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Top 10 Reasons for Joining Extracurriculars
By Booster Scholarship Team
1. Make New Friends- win or lose, you'll meet people who may not share a class with you
2. Learn More than Required Courses- extracurriculars are like an elective, learn something new and have fun while doing it
3. Get to know Teachers- doing something together with faculty outside of the classroom, you get to see a different side of people who want to help you
4. Improve Academic Performance- stretch and grow by doing more; participation increases performance according to school and other studies
5. Develop Leadership Skills- every activity has an organization that needs your help to run
6. Learn Team work- objectives can't be achieved without others
7. Apply Lessons of Sportsmanship and Ethics- competition teaches how to succeed by playing within the rules
8. Learn How to Persevere and Dedicate Yourself - success isn't automatic; test and strengthen your commitment to achievement by learning how to juggle demands on your time that compete with school work)
9. Be Self-reliant- by doing school sponsored activities you can learn to do things on your own without depending on your parents to organize activities for you
10. Increase School Spirit- without you and the extra things you do, the the school is just two dimensional
Students in the News
Six Albert Einstein High School seniors have been recognized by the 2011 National Merit Scholarship Program for their outstanding academic performance on the PSAT. Hunter Shippey has been named as a semifinalist. National Merit Semi-finalists are among the top 1 percent of all entrants in the 2011 competition. These 16,000 students are eligible to receive National Merit Scholarship awards. Andrew Ceruzzi, Ziv Dreyfuss, McCaull Durkin, Samuel Kaiser and Amy Whittington have been named as Commended Students. These students placed in the top five percent of 1.5 million PSAT test-takers who entered the 2011 competition and are among 34,000 recognized throughout the nation. Congratulations, Titans!
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Milton Garcia Selected for Full College Scholarship
Einstein student Milton Garcia is one of 10 Montgomery County seniors who has been awarded a full-tuition scholarship from The Posse Foundation, a 20-year-old group that partners with colleges and universities to develop multicultural youth leadership.
The Posse Foundation, based in New York, Washington, DC and several other cities, identifies promising student leaders and sends them in multicultural teams (posses) to some of the nation's top colleges on scholarships worth more than $100,000 each. Nearly 1,600 students nationwide were nominated for the scholarships this year.
Garcia has been awarded a scholarship to attend Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa. Other Montgomery seniors have been awarded scholarships to institutions that include Lafayette College, Bucknell University, Pepperdine University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
All About Einstein's Latest Gates Scholar
Ana Coello, an Einstein High School senior from Honduras, has been awarded a Gates Millenium Scholarship, making her the third Einstein student to win the prestigious college scholarship supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Coello, 18, joins Einstein seniors in 2007 and 2008 in winning a Gates scholarship, which covers costs for a recipient's undergraduate and graduate degrees for up to 10 years. The decade-old scholarship program, initially funded with a $1 billion grant from the Gates Foundation, is designed to assist the country's brightest low-income minority students.
Coello is one of seven Montgomery County high school seniors who were notified last month that they were awarded Gates Millenium scholarships. Nationally, there are 1,000 Gates scholarship recipients, selected from 20,500 applicants.
Coello, who enrolled at Einstein in 2007 as a second-semester sophomore, plans a career in medicine, following in the footsteps of her parents, Carlos Coello and Orquidea Escoto, who both are physicians.
At Einstein, Coello's earned a 3.94 GPA, serves as president of the Jaime Escalante Latino Honor Society, is a member of the school's National Honor Society chapter and has danced competitively with Latin American Students United. But medicine is her passion.
"I'm fascinated at how the body works," said Coello, who is considering a career in surgery. "It really is amazing."
Coello has been accepted at the University of Maryland and is on the waiting list at Johns Hopkins University. She wants to major in molecular biology as a pre-med student.
"The Gates scholarship is a phenomenal situation for a kid," said Principal James Fernandez. "Too many talented kids, without means, get help for undergrad and then have to fend for themselves for further schooling. The Gates allows them to focus on study and not worry about finances."
Sharon Foretia, Einstein's first Gates scholar in 2007, is a sophomore at Cornell University, majoring in industrial and labor relations. She plans to pursue Teach for America, or go to law school with an interest in urban education reform. Foretia, who was born in Washington, D.C., is the daughter of African immigrants from Cameroon.
