The Raider Nation Newsletter

News from Principal Novak: May 13, 2024

Spring Cleaning

Dear Raider Nation,

As we wind down the school year, this is the time to encourage (in some cases mandate) your student to clean their room, car, the whole house...whatever is needed to find any missing school items before the end of the school year. Staff collect textbooks, uniforms, equipment, and other school-issued items and need to submit an obligation form for anything that is missing. You can avoid paying replacement costs by finding the missing items NOW.

Unpaid obligations will prevent our graduating seniors from receiving tickets to the graduation ceremony. For students returning next year, unpaid obligations will prevent students from obtaining a parking permit and purchasing homecoming dance tickets. Thanks in advance for helping your student return HCPSS property or replace it.

And for parents of seniors, make sure your student knows where their Chromebook and charger are!

PS- Feel free to hide a textbook and make them clean their room trying to find it. I won't tell!

Happy Spring Cleaning!

Sincerely,

Nick Novak

Principal

Important Information-Reposting

Reminders

As we wrap up the school year, I wanted to share a couple of reminders since we've had some recurring issues lately with these two things:

1) Food Deliveries-students are not allowed to order food through delivery services such as Grub Hub, Uber Eats, or Door Dash. We are not equipped to handle drop offs on such a large scale. If students forget their lunch, the cafeteria can provide them a meal for the day (to be be paid back later).

2) After School Expectations-if students are not involved in a supervised activity after school, they should head home as soon as possible after the end of the school day. Students may wait a short time in the lobby for a ride after school, but if their behavior (wandering around the school, goofing off, etc) becomes an issue, we may revoke after school privileges.

MESA Wins at State Competition

Please join me in congratulating our MESA Planetary Landing Expanding Structures Team for their PHENOMENAL 1st PLACE win at Saturday's Maryland State MESA Competition AND our National Engineering Design Competition (NEDC) Team for their outstanding performance, securing an IMPRESSIVE 2nd PLACE! Their innovative solutions and exceptional problem-solving skills have set them apart as true champions, and we are immensely proud of their well-deserved victory.

Summer Workshops

Affordable & Convenient Summer SAT & ACT Prep, College Essay Writing Workshops & Admissions Crash Courses in Partnership with Howard County High Schools

Both in-person and live, virtual, eight-hour summer college prep classes are being offered in partnership with Atholton, Centennial, Hammond, Howard, Marriotts Ridge, Mt. Hebron, Reservoir, and Wilde Lake High Schools and are open to students from all high schools.

Virtual ACT Prep: Sun., June 30 & Sun., July 7 from 9:30 am - 1:30 pm

SAT Prep at Atholton HS: M/W July 8 & 10 from 5 pm - 9 pm

College Essay Writing Workshop at Atholton HS: W/Th July 17 & 18 from 5 pm - 9 pm

These workshops are designed to affordably help students craft their Common App personal essay from idea generation, to outline, to the completion of a first draft.

Virtual College Admissions Crash Course: Aug. 5, 7, 12, 14 from 7 pm - 9 pm

Each college prep class is only $199,* or choose a College Prep Premium Bundle and save up to $300! AHS students can register for any Answer Class, at any location or online, – and 20% of tuition will be donated to AHS PTSA! Visit www.theanswerclass.com to view the full class schedule and to register your student.

The Yearbook Needs Your Photos

The AHS Yearbook is in desperate need of photos for the following sports:

1. Boys Varsity Lacrosse
2. Girls Varsity Lacrosse
3. Boys JV Lacrosse
4. Girls JV Lacrosse

Please add details when you upload your photos so we know if they are of JV or Varsity. Click on the link below to upload your photos. Thanks.

https://images.jostens.com/0DKUk5p3lrsf2pAKw_6k7NQLinks to an external site.

Food Pantry-Save the Date

The next food distribution will be May 15th at 2:45pm in front of the school.

Graduation Updates

If you haven't seen the info on the website, we're steering folks to this document to get the most updated graduation information as we approach May 28th.

The senior calendar of events was also shared recently and we have subsequently been required to change the date of the crab feast from May 13th to May 6th. More info will be shared soon with seniors on how to buy tickets for this event.