NCWIT Aspirations in Computing

Congratulations to all the Illinois NCWIT Award winners! Of the 34 girls recognized, 7 winners and 5 runner-ups were from Lane! (goo.gl/1OPIjG)

Science Saturday Signup

Calling all young scientists! Lane is hosting Science Saturdays on 2/21 and 5/2.  Space is limited, so sign up ASAP at http://goo.gl/pO48wu

Weekend Wins

Congrats to the Freshmen Girls Basketball Team and Coach Lauren O'Malley for winning city!  The girls are undefeated!


The Academic Decathlon team won the division in a squeaker beating Northside by 80 points.  Of the 63 subject area medals awarded (7 events x 3 medals x 3 academic divisions) Lane won 23.  In addition, Lane students, Reijhui Pagala (Soph) and Amy Argentar (Soph) won the overall gold and silver medals in the Honors division, respectively.  While, Juan Domingo  (Sr) and Sergej Kulikov (Soph) won the overall bronze medals in their respective divisions, Scholastic and Varsity.

Lane also won the SuperQuiz competition for the North/Northwest region but was narrowly defeated by Whitney (38-35) for the overall competition title.   This event, which is open to the public, is a stand alone competition and all regions compete at the same time together.

Here is an individual breakdown of medal winners:
Varsity Division
Sergej Kulikov (Soph):  1 gold, 2 silver, 3 honorable mentions, overall bronze medalist in Varsity division
Katie Gross (Soph):   1 gold, 1 bronze, 5 honorable mentions
Shantel Edouard (Soph):  4 honorable mentions

Scholastic division
Juan Domingo (Sr):  1 gold, 1 silver, 2 honorable mentions, overall bronze medalist in Scholastic division
Mohammad Khan (Sr):  1 silver, 3 bronze, 1 honorable mention
Ricardo Ortiz (Soph):  6 honorable mentions

Honors
Reijhui Pagala (Soph):  4 gold, 2 bronze, 1 honorable mention, overall gold medalist in the Honors division
Amy Argentar (Soph):  3 silver, 1 bronze, 2 honorable mentions, overall silver medalist in the Honors division
Jerry Zhu (Jr):  1 gold, 1 silver, 2 honorable mentions

Cold Weather Makeup Days

To ensure students receive the valuable instructional time that was intended for January 7 and 8,CPS has made changes to its academic calendar for this school year. These changes are as follows:
-Friday, January 30, which was scheduled to be a School Improvement Day with no classes, will now be a regular attendance day for all students.

-Wednesday, June 17, which was scheduled to be the first day of students’ summer break, will now be a regular attendance day for all students.

-Students’ summer break will begin on Thursday, June 18.

Science Fair Competitors Advance to City!

Congratulations to our 10 science fair students who competed in Friday's regional science fair.  All 10 students are moving on to City Science Fair, each receiving the top gold award for the day.  Thank you to Marie Ferentz and all Alpha teachers and sponsors for their ongoing guidance and support of these students.

The students (in no particular order) are:
Rueben Park
Ghochuan Zhang
Hugh Yeh
Daniel Puczko
Maggie Scholle
Jerry Zhu
Marcelina Puc
Kamil Lungu
Raisa Munshi
Nejla Dzafic

Green & Gold Gala

Let's Glow! 3^rd Annual Lane Tech Green & Gold Gala

Tickets on Sale NOW

Friday, April 17

Ravenswood Event Center

Buy your tickets today!

(http://goo.gl/RHpwCe)

CPS 2015-2016 Calendar

http://cps.edu/SiteCollectionDocuments/SY15_16Calendar.pdf