For the week of May 18th, 2020
*SENIOR EDITION*
​Class of 2020

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​​​​Need Help?
Ask our School 
​Psychologist!
 Mrs. Greve, our school psychologist, is another RHS resource to provide social/emotional resources to families and connect with students and parents. Please click on the picture on the right to connect with Mrs. Greve.

Night with the Stars-Premiere's Tonight at 7pm!

Turn on Your Lights TONIGHT for the Class of 2020!

If your in the area tonight, between 9 and 11pm, take a look at Rochester High School to see what the community is going to do for you.

Senior Farewell

Class of 2020 Honor Boy and Girl 

Senior FAQ

  • Books: Textbook and other equipment return dates and instructions will be announced at a later date. Please hold onto these things until further notice. 
  • Medication: Please contact the attendance secretary, Mrs.Clavette, to arrange curb side pick up for your medication left at RHS. Pick up times will be held on Monday, May 18th and Tuesday, May 19th.
  • Senior Refunds: Any questions regarding Senior refunds should be directed to the club or event sponsor.  Once the sponsor confirms refund information and it is submitted to the Business Office, we expect processing to take approximately three weeks.
  • Senior Cords & Cap and Gowns: If you have honor cords, medals, cap and gown orders or any other regalia that has still not been picked up, please reach out to Mr. Wescott and arrange for a pick up time with him. 

Vote for the Greatest Save!

 For the fifth year in a row Rochester High has won the "Greatest Save" PSA contest, sponsored by Kindervision Major League Baseball. Seniors Camden Williams and George Muntean produced the winning spot, which you can see and vote for in the national finals by following this link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2020natTeenPSA
Please vote and support these Falcon seniors!

You Are Cordially Invited!

National Honor Society
Rochester High School Chapter
Rochester, Michigan
Spring Ceremony
 
You are cordially invited to attend the 2020 Spring Ceremony of the National Honor Society.
The ceremony will be held Tuesday May 19, 2020 at 6:00 PM via YouTube on the Good Morning Rochester channel.  Follow the YouTube Link to view here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CHjy3v8tEM
Please contact Mrs. Messing or Mrs. Cosentino with any questions.

FEDS Senior Class of 2020

Senior Spotlight

 Rochester HS Band Senior Class of 2020

Seniors- Share Your RHS Memories!

​Seniors, RHS is creating the annual Senior video and is looking for stories of inspiration from your years at RHS to share with others.
This year, we’d like you to record yourselves telling about your inspiring moments and to submit them to us for possible inclusion into our commencement video compilation.
 
Select one or more of the five possible “memory prompts”
1.A teacher I really appreciated is… because…
2.A moment I was proud to be a falcon was…
3.My most exciting classroom moment at RHS was…
4.My most memorable experience at RHS was when…
5.A moment for me that defined RHS spirit was…
If you have experiences to tell about for more than one of the five above, you are welcome to share them all!  (Please record each one as a separate video.)
Give enough detail so that someone who does not go to RHS would understand the story. If mentioning a teacher, refer to them by their correct prefix and last name, such as Mr. DeLuca or Mrs. Miesch.
 
How to submit your videos:  
Video recording guidelines:
  • 10-30 seconds in length
  • Record yourself from approximately mid-body on up.
  • Dress nicely (top half only needed).
  • Speak loudly and clearly.
  • Speak in a conversational tone, like you’re telling the story to a friend.
  • Look at the camera the entire time.
  • Record yourself against a blank wall or very neutral backdrop.
  • Record in a location with as little background noise as possible.
  • Record with your phone in landscape mode, not portrait.
  • Be sure your phone is stationary, on a tripod or table.  Use books if you need to get the phone higher.  Ideally, you want the camera to be at your eye level or slightly higher. Do NOT hold your phone while you are recording.  No matter how hard you try, you will not be able to get a steady shot.
  • Frame your face well.  It should be in the center of the picture (from left to right) and the top of your head should be about 2-3 fingers from the top of the frame.
  • Make sure your lighting is good.  Ideally, you want a soft, diffused light right in front of your face, so record yourself looking at a window, NOT with a window behind you.  If it is too bright outside, move to another room and put a lamp behind the camera.
 
