The UNICEF Club is the Andover High School branch of the global UNICEF Organization. They work to earn money for children in third world countries and to raise awareness of the hardships these kids deal with everyday. The money goes toward paying for mosquito nets and medicines to prevent malaria. It also goes toward funding child education.
This year’s campaign is “Believe in Zero” — reducing the number of children dying from preventable causes from 21,000 deaths a year to 0 deaths…period. The members of the UNICEF Club wear a “21,000″ pin around school to further raise awareness.
The UNICEF Club’s Halloween fund-raiser was a remarkable success thanks to the students’ donations. UNICEF Club members went from class to class each morning with the recognizable orange UNICEF boxes collecting donations. The most charitable classroom was room 312 with a total donation of more than $100.
The members also sold some baked goods after school and candy packages at lunch. Vice President Syona Shetty said that they had to get special permission from the school to sell the candy due to health regulations!
For the Holiday Season, Shetty tells the Warrior Weekly, “We’re planning raffles and we’re also getting sponsors from local businesses…. This year we’re having caroling for people who want to embarrass their friends!”
Lots to look forward to this month — don’t be surprised if you hear caroling in the hallways. Keep your eyes and ears open for these awesome events.
To learn more about the club or the organization, e-mail the presidents at ahsunicef@gmail.com, or come to UNICEF club on Mondays in room 311. All new members are welcome!
About every 5 or 6 years, Andover is selected to participate in an assessment that tests students’ skills in writing, reading, and math on a national level. This year, AHS will once again get a chance to contribute to what is known as “the nation’s report card.”
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is a test designed by the United States Department of Education. It is used to test students in different grade levels throughout the nation.
Guidance counselor Ms. de Kelley detailed the format of the test in an interview. She explained, “The test, scheduled to take 90 minutes, contains questions about either math or English, depending on which subject a student is assigned.” In Andover, there will be 180 randomly selected students taking the NAEP. Because the United States Department of Education is specifically looking at Andover’s college readiness skills, the students chosen in Andover will be mostly seniors.
Ms. de Kelley also summarized what she hopes the results will do for AHS: “If everything goes well, the results will indicate that our students are ready for college as well as confirm that we are equal to or above other states in regards to our skills.” Nationally, the results will be used to modify the country’s education plan in order to develop areas of study that need improvement and further build upon the skills where it already sees success.
Professor Ed Byrne, Sir Alan Langlands, Professor Andrew Coats and Professor Nigel Thrift at the launch.
The University of Warwick and Monash University have formally launched their alliance with a special event at Australia House in London on Wednesday 31 October 2012.
The evening saw speeches by Sir Alan Langlands, the Chief Executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, the leadership of both universities, and by students already working on joint programmes across the two universities, all of whom outlined ways the alliance is already transforming both institutions’ approach to research, teaching and learning.
The formal alliance establishes both Warwick and Monash University as globally-connected institutions, and builds on a number of years of strong and productive relationships between the two universities.
The partnership will help meet the increasing student, industry and government demand for universities to produce graduates with a global education, and undertake research that aims to address world-relevant and strategically important problems that have proved too big for any one institution to date.
Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Nigel Thrift and Monash University Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Ed Byrne both addressed the event, as well as the recently appointed Academic Vice-President and Director of the Monash-Warwick Alliance Professor Andrew Coats.
Students working on joint Warwick-Monash programmes such as the Reinvention Journal and the Green Steps programme also spoke about the steps they were taking to closer alignment.
Last month saw the launch of the first ever jointly-published issue of Reinvention, which aims to showcase the best undergraduate research from around the world.
Green Steps is a joint programme for students to develop environmental skills which will make them more attractive to future employers.
Following the event, Professor Ed Byrne and Peter Marshall, Monash Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice-President, visited campus to participate in the first Alliance Steering Committee with Sir George Cox, Pro-Chancellor and Chair of Council, and Dr Alan Finkel, Chair of Council at Monash, who joined by video link from Australia.
Warwick and Monash University have launched the first ever issue of a joint academic journal showcasing the best undergraduate research from around the world.
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