From March 5th-8th, the Bay Shore High School Model United Nations team competed at the National High School Model United Nations Conference in New York City. This year’s conference hosted over 3,000 students from 25 different states and 29 countries. The Bay Shore squad, under the guidance of adviser and BSHS Social Studies teacher Heather Niedzwiecki, represented the country of Peru and
sought to create solutions for a myriad of global issues ranging from the rights of refugees to border security in Africa. Bay Shore’s team, one of the very few public schools in attendance at this prestigious conference, once again proved a force to be reckoned with. As a result of their dedication, preparation and superb public speaking skills, the Bay Shore team placed 3rd at this international conference! While there,
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our students were also afforded the incredible opportunity of visiting Peru’s permanent mission to the United Nations and meeting with several Peruvian diplomats. Our students were able to converse with these diplomats about global issues and solutions. Congratulations to the BSHS Model United Nations team, and their adviser, on this superb accomplishment.
Keep Islip Clean sign-up at Ross Park (Brentwood Road and First Avenue, south of Suffolk Avenue). The cleanup will extend from the park to include the Brentwood community. Supplies provided. Sponsored by Keep Islip Clean and North Shore-LIJ Southside Hospital. Call 631.224.2627 or e-mail keepislipclean@ optonline.net for more information. • Keep Islip Clean Recycled Art Contest Drop off art made from recycled materials to the Keep Islip Clean tent at the Town of Islip Earth Day Festival, Gillette Park, Sayville between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Winners will be drawn from Children, Young Adult and Adult Categories. Call 631.224.2627 or e-mail keepislipclean@ optonline.net for more information.
began this year in January and will continue through March, follow the program’s prior mentoring events for the school year, the Catch-a-Career Breakfast and Meet My Mentor Breakfast, both held in the fall. “This program is tremendous and takes many hours to put together and organize,” said Lopiccolo. “But it is the students and the mentors that make this program so amazing. It is truly a wonderful thing to see the students show up to Shadow Day and receive a hands-on experience while visualizing themselves participating eventually in that career. Mentor Me grows each year because students realize that the decision for college and work is a difficult one, and this program helps them clarify what they want to do after high school.” Businesses and organizations participating in the mentoring Shadow
Days this year include the Suffolk County Medical Examiner’s Office, Joseph Gabriel Architects, News 12 Long Island, North ShoreLIJ Southside Hospital in Bay Shore, Infiniti Sports Performance, Residence Inn Long Island/Islip Courthouse Complex, the U.S. Coast Guard, AHRC Suffolk, Motorola Solutions, Cleary School for the Deaf, Suffolk County Police Department, Simply Music, CM Performing Arts Center and the Town of Islip, along with attorney Jodi Capobianco and dentist Raymond A. Mascolo. “We hope that students understand how this program can really open up doors for them after high school,” added Lopiccolo. “Some of this year’s mentors have already offered students internships for summer and next year.” Photo by: East Islip School District
MUSIC LOVERS - Congratulations to three Bay Shore High School students on placing in the recent Town of Islip Music Lovers Scholarship Competition. Asia Stewart placed 2nd and won a $1,500 scholarship, Vincent Reyes placed 4th and won a $750 scholarship and James Vaughan won a $150 scholarship for Honorable Mention. This year, over 50 high school musicians from Islip and Babylon townships participated in the competition. Only four vocalists were chosen as scholarship finalists and all but one of them were from the Bay Shore High School Choir. In addition to receiving scholarships, the top four winners, including Asia and Vinny, will be performing at a benefit concert in April. Congratulations to these talented students.
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The following Keep Islip and the Islip Middle Clean events will take School KIC Club. place: Call 631.224.2627 or SATURDAY, APRIL 5th e-mail keepislipclean@ • East Islip Community optonline.net for more Cleanup, 11:30 a.m. information. Meet in the parking lot • 3rd Annual Islip North behind Mulberry Street Community Watch Pizza, Main Street, Group Cleanup, 9 a.m. East Islip. Volunteers to 12 noon. Cleanups will break into groups along Spur Drive South and receive cleanup and Commack Road. locations around Volunteer sign-up at East Islip. Supplies Commack Road Park provided. Sponsored at Commack Road by Keep Islip Clean and Spur Drive South. and North Shore-LIJ Supplies provided. Southside Hospital. Sponsored by the Islip • Keep Islip Clean 25th North Community Anniversary Brook Watch Group, Keep Street Wetlands Islip Clean and North Cleanup, Islip, 9:30 to Shore-LIJ Southside 11 a.m. Brook Street Hospital. from Boston Street to Call 631.224.2627 or Roman Street and the e-mail keepislipclean@ surrounding wetlands. optonline.net for more Volunteers sign-up information. at Brook Street (off SATURDAY, APRIL 26th of Commack Road • Keep Islip Clean 25th in Islip.) Supplies Anniversary Earth Day provided. Sponsored Every Day Cleanup, by Keep Islip Clean, Brentwood, 9:30 a.m. North Shore-LIJ to 1 p.m. Volunteer Southside Hospital
In the culminating activity of East Islip High School’s Mentor Me program, students “shadow” selected career mentors in various professions including teaching, architecture, radiology, law enforcement, marketing, international business, veterinary medicine, theater, broadcasting, journalism, physical therapy, law, nursing, human resources, set design, pathology, social work, psychology, funeral directing, marine biology, athletic training, dentistry, and hotel and restaurant management. Involving more than 90 East Islip students, Mentor Me is a comprehensive mentoring program coordinated by teachers Bridget Lopiccolo and Paul McHugh as part of the East Islip/Dowling School Business Partnership’s Career Development Committee. Shadow Days, which
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