For Thursday, January 31st, 2019 Day 4 in the 10 Day-Cycle NEW Announcements Dates to Remember 2.1 SENIOR PRIDE DAY - NERD DAY 2.5 LUNAR NEW YEAR - SCHOOL CLOSED 2.6 NCAA Eligibility Center Info Session Students who missed prefect and were assigned a metro card can pick one up in room 1W2 during their lunch or free periods tomorrow (YOU NEED THEM FOR FRIDAY). We will not hand out metro cards after school. Thank you! AMC Math Contest - If you enjoy solving challenging math problems, sign up for this once-a-year opportunity to take the prestigious AMC Math Contest. The contest will be held on Wednesday, February 13th from 3:40 until 5:15. See your math teacher or look for the link on bths.edu for more information and to register for the contest. All motivated math students are encouraged to participate. The College Office will be closed on Tuesday, Jan. 29th and Friday, Feb. 1 - all day - to allow staff to work on submitting mid year high school transcripts to colleges for seniors. Should you need assistance today please see staff in the College Office Annex (5S7) or see your guidance counselor. Flowers for Favorites! Buy a flower for a special someone, or even just a friend to show them you care! Buy one flower for $2 or three for $5! Click here to order! Come out on Saturday Feb 2, to see jr High School and High School step teams from around NYC compete in the 6th annual Higher Level Step Competition here at Brooklyn Tech HS. Tickets are $5 in the SGO store. The BTHS Guidance Department will be hosting an info session for families interested in learning about the NCAA Eligibility Center and how student-athletes should prepare for possibly playing a sport at a college level. A reminder email will be sent out the day before the event. February 6, 2019 at 5pm in the BTHS Library. Parents are welcome to attend! Register here: https://goo.gl/forms/g0dkUs5pppYSNqNh2 . Any questions, please email Ms. Luckman at [email protected] NSBE Candymatics - Winter is here and the best way to celebrate it is with NSBE Candymatics! Candymatics will take place from January 29th to February 4th, where you will use your mathematical skills to guess how much candy is in a jar. Prices range from $1 - $3 per guess according to jar sizes. Make your educated guesses between periods 5-9 in the lunchroom (center section). Guess right and win the jar of candy you guessed for! May the odds be ever in your favor! Major War Game - Ever watched "Family Feud" and wanted to be in it? Guess what? The next Major War game will be a family feud between all the majors in tech. It will be held in the library after school on Friday, Feb 1st. Sign up with 5 of your friends to be the team your Major has to offer! Sign Up Here! Do you want to find a way to express yourself and your heritage? Come participate at the annual Culture Fair on February 8, 2019! If you are interested in participating, please fill out the google form online found in the daily announcements by Friday February 1st. All are welcome to attend the fair and admission is FREE! To sign up for the Culture Fair click here!! Horizons - Horizons is excited to announce the new theme for the print edition of our literary and arts magazine: MONSTERS. Visit our website to see how you can submit your creative pieces. We accept: poetry, short stories, drawings, sketches, water colors, photography, etc. We look forward to receiving your artistic submissions! https://bthshorizonspeople.wordpress.com/submissions/ ⦁ Submissions - HORIZONS bthshorizonspeople.wordpress.com. Please send your creations to [email protected]. The theme for this year's issue is Dreams, but feel free to submit any of your works, whether it be visual or written. Please include the genre of your submission in the subject of your email (SUBJECT: Visual Submission/Jane Student). For Visual/Graphic Art and Photography Submissions: ⦁ Insert the name... ⦁ Court of Hearts: In this season of love, give your lover, crush, family, classmates, and teachers the appreciation they deserve by sending them Horizons' Court of Hearts cards! We will be selling a selection of authentic Valentine's Day cards featuring original poems and art works from 2/4 to 2/8/19. Custom cards are also available in the SGO store until 2/14/19. Click on the following link to order you card today! For more information, please visit our website . BOY'S TENNIS - Completed Med & consent forms are due Mon 2/4 in 3E2 or 3E8 after P 8 or 9 or 10. Congratulations to the Girls Varsity Table Tennis Team on their victory in quarterfinals against Murrow High School yesterday. Shoutout to first singles Jane Medved, second singles Michelle Vilenskiy, third singles Karen Chan, first doubles pair Abigail Isakov and Nicole Chan, and second doubles pair Michelle Jaffe and Joey Ruan. Good