On
Monday, January 28, 2013, Seminole Ridge High School students in the SECME
engineering club and the National Honor Society chapter will host a special
blood drive to honor the victims of the school shooting at Sandy Hook
Elementary.
The
Hawks have yearly hosted a “GIVE BLOOD—IT’S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE” blood drive
that recognizes that giving blood is a small sacrifice with great rewards. Each
donation can help to save up to three lives. For every pint given, SECME celebrates by letting
the student launch a personalized pressurized water rocket launch. Working in
teams, SECME students constructed water rockets from two-liter soft drink
bottles and other materials, which are propelled by the “fuel” of a pint of water
and air compressed to 70 psi.
This year, to honor and reflect on the loss of the twenty
children and six educators in the community of Newtown, Connecticut who were
the victims of the senseless and horrific acts of violence at Sandy Hook
Elementary School on Friday, December 14, 2012, the NHS and SECME students will
release 26 water rockets into the sky, dedicated toward each individual killed
in the shooting.
January
28th is also significant as the day of remembrance for Sharon Christa
McAuliffe, the first teacher to fly in space. McAuliffe was selected from among
more than 11,000 applicants from the education profession for entrance into the
astronaut ranks. She was planning to conduct experiments and teach two lessons
from Space Shuttle Challenger. On January 28, 1986, her spacecraft
disintegrated 73 seconds after launch. Blood donations will be dedicated in
memory of her and her fellow crewmates.
Donations
are accepted at Seminole Ridge on January 28th from 7:30 AM to 2:30
PM. Seminole Ridge Community High School is located at 4601 Seminole Pratt
Whitney Road, Loxahatchee, FL 33470. For directions, click on http://tinyurl.com/SeminoleRidgeHigh to
Mapquest a route.
Please know that the kids have been instructed over and over not to donate during their core classes. We are making every effort to not affect instructional time missed. We have added to the sign up process that kids show us their schedule so that we can verify the appt. time is not during a core class.
ReplyDeleteThere are going to be students that have a heavy academic load and still wish to donate blood. The best solution to this dilemma is to have the student select the class that will be least affected and speak with the teacher about donating making sure missing class to donate is okay. This is ONLY if all four classes on the day of the drive are all academics and no electives to choose from.
2 more drives left this year! Thank you for supporting our efforts to help others in our local hospitals.
THANKS to SECME for their launching of rockets in MEMORY OF the Challenger crew and Sandy Hook students and adults!
We are doing many great things on this campus EVERY DAY! Enjoy your long holiday weekend!
Shawna Ahmad/Stacey Critchlow
Seminole Ridge CHS
National Honor Society Co- Advisers