Keynote speaker – Brian Fitzpatrick

9:55 am – 10:50 am – Workshop
Choose from one of the workshops above. Fill out the RSVP form (http://goo.gl/mms7VI) to reserve your spot.

10:55 am – 11:10 am – Question and Answer with Teachers

LSC Meeting Dec 4

The monthly LSC meeting will be held at 6pm in Rm 113. The agenda can be viewed on the LSC site via lanetech.org

Mathletes Take 1st Place!

Congrats to the Lane Tech Math Team for finishing first in their divsion in this weekend's CCML (City of Chicago Math League) competition here at Lane Tech.

The team was led with first place finishes by the Algebra 1 and Algebra 2 teams.

Additionally, freshman Ari Greenburg finished 2nd in Algebra 1; sophomore Maggie Scholle placed 3rd in Geometry; juniors Johan Villanueva and Eros Garcia placed 2nd and 3rd in Algebra 2, and seniors Edgard Ireneo and and Alex Paez finished 2nd and 3rd in Precalculus.

Coaches: Kyle Eck and Melanie Pierce

Quarter 1 Honor Roll

Congrats to all the students who made the honor roll this quarter!  For a complete list, check out the post under "Announcements" on lanetech.org.

Lane Tech Math & Science Fair Judges

Interested in judging at the December 16th Math & Science Fair? Sign up now!
http://goo.gl/qsTm5W

Turkey Trim

Dance your way into fitness!

Participate in the dance program's Turkey Trim on November 20 and 21.  Students, parents, and community members can participate in the event and/or purchase shirts!  Check out the flyer for more info.

LTAC Math Team takes 1st and 2nd place!

Congratulations to Nick Markese and the LTAC Math Team who competed in its first contest this past weekend and had great success. Our 8th grade team won 2nd place and our 7th grade team beat Whitney Young and tied for 1st place.

Eighth graders Joseph Hoppenworth, Jack Joshi, and Gavin Atack submitted the winning video for the first ever CJML video contest. Daniel King tied for 4th place in the individual contest for 8th graders. In the 7th grade individual contest, Ian Dougherty placed 2nd, Hamza Chishti and Morgan Ziegelski tied for 3rd, and Justin Blanchard tied for 4th. Congratulations to all of our Mathletes and coaches on a great start to the season!

Cross Country advances to the State Championship!

Congratulations to Sr. Pavlo Hutsalyuk and So. Maggie Scholle for advancing to the IHSA Cross Country State Championship this weekend in Peoria.  Maggie led the young girls squad and ran the 3mile Niles West sectional course in a personal best 17:46.  Good luck this weekend!

Academic Decathlon team takes top 2 spots at the School of Social Justice Competition

Congratulations to the Lane Tech’s Academic Decathlon team which won the 2nd Annual School of Social Justice Academic Decathlon Competition on Saturday.  Our split squad (Lane Myrtle and Lane Gold) took both first and second place.

Lane outscored its nearest competitor, Northside College Prep by nearly 4,000 points and won 23 out of 27 individual medals awarded, including nine in Art, eight in Economics and six in Math.

Lane also swept the top three overall scores in the Honors and Scholastic Divisions.  Honors competitors Rej Pagala, Fatima Abusaman and Amy Argentar won gold, silver and bronze respectively and Juan Domingo, Mohammed Khan and Sydney Somchith matched their sweep by winning the gold, silver and bronze overall medals in the Scholastic Division.  In the Varsity Division, Crystal Pham won the overall silver medal while Trey Fuentes won the overall bronze medal.  Five of the eight overall medal winners are sophomore students competing as first year decathletes, the remaining four are returning veterans.

Congratulations to all the decathletes who participated.  You’ve made Lane and Coach Stepek very proud!

LT Debate Team wins Chicago Debate League's RCC/LCC Joint Tournament 2

Congratulations to our debate team who won the Chicago Debate League's RCC/LCC Joint Tournament 2 competing against 16 different CPS schools this past weekend!!  We are proud of all of our students and our coaches, Andy Fine, Leah Roskin, and Victoria Schnell!  Individual student honors are as follows:

Quarter-finalists:
Neil Manansala, Damariz Posadas, Karen Cruz, and Kimberly Gutierrez

Semi-finalists:
Lily Craelius and Maeve Gilbert

Finalists:
Lindsay McFadyen and Hayward Blake

Top ten speaker awards:
Hayward Blake, Kimberly Gutierrez, Aaron Phalin, Lindsay McFadyen, Maeve Gilvet, Abdu Hytrek, and Taylor Roberts.

