Vol. 4, Issue 10 April 24, 2009

The Official Newsletter of Beehive Science and Technology Academy

Beehive Science and Technology Academy

1011 Murray-Holladay Road Salt Lake City, UT 84117 (801) 265-2782 office (801) 618-4115(fax)

www.beehiveacademy.org

A small school with big ideas The Buzz

Volunteer Opportunities

1– Daily Lunch-Hour Volunteers 2– Library Overseer Volunteers 3-- Running Club Volunteers Please contact the school office at 265-2782 with your avail-ability.

School Year Reminders:

• Call in or send a note to excuse your student’s absences. The school needs to be notified within two days.

• If you are moving or

have recently changed phone numbers, please let the office know.

• Check with the office to

make sure your volun-teer hours have been recorded correctly.

Dodge Ball Competition April 30

Early Release May 1

Mid-Quarter Reports May 1

Open House 10-noon May 2

CRT Testing April 27-May 5

7th Grade Field Trip May 12

Open House 6-8pm May 29

5K Race May 16

Upcoming Events

Meet Mr. Halis Kablan

Lunch System

To order lunch go to Hogi-

yogischoollunch.com

SPIRIT WEEK

Spirit week was a big success with much student and teacher participation. This event was a student initiated week-long event designed to build student mo-rale. Spirit week consisted of dressing up like your future career, crazy hair and sock day, celebrity look-a-like day, create your own super-hero day. But the day everyone had the most fun was 80s dress up day. SSR classes were to keep track of the class with the highest participation. The fun continues with the highest participating class getting a pizza party and a chance to play dodge ball against a teacher team on April 30th. We hope for greater participation next year.

Halis Kablan earned his Bachelor’s degree in Bio-logical Sciences from one of the top universities in Turkey; Middle East Technical University. He then completed his Masters degree in Teacher Educa-tion specialized in Biology Teaching at Bilkent Uni-versity, another top university in Turkey. During his masters program he had the opportunity to work as a student-teacher in different private schools in Turkey, besides an internship at a high school in Iowa with a Fulbright scholarship. While teaching Biology in different private schools in Turkey, he started taking Ph.D. courses from Secondary Science and Mathematics Education Department in Middle East Technical University. After years of teaching he decided to move to U.S. with his family to join the se-lected group of educators in Beehive Science and Technology Academy. This is his second year at BSTA where he teaches Honors Biol-ogy, Integrated Science and Biotechnology. Be-sides these, he is coaching the AMSP Math Team and also Science Olympiad Club. He is married and is the father of two sons. He loves to spend time with his family as well as with his students.

Hello, I would like to tell you something about me. As you know, I’m the ex-ecutive director at Beehive Science and Technology Academy. I have about 12 years of teaching experience in the sciences. I received my Bachelor degree from Bogazici University, which is one of the top uni-versities in Europe. I’ve worked not only in the United States, but also in five different countries around the world. During my teaching experience, I’ve served in many ca-pacities. I’ve taught chemistry, organized all kinds of after school and tutoring activities, organized and lead science fairs, field trips, as well as act as vice principal and principal. My main interest in teaching chemistry was to integrate the curriculum with technology. I applied this method to preparing Science Olympiad stu-dents. Happily, my students had won many awards in Azerbaijan. I re-ceived an award for my efforts personally by the president of Azerbaijan in 2000. After teaching high school chemistry in the public school sys-tem, I started a charter school in San Diego and was the acting principal. I enjoy many sports including table tennis, volleyball and ice skating, as well as getting to know new friends. My wife and I have two little boys. (The cutest in the world). —Mr. Frank

A Message from the Principal Page 2

More on Henry Korous

Henry Korous will be honored by the Mayor of West Valley City! The Mayor of West Valley City wants to honor Henry on April 28th at the West Valley City Hall at 6:30p.m. for winning the Salt Lake Valley Spelling Bee. Channel 2 News conducted an interview with Henry and his mom Friday, April 3rd. You can view that online at Channel 2 News, search for Henry Korous. WOW! Imagine, winning a competition and all the glory that goes along with that. This is something Henry will remember for the rest of his life! This boy is going places... If any of you are will-ing and able to attend this event, our staff and his family we would love to see you at West Valley City Hall on the 28th. This is a very important accomplishment for Henry! Our hats are off to you, Henry!

On being an exchange student, it seems really hard to go overseas by ourselves, leaving our family for a year to live with a host family, which we’ve never met before, going to a new school and speaking an-other language. But, actually, being an exchange stu-dent is a great experience! I can improve my English, learn a lot of new things, make new friends, and of course, make my parents proud of me. It is the best thing! My mom and dad are really happy whenever I tell them of a new experience I’ve had during my ex-change year. It was really hard at school during the first three months. Especially in US History and Language Arts. There are a lot of new words and new ideas to learn. But luckily, as the time goes on, I enjoy all my classes in this school. I feel like I’m not a foreigner anymore. I am part of the US be-cause it feels like home! I love the quote, “I come as a strange and I live as a part of the family.”

-Widya Ramadhani, Indonesia

Congrats to all our Math Competition Stu-dents! Mrs. Ho took twenty-five students to

the Utah State Math Competition on March 18th. Wonderful results were achieved! The following is a list her top scorers in each grade. Jake Hillard, 7th Grade, received 69th place out of 358 students in the state taking the same test. Catherine Ipson, 8th Grade, took 14th place out of 392 students. Susan Mesquita, 9th Grade, took 112th place out of 503 students. Joseph Ipson, 10th Grade, took 20th place out of 328 students. Widya Ramadhani, 11th Grade, took 31st place out of 346 stu-dents. Way to go! We are very proud of every accomplishment our students make. A full and complete Salute to you all!

