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All School AnnouncementsPittsburghCAPA 6-12A Creative and PerformingArts Magnet SchoolAfrican-American History MonthFebruary 6 February 10, 2017CAPA will be celebrating African-American History Month in many ways. Starting this week, the weekly bulletin will feature aprominent African-American Artist with connections to the Pittsburgh area. Please see below for information on Dr. HelenFaison!August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black BottomCongratulations to all of the cast for their terrific performances! Please see link below about the director, Mark Clayton ers/stories/201702050025Anything Goes Ensemble AuditionOn Monday, February 6 at 4:00 pm in room 424, we will be holding auditions for any interested students. Please prepare one song,of 16 bars, of a musical theater selection. Sheet music is required for this audition.Middle School Theater DepartmentCongratulations to Will Sendera and Grace Vensel who have been cast in Carnegie Mellon University’s Ragtime! Tickets can bepurchased at http://www.cmu-drama.com/box-office/ragtime-2/CAPA Ski Trip – Friday, February 17 is FULLCAPA Track Team111 9th St.Pittsburgh, PA 15222412-529-6101 tel412-338-6143 faxdiscoverpps.orgAny student that has signed up needs to see Mr. Abram, in room 412, ASAP.Be My Neighbor – United Way Student Volunteer OpportunityHelp make an impact with the United Way by joining us this March 18th, at Soldiers and Sailors for Be My Neighbor Day! Be MyNeighbor Day is an annual event that invites children and their families to learn about acts of kindness, helping others and doinggood for those in need. Please see the attached flyer for more details.African American History Museum TripYour balance of 25.00 is due on Wednesday, February 22 to any Social Studies teacher.American Mathematics CompetitionSchool AdministrationMs. Melissa Pearlman,PrincipalMr. Anthony Esoldo, Director 912Mr. Steve Sikon, Director 6-8The American Mathematics Competition will be held on February 15th. The AMC is a 25-question, 75-minute, multiple choiceexaminations in high school mathematics designed to promote the development and enhancement of problem-solving skills.The AMC provides an opportunity for high school students to develop positive attitudes towards analytical thinking andmathematics that can assist in future careers. Interested students should see Mr. Underwood in room 345.Mongolian GrillOur Mongolian Grill fundraiser will take place Wednesday, February 17 from 6-9:00 pm. Guest grillers will be Mr. Thompson,Mr. Loskoch, and Mr. Grinage. We hope to see you there!Friends of CAPA (FoC) Ice Skating EventThe FoC will be hosting Ice Skating at Schenley Park Ice Skating Rink on Monday, February 13 from 7-9:00 PM. AdmissionIs free and skate rentals are 3.00. Snacks and hot chocolate will be available for purchase.Mr. Brendan Coyne,Literary ArtsHigh School GuidanceCounselorInstrumental MusicMrs. Jennifer Palermo,Social WorkerA HUGE congratulations to all of our Literary Artists regarding the Scholastic Writing Awards! Please see the list below.Congratulations! to clarinetist Matthew Rygelski for being selected to participate in the PMEA District I Honors Band this week.The concert is Friday, February 10th at 7:30pm and will take place at Mt. Lebanon High School.

Mayor’s Youth CouncilRecognizing the need to honor the voices of young people in the City of Pittsburgh and the importance of highlighting youth’s lived experiences, Councilman CoreyO’Connor will launch the Youth Participatory Budget Council (YPBC) in 2017. The YPBC is a youth led program that focuses on promoting understanding of city government,developing youth leadership, elevating youth voices in the City of Pittsburgh, and providing a platform for youth to propose projects to City Council members and theMayor. In each session, youth will learn lessons on Teamwork, Planning Projects, City Government, Advocacy, and Research and Development, through a series ofactivities and guest speakers. These lessons will help the youth develop their project proposal. Youth are expected to participate in all sessions, develop a project proposal,and then present that project proposal to City Council at the end of the program. For more information visit - astic Writing Awards – Pittsburgh Region 2017American Voices NomineesCiara Sing, Grade 11, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Poetry for “Cigar Box Secrets”Elsa Eckenrode, Grade 12, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Poetry for “To My Dad’s Girlfriend, A Recounted History, ‘I Am Not Wrong: Wrong is Not My Name’”Senior Writing PortfoliosZainab Adisa, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Gold Key for “Who We’ve Become”Cavan Bonner, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Honorable Mention for “Moment Mythology”Leah DeFlitch, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Silver Key for “The Other Side of July”Arwen Kozak, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Silver Key for “Half-Kilned”Ruthanne Pilarski, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Gold Key for “When April Comes”Grade 7 WinnersEmerson Davis Martin, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Honorable Mention – Poetry for “What He Did”Neila McElfresh, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Silver Key – Poetry for “An Apothecary, The Memories in the Pictures”Josephine Reiter, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Honorable Mention – Poetry for “Ignorance, An Ode to Chocolate in the Form of a Love Letter Because Why Not, The Gardener,Before I go”Iris Roth-Bmberg, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Gold Key – Poetry for “What I Am, Through the Grapevine, Disruption”Grade 8 WinnersWilliam