SOM Newsletter March2013 Blog

7/28/2019 SOM Newsletter March2013 Blog

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Bailey is a great student whohas maintained an A averagein US History the entire

year. Currently, she has a100 average! She attends

CCs regularly and alwaysparticipates. She also goesabove and beyond by com-pleting additional writing as-signments for the class.

Ms. Carroll

Student of the MonthMarch 2013

Each month, SCVCS will be rec-

ognizing two students for attain-

ing Student of the Month status:

one student for overall Studentof the Month and one for Most

Improved Student.

SCVCS high school teachers rec-

ommend students for this honor.

Each month we will have various

prizes for our winners! This

month we will be sending out a

certificate to each student nomi-

nated and our winners will re-

ceive a $10 Target gift certifi-

cate. Congratulations to all of

our nominees and winners!

StudentAchievementNewsletter

HighSchoolEdition

Bailey Guzman

SCVCS 11th Grader


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Student of the MonthMarch 2013


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Davis Math Anthony M.

White Other Jordan D.

Richardson Health Noelle G.

Richardson Life Skills Connor M.

Wheeler Music App. Cassidy R.

Covert Finance Asha D.Covert Comp. Lit. Tasha M.

Covert Digital Arts II Taylor B.

Patterson Comp. Lit. Jasmynn L.

Patterson Game Design Kirk L.

Patterson Web Design Ryder B.

Nyland Comp. Lit. Gregory B.

Nyland Entrepreneurship 2 Anisah W.

Howze Comp. Lit. Madison I.

Howze Marketing II Cheyenne S.

Howze Image Design Dakota H.

Reed Spanish Andrew F.

Lavender Elective Matthew S.

Blanton Other Austin B.

Benton Other Lance E.

Koellner Fine Arts A Maresa C

Koellner Fine Arts B Kathleen H.

DeWalk Phys. Ed. Amberleen L.

Lowery English Robert M.

Knoerr English102 Robert J.

Morgan English 202 Block Kasey F.

Morgan English 202 Taylor B.Morgan Journalism Sauls G.

Brewer English IV Block Brittany W.

Brewer English IV Bryanna W.

Brewer Honors English IV Amanda K

Sasser English102 Lance E.

Sasser English 104 Honors Carli L.

Sasser AP Lang and Comp Reagan S.

D'Annunzio English 202 Chloe S.

D'Annunzio Honors English 204 EmmaGrace S.

Shuler Honors Algebra 2 Reagan S.

Shuler Algebra 2 Andrew F.

Shuler Block Algebra 2 Grace B.

Genco Geometry Tech Kristina J.

Genco Geometry Honors Trevor B.

Genco Geometry Josephine S.

Dowling Math Tech 1 Emily M.Sherbert Math Tech 1 Andrew Seven J.

Sherbert Geometry Tech Breanna W.

Sherbert Math Foundations Michael F.

Murphy Algebra 1 Diana V

Murphy Math Tech 1 Block DeShawn M.

Murphy Honors Algebra David R.

Langford Precalculus Hayden C

Langford Prob and Stats Bradlee C

Reed Math Tech 2 Block Kyle D.

Reed Math Tech 2 Kaitlyn Alexandria D

Lauricella Applied Biology Dalton W.

Lauricella Honors Biology Kathleen H.

Morris Physics Supannee S.

Morris Physical Science William W.

Staley Chemistry Connor M.

Staley Honors Chemistry Reagan S.

Staley Forensic Science Sara A.

Smith Applied Bio I Austin B.

Smith Applied Bio II Ryder B.

Smith Earth Science Hayden C

Smith Block Earth Science R'Breyan D.

Brown Biology Alina M.

Merritt US History Joshua R.Merritt US History Honors Reagan S.

Pennington Government Dakota H.

Pennington Anthropology Bryanna W.

Wood Psychology Caroline W.

Wood Economics Heather I.

Wood Economics Nicole M.

Chambers World History Bryanna W.

Chambers Geography Linda Hanna B.

Shifflett Geography Adam B.

Carroll US History Bailey G.


3/11

Gene is a very hard working student

in my physical science class. He at-

tends or watches the recordings of

all Class Connect sessions. He has

really excelled this year and im-

proved his ability get all assignments

completed on time and in a quality

manner. In the last month, he has

raised his grade two letter grades.

