Dublin High School PFSO Gael Gazette 4-1-2012

Important updates for Dublin High School parents from the Dublin High PFSO. Prior updates available here. Contact the Dublin High PFSO at dublinhighpfso@dublinhighpfso.com.

Dublin High School Events Calendar April 2012

• 4/2 Athletic Booster Meeting 7p.m. Career Center
• 4/2&4/3 Spring Concerts 7p.m. Little Theatre
• 4/4 Juniors Prep for College Night 6:30p.m. Little Theatre
• 4/6 3rd Quarter Report Cards mailed
• 4/6 Minimum day 12:40p.m. release time
• 4/9-4/13 NO SCHOOL Spring Break
• 4/16 Band Booster Meeting 6:30p.m. Choir Room
• 4/19 Dublin High School Open House 6:30-8p.m.
• 4/20 Principals Coffee 8:30a.m. Administration Building
• 4/20 Spa-tacular Fundraiser
• 4/23 PFSO Meeting 7:00 p.m. Library Community Room
• 4/24 Chipotle Fundraiser 4-8p.m.
• 4/27 Senior Banquet 6-10p.m. Shannon Center
• 4/29 Food Truck Fundraiser

Please Support Dublin High School Athletics!

Come out and join other Dublin High parents at the Athletic Boosters’ 8th-Annual Golf Tournament and Dinner on Friday, May 4. This fun event helps support every student-athlete at DHS! The Golf Tournament will return to the fun and friendly San Ramon Golf Club. The participation fee of $150 includes golf, use of a cart, lunch, a golf shirt, and dinner. Or grab three others for a fun foursome at the reduced price of $550! We’ll also have some great contests with big cash prizes!

If you are not a golfer, you can still join the party at the Golf Tournament’s Cinco De Mayo-themed dinner at the Dublin Shannon Center after the tournament at 6:00 p.m. Margaritas and fajitas will be plentiful while bidding takes place at the silent auction. Dinner tickets will be $35 for a grilled steak and chicken fajita meal with all of the fixings! Gather your friends to reserve a table and enjoy a great night out!

For reservations, sponsorship info, or questions: email the Athletic Boosters at golf4DHS2012@yahoo.com . You can register online at www.golf4dhs.org

Dublin High School Spring Concerts Schedule

On Monday April 2nd at 7pm in the Little Theater come out and enjoy the Choir, Jazz Band and Jazz Combo. There is no admission fee, but donations will gladly be accepted to help with on-going music department expenses.

On Tuesday April 3rd at 7pm in the Little Theater enjoy Percussion and Concert Band. Concert Band will be performing music from their trip to New York. No admission fee, but donations are accepted.

Dublin High School Fundraisers Galore

The Class of 2014 2nd Annual Spa-tacular will be coming on Friday, 4/20 from 4-7p.m.at Cachet Salon in Dublin. Tickets are $30 and are presale only. Come enjoy some wine and appetizers and you will also receive some pampering in the form of a mini-facial, make-up application, and hair conditioning treatment and styling. There will also be drawings for prizes. To purchase tickets, please reply to this email.

On Tuesday, April 24h there will be a fundraiser at Chipotle in Dublin sponsored by PFSO to benefit the Sophomore and Freshman Classes at DHS in support of their Safe and Sober Grad Night accounts. This fundraiser will take place from 4-8 p.m. Cyber Stacey will email out the flier closer to the date of the event.

The Food Trucks are coming our way once again on Sunday, April 29th. More details to come from Cyber Stacey.

Regal Cinemas movie tickets will be on sale most every Friday in front of Student Activities at lunch. Ticket prices are $7.50 per ticket for non pass restricted movies. Parents who want to buy tickets in bulk can reply to this email. This fundraiser benefits the Class of 2014.

Attention Parents of Dublin High School Juniors

Mark your calendars to attend Prep for College Night on Wed. April 4 at 6:30 pm in the Little Theater. Learn about the college selection and admission process and what you can do this summer to prepare for your busy senior year.

Attention Parents of Dublin High School Seniors

The PFSO announces the 2012 Scholarship Award. In keeping with our dedication to the ongoing education of Dublin High School students, the PFSO this year will recognize up to six individuals. Scholarships will be awarded to graduating seniors based on involvement in extracurricular activities, service to school and community, and an application which includes a creative essay. The awards will be $500 each. Applications for the PFSO Scholarship Award 2012 are now available in the Counseling Office. The deadline for Applications is April 13, 2012.

For Senior Athletes- the DHS Athletic Boosters have Scholarship Awards available. Applications can be picked up in the Career Center. Completed applications must be submitted no later than 12:40p.m. on Friday, April 20th to the Counseling Office with a copy of the athlete’s official sealed transcript. Transcripts take 48 hours to process so please submit your transcript request no later than Wednesday, April 18th to Ms. Watts. Transcript fees are $3.