Questions? Feel free to email Mr. Amore, RHS Interim assistant principal, or Ms. Harris, media specialist.
Thank you Falcons! We’re looking forward to your videos!

Honor Your Senior!

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​Class of 2020 Scholars

​Congratulations to our seniors that are being recognized as our three Scholar Levels for the Class of 2020. We have included a challenge form for you to use if you have a standardized test score, taken prior to December 31, 2019 that was not received by the district. If you believe the level of recognition is incorrect, or have a missing test score, please forward the form with necessary backup by email to our registrar kgarr@rochester.k12.mi.us.

Scholars of Achievement 

Scholars of Highest Distinction

Scholars of Distinction
​​Jesika Kate Abolins
Michael Terry Armstrong
Deema Attar
Addison Lisa Curtin
Abigail Grace Delaere
Rohin Jaydeep Deolekar
Mary Rose Derkacz
Hector Iram Dominguez Rojas
Arbaz Farooquee
Melanie Kaitlynn Gibson
Alexandra Kay Glaspie
Gnana Prasuna Dutt Gullanki
Haoyuan Hou
Njenga Robert Kamau
Yennah Young Kim
Alessio Laura
Brian Timothy LeBel
Olivia Monet Leonard
Edmon Suhail Lewis
Emily Lynn Liu
Joe Miles Malatesta
Julia Malysh
Bridget Ann Mardusha
Legacee Fairchild Mayes
Jasper Paddon Najar
Kaitlynn Marie Ostenoski
Cameron Jacob Perozich
Nicholas Brynolf Peterson
Madeline Elizabeth Pleune
Shravya Van-Aravind Ramesh
Alexander Sebastian Reeve
Michael Joseph Sandoval
Emma Louise Scharfenberg
Chloe Mae Schultz-Kellett
Davide Edoardo Seikaly
Kishan Ashish Shah
Enido Shyti
Muhammed Sillah
Sungjun Song
Nicholas James Stathakios
Sidney Lynn Swart
Adam Stewart Tan
Bhavya Thotakura
Victoria Rose Toutant
Beatriz Vezzaro Britto
Cole Patrick Wheatley
Camden Michael Williams
Sophia Frances Williams
Peyton Randall Youngblood
Evia Zaka
​Daphne Elizabeth Agapiou
Rakhshan Syed Al-Neyam
Ashley Elizabeth Alt
Karan Arora
Parasar Athmakuri
Yoojin Bae
Rishma Balakrishnan
Claire Frances Benson
Magd Boutany
Kellen Gerard Burke
Meghan Dodaballapur
Brendan Jon Eaton
Kendall Josephine Evans
Deborah Rachel George
Kethan Reddy Gudi
Nikhil Christopher Gupta
Robert Wayne Edward Gwiazdowski
Kyla Renee Hotton
Connor Gehres Jordan
Philip Konrad Karpinski
Javeria Siraj Khan
Alexander Paul Korb
Alice Elizabeth Kuitula
Grace Lynn Liu
Olivia Simone Lockhart
Ian Kenneth McIntosh
Max Jonas Morhard
Ornan Porkezh Nepolian
Mario Francis Prisciandaro
Camryn Diane Remick
Akhilesh Saravanan
Zoe Elizabeth Sawdon
Hannah Wen Xue Schurman
Maya Shih
Mitchell Dean Skoegard
Dominic Alan Smyth
Thejas Varma
Pawel Bartosz Vijayakumar
Andrew Yang
Anupama Siri Yetukuri
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​Adrian Alexander Adiwidjaja
Joshua Alexander Alcock
John Joseph Arvan
Osayd Bahauddin
Hayden Andrew Bearre
Brett Steven Benedettini
Vamsi Dhar Bidthanapally
Harjun Singh Buttar
Regina Cabrera Hernandez
Yezi Cai
Katelyn Mary Capitani
Alexia Marin Czerwien
Erik Daniel Elmore
Leona Rose Falconer
Gunnar Louis Foster
Aryn Nichole Gallacher
Sergio Remo Guerra
Savannah Kristina Haque
Jack Richard Harding
Evan William Hayen
Mima Higashi
Cole Thomas Jones
Meghan Elise Jones
Edward Jung Kang
Joseph John Kocenda
Laura Donna Kucera
Pegi Laci
Alexander Remington Maschke
Brianna Kay Mazur
Jack Michael Mickley
Roseleen Clare Murphy
Anna Nickel
Niki Ghanshyam Patel
Prem Sunilbhai Patel
Carly Marie Rodman
Kotaro James Seguchi
Lauren Elizabeth Stevenson
Kazuki Takenouchi
David Rockne Tan
Hannah Grace Tiller
Ava Grace VanVleck
Fabrizio Vazquez-Vargas
Roshni Veeramachaneni
Lauren Gutierrez Velez
Sidharth Veluthakkal
Melodie Wong

