Red Gold Student News Vol. 3 Issue 01

What’s Happening đ&#x;•‘ Vol 3. Issue 01 - Feb. 2019 Jimmy Carter Early College High School

Girls Slay: by: Staff

High School competition added to Battle of the Books.

This year Jimmy Carter ECHS librarian Mrs. Cavazos brought together a three-girl team: Briza Hernandez, Jade Cruz, and Sol Garcia. The three girl team secured their position in the competition with an all out win and will no embark to the regional meet on February 18. author Benjamin Alire Saenz Region One ESC Library (The Inexplicable Logic of My Services and Instructional Life) during which they will Resources hosts the local be quizzed. chapter of Battle of the Books. Previously, the district has During the regional meet, hosted Elementary Battle of students will be hosted by

by: Ana Garcia Mrs. Leslie Gonzalez is a freshmen teacher who has dedicated her time and hard work to her students for the past six years, and she continues to do so. She recently was named Teacher of the Year by way of votes from her colleagues.

Because of her accomplishment, many of her coworkers have expressed how proud they are of her, and they have shown the great admiration they have towards her. One of her colleagues. “Even though Mrs.

02-16 Robotic Championship 02-19 Regional Battle of the Books 02-20 ACT Testing 02-22 No School 02-26 NASA Night (JLHS) 03-07 Open House

Bottle caps help in capping chemo costs

Carter Wins Battle of the Books

Teacher of the Year

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Gonzalez and I am not of the same grade level team, I always know her to be helping students, for example, the time that there was a donor of a lot of gowns that the ladies can use for their prom She just thought of giving it to the students at Jimmy Carter. Another situation I also remember about some students who were graduating and they don’t have the caps and gowns for their graduation, and she found some sponsors and helped,� said Mrs. Obnial.

The effort that Gonzalez gives towards the school and students with both personal and academic challenges is evident with her contribution to projects. Overall, she decided to become a teacher to influence students positively.

by: Erica Solis Mrs. Brown, a tenth-grade teacher, is in the process of collecting bottle caps to help a student’s mom battle cancer. The student, who attends the Academy of Health and Science, has a mother who gets chemotherapy in exchange for plastic bottle caps.

Brown has been offering extra points to students who are willing to help with the bottle cap collection effort. “In Mexico, there is a hospithe Books for the last three tal that gives out chemotherapy years. This nose to nose bat- treatment in exchange for plastic tle allows teams from each of bottle caps, � said Vanessa the schools to come and battle Ventures such a this allow wits and see who comes out as the community to come together a winner. in an easy and inexpensive way which shows their support.

However, Snopes.com reports “What inspired me to that the majority of these activibecome a teacher was the ties are hoaxes and are often false realization that as a teacher claims that yield no monetary results.

I could impact young minds “Plastic bottle caps have no not just in school, but far inherent monetary value. Unlike beyond the classroom. What aluminum cans (and the metal better way than by being tabs attached to them), they artheir teacher, mentor and en’t worth anything as raw marole model.� terial because such caps are the wrong form of plastic to be recycled. There is therefore virtually no market for used plastic bottle tops.� said Barbara Mikkelson, the author of the Snopes.com article.

However, Brown has faith in that the student and their mother are really in need of these caps to be able to get the chemotherapy. “We have to believe that what we are doing is for a good cause‌ We have to have faith,â€? said Brown Brown will continue to offer extra credit for bottle caps despite the possibility that it is not true.

Mrs. Leslie Gonzalez She continues to have trust that Jimmy Carter's what she is doing it not only right Teacher of the Year but that it is good.

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Carterbots Advance at Tesla League Championship

by: Staff Led by Jennifer Garza, Carterbots hold on to a first-place ranking throughout much of the championship seizing a second place win and maintaining first place in the overall ranking.

This school year marks the inauguration of a robotics UIL team at Jimmy Carter and through trial and tribulation the team comprised of three students managed an impressive feat for first time participants.

Captain: Franco Cada Designer: Eliseo Reyes Programmer: Oscar Peña While learning and figuring out the hijinks of not only building a competition robot but also programming to run independently of a remote driver the team was steadfast in their dedication and perseverance.

The U.I.L event helps the students learn to not crack under pressure and to keep trying no matter the outcome.

“Very simple advice stay calm and enjoy the frustration and pain. Remember this, almost every robot is going to loose, but every single student wins because what you take away from this program will help you define what your future is,” said Dean L. Kamen, FIRST Co-founder.

Saturday, February 8 marked a culmination of this season’s ef-

forts during which the Carterbots faced off in an all day events.

At registration time the team surrendered their engineering notebook which chronicled their adventures and implementation.

Advancing from this championship takes the team to the South Championship to be held on February 16.

Carter students claw at regional science fair by: Leslie Perez Nine students represent Jimmy Carter ECHS at 2019 Regional Science and Engineering Fair (RGV RSEF).

On Saturday, February 2, students and sponsor Brenda Treviño traveled to compete Regional Science and Engineering Fair (RGV RSEF), this competition stems from the effort to not only support but also further the understanding and appreciation of the STEM field.

“I’m nervous about the competition because they are the best projects of the entire Rio Grande Valley,” said Angela Cantu, regionals qualifier.

“They put a lot of time, they did a lot of research, they put a lot of work, a lot of energy,” said Mr.

Villareal.

Carter students distinguished themselves at the event by being selected as finalists.

Ana Karen and Ana Fernanda Jardon earned a fifth place award at the regional showdown.

The Carter staff and faculty would also like to congratulate Miranda Vasquez and Ruby Lopez and Brandon Gomez for having earned 2nd places and becoming qualifiers to the state science fair competition.

Community Hours: Can You Tell Us Why We Should? by: Alexia Escogido C ollege applications, scholarship application, and profiles as students move onto the next level of their academic careers are mounting with each day that passes. Students are constantly being told that they must not only build their academic curriculum and hold steadfast to their GPAs but also garner as much outside of school involvement as possible. Students are asked about their community involvement.

But why is community service so important?

To many young and inexperienced students community service seems like wasted time that competes with their teen goals of having fun and making it through high school. As students of an early college one of the questions that needs to be answered is what exactly is community service and how does it help me?

Community service hours are unpaid activities or time given

freely of one’s own will and not because the member is required to do so. Community service is designed to improve the quality of life for a community residents or schools.

There are many ways why you should be helping out your community. For example the benefits it has are psychological, social, and cognitive. Participating in community service not only makes a difference to the organization but also to the people being served. According to Florida National University having community hours helps in many ways for instance psychological benefits by volunteering it increases overall life satisfaction and helps you feel good about yourself because you are helping others. It can also help decrease stress and depression.

“I love to do community hours because i see people with smiles in their faces i also see dogs happy to be played with,

its heart warming looking at the community,” said Yaneth Verdin.

Volunterring for example has some social benefits: Community engagement, creating special bonds, and increasing social awareness and responsibility.

Also, it has some cognitive benefits because while volunteering helps students enhance their personal knowledge, grow from new exercise and develop better interpersonal communication skills.

Many students don’t realize helping the community or getting to know the things that is in their community can help find what they actually want to study for. Having hours in some of the volunteering places help a lot in your resume. For example if your major is going for criminal justice you can spend time volunteering in a juvenile detention center and that would look so perfect in a resume and would give you an advantage.