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Week of Dec. 18, 2017
Volume 1, Issue 16
“If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at
yourself, then make that change.” – Michael Jackson
Monday – Buy Someone Lunch (or a treat) Student Council Character Trees –
2:30pm – Lobby
Key Club – 2:30pm – Café
Tuesday – Nine Nice Tips
Girls Basketball – 7:00pm
Wednesday –Yard Work for a Neighbor
NHS Faculty Breakfast
Latin Meeting – 2:30pm – Rm A9
Future 10 – 2:30pm – Café
Wrestling – 5:30pm
JPS Navidad – 6:00pm - Cafe
Guitar Concert – 7:00pm – Aud
Thursday – Donating to a Charity
French Cookie Party – 2:30pm – Rm A2
Bandboozle Dance – 6:00pm
Boys Basketball – 7:00pm
Friday – Love to All My Family and Friends
HALF-DAY
Swim – 3:00pm
Ice Hockey – 4:30pm
Week at a Glance:
JP students are being challenged to go beyond
the usual and passive "nice" and set an
intention to perform acts of kindness.
JPS students have the courage to go beyond
nice and take action with acts of KINDNESS.
Mon, Dec. 18th – Buy Someone Lunch
Tues, Dec 19th – Nine Nice Tips
Wed, Dec. 20th – Yard Work for a Neighbor
Thurs, Dec 21th – Donating to a Charity
Fri, Dec 22th – Love to All My Family and
Friends
Holiday Health Basketball Benefit On Saturday, December 2, 2017, two JP Stevens HS seniors, Andrew Clemens and Chris Alise, participated in a Holiday Health Basketball Benefit at the Edison Job Corps. After reading the novel, The Pact (We Beat the Streets), students in Mrs. O’Donnell’s Senior English class, became motivated to learn about the authors, The Three Doctors: Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt, and their foundation. Their premise of “Our Children Can Not Be What They Can Not See,” was demonstrated as each doctor also participated in the basketball game and the game was open to the general public. Spectators were asked to bring a new and unwrapped present for a disadvantaged teen. The stands were filled to capacity as dance presentations, fitness presentations, refreshments, and raffles were given to the entire audience free of charge. Fun was had by all and the spirit of giving was embraced.
Future 10 Mentors Awarded Grant A team of educators from John P. Stevens High School were awarded a $3,000 continuation grant from the NJEA Hipp Foundation. The team includes Emily Zazanis, Patricia D’Alessio, Anthony DiPalo, Heather Guas, Heather Reush, and Lisa Dato.
Robotics Team Wins Grant
This year, the JPS Robotics Team was awarded a $500 grant from BAE Systems to compete in challenging FRC tournaments. BAE Systems is an aerospace company that provides some of the world's most advanced, technology-led defense, aerospace and security solutions.
45 Students Named to CJMEA Regions Choir
Out of the 350+ students who auditioned for the CJMEA Regions Choir, 45 students from John P Stevens High School were accepted! While this seems like a trend for our students, it is certainly no ordinary feat as only 240 students are accepted (18% of the participants between Treble and Mixed Choruses are from John P. Stevens!)
The following students were accepted into CJMEA Treble Choir: Vinny Akavoor Aditi Bhattacharya Lillian Chen Meghna Das - Rank #2 Soprano 2 Sukthi Gunda Shraddha Hariharan - Rank #10 Alto 1 Nethra Jayaprakash - Rank #2 Alto 2 Sanjeevani Joshi Ishani Kulkarni - Rank #4 Alto 2 Abigail Santos Reeya Shah Saloni Shah Vedanshi Sharma Akshata Shukla Rhea Telidevera Dhrithi Valluri
The following students were accepted into the CJMEA Mixed choir: Jared Borja - Rank #2 Bass 2 Hannah Chan - Rank #9 Soprano 2 Rohini Chatterjee Pratik Chadhauri - Rank #1 Tenor 1 Kevin Ge Varsha Karthik Richard Kim Rank #5 Tenor 2 Gabby Lee Sameer Madhukar - Rank #6 Bass 1 Arya Massand Meldon Mendonca Amulya Mutnuri Jaaee Nadkarni Aditya Nibhanupudi - Rank #2 Tenor 2 Disha Panchal - Rank #3 Soprano 1 Om Patil Mukund Ramakrishnan Sebastian Recto Tyler Seto - Rank #1 Bass 2 Shruti Sundaresh - Rank #6 Alto 1 Brendan Tang Kenneth Thadikaran Harry Thomas Josh Thomas - Rank #6 Tenor 2 Elton Vaz Shruti Venkat - Rank #3 Alto 1 Vaishnavi Vinodhkanna Sofia Viverito Sidney Wu
JP Takes First in Bridge Competition
On Thursday Dec. 7th, the engineering students attended the UCC Great Bridge Building event. Nine JPS bridges made out of tongue depressors, wooden dowels and Elmers glue had 2.5 pound weights hung from them until they broke. Special recognition goes to first place winning team Anushka Basu, Viraj Patel, Vishnupriya Ramesh, Dominick Shinal, and April Wang. Their 400 gram (0.88pound) bridge held an astonishing 227 1/2 pounds.