 2020 Yearbook Update

12th grade- Books will be mailed directly to your home. You can expect them to arrive in early June. If your address has RECENTLY changed please notify jhuvaere@rochester.k12.mi.us ASAP!
 
9th-11th grade: Students will receive their yearbooks in the fall when we return to school.
 
A VERY Limited number of books are available for purchase on the Jostens website. Use link below to purchase.
https://www.jostens.com/apps/store/customer/1063472/Rochester-High-School/
 
Questions?
EMAIL Mrs. Huvaere
jhuvaere@rochester.k12.mi.us

Congratulations FEDS!


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 Congratulations to the FEDS for winning the Chairman’s Award at the District Center Line Event!
The Chairman’s Award is the most prestigious award at FIRST, it honors the team that best represents a model for other teams to emulate and best embodies the mission of FIRST. It was created to keep the central focus of FIRST Robotics Competition on the ultimate goal of transforming the culture in ways that will inspire greater levels of respect and honor for science and technology, as well as encouraging more of today’s youth to become science and technology leaders. The Chairman’s Award is presented to the team judged to best exemplify the true meaning of FIRST through measurable impact on participants, school, and community at large with emphasis on promoting science and technology through FIRST programs.
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The FIRST Robotics Competition is not about machines; it is about the experience of people working together toward a shared goal.
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This is the third year that the FEDS have submitted the essays and prepared the presentation material for the Chairman’s award. All that hard work finally paid off and we won after a virtual judging of the Center Line Event submissions!  The FEDS Mentors and Students would like to thank Rochester High School’s administration for supporting all the FTC and FLL teams meeting in our school.  This enabled the FEDS to spread the message of FIRST to all of our feeder schools, resulting in thousands of outreach hours and dozens of new FIRST teams. We’d also like to thank RCS, our sister teams in Rochester United (CyberCats & AdamBots), and all of our generous sponsors!  

Chairman's Video

Thank You Frontline Workers from RHS Key Club!

#FalconStrong

 Junior Ambassador/Executive Youth Board

Neighborhood House: Junior Ambassador/Executive Youth Board
 
Overview
In an effort to help prepare area youth to become future leaders and responsible, caring citizens, Neighborhood House offers local students the opportunity to sit on our Junior Ambassador/Executive Youth Board. This board is responsible for setting the agenda and leading the Neighborhood House Youth Committee. Neighborhood House is looking for outstanding high school students in the greater Rochester community who are willing to serve a one- year term in this youth leadership capacity within the Neighborhood House organization.
 
The following schools may have one representative on the Executive Youth Board:
  • Rochester High School
  • Adams High School
  • Stoney Creek High School
  • Avondale High School
  • At-Large
One Junior Ambassador will be appointed from the Executive Youth Board to serve as the Board’s chairperson. Together this organization will collaborate with the Neighborhood House Executive Director, Board of Directors and other staff in an effort to gain experience in areas of leadership, civic responsibility, community service, public speaking, fundraising, marketing, and fund development.

