Newsletter February 12 - February 17 2018

DEVELOPMENT OFFICE

February 12 – February 17, 2018

Newsletter American School of Tegucigalpa

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Content: Escuelas Apoyando Escuelas (HS)

7th Grade Pre-Algebra Board Game (MS)

6th Grade China Feast (MS)

MS Teachers Valentines(MS)

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3rd Grade INFRACNOVI Fund Raise (ES)

STUCO Presidents Day (MS & HS)

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07 Upcoming Events 08 Application for Enrollment 09

Operation Smile Brigade (HS) 06

Father and Daughter Dance

Alumni Corner 10

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DEVELOPMENT OFFICE| FEBRUARY 12 – FEBRUARY 17, 2018

Escuelas Apoyando Escuelas On the occasion of celebrating Valentine's Day, Friday, February 23, the AST club Escuelas Apoyando Escuelas (EAE), organized a Photo Booth activity for Pre School.

The EAE advisor, Ms. Merny Chirinos and the President José Manuel Canales thought it was a great opportunity for our Pre School students to take a nice picture while at the same time raise funds for EAE. These funds were used to purchase packages of school supplies, uniforms, as well as scholarships and school lunches to the schools EAE has been supporting for the last few years: Ramon Calix Figueroa, 3 de Octubre, Superación San Francisco, and others.

Great Job Escuelas Apoyando Escuelas!

6th Grade China Feast After several weeks of studying China as part of their Social Studies curriculum, our 6th grade teachers Mrs. Linda Vinelli, and Mrs. Claudia Casanova, concluded this topic with a Chinese feast for their students catered by our Dining Hall. The students enjoyed delicious Chinese rice, Chop Suey, Salad, and had Chinese Candies for dessert. #Yummy

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DEVELOPMENT OFFICE| FEBRUARY 12 – FEBRUARY 17, 2018

3rd Grade INFRACNOVI Fundraising 3rd grade students made a Valentine’s Day sale to raise funds for the Instituto Franciscano para la Capacitación del No Vidente (INFRACNOVI). 3rd graders sold Hershey’s Kisses Candygrams, balloons, among other goodies.

After this lovely activity they had a guest speaker from INFRACNOVI that came to AST to explain to our students what this foundation does and the importance it has for the visually impaired. Kudos to ALL 3rd GRADERS and our 3rd grade Moms that helped out to make this activity a reality!

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DEVELOPMENT OFFICE| FEBRUARY 12 – FEBRUARY 17, 2018

7th Grade Pre-Algebra Board Game Ms. Carolina Martinez 7th grade Pre-Algebra class present a Rational Number Operations Board Game Project. The objective of this activity was to reinforce and evaluate Rational Numbers Operations in a fun way!

Good job 7th grade!!

MS Teachers Valentines Reunion Our Middle School teachers had a Valentine’s Day reunion at the AST Dining Hall to celebrate their friendship on this emblematic day. The reunion had music, laughs, and delicious desserts catered by our Dining Hall Staff!

Thank you MS teachers for all your hard work!

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DEVELOPMENT OFFICE| FEBRUARY 12 – FEBRUARY 17, 2018

STUCO President’s Day STUCO organized President’s Day lunch last Friday. For this ceremony they had special guest Colonel Héctor Paz who holds the office of Defense Attaché of the United States Embassy and who is also the representative of the Embassy to the Board of Directors of AST. It was a delicious lunch with food from different US States. The ceremony ended with a fun Softball game between the teachers and senior students, where for the first time in this event’s history the teachers came out victorious. Thank you STUCO for organizing this delicious lunch!

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DEVELOPMENT OFFICE| FEBRUARY 12 – FEBRUARY 17, 2018

Operation Smile Brigade We have an Operation Smile brigade in our country making surgeries to Honduran kids. This brigade consists of 50 doctors from different nationalities that came to operate approximately 35 kids per day for over a week, with a total of 130 operations. This brigade is operating in Hospital San Felipe and finishes this Friday, February 23. Last Sunday, our Operation Smile Club hosted a lunch in Valle de Angeles for the doctors were they had delicious Pupusas, and Honduran food. Throughout the week AST’s OS club will be helping with the brigade and with the follow-up of the children who will go throough cleft-lip palate surgeries. Special thanks to Cecilia Zapata, Mrs. Justa Lobo (OS Advisor), and to all the Operation Smile Club for this great activity!

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DEVELOPMENT OFFICE| FEBRUARY 12 – FEBRUARY 17, 2018

Father & Daughter Dance Last Friday night we hosted PTO’s Father & Daughter Dance.

It was an incredible night full of music, dance, food and a lot of smiles. Our students had an amazing time with their fathers. This event was catered by our Dining Hall that made a delicious Cordon bleu dinner with an exquisite salad and bread. We want to thank PTO Mothers, Ruth Bendeck, Lucy Diaz del Valle, Pili Kafati, Lourdes Tabora, and Claudia Mahomar for this great event, as well to Erika Simon, Dj Vic Bueso, and our Maintenance staff for making this event so memorable. ‘‘No one in this world can love a girl more than her father’’ -Michael Ratnadeepak-

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DEVELOPMENT OFFICE| FEBRUARY 12 – FEBRUARY 17, 2018

Upcoming Events q

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DEVELOPMENT OFFICE| FEBRUARY 12 – FEBRUARY 17, 2018

Application for Enrollment

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Alumni Corner ALUMNI Basketball Tournament We had our ALUMNI Basketball Tournament from February 5th to February 15th. It was a great Tournament where 4 teams participated, Los Amargos, Los Rojos, The Black Album, and The Money Team. The final was between Los Rojos vs The Black Album in which The Black Album crowned champions! The event brought the best out of the alumni who participated and would like to extend an invitation to all alumni who would like to participate in our sporting events to contact the Alumni office.

A huge thank you to Manuel Garcia and Coach Carlos Santos for helping throughout all this event.

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