Socks are the #1 most requested item from homeless shelters. Join the JPS Interact club in our SOCKS from HAWKS fundraiser! Donate NEW, UNUSED socks for local homeless shelters anytime from now until December 22nd. All donations can be dropped off in room 229. Questions? Ask
Mr. Bigelow or the Interact executive board at [email protected]
The JP Stevens BRIDGES community will be presenting their service projects and BRIDGES Life at Middlesex County College on Monday night December 18 at 7pm
CLASS OF 2019 PRESENTS: By: Karina Melgar, Sachika Shah, Roshan Setlur, and Shivank Agrawal
HOLIDAY GIFT WRAPPING & CHRISTMAS COOKIES
Need help with wrapping presents for the holidays? Still need to find a gift for your loved ones? Bring any gifts to the cafeteria after school from Dec. 18-22 and we will wrap them for you! Sign up in advance!! Purchase a bag of gingerbread and sugar cookies as a sweet gift for friends, family, or teachers! Personalize it with a special message and we will deliver it for you! Submit order forms by Dec. 15. Email [email protected] if you have questions
@jpscounseling Counseling Corner
Thank you to everyone who filled out the Sleep Survey.
I want you to know that every comment is being read
and we are going to take the results into account when
we plan Counseling activities. All of the results will be
shared with the Administration as well. Have a restful
Winter Break! Sincerely, Mr. Glassberg and the
Counseling Department
Indisputably
FUN FACTS
By Nathaniel Mumau
Did you know that at one time images of Donald
Duck were banned from Finland because he
doesn’t wear pants? How Walt Disney missed that
crucial detail is a big mystery, eclipsed only by
the bigger mystery of why the rest of the free world hasn’t followed
Finland’s lead. *Disclaimer: This section is meant to be taken
humorously. Not everything I say here is actually a fact, or fun.
Wishing these students a very happy
birthday…into winter break!
Monday, 12/18: Mahima Balaji, Cecilia Chen, Diana D’Souza,
Lin Li, Nitya Madgir, Riddhi Patil, Khushboo Sharma,
Shreya Venkat, Robert Zhu
Tuesday, 12/19: Jayant Bhasin, Joshika Kumaran
Wednesday, 12/20: Athena Bollera, Franklin Guo,
Shravya Harish, Preet Patel, Sonam Rupani
Thursday, 12/21: Abbas Hamade, Jeffreyy Hsu
Friday, 12/22: Riya Gogri, Danikah Milliance, Vaibhav Nemani
36 Students Named to Central Jersey Regional Band
The John P. Stevens High School Band program, under the direction of Andrew DeNicola & John Zazzali is proud to announce that a staggering 36 students from their program were selected by audition to the 2017-18 Central Jersey Region Band. These students represent the highest number from any one school in Central New Jersey! (10 seniors, 15 juniors, 4 sophomores, 7 freshman)
Nitya Nadgir – Flute Neha Choudhari – Flute Stephen Juan – English Horn Sohil Shah – Bassoon Sean Zhang – Bassoon Xavier Lee – Clarinet Jelovus Jeevaraj – Clarinet Lawrence Xing – Clarinet Andrew Jin – Clarinet Syna Tsai – Clarinet Shivam Kamat – Alto Clarinet Rubin Chang – Alto Clarinet William Xing – Alto Clarinet Hannah Seo – Bass Clarinet Shivam Yadav – Bass Clarinet Suvan Sundaresh – ContraBass Clarinet Himanshu Patankar – ContraBass Clarinet Jason Luo – Alto Sax
Doublers Shivam Yadav – Alto Clarinet Suvan Sundaresh – Bass Clarinet Christopher Shen – Timpani Syna Tsai – Alto Clarinet Abhishek Taruvai – Tenor Sax Zoe Wang – Baritone Sax Sreekar Vishwanathan – Baritone Sax Brian Jiang – Trumpet Matthew Liu – Trumpet Raghul Ravindranathan – Trumpet Shriyaus Lingam – Trumpet Kathryn Carlin – French Horn Aditya Chakrabarti – Trombone Robert Zhu – Euphonium Kireeti Mekala – Euphonium Pranav Krishna – Tuba Ashwin Konkimalla – Tuba Timothy Hui – Tuba Christopher Shen – Battery Percussion Shruti Tandon – Battery Percussion Mayank Paliwal – Battery Percussion Rishi Shah – Battery Percussion Bold = 1st Overall in region
Upcoming Varsity
Games
Support Your Hawks!