Senior Banquet: Tickets will now be sold until Monday, April 2, to guarantee getting the pajama bottoms. Please have your student drop off their order form and money ($55) to Student Activities no later than 3:00 p.m. on Monday, or you can continue to purchase tickets online at www.dublinhighpfso.com . Click on the “PFSO Store” tab to place your order. Please make sure you include what size pajama bottoms and which dinner they’d prefer: chicken or vegetarian. Questions? Contact Shari Jackman at 2oldblues@sbcglobal.net

Also, seating at the Sr. Banquet is by tables of 10. The Parent Reps will be at DHS on Tuesdays and Thursdays during lunch and after school (beginning April 3) to get the names of the 10 people sitting at your table. ALL 10 PEOPLE MUST COME TO THE TABLE (outside of Student Activities) and give their names to Mrs. Jackman, Mrs. Dyer, or Mrs. Finn. Please have your students think about their seating arrangements!

Memory Board Photo Collages are due by 4/5 to Kinkos where they will be laminated.

Tickets for Senior Picnic (to be held on Friday, June 1, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at Great America; cost: $55) and Grad Night (to be held on Thursday, June 7, from 10:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m. at Club Sport in Pleasanton; cost: $85) are all still available. They can be purchased by turning in the order form to Student Activities or you can mail it to Shari Jackman at 7343 Kolb Place, Dublin. Better yet, you can also purchase these tickets by going to www.dublinhighpfso.com and then clicking on the “PFSO Store” tab.

Senior Ball: The Senior Ball will be held on Saturday, May 19, from 6:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. at the beautiful Claremont Hotel in Berkeley. Stay tuned for information about ticket sales and pricing. Seniors will need to purchase tickets at Student Activities, as they will need to fill out a contract to attend the event. If they are bringing a guest from another school, they will need to fill out an additional form.

Please feel free to contact Terri Dyer: btdyer@comcast.net, Kristen Fill: sirfin@mac.com, Shari Jackman: 2oldblues@sbcglobal.net if you have any questions about any of the above information

Dublin Partners in Education Summer Enrichment Academy

This summer, Dublin Partners in Education will host a Summer Enrichment Academy for high school students with the assistance of Las Virgenes Education Foundation (LVEF). Read more…

Dublin High Students Recognized for Integrity in Action

The following students were identified by Dublin High School teachers has having demonstrated the Integrity in Action trait “I am Cooperative”. The PFSO would like to acknowledge these students:

• Marlon Jose Mendoza
• Mitchell Garrett
• Patrick Taugher
• Camaron Farrington
• Katelyn Haubert
• Mohit Dhamija
• R.J. Carino
• Kaila Stephens
• Matt Callahan
• Cailin Gavagan
• Morgan Brizee
• Navnit Sahota
• DJ Jackson
• Adrienne Willis
• Isabella Cousins
• Chanthima Charoenpanit
• Adele Sievers
• Naomi Martinez
• Madison Matthies
• Frances Panlaque

Tri-Valley TV Summer Camp Opportunity

Thinking about choosing some form of video or television for your future career? Tri-Valley TV Summer Camp, offered by Tri-Valley Community TV, includes an introduction to studio production, field production, writing, producing and digital video editing. This unique day camp consists of a total of 20 hours and is open to students in grades 6 – 12. Participants will work within a group to produce a TV program.

Two sessions will be offered to campers at the Tri-Valley Community TV Studios in Pleasanton. The first session will take place June 11 – 15. The second session will be available from August 6 – 10. This unique, hands-on camp, will run from 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. each day. The fee is $495 and registration is limited.

For more information and to register for the TV Camp, visit the Tri-Valley TV website at www.trivalleytv.org or phone the station at (925) 462-3030.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory / Las Positas College Science and Engineering Seminar

“Building an Instrument to Image Extra-Solar Planets,” a new seminar series, will take place on Tuesday, April 3, 6-7:15 p.m. in the Multi-Disciplinary Building 2400, Room 2420. The event is free and open to the public. Parking is $2.

The seminar discussion topic is the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI), a powerful new instrument that will be delivered to the 8-meter Gemini South Telescope this year. Presenters will discuss how scientists and engineers work together on three aspects of the GPI: balancing instrument science requirements with engineering design, innovating new technologies, and understanding and mitigating defects in hardware.

“Though more than 700 planets have been discovered orbiting other stars, we have only just begun to be able to take pictures of these faint, distant worlds. Direct imaging is extremely challenging, but scientifically essential; images and spectra of an exo-planet will tell us what it’s made of and eventually if it harbors life,” the abstract explains.

The seminar presenters are two LLNL experts: Bruce Macintosh, Ph.D., Astronomer, Optical Sciences Group Principal Investigator, Gemini Planet Imager project; and Lisa Poyneer, Ph.D., Engineer, Optical Sciences and Signal & Image Processing Groups. The seminar is part of a series, “Theory to Practice: How Science Gets Done.”

“The series is designed to enhance the partnership shared by the two Livermore institutions and provides a forum for laboratory scientists and engineers to share their broad range of basic and applied research with the college‟s scientific community of students, staff and faculty,” said Dean of Math, Science, Engineering and Public Safety Neal Ely, Ph.D.

“The series offers a way to look at how science is done,” added Biology Instructor Nan Ho. “A unique feature of the series, especially for a community college, is the focus on the big science that LLNL does that requires cross-disciplinary expertise.”