Congratulations Daniel Shamy He completed the Salt Lake City 1/2 Marathon (13.1 miles) in 2 hours and 15 seconds!!!!!

Annual 5K Race, May 16th If you are interested in helping, please contact Judy, 931-9309.

Still to plan, BBQ, Carnival and T-Shirts

SAVE THE PLANET

BSTA is now offering THE SAVE OUR PLANET CLUB! It is an environmental club in which students get to choose which projects and inventions they want to make or do to

help our planet. Maybe you want to make a solar power water distiller! Or maybe you care more about global warming! Our greatest goal is to convert a BW Bug into a solar powered

electric vehicle! If we have peaked your interest, put your name on the club list with Thomas in the office.

ATTENTION All Students- The Cell Phones For Soldiers drive has be-gun! Please bring in used cell phones so they can be recycled to earn money to buy calling cards for soldiers overseas. If you have questions, you can ask your SSR teacher, Mrs. Tracy, any NJHS/NHS members or visit www.cellphonesforsoldiers.com. Remember the winning SSR class earns a free-dress day!

*Payment of Registration Fees Now Due

If your student is planning to attend BSTA next year, payment of registration fee was due on March 26th. So as to not lose your spot, please make your necessary

payment today!

Attention Students and Parents! Watch for upcoming updates on our June Summer Camp.

Student Not Coming Today? Please notify the office as soon as you are able to do so if you student will not be attending school. This is important as we need to know students are safe, and parents are aware they’re not in school. 265-2782 x 100.

Open Enrollment

Open enrollment began March 2nd! If you know

anyone interested in Bee-hive, let them know it ’ s now open enrollment and

they can now apply.

Running Club will continue this Wednesday after school. If you are interested bring your running gear !

BSTA is now on Facebook See groups for Students, Parents and

Graduating Class.

Lagoon Day Yay! Another Lagoon day planned. On May 27th, we’ll take the students to Lagoon. Please note: we must have at least 90% participation, otherwise, we may NOT be going to Lagoon this year.

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ayse.durmus@beehiveacademy.org 801 265-2782

Mrs. Ayse

-Character Education

-Turkish

Character Education is a class where students are using their imagination to create ideas to share with other students and to have fun. For each character trait, students are working in teams where they learn team dynamics, create movies, stories, and posters. Equally important, are study skills, presentation skills, resumes preparation, and looking to students’ career future.

Turkish Class has been a lot of fun and gone very well this year. Students have had the opportunity to do a lot of fun and new things. One event of particular interest is the Turkish Olympiad we attended in Los Angeles. Students received second place! Often Turkish class is taken to Mr. & Mrs. Durmus's house where Turkish dishes are prepared and eaten. Yum! Also, Turkish class had the exceptional opportunity to at-tend the Turkish Festival held this year in Los Angeles. Sometimes, Turkish class even has sleepovers where the language is practiced and the culture is observed. Looking forwarding to next year, I hope to continue to teach my current students as well as new students.

Trustworthy Attitude Loyalty Respect Forthright Honesty Friendship Integrity

Nick Hamilton

Contact information:

Mrs. Christina Ho Math Department (801) 265-2782 christina.ho@beehiveacademy.org

Dear parents,

Time flies when you’re having fun…

We are near the end of our school year. I am so

excited and grateful to know that most of my

students think Math is their favorite subject.

CRTs will be held at the end of this month. I am

currently preparing my students to take this

test. I will review the year’s concepts we’ve

been working on in class during the upcoming

two weeks. Students need to complete their

worksheets one more time at home in order to

do well for this test.

Please encourage your student to not miss any

school during these two weeks. Also, it will be

so helpful to remind your student to study using

class notes every day.

Gratefully,

Mrs. Ho

April 21st 2009

Mr. Omer took high school students to visit three universities during Spring Break. They learned about campus life and academic programs from University of Nevada at Reno, Stanford Univer-sity, and UC Berkeley in San Francisco. They had a totally fun time.

Mr. Durmus and Mr. David took six students to see the wonders of Germany and Turkey. They visited many historic places, doing many exciting things, including ferrying across the Bosporus in Istanbul, rafting in Anta-lya, and seeing the first li-brary in Efesus. WOW! Any librarians out there? They visited an amusement park, Hollywood Safari Park, which displayed animals like lions and tigers in their natu-ral setting. Also at this park were all the rides you’d ex-pect of a great amusement park. Imagine, they were in two continents within 10 minutes while in the same country! Europe and Asia. “This trip was a great suc-cess,” says Mr. Durmus, “we are looking forward to it again next year.”

Mr. Steve and Mr. Aybek traveled to California with several students. They visited Universal Studios, Disney Land, Sony Pictures, and my favorite, Santa Monica’s beach! They played in the ocean and walked on the moon with Apollo 13! Spring Break offers students many different opportunities to travel far and near. Oftentimes, they see things they’ve never seen before, go to places they wouldn’t normally have a chance to see. Learning through all avenues, including first hand experiences is key during Spring Break. “We had remarkable days and we will remember those days with a smile on our faces in the future. Next year I am plan-ning to take more students to San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego during Spring Break,” says Mr. Steve.