Rapoport Academy Public School

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FIRST Robotics Competition

Last year, the Meyer High Robotics team placed 36th out of 57. This year, we finished 24th out of 52. Each year, the team learns additional lessons that will be useful for the next year’s competition. We will continue to use our Core Values (Respect, Responsibility, Curiosity, Creativity, Integrity and Hard Work) to rise to the top!  We thank FIRST Robotics, TSTC and Time Warner Cable sponsors and the Baylor, TSTC and L3 mentors who worked endless hours with our fearless team—afternoons, evenings and weekends to develop a competition level robot!

Rapoport Problem Solvers

Rapoport Academy’s Meyer High had TWO freshmen teams qualify (out of 5) for the Future Problem Solvers State Bowl championship in Austin, Texas.

Front row  Anna Shattschneider, Emily Garner, ChiAnne Castro, Elexia Jackson  (missing—Dabney Sorrow, Dezman Majors)

Future Problem Solving is an academic, interdisciplinary program that can be incorporated into any content area, elective course or extra-curricular activity. The mission of the Program is To develop the ability of young people globally to design and promote positive futures using critical, creative thinking.        http://www.fpspi.org

The competition begins with an imagined future scene based on current trends centered on a given topic.  After researching the topic and analyzing the future scene, students employ the six-step FPS model and complete a written booklet, which is later submitted for competitive scoring.  Under the guidance of teacher/coaches, teams of four students in grades 4-12 (our teams are Freshmen only) explore challenges and propose action plans to complex societal problems while using creativity and Language Arts learning objectives. Global Issues teams and individuals complete two practice problems and one qualifying problem throughout the school year at their local campus.  Trained evaluators score the students’ work and return it with feedback including suggestions for improvement.  The top scoring teams on the qualifying problem are invited to the Texas Affiliate FPS Bowl held each April in Austin.  The winners of that Bowl advance to the International Conference in June.

National Latin Exam

Meyer High had 12 students participate in the National Latin Exam sponsored by the American Classical League through the University of Mary Washington in Virginia. In Latin II, Josh Sigala (Soph.) won a Gold Medal (summa cum laude) and  Moriah Cooper (Soph.) earned  magna cum laude. In Latin I,  Lenore Wright (Fresh.) was cum laude. Congratulations!

Serious about Science

In the Spring, Meyer High students submitted science experiments for an in-house Science Fair. Students worked hard to conduct meaningful experiments and collect accurate data. Volunteers from as far as Houston joined the students on campus to tour the exhibits and judge the contest.

Transparent Sculptures

As the weather began to show signs of spring, Mr. Storm’s art classes took part in creating an outdoor sculpture exhibition.  Inspired by contemporary artist Mark Jenkins, they created life-size human forms out of packaging tape.  These forms were created in various poses to show aspects of everyday life.  Not only was creativity needed but also students learned about engineering sculptural forms and how to make them balance and support themselves.  Students were amazed to see a simple material like tape create such a unique and life-like sculpture, the experience was definitely surreal.

Business Proposals

The purpose of this project was to understand the responsibilities and expectations common in the business world when presenting a new idea for production.  It entailed design, production, marketing, advertising, and budgeting aspects.  The final product was presented to a panel in class as a simulation of the business decision-making process.

Randomly drawn groups of three or four designed a new toy or board game that would appeal to children or teens.  Teams assumed that they had been presented the opportunity to work with a Waco-based company that would begin production and sale of one new product to the Central Texas market.  After hearing the competing teams, the panel (representing the board of this company) decided which product to put into production first.

Economics Class- Nathan Wade, teacher

Seniors Recognized in the Community

Brian and Hutch, Rapoport Academy’s top academic seniors, were invited to join the Founder Lion’s Club to congratulate them on their academic success.

Marlena and Hutch, two of Rapoport Academy’s top senior students, were invited to the Downtown Rotary Club meeting and asked to speak about their experience at Rapoport Academy and their plans for the future as they head off to college.

Balloon Building

Rapoport Academy’s Meyer High students participated in the "Balloon Builder" activity in Coach Gould’s Speech Communications classes on St. Patrick's Day. The mission: using only balloons and one roll of scotch tape build the tallest free-standing structure possible in 8 minutes. The focus of the activity was for students to use a nontraditional assignment to determine how speech communications depends on many diverse elements including: team work, planning, organization, verbal communication, trial and error, and commitment to working together.

District Champions!

The 2009-2010 season has proven to be an exciting one for the 1A-District 20 Champions. They finished the regular season undefeated and qualified for the playoffs for the first time in school history! Congratulations, Ravens basketball!

Meyer High School students got the adrenaline pumping at an afternoon pep rally on the Friday of the playoff game, and then Raven supporters followed the team to Corsicana to cheer them on!

Pictured below the District Champions celebrate after the last game of the regular season (from left to right):

Avin Daniliuc

Jerome Campbell

Rickie Roddy

Josh Davis

Edward Cammon

Mick Daniliuc

Devin Finley

CJ DeJesus

Coach Gil Beckham

Coach Jared Gould

Deandre Cammon

Blood Drive

The daughter of Meyer High’s Mrs. Bukowski, Paige Bukowski, has a passion for encouraging people to give blood and save lives. In February Paige arranged to have a Carter Blood Drive bus brought to Meyer High’s parking lot so that our students could have the opportunity to give back to the community. Several Rapoport students and community members participated in the drive. A big thank you to Paige and to everyone that donated!

FIRST Robotics Competition

After attending the 2010 Robotics Kickoff and learning this year’s challenge, the Ravens Robotics team has been hard at work preparing for the annual FIRST Robotics Competition coming up in March.