These are the reasons why Gene has

been chosen as Most Improved.

Thanks for working hard and being a

conscientious student.

Mrs. Morris

Most Improved Student of the Month

March 2013


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Elvin Gene Armstrong

SCVCS 10th Grader

Each month, SCVCS will be

recognizing two students for

attaining Student of the Month

status: one student for overallStudent of the Month and one

for Most Improved Student.

SCVCS high school teachers

recommend students for this

honor.

Each month we will have various

prizes for our winners! This

month we will be sending out a

certificate to each student

nominated and our winners will

receive a $10 Target gift cer-

tificate. Congratulations to all

of our nominees and winners!


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Most Improved Student of the Month

March 2013


HighSchoolEdition

Davis Math Jayson P.

White Other Tyler P.

Richardson Health Kallie E.

Richardson Life Skills Tyler P.

Wheeler Music App. Christopher T.

Covert Finance Morgan Z.Covert Comp. Lit. Jasmine R.

Covert Digital Arts II Michael Maxwell P.

Paerson Comp. Lit. Carlisie J.

Paerson Game Design Victoria L.

Paerson Web Design Miranda S.

Nyland Comp. Lit. Anthony Reese B.

Howze Comp. Lit. Alecia W.

Howze Markeng II Tyler V.

Howze Image Design Joseph D.

Reed Spanish Carmen C.Lavender Elecve Anthony M.

Blanton Other Dylan R.

Benton Other Mahew Ryan M.

Koellner Fine Arts A Desmond W.

DeWalk Phys. Ed. Joshua L.

Lowery English Alicia C.

Knoerr English102 Haley T.

Morgan English 202 Block Brandon K.

Morgan English 202 Samuel F.

Morgan Journalism Jordan T.Brewer English IV Block Dakota H.

Brewer English IV Kristena L.

Sasser English102 Dalton W.

Sasser English 104 Honors Bryant C.

Sasser AP Lang and Comp James T.

D'Annunzio English 202 Kaleb C.

D'Annunzio Honors English 204 Mahew D.

Shuler Honors Algebra 2 Hannah G.

Shuler Algebra 2 Amber D.

Shuler Block Algebra 2 William P.

Genco Geometry Tech Kaitlin B.

Genco Geometry Honors Darian V.

Genco Geometry Cassandra W.

Dowling Math Tech 1 Megan H.

Sherbert Math Tech 1 Timothy B.

Sherbert Geometry Tech Stephen N.

Sherbert Math Foundaons Mahew M.

Murphy Algebra 1 Cody T.

Murphy Math Tech 1 Block Deja Sarita C.

Murphy Honors Algebra Aaron H.

Langford Precalculus Jennifer B.

Langford Prob and Stats Aubrey R.

Reed Math Tech 2 Block Ausn Tyler J.

Reed Math Tech 2 Briany H.

Lauricella Applied Biology Brandon W.

Lauricella Honors Biology Stephen C.

Morris Physics Sara A.

Morris Physical Science Elvin A.

Staley Chemistry Rebecca P.

Smith Applied Bio I Lance E.

Smith Applied Bio II Briany C.

Smith Earth Science Shayla J.

Smith Block Earth Science Hunter B.

Brown Biology Robert B.

Merri US History Kayla N.Pennington Government Shamyrie F.

Pennington Anthropology Caitlin R.

Wood Psychology Joshua C.

Wood Economics Victoria G.

Chambers World History Harris M.

Chambers Geography Alexander V.

Shiffle Geography Allison B.

Carroll US History Marquis P.


5/11

100 yard fly, 200 yard freestyle, 200 yard

backstroke, 200 yard butterfly, 200 yard IM

[Individual Medley], and 400 IM. It is diffi-

cult to pick a favorite because I enjoy them

all.Evan only travels to compete once a month

during the school year, but during the summer,

his schedule ramps up. Most competitions are

throughout the Southeast within about a

three-hour distance, but recently Evan trav-

eled to Austin, Texas where he saw two Olym-

pian athletes.One of them was Ricky Berens.While there, Ricky broke the American record

in the 200-yard freestyle. He has swum inOlympic relays with Michael Phelps.My broth-er Ryan has a really cool Speedo T-shirt auto-

graphed by Michael which he has only worn

once--he wore it to school the Monday after

Michael won his eight golds at the Beijing

Olympics.Look to Rio de Janeiro in August of2016; you might just see one of your class-

mates competing.

