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SEM PTSA Newsletter February 22, 2015

Monday February 23trd has been declared a snow day for DISD. Keep warm and stay safe! Follow DISD at this link.

Dear Class of 2016,

All of you will be given SAT on Wednesday, Feb 25.

This is just a friendly reminder to bring the following items on the SAT Testing day:

Admission Ticket
Acceptable photo identification
Two No. 2 pencils with soft erasers; NO PENS OR MECHANICAL PENCILS
Acceptable Calculators
A watch that has no audible alarm or communication/recording capabilities.
Extra batteries

Please ALL OF YOU BE PRESENT!!!!!!

Best Wishes!!!!!!!!

Thank you,

Naveen Kashyap

Guidance Counselor

UIL ESSAY CONTEST!

Attention UIL Academic Coordinators:

This is an important reminder to encourage students on your campus to enter the Barbara Jordan Historical Essay Competition and the Latino History Essay Competition.

The entry deadline for both competitions has been extended by one week to March 9, 2015 (the original deadline was March 2).

Please forward this message to your colleagues in English/Language Arts, Social Studies, Journalism and any others who you think might be interested, so they can share this with their students also.

Find more information and entry forms on our website: http://www.uiltexas.org/academics/essay-contests.

Essays are written in research paper format, with a length of 1,500-2,500 words. Students are encouraged to explore their own communities for topics, and to conduct original research based on primary sources.

All essays that meet the basic competition requirements will be entered in judging and receive feedback on their work. Judges will nominate their best papers for consideration as state finalists. Students who are selected as state finalists will be invited to attend the Academic State Meet in May, where state awards will be presented. State finalist essays are permanently archived by the Briscoe Center for American History and the Benson Latin American Collection, allowing students to see their work become a part of the official historical record.

Also, all students selected as state finalists will become eligible to apply for Texas Interscholastic League Foundation scholarships (http://www.uiltexas.org/tilf), making this an especially exciting opportunity.

Please help us spread the word, and remind students and teachers of the upcoming entry deadline.

Thank you for your assistance, and for all you do for UIL Academics!

David Trussell
Assistant Academic Director
University Interscholastic League

ATTENTION SENIORS-Graduation Invitations

CALENDAR

Tue Feb 24--PTSA general meeting

Wed Feb 25-SAT Class of 2016

Feb 26-Mar 1-Stat Academic Decathlon (SEM Team competing)

Feb 30-Mar 1-STAARS

Wed Mar 4-Faculty Meeting & Breakfast

Mar 9-13-Spring Break

Mar 11-13-FTC Super-regional Robotics Competition ,San Antonio (SEM Team competing)

March 21-22 Math and science state meet

Tue Mar 24--PTSA Board Meeting

Mon Mar 30-STAAR English I

Tue Mar 31-STAAR English II

UT Arlington Engineering Summer Activity Opportunities

UT Arlington is once again offering a variety of summer engineering
activities. From one-day Saturday events to one-week day camps there are learning opportunities from students from 5th grade through graduating seniors. The camp descriptions are available at this link.We hope you will let your students know about these opportunities to learn more about engineering and have FUN
this summer!

Also this year as in years past we will be inviting a select number of STEM teachers from grades 6 through 12 to join us as camp participants in our week-long summer camps. As a participant you join in all of the activities
with the campers, have your food paid for, and receive a stipend for
attending. You then get to take all the cool things you learn about back to your classroom to share with your future students. As an extra bonus, the UT Arlington Engineering and Computer Science Summer Camps are also now a CPE Provider for the State of Texas so you can earn credit for attending the camp! If you are interested, e-mail Shaunyale Canada
(Shaunyale.Canada@uta.edu)for more details.

Entry to Engineering Camp for students entering 6th, 7th or 8th
grade in the fall.
Girl engineering Camp for girls entering 5th through 9th grade in thefall. In addition to the Engineering and Computer Science Summer Camps, Entry and Girlgeneering, UT Arlington College of Engineering will also be hosting the six-week TexPREP academic program for engineering preparation. More information about UT Arlington TexPREP can be found here

We hope that you share the summer information with all of your students and parents. If you would like flyers for particular camps, please contact us and we'll send you one page flyers that can be printed and posted about any camp.
We look forward to hearing from you and your students!

Sincerely,
Dr. Carter Tiernan, Shaunyale Canada, Beth Isbell, Ariel Pankratz UT
Arlington Engineering Summer Programs team

p.s. Don't forget about our Engineering Saturday program too! April 11 at UT Arlington.
our K-12 outreach info
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SEM Competes at Legacy UIL Meet

Students from the Science/Engineering Magnet competed at the Legacy Invitational UIL Meet on Saturday, February 14th and many of our students placed in their events. Individuals and teams that placed on Saturday are listed below. Teams consisted of the four individuals with the highest score from our school. For each team that placed, the four team members are listed, even if they did not place 1st through 6th in the individual competition.

Number Sense
9th/10th grade division
Arpan Kaphle – 6th place

11th/12th grade division – 1st place team
Murali Subramanian – 1st place
Sirjan Kafle – 3rd place
Gaurachandra Das – 6th place
Ben Lawrence

Calculator Applications
9th/10th grade division – 1st place team
Kimmy Chang – 3rd place
Alejandra Nava – 4th place
Christopher Paniagua – 6th place
Jesus Cantu

11th/12th grade division – 1st place team
Sirjan Kafle – 1st place
Murali Subramanian – 2nd place
Dong Hur – 3rd place
Jonathan Lee – 4th place

Mathematics
9th/10th grade division – 1st place team
Kimmy Chang – 2nd place
Jesus Cantu – 3rd place
Alejandra Nava
Saumya Rawat

11th/12th grade division – 1st place team
Sirjan Kafle – 2nd place
Murali Subramanian – 4th place
Ben Lawrence – 6th place
Gaurachandra Das

Science
9th/10th grade division
Grant Hawkins – 4th place

11th/12th grade division
Sirjan Kafle – 4th place

Computer Science
Sirjan Kafle – 5th place

Social Studies
Juan Garcia – 6th place

Please help me in congratulating all of our students who placed at the Legacy UIL Meet and thank you to all of the students who competed on behalf of SEM.

Josh Newton

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Dallas, TX 75203