Essex High School
October 16, 2020
At Essex High School, our mission is to engage students in learning that is intellectually vital, personally meaningful, and socially valuable.
In This Issue for Parents/Guardians:
- Senior Cap and Gown Orders
- EHS Health Office Resources
- New EHS AP Site
- AP Classroom Sign-Ups
- ASVAB Test
- Community Volunteers Needed For The STEM Academy!
- Bias Response Screencast
- College Admissions Representatives
- Family Volunteers Needed for STEM Competition
- Power-OFF Chromebooks!
Senior Cap and Gown Orders
Seniors can now order their caps and gowns through the month of October.
Go to balfourvt.com
Click on Caps/Gowns
Click on High School Cap/Gown Order Form
Fill out all required Information and hit Submit Button.
*No payment is needed at this time*
EHS Health Office Resources
New EHS AP Site
AP Classroom Sign-Ups
Students who are enrolled in any Advanced Placement Course here at Essex High School need to be signed into their College Board AP Classrooms no later than November 1, 2020 (even if your class does not begin until second or third quarter, you must be registered) .
Each class has a unique classroom code (provided by your classroom teacher). Please use this code to access the AP Classroom.
AP Classroom is an educational tool as well as the platform that the College Board uses to register students to take the exam in May.
If you do not sign up for your AP Classroom by November 1st you will incur a $40.00 late fee.
If you have any questions or concerns please reach out to Mr. Hill Dhill@ewsd.org, Ms. Kennison Hkennison@ewsd.org, or Mrs. Ritchie eritchie@ewsd.org
ASVAB Test
For more information about the test please visit https://www.officialasvab.com/applicants/prepare/.
To register to take the test at EHS please send an email to Lcunninghamfirkey@ewsd.org no later than 8:00 a.m. on Wednesday, October 28.
Community Volunteers Needed for the STEM Academy!
Bias Response Screencast
Bias Response Screencast (link)
College Admissions Representatives
Many college admissions representatives will virtually visit EHS this year. Please CLICK THIS LINK to see the list of upcoming colleges. Click on any school to find the admissions representative's name and a link to join the meeting.
If you're really interested in the school don't forget to send an email to the rep after the visit!
Family Volunteers Needed for STEM Competition!
Looking for a STEM Enrichment activity to do at home?
Essex High School has received a grant that can help students enter a robotics competition from home. The sponsoring organization is called FIRST. The competition will potentially be held in the early spring at CVU and if not in person, there is an online way of competing too. Our division is called First Tech Challenge and an animation of this year’s competition rules shows you what the robot could potentially do.
We are looking for families interested in organizing building and programming sessions in their homes. We can potentially field 2 teams in a small circle of 2 or 3 families at most each. One family should be able to host meetings of these small circles of students and adults. Your coach will be Joe Chase, an award-winning teacher who has been coaching robotics teams for over 15 years and will be available to Zoom into your meetings for advice and to help organize. There will be little expense to families as the grant has already purchased the supplies teams will need.
If you are interested, please email Mr. Chase at jchase@ewsd.org
Power-off Chromebooks!
We've been having a few issues with Chromebook Operating system updates. IT is finding that students are rarely completely powering off the Chromebooks and so by not doing a re-boot, the operating system does not have a chance to update.
Chromebooks should occasionally be shut all the way off, (perhaps once a week during the time the machine is charging at home overnight) so that they can reboot and update to the latest version of ChromeOS.
Essex High School
Email: hornets@ewsd.org
Website: www.ewsd.org/ehs
Location: 2 Educational Drive, Essex Junction, VT, USA
Phone: 802-879-7121
Facebook: facebook.com/ehsvt/