Student Spotlight Evan FreedMarch 2013


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By the time SCVCS sophomore Evan Freed is

a senior, he could be vying for a spot on the

Olympic swimming team. Evan has achieved

AAAA swimming times in his age group and is

one of the top ten ranked swimmers in thestate of Georgia. Only 5.7% of all US swim-

mers swim at AAAA level or faster. I

started competitive swimming when I was 12,

but I have been swimming summer league

since I was 5, Evan says. I pursued year-

around swimming because my parents encour-

aged me to. They saw my natural talent and

thought that I could excel. Also, my olderbrother, Ryan, was a nationally ranked swim-

mer at a young age and his talent motivated

me.Evan swims for his local brick and mor-tar school team, the South Aiken High

School Thoroughbreds, and year-round he

swims in the Senior National group for the

Aiken Augusta Swim League (ASL). Recently

my times have improved a lot, and I'm hopingto win two events at the South Carolina High

School State Championship next year, and

also place in the top three in year-round at

the Senior State Championship Swim meet

for Georgia. My favorite events are:


6/11

as he said himself, the James Tiberius Kirk of

NASA, Gavin remembered. I not only got to

come in with him to work, but rode in the pas-

senger seat of his car! Yes, I did say car.

Turns out, the GRC isnt just one big longbuilding in the middle of nowhere like some

pictures may have admittedly given the im-

pression of. In reality, the GRC is an entire

complex of buildings you wouldnt believe.Gavin was able to see new developments at

NASA: air-breathing airplane engines, the

brainchild of Dr. Benson himself. The air

breathing engines reminded me how powerfulself efficiency in a machine can be, said Gavin.

Air-breathing airplane engines use the air

that planes fly over and through to power

their engines and increase speed. Unfortu-

nately, Gavin reports that our poor economy

has affected research projects at NASA.

Depending on what the government deems

necessary, advances may be focused in one di-rection or another as the government pays

NASA departments to research specific

things. This has caused some problems as our

government focuses on aerial speed over en-

gine efficiency. Yet, as a future green energy

physicist, Gavin knows the significance of the

worlds energy dilemma and how energy

Student Spotlight Gavin MaiMarch 2013


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It was all real, and it was a blast, said

SCVCS sophomore Gavin Mai after returning

from NASAs Glen Research Center in Cleve-

land, Ohio last month. Gavin had the unique

opportunity to shadow Dr. Benson, a NASAphysicist, for one day and ask him any ques-

tions he wanted. Some of Dr. Bensons an-

swers were too controversial to be revealed

in this newsletter, but Gavin had much to say

about the topics he could discuss openly.Since physics is Gavins chosen career field,

this shadowing opportunity was one that

Gavin wont soon forget. Every year thou-sands of kids apply for trips to NASA and

other such public and/or private agencies in

order to get a real understanding of how the

world works especially for those who work in

the positions that our generation will one day

fill, create, and/or maybe even replace.

Gavin was able to see NASAs energy accel-

erator, several Rover projects, and the zerogravity chamber.He also donned a space suitand helped Dr. Benson teach a class. Dr.

Benson is in physical appearance a white

haired man about my own height give or

takes a half a foot and in personality is well


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Student Spotlight Gavin MaiMarch 2013


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consumption is directly impacted by engine efficiency.Dr. Benson told Gavin's parents thatGavin was one of the most brilliant students he has ever gotten to mentor in his long tenure

with NASA. He also gave Gavin a message to share with all students, Although Dr. Benson

specified math as is what intimidates most kids, whatever it is in academics that intimidates

you the most; dont let it scare you away. Rags to riches may seem like a fantasy lie, but it is nojoke in reality.Dr. Benson himself had very little interest in academics in his own school years.Now he is one of the leading applied physicists at NASA. Albert Einstein is said to have been a

terrible arithmetician (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division). Now he is considered

the father of the modern understanding of physics; relativity. Set your sights high; never slow

down to look back; and when you see the finish line, speed up! Dont let this world slow you

down. You can do great things.


