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ONLY A FEW HOURS LEFT UNTIL PRICES GO UP FOR SENIOR EVENTS!!

The deadline is TONIGHT AT MIDNIGHT.

All event prices increase on January 26, 2012.

Items may be purchased at the PTSO webstore or to
pay by check please fill out the Senior Payment Form
and drop it off with your payment at New Tech High School.

For financial assistance, please talk with our director, Deana Harrell.

If you missed the Senior Parent Information Meeting on 10/24, Click here to see all the information presented that evening.

For any questions on the Senior Events, please contact Kelly Durso or call her at 972 462 0903.

GET YOUR TEAM TOGETHER AND GET YOUR GAME ON NEW TECH-ERS!!!

NewTech PTSO and the Senior Class of 2012 are sponsoring
a Dodgeball Tournament on February 18, 2012.

Proceeds will support school programs and events like Project Graduation and technology purchases.

We need financial sponsors, as well as team registrations.

• Sponsors: Clickhere to learn more about the event. Then complete the Dodge-ball-form if you, your business, or someone you know is interested. Sponsors will be identifed on the tournament t-shirt, website and at the tournament. For more information you can contact Jacqueline Eslick.

Thanks so much to those who’ve already sponsored:

• Class of 2014
• Tangerine Salons
• The Haddock Family
• BE Technologies, LTD
• FMG Audits in Valley Ranch
• Allstate Insurance – Larry Bender
• The YMCA Coppell
• Dr. Stich DDS MSD
• Right Choice Painting and Construction
• Frost Bank
• Coppell Dermatology Center
• Biggby Coffee

If you have not already put a team together…Get on the Ball!!

• Participant Registration: Teams of 6 players (grades 4-12, co-ed) complete the dodgeball-registration-form. Registration is $16/player and includes a tournament t-shirt. All are welcome!

Anyone enrolled in an institute of higher learning, Northlake for example, is now required to have the Meningococcal Vaccine as of January 1, 2012. Seniors, entering college in fall 2012 will need this.

If you are uncertain of your status, contact your physician and inquire about your vaccination status.

Please feel free to contact the School Nurse, Cindy Hargrove, in the clinic at 214-496-5914.

The 2012 NTH@C Junior/Senior Prom will be held at the unique NYLO Hotel in Las Colinas.

Dinner, Dancing and Fun!

• Saturday, April 28, 2012

*Order your Tickets on the PTSO webstore!

Includes a 3-course dinner, beverages and dance with a DJ.

For any Prom questions, please contact
Kelly Durso or call her at 972 462 0903.

Visit NyloHotels to view the location

The last day to buy a yearbook for the year is on Friday, January 27th!
Please turn in the Yearbookorderform along with a $65 check or purchase online at Jostens.

New Tech Robotics team places Tenth in a local competition!!
Ayesha Patel, Kayla Cooper, Faraz Soofi and Shreyas Salvi
competed in the TCEA Area 10/11 Robotics Competition in Allen.

Their robot, L.A.R.S., placed 10th out of 21 teams that competed. It was their first year to compete.

The robot had to remove spent fuel rods, represented by black checkers, out of a nuclear reactor and replace them with active fuel rods, represented by red checkers.

The Lakeside PTO Carnival will be held on Saturday, February 4th 2012.

Student volunteers are needed to help to set up the night before, assist with the games, work at various booths, clean up and other miscellaneous duties.

Each shift will run approximately 2 hours. You will receive service hours for your participation and can also get a discounted ticket to the carnival for $5.

To sign up, click here

Select the preferred shift, click “I’ll be there,” enter contact information and click “I’ll do it.”

Make sure to log your hours in X2VOL.

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Valley Ranch Elementary’s Valentine’s Carnival — February 10th, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Volunteers are needed to help with this fun event.
The volunteers will work a game/activity booth or in the food serving booth.

Shifts set up from 6:15 to 7:30; and from 7:30 to 8:45 (to allow for clean up).

Contact Greg Carrie if you are interested in helping out!

Sign up in x2VOL!
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CGA is hosting a symposium for parents
at Coppell Middle School East next month. As part of
this event, we are also offering student enrichment for students in grades K-5. We have excellent teachers who will be organizing and coordinating these classes, and we are also looking for engaging high school students who would like to assist the teachers and elementary students.