Congratulations to Abdu Hytrek and Taylor Roberts who were the overall Chicago Debate League RCC/LCC Joint Tournament 2 champions!!

Illinois Music Educator's Association Regional Orchestra

Alexandra Kwasny (grade 12), Ine Suh (12), and Reuben Park (10), were chosen from hundreds of student musicians through auditions on October 14th to represent Lane Tech at this prestigious music festival on November 22nd.  From there they will have an opportunity to move on to the ILMEA All-State Orchestra. They were competing against students from every school in Chicago, including all of the surrounding suburbs.  Congrats!

1st Annual LT Bully Prevention Walk

On Wednesday, October 22 (National Unity Day), the Lane Tech Counseling Department, Student Council, and Lettermen Club hosted the first annual  LT Bullying Prevention Walk.  Bullying has increased so much nationwide that there are different levels of classification: verbal, social, physical, and cyber bullying.  The Lane Tech staff and students hope to bring attention to this issue and put a stop to bullying!  All proceeds from the walk were donated to The Bully Project.  For more info, check out http://www.thebullyproject.com.

PSAT Testing Bell Schedule

Testing/Advisory	8:00 - 11:30 a.m.	210 minutes
Lunch	11:30 - 12:28 p.m.	58 minutes
1	12:32 - 12:52 p.m.	20 minutes
2	12:56 - 1:16 p.m.	20 minutes
3	1:20 - 1:40 p.m.	20 minutes
7	1:44 - 2:04 p.m.	20 minutes
8	2:08 - 2:28 p.m.	20 minutes

Seniors should report to the auditorium at 10:45 am.

Freshmen and LTAC students should report to the lunchroom at 10:45 am.

All non-testing students arriving prior to 10:45 am will remain in the lunchroom.

Sophomores and Juniors should arrive no later than 8am and should report to their assigned testing rooms.  Room assignments were sent to student emails with the subject "PSAT Testing"

Help Make FIRST Robotics an IHSA Sport

Our students at Lane have competed all the way to the World Championship for Robotics for the past two years.  Lane Tech is the only school in the district (there are 664 schools) that has a robotics team that has ever competed at this level.  No other school in Chicago has ever done this before.  IHSA has broadened its guidelines to allow chess and drama to be included as an IHSA recognized activity but has yet to include robotics.  Due to the competitive nature of robotics, we would like the IHSA to consider officially recognizing and including FIRST Robotics.  Please take a minute out of your day to sign the following petition for the IHSA to include Robotics.  This would mean a great deal to our students and school.

Make FIRST an IHSA Sport
http://www.change.org/p/ihsa-make-first-robotics-an-ihsa-sport

Happy October!

Fun Fact
While October is the 10th month of the year, its Latin root of "Octo" implies that it would be associated with the number 8.  Why, you ask?  The old Roman calendar had 10 months, with October being the 8th month.  The later addition of January and February to the modern day calendar resulted in October becoming the 10th month.

Web Updates
-Principal's Page - Check out the Physical Education Department, our featured department of the month!
-SY1314 Q4 Honor Roll
-List of student clubs/activities

Club Days

3:30 in the student lunchroom
Monday - LTAC & 9th graders
Tuesday - Sophomores
Wednesday - Juniors & Seniors

PTSO Fundraiser - Shop for Schools on Roscoe

Save the date for Shop for Schools on Roscoe on October 2nd from 10AM to 8PM!  Do your early holiday shopping on Roscoe Village and say "Lane Tech" when you make your purchase!  This year, the Roscoe Village Chamber of Commerce will match up to $3000 for the top 5 schools, so let's make Lane Tech your #1 school to shop for!  Starbucks is also offering your favorite Grande for $2 when you show your receipts!

Happy Spirit Week!