Today is Thursday, December 1, 2016

Members of the Science National Honor Society are reminded that their community service hours forms are due to Mr. Sunkel in room A139 by today.

UMD is hosting a “Developing Revolutionary Engineers and Mentors” conference for young women interested in a career in engineering. The conference is free and includes lunch. One adult may accompany each student. Both adults and students must pre-register. The conference is on Saturday, February 25th, from 9:00 am to 2:30 pm at the Adele H. Stamp Student Union at University of Maryland College Park. Registration opens today.

The UMBC Center for Women in Technology is accepting applications from high school junior girls interested in finding out more about the fields of engineering and IT. This year, we are excited that we will be able to invite about 35 students to attend the “Bits & Bytes” program to encourage and support women to be leaders in information technology and engineering fields.  Please see Mr. Greene in room C105 for additional information.

Congratulations to the following “STAR” students!  They are each being recognized for demonstrating excellence in Academics, Accountability or Attitude: Chantz Appleby, Kenji Arnett, Grace Brooks, Fran Davis, Tony Deal, Allison Eckloff, Grace Gaydosh, Dylan Gibson, Ryan Girod, Victoria Hollar, Tim Koenig, John Lancy, Adam May, John Mullican, Vencil Porter and Jane Quackenbush.

Lancer Media’s friend, Elfie, is hiding somewhere in Linganore. If you can tell us where he is in the daily picture, you will be entered in a daily contest. If you win the daily contest, you will be entered in the weekly drawing for a gift card. Weekly raffle winners will be announced via Twitter on each Monday of December. For more details and rules, visit the LHS Journalism Twitter page.

Thanks to the 71 seniors and 25 juniors who have voted for the prom theme in Naviance.  Voting is open through Friday.  The survey is on the left-hand side under the “About Me” tab in Naviance. The choices are: Arabian Nights, Enchanted Forest, Hollywood Red Carpet and Las Vegas Casino. The winning theme will be announced on Monday, December 5th.

Toys for Tots collection has begun!  Help to make Christmas better for a little boy or girl by donating a new unwrapped toy. Collections will run until Friday, December 9th.

That’s all we have for you today. To replay this video or watch previous announcements, visit schooltube.com and search for lhslancertv.

Until next time, have a therapeutic Thursday, Linganore.