Please click the link below to view the application and more information.
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​Update for Juniors

 

May 26 Zoom
ID 960 8733 4431
Password 395564
May 28 Zoom
ID 945 9845 2945
Password  957293
Update on College Applications
HS Counselors will be hosting a Zoom meeting to offer guidance in applying to colleges, recommendations,
​choosing a college,
admission deadlines and more!
Students are welcome to join and ask questions.

​Join either session:
Tuesday May 26, 2020 at 1-1:30pm
OR
Thursday May 28, 2020 at 1-1:30pm

Student Council Ballet 2020-21

The official ballot for the RHS student council for the 2020-2021 school year:  https://forms.gle/Bw6gg85g7Xkhzuc9A 
Throughout the ballot you will be selecting people from your grade to represent you throughout the year. Think about selecting the people from your grade that you think have the qualities to lead the school.

Congratulations RCS Reflection Winners!

Academic Center Virtual Drop In Hours

Hello Falcon Family,
 The Academic Center drop in service has gone virtual. Jeff, George and I have been practicing our Zoom skills and we are ready to open our virtual door to help support students. We are offering Academic Center drop in hours every T/Th starting at 11:00. We are able to open up multiple “chat” rooms depending on what students need. Please share this with your students. Below you will find the Zoom meeting ID and password that we will be using T/Th until the end of the school year.
 
Academic Center Drop In Hours T/TH at 11:00
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/98548270388?pwd=WnE1MHBDSk8yQkVNZ0FuQU1raHExUT09
Meeting ID: 985 4827 0388
Password: 0J89Hc

Who's Your Falcon Awards

College Application or Personal Statement Questions?
​Ask Mrs. Schrems!

Any junior looking for guidance with writing their college application essay/personal statement can contact Mrs. Schrems at jschrems@rochester.k12.mi.us from now until the end of August. She is able to brainstorm ideas with you over zoom, read/edit drafts and work with you until you have a finished product you are proud of!

2020-21 NHS Office Elections


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​ Congratulation to the new 2020-2021 National Honor Society Officers
 
Senior President:  Dana William
Senior Vice President: Soja Kureekkattil
Senior Treasurer: Stephanie Glaspie
Senior Secretary: Alyssa Hart
Junior Vice President: Holly McDonald
Junior Secretary: Mayu Seguchi
 
Mrs. Messing and Mrs. Cosentino would like to thank all the members that ran for an office. Your speeches were all fantastic and we look forward to a productive and exciting year. 

NHS Math Application

 Join Math NHS! We're accepting 2020-2021 Sophomores through Seniors who are passionate about Math and want to celebrate and there that passion with others. The application is open starting now through June 15th. Current members will have to re-apply.
https://forms.gle/oBBApT8xdGaB1cqR8

Join Science NHS!

The Rochester High School Science NHS chapter is now accepting applications for the 2020/2021 school year!
Science NHS is sponsored by Mrs. Slomka and meets on the 1st Monday of each month after school at 2:40 in D132. Members will collaborate to bring science opportunities to the community by participating in events such as Science Fairs at elementary schools, Dinosaur Hill fossil excavation, supporting other science clubs at RHS (EX. Science Olympiad & HOSA), setting/cleaning up labs for science teachers before and after school, growing plants in courtyard, Virtual Autopsy experience, mini-lessons for elementary school students and Inviting local scientists to speak with the members of SNHS, and tutoring science students. Members must be either current juniors and seniors that are enrolled in their third year of science.
 
Interested students may apply using this link:
bit.ly/rocsnhs

​Update on Remote Learning

​Dear RCS Families and Staff Members,
Welcome back from spring break! As you are aware, due to the coronavirus (COVID-19), the state of Michigan continues to be on a “Stay Home, Stay Safe” order from the governor. All school buildings are closed for the remainder of the 2019-20 school year.   
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In compliance with the executive order, RCS has submitted a plan for remote learning to Oakland Schools, our local intermediate school district, and the plan has been approved. Therefore, we will continue with the same remote learning schedule for secondary students that we have used since March 20. Click here to view online class access codes. 

Our goal is to provide meaningful learning opportunities for students based on their current course schedule. Students are encouraged to complete the activities/tasks provided by teachers. Attendance will be taken. A student will be counted as “attending” whenever there is teacher contact, such as an assignment returned, participation in a class meeting, an email, etc. 