This will be a great opportunity for the high school students to interact and work with excellent CISD teachers as well as earn volunteer service hours.

There are 2 shifts on February 4th and we need 12 volunteers per shift.

• 1st Shift- 8:00am to 11:30am
• 2nd Shift- 11:30-3:00pm

Volunteers can also work both shifts and receive Jason’s Deli lunch during the break.

Sign up on X2Vol.

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Saturdays at the Community Garden
Just show up from 8:30 to 10:30Am at the Ground Delivery Garden by the Coppell Post Office on Denton Tap or Helping Hands Garden by Town Center on Parkway.

Sign-up available in x2VOL.
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Spring Exams start Wednesday Afternoon.

There will be early release on Thursday and Friday @ 1:00PM.

New Tech’s exam schedule can be found @ NTCexamschedule.

• All CHS coaches have been notified of the NTH schedule. If coaches have asked your learner to attend the CHS exam it is your child’s responsibility to reschedule their New Tech exam before Wednesday.

• This is the examshuttlescheduleJan18 for Wednesday.
• Thursday and Friday’s can be found at examshuttlescheduleJan19-20. All schedules can also be located on the NT@C website.

• If your Junior/Senior attends North Lake Dual Credit during an exam time then your learners make up exam will be at 1:00 at New Tech in the teacher workroom. Please have your learner communicate with all NTH facilitators of any conflicts.

• Lunches will be available in the cafeteria on both early release days.

Please remind learners to take some time while classes are out Monday, January 15th, to prepare for exams!!

Our school is once again nationally recognized for its outstanding work!

As stated by Superintendent Turner in his newsletter this week:

• I am excited to announce that New Tech High @ Coppell was recently named an Apple Distinguished School for the second year in a row. Only 56 schools in the nation received this prestigious designation. Kudos to Deana Harrell and her team for achieving this tremendous honor!

Keep up the great work New Tech! We are proud of you!!

NTH@C students who attend CHS during lunch will soon be required to present a photo Id, in the cafeteria, to purchase lunch and snacks. This will take effect in the next two weeks.

If you do not have the picture I-d that was given to you after school pictures this fall, you can obtain a new one by appointment only at the Bus Office.

The location is Coppell ISD Service Center, 1303 Wrangler Circle, located behind Coppell Middle School West. If you have any questions please call 214.496.8082

My School is Cool-New Tech needs to stay at #1 = $2500 for New Tech@Coppell!

Sunday, January 15th is the last day to accept receipts for the 1st part
of the 2011-2012 My School is Cool program.

Please turn in all your receipts into the My School’s
Cool box at New Tech by this Friday or the New Tech
locker at Vista Ridge Mall display by Sunday.

Thank you!

Jacqueline Eslick

JUNIOR PARENTS PLEASE MARK YOUR CALENDARS

• Junior PSAT results Parent Meeting
• Tuesday, January 10, 2012
• 6:00pm/New Tech High

• Prom information and tickets also available that evening!

Let’s stay at #1 by turning in all your August, September, October, November and December Vista Ridge Mall Receipts.

It’s so easy! Just drop all movie, food court and retail receipts into the New Tech locker display located next to Oasis Café on the lower level or the My School’s Cool box at New Tech.

Be sure to include those big purchases like Sear’s appliances or Auto Repair!! Wednesday’s are double points day!

If you need to retain your receipt, please request a points pass from the Mall Office.
Invite your neighbors, friends and colleagues to participate with us in the “My School is Cool Program”.

More points = More $$$$$$

For any questions please contact
Jacque Eslick.

Still looking for that great holiday gift idea for your senior?

“EARLY BIRD” discount pricing for senior events is still available!!!

The deadline is WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25th.

All event prices increase on January 26, 2012.

Items may be purchased at the PTSO PTSO webstore or to
pay by check please fill out the Senior Payment Form
and drop it off with your payment at New Tech High School.

For financial assistance, please talk with our director, Deana Harrell.

If you missed the Senior Parent Information Meeting on 10/24, Click here to see all the information presented that evening.

For any questions on the Senior Events, please contact Kelly Durso or call her at 972 462 0903.

Last Week’s Hotsync reminded all entering College Students to have a Bacterial Meningitis shot before attending…

To clarify the vaccine requirement does apply to high school students in dual credit, as well.