Buchanan, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Silver Key – Poetry for “Love and America”Ellie Clement, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Honorable Mention – Poetry for “Resilience”Azriah Crawley, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Honorable Mention – Poetry for “Human Interactions”Madeline Ficca, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Silver Key – Poetry for “Friday Nights at the Bar”Danielle Jordan, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Honorable Mention – Poetry for “The Bus Stop”Makenna Katarski, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Honorable Mention – Poetry for “A Collection of Color”Natalie Kocherzat, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Silver Key – Poetry for “Color of Music”Julia McQuiston, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Honorable Mention – Poetry for “Tunes and Perfection”Steve Perekiszka, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Gold Key – Poetry for “Saffron in the Sand”Lily Weatherford-Brown, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Gold Key – Poetry for “Broken”Anika Weber, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Gold Key – Poetry for “The Conversation”Chloe Werner, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Honorable Mention – Poetry for “Deathless”Grade 9 WinnersEva Boeglin, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Honorable Mention – Short Story for “The True Value to a Thesis”Marie Kaminski, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Silver Key – Science Fiction/Fantasy for “Dragonite”Javin Lee-Lobel, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Honorable Mention – Poetry for “Key, Fear, the Layers”Ilan Magnani, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Honorable Mention – Poetry for “If”Lizz Scurco, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Honorable Mention – Poetry for “Describe Happiness Using the Five Senses”Grade 10 WinnersMadeline Bain, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Honorable Mention – Flash Fiction for “How To Not Be Born Into a Bad Situation (Once You’ve Already Been Born Into a BadSituation)”Briana Kline Costa, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Honorable Mention – Personal Essay/Memoir for “skin” and Honorable Mention – Poetry for “I am sweet like honey”Katarina Mondor, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Honorable Mention – Poetry for “The Golden State Receives Rain”Giordana Verrengia, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Silver Key – Flash Fiction for “One Look” and for “To Us All” and Honorable Mention – Poetry for “Slamming Doors and BeingCross”Grade 11 WinnersNoor El-Dehaibi, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Silver Key – Dramatic Script for “In with the New” and Silver Key – Poetry for “Hiss”Maya Frizzell, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Honorable Mention – Flash Fiction for “Ataa’ Coming Home”Suhail Gharaibeh, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Silver Key – Dramatic Script for “The Righteous”Jessica Kunkel, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Honorable Mention – Personal Essay/Memoir for “Strong”Ciara Sing, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Gold Key and American Voices Nominee – Poetry for “Cigar Box Secrets”, Gold Key – Flash Fiction for “Endings”, Honorable Mention– Dramatic Script for “Nursery Rhymes”, and Honorable Mention – Flash Fiction for “Waves”Serena Zets, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Silver Key – Dramatic Script for “An Inconvenient Truth”, Honorable Mention – Dramatic Script for “God Bless America”, andHonorable Mention – Poetry for “The Brahmin and My Brother”Grade 12 WinnersZainab Adisa, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Gold Key – Flash Fiction for “Seeds of Biafra”, Gold Key – Writing Portfolio for “Who We’ve Become”, Silver Key – Dramatic Scriptfor “Debatable”, Silver Key – Poetry for “Sun Goddess”, and Honorable Mention – Poetry for “We Are Americans”Cavan Bonner, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Honorable Mention – Writing Portfolio for “Moment Mythology”Leah DeFlitch, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Silver Key – Flash Fiction for “Love Story”, Silver Key – Poetry for “July Reprise, Margins”, and Silver Key – Portfolio for “The OtherSide of July”

Elsa Eckenrode, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Gold Key and American Voices Nominee – Poetry for “To My Dad’s Girlfriend, A Recounted History, ‘I Am Not Wrong: Wrong isNot My Name’” and Silver Key – Flash Fiction for “The House”Arwen Kozak, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Silver Key – Poetry for “Fire Boy, On Moving Out, Replicate, Sestina from Tom Hiddleston, Treading Water” and Silver Key – WritingPortfolio for “Half-Kilned”Ruthanne Pilarski, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Gold Key – Flash Fiction for “How to Keep the Ocean Close”, Gold Key – Writing Portfolio for “When April Comes”, Silver Key –Poetry for “An Act of Contrition”, and Honorable Mention – Personal Essay/Memoir for “Say Nothing”Greatest Save Teen PSA ProgramThe Greatest Save is a recognized charity of Major League Baseball and we conduct this program in many major league cities across the country. There is no cost toparticipate in the program. High school students produce a 30 second personal safety video for the program. The videos are entered into our contest to determine regionaland national winners. The goal of the program is to give teens a voice, encourage responsible decision making and promote personal safety. The Greatest Save Teen PSAProgram deadline is March 1, 2017. You can register for the contest online at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/VJW7BYG.