Redhawk Report Vol. 8, Issue 3 (Winter Recap) A chronicle of the excellence at Parsippany High School Hello RedHawks, MARCH 2018 Sooner or later, it will stop snowing and we’ll be able to go outside again… Until then, enjoy reading the latest edition of the RedHawk Report. Despite the cold, it has been a busy winter for our students and staff. We have some great academic accomplishments (Merit Scholars, Robotics, and ACDEC State Championships), rewarding service opportunities (Service Nights and Toy Drives) and athletic feats (Cavaluzzo goals, Marks medals, and States for Boys Swim, Girls Hoops & Wrestling). All great stuff! As always, thanks for reading, Dr. Mulroony APRIL ACADEMIC HONORS & AWARDS 2-6 Spring Break 9- Boys Lax vs PHHS ELLIE XU NAMED 12- Family Science Night NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLAR 13- Girls Lax vs PHHS 20- PHS Junior Dinner Congrats to Par High senior Ellie Xu who 24- Service Night (Trivia!) was named a National Merit Scholar. Of 25- World Lang Honor Society the approx. 1.5 million juniors who take 26- Mr. PHS the PSAT each year, the top 1% are 27- AAC Movie Night eligible to become a National Merit Scholar. Ellie was selected from among MAY that 1% for this prestigious honor. 2- PHS Jazz Café BENNETT WINS NATIONAL 3- Student vs Faculty Hoops SPANISH SCHOLARSHIP 4- Baseball vs PHHS 5- ICC Big Show Congrats to PHS senior Claudia Bennett who 8- PTSA Mtg won a $1,000 scholarship from the National 17- NHS Inductions Spanish Honor Society. Claudia competed 22- Service Night against Spanish Honor Society students from 23- Band Spring Concert high schools nationwide for one of twenty- 24- GCC Coffee House five awards. 25- AAC Sushi Dance 31- Choir Cabaret Concert SHUBA PRASADH WINS JUNE PROGRAMMING AWARD 2- Redstock & Powderpuff 6- Solo/Small Ensemble Concert Congrats to Par High soph Shuba Prasadh 7- Senior Prom who was the New Jersey recipient of the 12- Senior Awards Night NCWIT Award for Aspirations in 14, 15, 18, 19- Final Exams Computing which honors girls in grades 9- 21- Graduation 12 who have demonstrated aptitude in the fields of computing and programming. IN THIS ISSUE: Page 2 ACDEC & RedBots Page 3 Scholars of the Month Page 4 Science Olympiad Page 5 Service Nights Page 7 Hall of Fame Page 8 Wrestlers make states Page 9 Marks bowls to 3rd in State Page 10 Cavaluzzo hit 150 Page 12 Student Walk-Out Page 13 Senior Superlatives ACDEC WINS 5TH CONSECUTIVE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP The Parsippany High School Academic Decathlon (AcDec) Team recently participated in the New Jersey State Competition. The competition was held at Ramapo High School in Franklin Lakes on Saturday, March 3. Parsippany High School’s team placed first in the state and won the Super Quiz. As State Champions, Parsippany High School will advance to the National Competition April 19- 21 in Frisco, Texas. This is their 6th State Championship. Eight team members and nine alternates competed in the State Competition. Team members who participated were: Daniel Kuo, Hugh Kwong, Andrew Lie, Alice Limanova, Anthony Martucci, Shiv Dipak Patel, Adam Ye KAKIRDE WINS and Ellie Xu, Overall, the Parsippany High MODELING School team took home 57 awards and honors COMPETITION for the Regional Competition. Congrats to sophomore team Academic Decathlon is a 10-event scholastic member Aneesh Kakirde who competition for high school students. The took 1st place in the On-Site events include Math, Science, Social Science, Modeling Competition. We’re so Literature, Economics, Art, Music, Speech, proud of Aneesh who has worked Essay and Interview. This year’s theme is so hard on robotics and Africa. Team coaches are Nancy Lennon, programming! Science Teacher and Stacy Cozin, Media Specialist. ROBOTICS TEAM HAS TV PRODUCTION CONTEST AMAZING SEASON Five PHS TV Production 1 & 2 students (Kenny Robotics: Congrats to our Slaman, MJ Sinatra, Kandarp Ajvalia, Matt Follow Parsippany High School Robotics Afonso and Jared Osgood) are producing an “Humans of Par team, The Redbots, who advanced independent original short film which will be High” on Instagram to the Eastern US Super Regional submitted and screened at the annual NJ High Tournament this winter. The team School Film Competition & Workshop event at consists of Joyce David, Neha Six Flags on May 24th. Good Luck guys! Deshpande, Neil Deshpande, Jaswanth Duddu, Yash Garala, Aneesh Kakirde, Tej Moradia, Neer Patel, Adarsa Pedada, Rithvik Ramineni, Aarav Shah, Abhi Sheth, Chaitanya Trivedi, Ronak Vaghela, Ayush Vyas. What's so impressive about the Redbots performance is that they are only in their second year of existence. Many thanks to Mrs. Effner who serves as their advisor, and to Mr. Kakirde, who spearheaded the creation of the program. SCHOLARS OF THE MONTH FBLA ATTENDS CONFERENCE Every month we recognize students that are performing at a We are very proud of the following students for their high level, are giving extra effort or who have demonstrated accomplishmen t at the FBLA State Leadership Conference this February: Neil