Tues. Girls Basketball vs. E. Brunswick HS 7:00pm Wed. Wrestling vs. Colonia HS 5:30pm Thurs. Boys Basketball vs. S. Brunswick HS 7:00pm Fri. Swim vs. S. Brunswick 3:00pm Ice Hockey vs. West Orange 4:30pm
The Boys Hawks Bowling Team continued their winning run as they
improved to a 5-1 record with crucial victories against Monroe and South
Brunswick. They also went on to win the Simon Baker Challenge. The Hawks play
the Eagles form Edison next week in what promises to be an intense affair. All the best and keep up the good work
Hawks!!!
JUNIOR BOYS BOWLER CAMERON LAPLANT SHOOTING A PERFECT 300 GAME VS OLD BRIDGE AS PART OF A 757 TOTAL SERIES. THIS IS CAMERON'S 2ND PERFECT GAME IN GMC COMPETITION. HIS SERIES IS CURRENTLY THE 2ND HIGHEST IN THE CONFERENCE THIS SEASON.
Are you looking for a last-minute gift for that special someone? The JPS Interact Club is selling Rafiki bracelets from now until winter break!
In Swahili, the word for friend is rafiki. When you purchase a rafiki bracelet you are purchasing jewelry hand-made by women in Kenya to be a one-of-a-kind bracelet or necklace. Using traditional skills past down through generations she can earn her way to a better life with the money she makes from this. Additionally, proceeds from the bracelet sales help fund sustainable change around the world. Proceeds can fund education, healthy food, medical care, professional training, and clean water across the planet, from Kenya to Ecuador and even here in the USA! Rafiki bracelets are only $7 (WOW WHAT A DEAL), but supplies are limited! See any Interact Club member, or send an e-mail to mailto:[email protected] for more information!
Students from all four grades at J.P Stevens crowded into the New Gym one by one this past Friday to celebrate all the Winter athletes. Coaches and students from the Bowling, Basketball, and Winter Track teams were all cheered on by hundreds of students sitting in the bleachers. We even took a moment to congratulate all of the high-flying Fall athletes that made an All-County or All-Division team. All in all, it was a great episode of school spirit and very entertaining.
By Viraaj Kumar
The Boy's Basketball Team played their first game of the season this Saturday, the 16th, against Monroe High School, where they succumbed to a tough overtime defeat. The Hawks have been flying past opponents during the pre-season so let's hope that the Hawks will continue their flight of good form and perform to the best of their abilities in their next game. The Hawks will be playing East Brunswick at home on the 19th of December where we hope to see them defeat the Bears. Be sure to come and support. Good Luck Hawks!!!!!
By Rishvant Tummala
Sports Trivia
By: Priya Bhatt
Q: Do you know what
year the first Super Bowl was played?
A: The first Super Bowl
was played in the year of 1967, the Green Bay
Packers winning against the Kansas City Chiefs.
Q: Do you know which
country holds the Kangaroo Hoppet, a long
distance cross-country skiing race?
A: It is held in Australia,
specifically Falls Creek, Victoria. It debuted in the
year 1979.
Any boy or girl interested in trying
out for this year's Golf teams should attend a
meeting next Wednesday,
December 20th at 2:45
in Room 232.
Socks From Hawks!
Socks are the most needed, but least donated article of clothing in homeless shelters. The JPS Interact Club will be holding a sock drive
called Socks for Hawks to supply this need!
Socks must be NEW & UNUSED! PLEASE do not give us your old, dirty socks!
We will be collecting gloves, scarves, hats, and blankets as well, but sock are preferred! Drop them off in the box in Room 229. The Sock
Drive will end on 12/22/2017!
