Parent Chaperones Needed
Field trip season is upon us and we are in need of chaperones. The district has changed the process for chaperone approval.
Every chaperone/volunteer must repeat the process annually, even if the chaperone is a district employee and/or certified teacher. The current turn around time for continuing applications is ~2 weeks.
Regarding HOSA, please reach out to Mrs. Landreville to confirm that you are an approved 17-18 candidate. The district will deny our field trip paperwork if the listed chaperones are not preapproved.
Thinking ahead, HOSA will also need 2-3 (1-2 males) chaperones for the 3 day State Leadership Conference in Tucson at the Westin LaPaloma resort 4/2-4/4/18. We will also need SKILLS USA and Robotics chaperones in the spring.
THANK YOU from PVHS PTO!
The CREST Parent Group would like to send a huge shout out to the following parents who secured or donated items for the upcoming Trojan’s Treasures Online auction. Pooja Babbrah, Dacun Banks, Todd Giorzza, Tracy Lemeo, Micheal Gorton and Julia Keffer, Mac McGraw, Terri Morrison, Kelsea and Chris Patton, Joe Ricciardi, Ann Marie Rixford, Lisa and Brad Wagner and Amy Wylie.
Thank you so much to all the parents who donated candy and snacks for our wonderful staff in October. We had over 15 student volunteers help us fill 400 goody bags to celebrate "Friday Fall Favorites". We couldn't have done this without your help. Thank you for helping us show our staff how much we appreciate them.
National Merit Award Winners
Congratulations to Senior, Ryan O'Hara for being named a National Merit Semi-Finalist. This is a huge honor and a testament to Ryan's hard work and dedication to his studies. Ryan scored in the top 1% of the 1.6 million students that took the NMSQT/PSAT last year. Congratulations Ryan! PVHS is proud of you.
PVHS also had seven other students earn National Merit Commended status this year. This is also quite an honor and accomplishment. Those students scored in the top 3% of the country on the NMSQT/PSAT. Those students are Morgan Fox, Noah Fox, Danyon Gedris, Kesav Kadalazhi, Paolo Porto, Hayden Rheinfelder and Zachary Rolfness. PVHS is proud of you.
CREST T-Shirt Contest Underway
Every two years a new t-shirt design is selected from entries submitted by PVHS students. Entries will be due in January (keep an eye out for the date) and should be submitted to Mr. Howardell. The voting process will begin shortly after.
CPG and CREST Events
Please enjoy the photos (to the right) taken at CREST Parent Group and CREST student functions this year!
Spotlight: Mrs. Jackie Setton - Engineering Teacher
Mrs. Setton received her undergraduate at University of Western Ontario and her BCIT training in structural drafting and design in Vancouver.
Her post baccalaureate work was done here at Rio Salado, and it will be her 10th year of teaching. She taught for 7 years at Mountain Sky Junior High, and comes most recently from teaching Engineering at Explorer Middle School. She has also done PLTW training at both San Diego State and San Jose State Universities in Design and Modeling and Engineering Design.
Spotlight: Dr. Mohamed Gaballa - Computer Science Teacher
- PhD, 1989 in mechanical engineering and bioengineering from the Dept. of Aerospace and Mechanical engineering, U of A, Tucson.
- Fellowship in Cardiology at Tucson VA Medical Center, 1989-1992
- Executive MBA (2011), Eller College of Management, University of Arizona.
- Dr. Gaballa spent 27 years performing biomedical research, raised more than $100 million in grand funding from National Institutes of Health (NIH), NSF, American Heart Association, etc.
- His work covered the entire echo system of drug discovery from proof of concept in cells to first-in-man, FDA-approved clinical trial. His last project costs $10 million, $4 million of which was funded by the NIH.
- Dr. Gaballa published more than 150 peer-review scientific papers at primer biomedical journals.
CREST T-Shirts for Sale
Crest T-shirts are back, by popular demand. If you would like to order one of them, they are only $15 and the logo was designed by a CREST student! Please click the "Order T-shirt" button.