Calendar dates for the remainder of the year:
  • Remote School Resumes:  April 13, 2020
  • Final Day for Seniors:  May 15, 2020
  • Memorial Day - no classes: May 25, 2020
  • Final Day for all students:  June 5, 2020
*Support hours are reserved for contact with counselors, learning consultants, teacher consultants, speech pathologists, social workers, psychologists, interventionists,  or special education therapists.
Teachers will post material or email students by 8:00 a.m. each day that a class period is in session.
We anticipate teachers will include material such as notes, videos, instruction, class discussions, or provide other learning opportunities.

Expectations of Secondary Students:
  • Check the district’s student email accounts and/or Remind texts daily about coursework, lessons, and/or content.  Students should receive information from teachers based on the schedule of daily interactions above.
  • Use proper netiquette for online learning (see below).
  • Attendance will be taken; you are encouraged to participate as much as you can.
  • No letter grades will be given during remote learning. Students will receive feedback on submitted work, and work may be graded on a pass/fail basis.
  • At the end of the semester, students will receive a G (pass/credit) or an H (fail/no credit). This will be based on the participation and the work submitted. This will not impact a student’s GPA either positively or negatively.
  • If a student does not understand something, he/she can contact the teacher the same day, if possible. Please understand teachers may not be able to respond right away.
  • We ask for patience if a student does not receive communication from a teacher on the day of the class. 
 Netiquette Reminders:
  • Use respectful behavior and language.
  • Stick to appropriate topic discussions.
  • Wear school appropriate clothing when attending meetings via video.
  • Be honest. Do not plagiarize or copy others’ work.
  • Treat others online as you would want to be treated in person.

​For all technology questions, including the need for devices, please go to the front page of the district website at www.rochester.k12.mi.us, and click on the large red tab titled "Click here for Information on Remote Learning," or click HERE.

​Updates for AP Students

 
Important Information for AP testing
There has been a lot of information provided by College Board to students who are taking an upcoming online AP test.  Below are important resources for students and families:
 
The first of this process is for students to check the email address they have on file with College Board (in their AP account).  This is the email that testing information is sent to.
After confirming your email address, the most comprehensive document to read on testing is here.  It is long, but very detailed.  Most questions can be answered if you read though this testing guide thoroughly:
 https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/pdf/ap-testing-guide-2020.pdf?SFMC_cid=EM305178-&rid=47388674
 
On testing day this checklist is suggested for students to follow. 
https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/pdf/ap-student-exam-day-checklist.pdf
 
Please review these videos and links below and if there is still confusion, families can call the AP College Board customer service line:  1-888-225-5427
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNs9nK006xI&list=PLoGgviqq4844oyQviUHOOddAaMOdDAqpk&index=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHZ2zpqlZNE&list=PLoGgviqq4844oyQviUHOOddAaMOdDAqpk&index=3&t=0s
Rochester Schools Counseling Google site (with comprehensive AP information included)
https://sites.google.com/a/rcs-k12.us/rcs-high-school-counseling/home
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​Food Service Update

Thank you for your patience as we work through the logistics of meal distribution during the school closure. The following are important changes to the food services program.

Beginning the week of April 6, 2020, meals will be distributed on Monday and Wednesday only. Three days of meals will be provided on Monday, and two days of meals will be provided on Wednesday. Pick up times will continue from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the school that families designated for pick-up.

If families no longer require food service meals, we ask they email us at: focfs@rochester.k12.mi.us, and provide the family name, number of students, and the location that was designated for pick up.

There are also changes to the Musson and University Hills Elementary School distribution sites. Beginning the week of April 6, 2020, families who picked up meals at Musson Elementary will now pick up meals at Brewster Elementary. Families who picked up meals at University Hills Elementary will now pick up meals at Meadowbrook Elementary.
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We appreciate your patience and cooperation.
 

The Latest in RHS Sports

Click to view the RHS spring sports schedule.
 

 A Special Message from the JV Softball Team