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lead singer Shelley is 14 and drummer Heber is

12. As you can see, these young, talented mu-

sicians are way beyond their years and are

destined for success! Shelley says, Being in

Broken Strings has changed my life because Icontinue to learn new music and make new

friends. There are also many opportunities to

meet lots of people of all ages! We reach out

to other teens by talking with others at vari-

ous events and sharing a love of music. The

thing I enjoy most about my band is that they

are a second family and are my best friends.

My hope for Broken Strings is that we contin-ue to share the love of music. Friendship and

music sounds like an excellent combination to

me! Any tips Shelley for those aspiring band

members just starting out? Shelley says,

Practice, practice, practice, practice and

more practice!I totally agree Shelley becauseas the saying goes, Practice makes perfect!

For more on Shelley and Broken Strings go to

http://grandstrand.happeningmag.com/happeni

ng-kid-shelley-sasser

or

https://www.facebook.com/BrokenStringsMB?

fref=ts

Student Spotlight ShelleySasser


HighSchoolEdition

As the lead vocalist of the band Broken

Strings Shelley Sasser knows what it takes

to be a winner! Along with playing at live

shows and recently writing their own materi-

al, Broken Strings has been named the 2013Best Band on the Grand Strand! Broken

Strings prepared for the Grand Strand Bat-

tle of the Bands through a lot of practicing.

The Grand Strand Battle of the Bands is an

annual event with five rounds of voting by

fans. The voting took place prior to the actu-

al battle on the main stage of the House of

Blues in the concert hall. Shelley and herband have worked hard to achieve their

goals through dedication and lots of prac-

tice. Shelley says, The band has been play-

ing together for more than 3 years. Broken

Strings began at Dino Capones School of

Rock in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Each of the band

members were involved in a band program

the school offers and it was easy to see thechemistry from the beginning. The band soon

moved on from the school band program to

playing full length shows at the areas best

venues. The oldest member is Adrian 18 fol-

lowed by the lead guitar player Dennis 16,


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Student Spotlight ShelleySasser


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Student Spotlight

National Shadowing Month


HighSchoolEdition

In honor of National Shadowing Month, SCVCS 9th through 12th graders participated in forty-

six (46) Job Shadowing experiences in February. Job shadowing is a career development tool

that allows students to go behind the scenes with working professionals while they are on

the job and get first-hand information about careers.

Seventeen (17) of these students participated in a total of thirty seven (37) Virtual experi-ences, allowing them to learn about specific careers using career shadowing software or web-

sites such as through MicroCareerBurst and www.knowitall.org. Participants in Virtual Job

Shadowing include:

Erika F. 10th (3 experiences) Kansas S. 9th (2 experiences) Jasmin L. 12th Cody B. 10th

RBreyan D. 12th (2 experiences) Maria D. 9th (4 experiences) Brittany C. 9th Kaleb C.

10th

DaAsia J. 11th (2 experiences) Kari V. 9th Marshall C. 10th Kayla C. 10th

Gary G. 11th (2 experiences) Amanda K. 12th Summer E. 10th

Kimberly M. 10th Abigail S. 12th (12 experiences)

Nine (9) of these students choose to participate in a face-to-face shadowing experience.

These students actually went to the employees place of business to learn about the specific

career. Some of the businesses/careers shadowed include: Bennettsville Post Office,

JPC.com, Premier One, WLFT Radio, Humane Society, Ball Memorial Hospital and Ehlich Chiro-

practic Clinic, NASA.

Participants to Face-to-Face Job Shadowing:

Caleb M. 10th Thomas W. 10th Kayla T. 11th

Christopher S. 10th Alexis B. 9th Madeline S. 9th

Gavin M. 10th Cassidy R. 12th Katherine J. 10th


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Student Spotlight

National Shadowing Month


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Each time that a student participated in a job shadowing experience during the month of Feb-

ruary, his/her name was placed in a pool of participants. Ten (10) names were randomly drawn

from the pool to receive a $10 gift certificate to Walmart: Abigail S., Kari V., Marshall C.,

RBreyan D., Maria D., Kaleb C., Alexis B., Summer E., DaAsia J., and Amanda K. A grand prize,

$50 gift certificate to Walmart was awarded to Gavin M., who shadowed at NASA.

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