TAVARES HIGH SCHOOL

TAVARES HIGH SCHOOL

DAILY BULLETIN

Today is Wednesday, January 24, 2018

The following students completed for FBLA and placed at the district level :

Meghan Santos - 1st place in Future Business Leader moving on to states

Shea Dwyer 1st place in Broadcast Journalism moving on to states

Riley Hoag 1st place in Intro to IT moving on to states

Ephraim Drennan 1st place in Intro to Financial Math moving on to states

GeNaya Berry-Hughes 3rd place in Organizational Leadership.

We also placed 2nd in the name tag contest, and placed 3rd in the Scrapbook and Poster contest.

THS was very well represented in FBLA District 10.

Celebrate Literacy Week starts today with our Get Caught Reading activity. If you are caught reading for enjoyment by a teacher, they will turn in a ticket with your name and you will be eligible for the gift card drawing on Friday.

GUIDANCE

Any 10th grade student who would like to Dual Enroll next year should see Mr. Stevens in guidance for a PERT test form.

Florida Polytechnic College will be here on February 26th during both lunches in the Guidance Office.

GET $$$$ FOR COLLEGE

UNCF Lake County Community Forum

Saturday at 10 a.m. at LHS.

Flyers are in Guidance.

LSSC will be here on February 23rd at 8:30 a.m. to sign up any Seniors interested in attending in the Fall. Interested seniors will need to see Mrs. Croker for a pass.

Fifth Judicial Circuit Professional Committee Essay Contest

Open to Juniors and Seniors

Deadline February 28, 2018

Florida Elks Youth Camp

Summer Counselor in Training and Counselor Positions Available

Applications are available in Guidance.

Summer Internship Opportunities

2018 FSU Young Scholars Program

June 10-July 21

Deadline : February 15, 2018

Bank of America Student Leaders Program

Summer Internship with the Boys and Girls Club of Central Florida

Application Closes on February 2nd, 2018

SCHOLARSHIPS

Harold S. Schwartz Music Scholarship Program

Scholarship Amount $10,000.00-$6,000.00

Eligible seniors interested in a major or minor in a music (instrumental, performing arts, choral, theatre)

Deadline is March 10th, 2018

AaronStrong Perserverance Scholarship

Eligible seniors who have faced adversity .

Scholarship Amount is $718.00

Application Deadline is March 31st.

Linda Kohlmeyer Memorial Scholarship

Scholarship Amount $1,000.00

Seniors with a 2.5, active in the community and planning to attend a postsecondary institution.

Deadline March 15, 2018

Charles Robert Thurman Scholarship

$500.00 scholarship for seniors pursuing a career in finance or accounting

Deadline is March 29, 2018

2018 Lehner Scholarship

Eligible seniors with financial need and at least a 2.5 GPA

Scholarship amount up to $5,000.00

Deadline April 6th,2018

Mount Dora Womens Committee of Fine Arts

Open to students in Grade 10-12

Auditions are for Visual and Performing Arts

Deadline is March 3rd, 2018. Applications are in Guidance.

Rotary Club of Lake County Golden Triangle Scholarship

Scholarships awarded on basis of financial need, academic merit, character and community activities.

Deadline is February 28, 2018

SECO Energy 2018 Youth Scholarship

Eligible seniors must be SECO Customers

Deadline March 30, 2018

Johnson Scholarship Foundation

Eligible Seniors with Disabilities

Deadline March 1st, 2018

Johnson Scholarship Foundation

Eligible Seniors of UPS employees or retirees who live in Florida

Deadline April 1st, 2018

Jackie Robinson Foundation Scholarship

Eligible Minority Seniors

Deadline February 1st, 2018

Seminole Chapter of Lake-Sumter

Eligible Seniors accepted to FSU

Deadline April 1 st, 2018

Rapier Educational Scholarship

Minimum GPA 2.5

Deadline is February 15, 2018

Tavares Lions Club

Eligible Seniors planning to attend LSSC

Deadline March 15, 2018

Criterion Civic Club Scholarship for Graduating Seniors who are African American.

Application Deadline is March 31, 2018.