If one is enrolled and attending classes at an institution of higher learning, Northlake for example, they must have the vaccination.

It must be done 10 days or more prior to the first day of class.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact the NT clinic at 214-496-5914.

We would like to invite the Class of 2011 to join us for an Alumni event on Friday, January 6th at 1:00 at NTH@C.

There will be a reunion hour and snacks with facilitators from 1:00-2:00PM. We will have the Class of 2012 join us at 2pm to have Alumni lead discussions about life after New Tech.

We want Alumni to share their college experience, so far, with our Seniors. The Alumni will also be asked to visit
Rookie Classes to talk about their New Tech experience.

There will be more time to visit after that!! We hope to continue the relationships we have built with our NTH@C learners, so please help us by sharing this information to NTH class of 2011 graduates.

SENIORS!!!

Don’t forget to take pictures with your Flat Stanley over the Holiday Break.

If you need a new one contact Sloane Ansell.

The 2012 NTH@C Junior/Senior Prom will be held at the unique NYLO Hotel in Las Colinas.

Dinner, Dancing and Fun!

• Saturday, April 28, 2012

Order your Tickets during the Early Bird Special!*

• $115 per ticket by 1/25/12
• $135 after 1/25/12

Includes a 3-course dinner, beverages and dance with a DJ.

You may purchase them on the PTSO webstore OR watch for dates in January when they will be on sale during lunch.

What a great holiday gift idea, too!

For any Prom questions, please contact
Kelly Durso or call her at 972 462 0903.

Visit NyloHotels to view the location.

• JUNIOR PARENTS PLEASE MARK YOUR CALENDARS…

• Junior PSAT results Parent Meeting
• Tuesday, January 10, 2012
• 6:00pm/New Tech High

Every student in Coppell
deserves the chance to reach their full potential.

The Coppell Education Foundation is proud to be the leading nonprofit organization in Coppell that is helping to bridge the educational funding gaps that our schools are challenged by each and every day. We do this meaningful work by generating and distributing resources in the form of grants that are innovative, motivational and educational.

Now more than ever, the Coppell Education Foundation needs YOUR participation in our annual RED and Black campaign. Together the Foundation and the community must work together to ensure our Coppell schools remain excellent. Your support of the Coppell Education Foundation will help create the momentum necessary to reach out and successfully capture increased corporate funding.

Please help as you are able, but please give something.
The amount is not as important as YOUR participation! Remember Year End Giving! Hurry campaign ends 12/31/2011

For online donations please visit our REDANDBLACK webstore!

The Spanish II learners will be traveling to La Gran Plaza de Fort Worth, a Hispanic mall, on Thursday, December 15 to give them the opportunity to use the language in a real world setting. We will be riding buses and leaving New Tech at 9:15 am and returning at 2:30 pm. The learners will be participating in a “mall scavenger hunt” and eating lunch in the food court. They will also be purchasing treats that we will then package and donate to the CCA food drive.

The learners will be divided into groups of 8-10 for this outing and they will be evaluated throughout the day so we are looking for 15 adults to chaperone. Adults are welcome to ride the buses with the learners or meet us at the mall.

Please click your name in the blue box below if you are able to assist. You do not need to be able to speak Spanish to volunteer!

We have a Spanish 2 field trip coming up on Thursday, December 15 to the La Gran Plaza in Fort Worth.

We are looking for 10-12 parent volunteers to help chaperone this field trip. They do not have to be Spanish speaking, but if they are it’s helpful.

We will leave NTH@C at 9:30 and return by 2:30. Learners will be in groups of 8-10 with a chaperone in each group.
There will also be an upper level Spanish learner in each group to help translate. Parents can drive their own car or ride on the bus. We will be eating at the mall as well.

Please click your name in the blue box below if you are able to assist.

Thanks in advance!

Alexandra’s Helping Hands Foundation has been registered with GoodSearch.com , a company helping non-profits like AHHFI raise funds through the everyday actions of their supporters.

Here is how you can help:

• Use GoodSearch when you search the internet – they will donate a penny to AHHFI every time you do!
• Use GoodShop.com when you shop online – they work with more than 2,500 major brands, have over 100,000 coupons and donate a percentage of every purchase you make to AHHFI.
• Enroll in the GoodDining.com they will donate up to 6% of every dollar you spend when you eat at one of 10,000 participating restaurants.