Shah (3rd place in Word tremendous passion for or improvement in a specific subject area. The recipients are awarded with a bagel breakfast in Processing) and Vraj Shah (4th place in Word June. Processing). They will compete at the National Leadership Conference in Baltimore this summer. DECEMBER English: Yessenia Villota Math: Andrew Hsieh Social Studies: Olivia Leon World Languages: Angeline Jiju Science: Riley Ferguson Music: Richa Iyer Physical Education: Kaitlyn Sklow JANUARY English: Skylar Schey Math: Kevin Weiss Social Studies: Fiona Celli Science: Dev Patel World Lang: Isabella Cacciottolo Foods: Rainie Li, Elia Ariana Maceda Chavela FEBRUARY English: Bhumi Patel Math: Andrew Lie Social Studies: Olivia Johnson Science: Ryan Crooker World Lang: Rachel Wang Phys Ed: Riya Nayini Applied Tech: Julia Kloss WORLD LANGUAGES DAY AT TROY HILLS SCHOOL On Feb. 9th we sent twenty seven senior Spanish, French and Italian students to take part in the Annual World Languages Day at Troy Hills School. The students prepared and delivered presentations on various countries and world cultures for the elementary students at Troy Hills. As usual, they did an amazing job. ESL POETRY GRANT Thank you the Parsippany Ed Foundation, for sponsoring an amazing poetry workshop for our ESL students with Ms. Marcia LeBeau! Beautiful words were created and shared by our ESL students. Thanks to Ms. Liu for pursuing and facilitating the grant. THANKS TO… Mrs. Russell for donating bags of personal supplies to families in need. Jared Hurta for providing assistance to a student in need… SCIENCE OLYMPIAD SUCCESS The Par High Science Olympiad Team placed 6th overall out of 20 teams at the Regional Competition in January earning a trophy in the process. Congrats to the following team members who placed: • Neha Deshpande & Anish Balamurali-Game on: 6th place • Neha Deshpande & Nick Lim- Mousetrap Vehicle: 5th place • Joe Koo & Andrew Hsieh-Rocks and Minerals: 3rd place • Andrew Lie & Hugh Kwong-Write it/Do it: 4th place ONCOLOGY OLYMPIAD The team competed in the State Competition on March 15. They placed 22nd out of 27 Congratulations to our four students who participated in the Rutgers teams and earned 2 medals. Oncology Olympiad in January: Sejal Murthy, Anjali Ramesh, Arjun • Mousetrap Vehicle: 5th place Ranade and Ria Shah. The academic competition focused on cancer (Nicholas Lim and Neha diagnosis, treatment, symptoms, genetics and health care specialists. Deshpande) The Oncology Olympiad seeks to raise awareness about cancer and • Rocks & Minerals: 4th place to support the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey. Many thanks (Andrew Hsieh and Joseph Koo) to senior Sunaina Mukjerhee who helped them prepare for the The members of the Science Olympiad competition. Team are: Anish Balamurali, Steven Chang, Karni Dechoian, Neha Deshpande, Marc Hoeltge, Andrew Hsieh, Aneesh Kakirde, Joseph Koo, Hugh Kwong, Andrew Lie, Nicholas Lim, Sunaina Mukherjee, Sejal Murthy, Zill Patel, Shuba Prasadh, Anjali Ramesh, Arjun Ranade, Samantha Shimabukuro, and Philip Varghese. TSUI & BHAVSAR EXCEL FOR DECA Congratulations to senior Gary Tsui and junior Dilan Bhavsar who qualified to compete at the NJ DECA Conference in Atlantic City. Both students were required to take a general business test and then execute various role play scenarios in front of a panel of judges. While at the conference, Gary and Dilan were able to meet fellow business students from across the state and interact with a variety of business and education-themed vendors. BABY DIGIORGIO VARSITY JACKETS PHS is exclusively working with Cozy Embroidery in Morristown for Varsity jackets. Congrats to Par High Math If you have earned your Varsity letter and would like to purchase a jacket, please visit Teacher Mrs. DiGiorgio their Morristown store, located at 151 South Street. You will need to bring your who welcomed her son Varsity letter and a $100 deposit. Alexander Mies DiGiorgio YEARBOOKS on January 15, 2018. Yearbooks: 2017-2018 yearbooks are still available to purchase for the low price of $80! Please visit: ybpay.lifetouch.com and enter code 12157718 to order your copy online. FEDO WEDDING Congrats to Ms. Fedo (now PLANNING FOR REDSTOCK Mrs. Hakim) who was Redstock: Our annual community festival is scheduled for Saturday, June 2nd. If you th married on March 9 . are a local business owner or know a local business that would like to reserve a booth during festival hours (12:00 - 3:00), please contact [email protected]. DECEMBER: KEY CLUB MOVIE NIGHT Key Club Movie Night: Thanks to the 200+ big-hearted Par High Students at our December Service Night. Interact and Key Club hosted a Movie Night, made holiday cards and collected over $200 for UNICEF. JANUARY: PROJECT GRADUATION LETTERS Thanks to the 120+ Par High students & parents who knocked out about a gajillion letters for the Project Grad mailing at Service Night last night! Remember, Project Graduation is a parent and community sponsored program to provide a safe night of celebration after high school graduation.