Senator Square: CHS Blue Thunder Marching Band brings home first prizes

The Junior Achievement "Be Entrepreneurial" course will be taught at Carson High School this Fall in all CHS Business classes. Bill Heitman and Ila Acchtabowski from Junior Achievement have been instrumental in making this happen.The course will be taught by professionals from Sierra Financial Advisors Sally Kaplan and Katie Coombs.  Junior Achievement is a non-profit youth organization founded in 1919 by Horace A. Moses, Theodore Vail, and Winthrop M. Crane.

Junior Achievement works with local businesses and organizations to deliver experiential programs on the topics of financial literacy, work readiness, and entrepreneurship to students in kindergarten through high school. In addition, Sierra Financial will be one of the community business sponsors of the CHS Shark Tank Competition. Students in each CHS Business Class are now competing for a $200 Grand Prize for the Best Business Plan in each class. CHS would like to thank Sierra Financial for their support of Carson High School academics and students.

Marching Band Wins
Congratulations to the Blue Thunder Marching Band for not only taking 1st place in their division at McQueen, but also, 1st place woodwinds, 1st place brass, and 1st place percussion.


Band Concert
The instrumental music department of CHS is proud to present our annual fall concert entitled, "Alleluia.” The concert will feature the Jazz Ensemble, Concert Band, Orchestra, and Wind Ensemble playing a variety of music. The concert will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 13 at the Carson Community Center at 7 p.m. Donations will be accepted for admission to the concert. 

Choir Concert
The choir department is holding its first concert of the year featuring musical theater and all choir classes on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 7 p.m. at the Carson Community Center. Admission is $4 for adults, $2 for students without a student body card, and $1 for students with a student body card. Come hear the beautiful numbers the choir students have been working so hard to prepare.

Zombie Run
Speech and Debate, Drama, and ROTC will be hosting the annual Escape Carson High Zombie Run Friday Oct. 23, from 6-8 p.m. This event is open to the public. For this event participants try to make it through a course that covers most the CHS campus without losing their tags to zombies waiting along the mile route. Individuals are $10 and teams of five are $40.

There will be raffle prizes as well as awards for the best team. Runners must be at least 12 (6th grade) to participate in the run. One dollar donations will be accepted for anyone who just wants to watch the chase.  For more information, contact Patrick Mobley at pmobley@carson.k12.nv.us. Pre-registration is not required.

Winter Sports
Winter sport signups will be held Monday, Oct. 12, 5:30-6:30 pm in the North Foyer. New students need to complete the online Athletic Registration form. Returning students will be able to pick up the Returning Athlete paperwork beginning Oct. 5 in the Athletic Office. See the Athletic Office for more information.

FBLA News
The monthly meeting of the Future Business Leaders of America will be on Tuesday, Oct. 13 at lunch in Mrs. Golik’s room. All members are required to dress professionally and attend the meeting. New members are always welcome. Contact Mrs. Golik for more information.

Presidential Inauguration
There’s still time to join your classmates on the CHS trip to the 2017 Presidential Inauguration in Washington, D.C. The deadline for this trip is Oct. 25. Sign up today online at worldstrides.com/signup (use the Trip ID #124149), or call the WorldStrides customer service team at 800-468-5899. For more information about this trip, contact the advisor/chaperone Angila Golik at agolik@carson.k12.nv.us.

Craft Fair
The Carson High School’s Holiday Craft Fair will be November 20 and 21, 2015 at CHS. We need your help. Please read on and consider volunteering. There will be a parent volunteer meeting on Monday, Oct. 19 in the lower cafeteria area of Senator Square at 6:30pm. Please plan on attending. Scholarship applications will be available at that time, and volunteers are truly needed for this event! Adult volunteers are needed for this year’s event in addition to the student groups/clubs. Your volunteer hours not only help make this event a success, but it could assist with your child’s college fund.

Last year, the Craft Fair Committee awarded seven $500 scholarships to graduating seniors who, along with their parent(s), volunteered to assist at the craft fair. We intend to continue with these scholarships again this year – with 4-8 more this year, depending on the craft fair profits. Part of the criteria to qualify is service to the craft fair for the student applying for the scholarship as well as volunteer hours served by one or both parent(s)/guardian(s).

You are volunteering your time only. All students will need to serve either on Friday from 2-4pm or Saturday from 4-6pm assisting with loading and unloading the crafters. They receive stipends for their clubs for their assistance, and could qualify for the senior scholarship if they are graduating seniors in 2016. For more information, please attend the informational meeting on Oct. 19.

ASL Performs
The American Sign Language Level III and IV students performed at lunch on Oct. 1 signing various songs to the student body as a way to contribute and show respect for the hearing impaired population in society as a part of our Week of Respect at Carson High. Mary Anne Weaver is the ASL educator at Carson High.

Student of the Week
This week’s student of the week is Annette Avila. Annette is a hard-working and focused student who pays attention to detail and puts in extra time and effort to make sure she always produces amazing work. Thanks Annette for all your hard work at Carson High!

Senior Spotlight
The Senior Spotlight this week is Fabiola Mata-Garcia. As a student at Carson High School Fabiola has taken both Honors and AP classes during her freshman, sophomore and junior years, while maintaining a 4.5 weighted GPA. As a senior, she is also enrolled in 4 AP classes and 1 Honors course. While a student at CHS, Fabiola has been involved in the New Entrepreneur Club, Link Crew and the National Honor Society.

Out of school she serves as a Religious Aide at her church. She plans on attending Western Nevada College in the fall and later attend the University of Nevada-Reno. Fabiola’s goals include working in the field of Public Administration. Carson High is proud of her accomplishments and we know that Fabiola has the determination, skills and enthusiasm to be a success in her future endeavors.

— Angila Golik is a government teacher at CHS and a member of Senator Pride.