Join the AHHFI community on GoodSearch and help AHHFI raise money for their mission by clicking the “Become a Supporter” button on the AHHFI profile page here!

Please visit the website Alexandras Helping Hands today and become one of Alexandra’s Helping Hands.

Make a difference in the life of a family.

NTH@C PTSO has learned that a few of our rookie learners have submitted an idea to the Pepsi Refresh Project.

It’s a national contest put on every year by Pepsi, Co. where they give grants to people who have ideas to ‘refresh’ their community. They give away grants every month based on public voting.

Our rookies are in the running to win $25,000 for our community.

Their idea is to donate the money to Valley Ranch Baptist Church for their Christmas Store, allowing more children in Dallas county to celebrate Christmas. Voting runs through December 30th

Please clickhere to vote! Be sure to vote daily by going to www.refresheverything.com/missionchristmas!! Voting runs through December 30th

Way to go Christine Carroll, Rene Gonzales, Layth Layth, and Elizabeth Shih!

As of Jan. 1, 2012, incoming Texas college students under 30 years old must be immunized against bacterial meningitis before they enroll in an institution of higher education.

It must be done 10 days prior to the first day of classes in order to be allowed to attend classes. If you do not follow the guidelines, you will not be allowed to attend.

This applies to all college applicants, not just those planning on living in campus housing, as in the past.

Please check with your physician if you are uncertain of your immunization status. If you have had the meningitis vaccination within the past 5 years, you are considered updated and can attend classes without any problems, but you must supply proof of vaccination. The schools of higher learning will only accept written documentation of the vaccination. Please understand, it is your responsibility to ensure that you are eligible for enrollment. Check with your physician

Now Playing!!

New Tech family come watch Elf or Home Alone in the Gym and Media Center.

Tuesday, December 13th 6:30PM

Hot chocolate, s’mores and pizza will be on sale to benefit Alexandra’s Helping Hands.

We would love for everyone to join us to hang out as a New Tech family! It’s going to be a lot of fun and a great way to get everyone in the Holiday Spirit!

The Coppell Police Department is sponsoring a Self Defense Class for all CISD Senior Girls beginning in 2012!

Classes start Wednesday, January 18th and will run every Wednesday night, 6Pm to 8pm until February 22nd. The six week course is free and will meet in the Coppell Middle School East Gym.

Only Senior girls are allowed to participate.

To reserve your spot, email RHarr or call 972-304-3625.

Get in the Holiday Spirit by giving of your time!
Notice new date:
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2011 — Holiday House

Omni Mandalay Bay Hotel will be putting on Holiday House for their employees and their children.

Volunteers are needed for face painting, cookie decorating, hot cocoa and a story, visit with Santa, and more.

NOTICE: SHIFT TIME CHANGES HAVE CHANGED!! Available shifts: 3:30-7PM

Sign up at X2vol.
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VOLUNTEER with Metrocare at The Big Texas Toy Run
Sunday, December 18, 2011

The TOY RUN is one of the most fun events Metrocare Services does all year. It takes a LOT of volunteers to make it happen. Toys donated at the TOY RUN (a huge motorcycle ride with info at www.thebigtexastoyrun.com) are brought to Metrocare’s administrative office (a.k.a. River Bend) where they are sorted and Wish Lists for hundreds of low-income, special needs kids are filled.

Help unload the trucks, sort the toys, and fill Wish Lists!

Located at 1380 River Bend Drive, Dallas, TX 75247
ONLY ONE SHIFT REMAINS OPEN, 7:00 to 10:00 p.m.

SIGN UP TODAY at metrocare services

Contact Abel Hernandez at 214-743-1216 or email Abel

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The Coppell Farmers Market is looking for help in placing and removing bandit signs each weekend when there is a market.
Interested volunteers should contact: Brian White at 214.770.3890

Sign up details in X2vol.

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Volunteer Opportunities!

Saturdays at the Community Garden

Just show up from 8:30 to 10:30Am at the Ground Delivery Garden by the Coppell Post Office on Denton Tap or Helping Hands Garden by Town Center on Parkway.
Sign-up available in x2VOL.
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