luck on semis and finals on the 31st! Let's go team! BOYS & GIRLS INDOOR TRACK - The 2018-19 BTHS Boys & Girls indoor track teams wrapped up a busy January schedule at the Ocean Breeze Invitational track meet in Staten Island this past Saturday (Boys) and Sunday (Girls). The meet featured over 250 high schools from 9 different states giving Coach Taylor and Clarke's teams an opportunity to show their mettle against the best runners in this region & beyond. Great work Engineers! The Engineers get Super Bowl weekend off but return to the Ft. Washington Armory the following Sunday (2/10/19) for the PSAL Brooklyn Borough Championships where the Boys will defend their 2017-18 Championship while the Girls will seek to avenge their 2nd place finish to Medgar Evers College Prep HS. Good luck Engineers! JV Boys Basketball - Congratulations to the Boys JV Basketball as they defeated Cobbl Hill HS. Team was led by Manjinder Khera, Kaan Guler, Arianit, Benson Zheng and Jackson Katz... Awesome team Win... and congratulations to the Applebees and Modells raffle winners. Also, please come out Saturday Jan 19th to watch and cheer on The Girls Varsity and Boys JV Basketball 12pm and 2pm..Why stay home when you can come watch some super competitive basketball this Martin Luther King Jr weekend. GO TECH!! Library Schedule NEW BOOKS! Click on these links to see a sampling of our new books in the library: • General Fiction • General Non-fiction • Biology • Visual Arts books • Chem/Physics • Comp Sci • Math • Psychology/Self-help • LOTE Check here for the library schedule (subject to change). Reading Challenge update - 242 people have joined. You can still join here to be included in the challenge (book give-aways, events and more). The goal is to read about a book per month (from special categories) for fun and to stretch your reading! You may not reach the goal, but you could get something out of trying! Reminders Do you hear it coming? And it's coming like..... The Higher Level Step Competition. Come see the top middle school and high school step teams from around New York compete for bragging rights over who's the best. Saturday February 2nd at Brooklyn Tech High School at 3pm. Tickets are $5 and are available now in SGO store. Special guest performances by Tech Unique Urban and the undefeated Brooklyn Tech Cheerleaders! BOYS VARSITY VOLLEYBALL - To all boys who are trying out for varsity volleyball, please remember that medical and parental forms are due by February 1st. Check the school website for more information. GIRLS VARSITY BADMINTON - To all girls who are trying out for varsity badminton, please remember that medical and parental forms are due by February 1st. Check the school website for more information. "Bths4worldwideSports"- Sports is a way to enrich lives in the youth who live in harsh conditions in developing countries. From escaping war to escaping child marriage, children have been motivated and assisted through sports. Through Customink, our club is selling sweatshirts and hoodies, in order to donate to right to play, non-profit organization. Here is the link: https://www.customink.com/fundraising/bths-for-worldwide-sports Other Opportunities (not affiliated with BTHS) UConn Pre-College Summer A Premier Summer Program for Rising High School Juniors and Seniors We have a summer in Storrs for you! UConn Pre-College Summer provides rising high school juniors and seniors (class of 2020 or 2021) the opportunity to live and learn at a nationally ranked public university campus through four challenging and intensive one-week sessions. https://precollege-summer.uconn.edu 2019 Summer Pre-College Programs with Financial Aid There is no better way for college-bound students to get a feel for the future than participating in summer pre-college programs. Students gain valuable work experience, build relationships, and boost their admissions chances through these opportunities. Not every program in the U.S. offers sufficient financial aid for under-resourced students, but we have compiled a list of programs that fix that problem. Each entry includes a link to the program's website, as well as information on program dates, application deadlines, and eligibility requirements. For more info click here - http://blog.collegegreenlight.com/blog/summer-pre-college- programs-2019/?fbclid=IwAR3kzij8alRiJrTiC5mn- 8pq3m5irawtdXSQk9oUWvG2k_zzxOeevgXJN_o 10th Grade Students A Travel Scholarship Opportunity to Ghana I Am C.U.L.T.U.R.ED, a nonprofit organization based in Brooklyn, NY, will offer the selected student a trip to Ghana, Aug. 15-22, fully covered by a travel scholarship from Purpose Driven Passports! Applications for this travel scholarship are due March 1, and it covers all trip expenses outside passport fees and scholarships.