Application is in Guidance.

Florida Southern College Orchestra and String Scholarship Audition Information is available in Guidance.

The University of Florida and Florida State University have partnered with the Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success.

This is a new on line platform to assist with the college application process. You may access these tools at www.coalitionforcollegeaccess.org.

Florida Credit Union is offering two scholarships for graduating seniors. Parents and or students must be a member of the Florida Credit Union.

Servin-Ellis Scholarship Fund - Deadline is 2/9/18

Dr. John C.Rawls Scholarship Fund - Deadline is 2/9/18

CLUBS

ATHLETICS

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

Word of the Day

bankrupt

Break the Bank Word of the Day:

The rupt that you see in bankrupt proceeds from the same ultimate source as the one you see in disrupt and interrupt, though it's easy to overlook the similarity because of pronunciation differences. Latin rumpere, "break," lurks in the background. The more immediate parents of bankrupt are words in French and Italian that mean "broken bank."

On This Day in History

1848 - James W. Marshall discovered a gold nugget at Sutter's Mill in northern California. The discovery led to the gold rush of '49.

1899 - Humphrey OSullivan patented the rubber heel.

1908 - In England, the first Boy Scout troop was organized by Robert Baden-Powell.

1916 - Conscription was introduced in Britain.

1922 - Christian K. Nelson patented the Eskimo Pie.

1924 - The Russian city of St. Petersburg was renamed Leningrad. The name has since been changed back to St. Petersburg.

1930 - Primo Carnera made his American boxing debut by knocking out Big Boy Patterson in one minute, ten seconds of the opening round.

1935 - Krueger Brewing Company placed the first canned beer on sale in Richmond, VA.

1942 - "Abies Irish Rose" was first heard on NBC radio.

1943 - U.S. President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Churchill concluded a wartime conference in Casablanca, Morocco.

1952 - Vincent Massey was the first Canadian to be appointed governor-general of Canada.

1955 - The rules committee of major league baseball announced a plan to strictly enforce the rule that required a pitcher to release the ball within 20 seconds after taking his position on the mound.

1964 - CBS-TV acquired the rights to televise the National Football Leagues 1964-1965 regular season. The move cost CBS $14.1 million a year. The NFL stayed on CBS for 30 years.

1965 - Winston Churchill died at the age of 90.

1972 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down laws that denied welfare benefits to people who had resided in a state for less than a year.

1978 - A nuclear-powered Soviet satellite plunged through Earth's atmosphere and disintegrated. The radioactive debris was scattered over parts of Canada's Northwest Territory.

1980 - The United States announced intentions to sell arms to China.

1985 - Penny Harrington became the first woman police chief of a major city. She assumed the duties as head of the Portland, Oregon, force of 940 officers and staff.

1986 - The Voyager 2 space probe flew past Uranus. The probe came within 50,679 miles of the seventh planet of the solar system.

1987 - In Lebanon, gunmen kidnapped educators Alann Steen, Jesse Turner, Robert Polhill and Mitheleshwar Singh. They were all later released.

1989 - Ted Bundy, the confessed serial killer, was put to death in Florida's electric chair for the 1978 kidnap-murder of 12-year-old Kimberly Leach.

1990 - Japan launched the first probe to be sent to the Moon since 1976. A small satellite was placed in lunar orbit.

1995 - The prosecution gave its opening statement at the O.J. Simpson murder trial.

1996 - Polish Premier Jozef Oleksy resigned due to allegations that he had spied for Moscow.

2000 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Missouri law that limited the contributions that individuals could donate to a candidate during a single election.

2001 - In Colorado Springs, CO, Patrick Murphy Jr. and Donald Newbury were taken into custody after a 5-minute phone interview was granted with a TV station. They were the remaining fugitives of the "Texas 7."

2002 - The U.S. Congress began a hearing on the collapse of Enron Corp.

2002 - John Walker Lindh appeared in court for the first time concerning the charges that he conspired to kill Americans abroad and aided terrorist groups. Lindh had been taken into custody by U.S. Marines in Afghanistan.

2003 - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security began operations under Tom Ridge.