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| October 17, 2018 |
BOARD RECOGNIZES NATIONAL MERIT SEMIFINALISTS
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At its Oct. 16 meeting, the Board of Education recognized 24 Barrington High School students who have been named 2019 National Merit Semifinalists. This is the most National Merit Semifinalists BHS has ever had from one class.
The students are among only 16,000 nationwide who have been named semifinalists. They now have the opportunity to compete for about 7,500 scholarships, worth more than $31 million.
Congrats to the following BHS seniors: Michael Bedard, Justin Benjamin, Anthony Bernardi
, Max Bowman
, Sevan Brodjian,
Kelly Corless,
Nicholas Edels
, Anita Gugulski
, Lana Michelle Homola,
Nicholas Huang,
Thomas Huang,
Akul Joshi
, Colin Kim,
Peter Lais
, Olivia Lee,
Tyler Moncek,
Rishi Narayanan,
Mark Nicoletti
, Andrew Pan,
Daniel Perille, Caleb Song,
Adeline Sun,
Michelle Yang and
Steven Zhu
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Blueprint 220 community engagement this month
At its Oct. 16 meeting, the Board discussed its three-part plan to seek community feedback this month about the Blueprint 220 master-facility plan. The Board is currently working with communications firm UNICOM ARC to conduct a telephone survey with a random sampling of residents who live within the Barrington 220 boundary area. Once the phone survey is completed, there will also be an online survey made available to all community members.
In addition, a Referendum Advisory Committee will meet three more times between Oct. 22 and Nov. 12, to review the master plan. In November the Board will review the results from the surveys and the feedback from the Referendum Advisory Committee, in order to help the Board narrow down which parts of the master plan a potential referendum question should focus on in the April 2019 general election.
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Parent University: "@Home in the Digital Age"
At its Oct. 16 meeting, the Board of Education heard several updates from the Barrington 220 Department of Innovation and Technology. First, the department introduced Ty Gorman as its new Director of Instructional Technology. Mr. Gorman began his career in Barrington 220 in 2001, previously serving as a teacher, department chair and associate principal at Barrington High School. Second, the department shared details about its upcoming Parent University "@Home in the Digital Age" scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 30 at 6pm at BMS-Prairie. Finally, the department continues to research the impact of the One-to-World program, which provides iPads for every student in grades K-8 and MacBook Air devices for every BHS student.
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BHS to debut new scoreboard this Friday night
At the Oct. 16 Board meeting, Dr. Brian Harris updated Board members about the scoreboards at Barrington Community Stadium. BHS will debut the new scoreboards on Friday, Oct. 19 for the last home game of the regular 2018 football season. The new main scoreboard has better audio capabilities and the video display is three times larger than the old scoreboard video display. It was made possible through sponsorships from Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital, Barrington Bank & Trust (Wintrust), Lake Cook Orthopedics, Long & Company Jewelers, Moretti's, Motor Werks of Barrington and Wickstrom Auto Group. All sponsors will be recognized during half time of this Friday's varsity football game, which begins at 7:30pm.
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