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NOVEMBER - DECEMBER, 2009
 

Introduce a Girl to Engineering
 
Model U.N. – Monday, November 9

NASH delegations will represent Russian Federation and Somalia  –  Delegates have been chosen.   Missed out on this MUN??   Duquesne MUN is 1/29.
 

Economics – Great Minds Think program at the Federal Reserve Bank   - Nov. 10     Ten spots – FILLED!
  

Gingerbread House Competition

Work with a group of friends or work alone and design a gingerbread house.   Be creative!   Registration due on October 30.   This is a service project sponsored by PPG – proceeds to benefit Children’s Hospital. Delivery Nov 13 @ 1:00
 

CalcuSolve on Friday, November 13 – Duquesne University Student Union
 Are you good in Math?  We still need three more people to participate in this competition.     Sign-up and permission slips are in the GOAL office.

 

Travel Math Team – The schedule is posted on the GOAL Events board in the GOAL office.  Our meet this month is at NASH on Monday, November 16.   Be there by 2:45. 

 

Postal Math Contest – The Postal Math test will be Tuesday, November 17 in Room 322.  We will begin promptly at 2:30 pm.
 

36th World Affairs Institute for Student Leaders -  Europe at a Crossroads

Wednesday, November 18,  at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center

Congratulations to Kurt Beatty, Tom Helgerman, Lili Pen, and Abigail Stevenson—recipients of the McCandless Rotary International Scholarship.

 

Faraday Lecture ….”Weird Sciences on Fuel and Energy” at Solders and Sailors Memorial Hall.

Stop by the GOAL office to sign-up and get a permission slip. 

 

The Little Foxes.. Pittsburgh Public Theatre production of the classic Lillian Hellman play. Directed by Ted Pappas.  Breakfast before and actor talk-back after performance. Tickets $18 plus money for breakfast/lunch!

 

Science Essay Contest -  Do you like to write?  Do you know something about Science?  You could win up to $1000 in savings bonds by participating in The Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh’s science essay contest.  See Mrs. Montgomery in the GOAL office for more details.  The deadline for submitting the essay is December 1, 2009!

 

Dr. Sam Rhine -- The Genetics Update Conference on December 2

A nationally recognized geneticist, Dr. Rhine will speak on the following topics: genetic review, comparative geonomics, gene therapy, multifactorial trait update and human stem cells and their application. Sign up in the GOAL office.

 

Knowledge Master Open – KMO  after school in the GOAL office.

NASH team competes against other high schools nationally in a trivia competition where speed  and accuracy are as important as the correct answer.  Sign-up in the GOAL office

 

Distance Learning Program Schedule

ü      Kidney Transplant Surgery on December 2.  (9:00-10:00 a.m.)

ü      Discussion of Face Transplant Surgery on December 9  (A renowned plastic surgeon will discuss teamwork in medicine and surgery and how it applied to the teams responsible for the recent successful face transplant surgery at Cleveland Clinic.)

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Model E.U.  –December  7    ( details TBA)

 

 

 

 

JUNIORS – Academic Summer Programs

(program formerly known as “gov. school”)

 

ü      Lehigh Univ. Pennsylvania School for Global Entrepreneurship  (due 2/15)

ü      Univ. of Pgh. – Health Careers Academy   (must be postmarked 2/5)

ü      Drexel Univ. Computing Academy –  (due May 1)

Information session:   December 10  **Sign up in GOAL Office

 

Scholarships, essay contests, summer opportunities are posted on the GOAL bulletin board as they are received.  Keep checking.   Remember…opportunities are never lost.  Someone will always take the one you miss!

 

Iron Chef: this popular cook-off is being held Dec 10

 

Architecture Walking Tour. Students participating in the Gingerbread House Competition are invited on this walking tour of downtown Pittsburgh December 15

 

                                    DECEMBER FOCUS MEETINGS:

                                           Juniors:  Weds. Dec. 2nd

                                           Seniors:  Thurs. Dec 3rd.