Cookie Solomon, Einstein's 2008 Gates scholar, is finishing up her freshman year at Carnegie Mellon University, majoring in finance and international management. She plans to obtain an MBA. Solomon is a native Marylander whose family settled in the U.S. from Jamaica.
Coello, who has permanent resident status in this country, moved to the Silver Spring area with her mother and younger brother in 2007. Her mother was a doctor in Honduras, but now operates a home-based day care business. Coello's father remains in Honduras, working as a doctor in a small town outside the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa.
Coello found the size and diversity of the student population at Einstein strikingly different from the small bilingual school she attended in Honduras.
"It's really tough to be in high school in America, when you're coming in from the outside," said Coello. "People tend to be divided (in groups). I think it's the way the culture is."
As a senior, Coello is working as a medical researcher through an internship program at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda. Coello pursued the internship last year with assistance from Einstein teachers Damian DiCamillo, Claudia DeLeon and Paula Pero. Coello has a half day of classes at Einstein, then reports to a laboratory at the National Institute of Child and Human Development, where she is studying hormones involved in the body's stress reaction.
In her college search, Coello applied to nine schools. She worked with Einstein counselor Karen Karma and Collegiate Directions Inc., a Bethesda-based non-profit, to tackle the 45-page Gates scholarship application and complete the required eight essays.
One evening last month, she came home from the NIH laboratory to find a large envelope addressed to her. Inside was a packet of papers, and a letter of congratulations from the Gates program.
"I was jumping up and down and started yelling, "Mom, I don't have to pay for school!" said Coello. "I got Gates! I got Gates!"
White House Selects Einstein for High Profile Visits
Television and film actress Alfre Woodard, former ambassador and anti-cancer activist Nancy Brinker, and officials from the office of First Lady Michelle Obama visited Einstein High School on Thurs., March 19 to talk with students as part of the First Lady's commemoration of Women's History Month.
The A-List visitors, trailing television camera crews and reporters, gathered mid-morning in a large classroom with a group of students, mostly from an AP government class and the school's pilot all-male Honors English class. The women talked for about an hour with the students, while word quickly swept the hallways that important visitors, perhaps Michelle Obama herself, had arrived at Einstein. Mrs. Obama, however, visited Anacostia High School that day, while other White House-recruited VIP's, including Debbie Allen, Bobbi Brown, Dominique Dawes and Phylicia Rashad fanned out to a total of 11 schools in D.C., Maryland and Virginia.
Principal James Fernandez said officials from the First Lady's office contacted him earlier in the week to arrange the visit. "It was very much out of the blue," he said.
English teacher William Lee said he welcomed the opportunity for the 20 male students in his class to discuss women's issues. HIs students currently are reading a novel about a rape victim and have researched how increasing numbers of women and children are becoming homeless.
In addition, Lee said, "We talk about what it means to be a positive role model. Part of that is respect for women, personally and in the larger community. We all have mothers, sisters, grandmothers."
Sophomore Foster White said he recognized the actress Woodard, but didn't know about Brinker, who founded Susan G. Komen for the Cure, a leading anti-cancer organization, after her only sister succumbed to breast cancer. She also was U.S. ambassador to Hungary and chief of protocol during the administration of President George W. Bush.
"We were ready to listen and pay attention to what they were saying to us," said White. "I think everybody benefited from hearing them speak."
Junior Laura Fisher called the discussion "pretty inspirational," as the women talked about how they persisted in their goals despite great pain and setbacks.
"They were telling us to follow our dreams at all costs," she said.
Representatives of the First Lady's office asked students for their comments on policy issues, and students responded with questions about arts funding cuts, ensuring affordable college education and improving health care.
"The kids were asking, why did they choose Einstein -- why not?" said governmnent teacher Natasha Harrison. "This school is an important part of the county. We are a diverse school."
Towards the end of the meeting, Woodard provided her e-mail to students and told Harrison, "I want to come back and talk to these kids again."
Einstein Students Rock for Energy
Click here to read the Montgomery Gazette article on efforts by Einstein students to help organize an environmental rally for energy efficiency.