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