The 18th Annual Doherty Food Drive

Doherty just finished it's 18th food drive for Jeremiah's Inn. This food drive is run and organized by Mr. Garcia, the freshman history teacher of the ETA. The food drive annually makes posters to advertise and boxes to hold the donations in. For four weeks, the students bring in non-perishable items like canned food, boxed goods, hygienic products, and similar products to donate. 
The students and teachers raised 6,295 items this year! On Feb. 15th, the food drive took a field trip to Jeremiah's Inn, and unloaded all of the donations. 
A huge thank you to the Doherty community, the students in the food drive, and anyone who donated. Another huge thank you to our chaperones, the retired Health teacher Mr. Garcia, the guidance counselor Mr. Halfmann, and the organizer of the food drive Mr. Garcia.

Pre-College Programs at WPI

To any juniors and seniors who are interested, WPI is offering pre-college STEM programs. Some of the programs offered are in Biology, Physics, Robotics, Engineering Technology, Chemistry/Biochemistry, and more!
If you are interested, click here.

Recommended Apps

Mr. Simmarano compiled a list of apps that will be useful for the ETA freshmen. These sites many also be useful if you're not a freshman, so check them out!

• Office 365: This Microsoft program is given to all Worcester Public Schools students. It will allow students to use Word, Excel, and other programs like it. (Some apps offered will be explained in detail below.) 
• Outlook: This is the student's school email. They can contact teachers and guidance officers through this email. A student can sign in using their student id number  at the Worcester Public Schools email domain (i.e.: student.######@worc.k12.ma.us), and if they've never signed in before, their birthday will be the password. For example: if you're birthday is January 2nd 2003, "01022003" would be your password. 
• One Drive: This is a 365 program, and is basically a digital cloud. Files can be created, shared, and edited on this software. 
• One Note: One Note is another 365 app. This program allows a student to take notes on a smartphone, tablet, or computer. You can also share and receive notes from other students. 
• Remind: Remind is an app available in the iTunes Store or on Apple Play. The app literally reminds and updates you about things happening within your classes. It also can be used to communicate with your teachers and to farm study groups amongst students. See the website for students here.
• Quizlet: Quizlet is a website that allows you to use take online quizzes to prepare for the in school ones. The quizzes are created by teachers and students and are in subjects from math to history to biology. There are even quizzes for AP classes on this site. If you type in a subject, you will find the perfect quiz to study with. The website can be found here. 
• Khan Academy: Khan Academy is an online program that helps student when they are struggling with a subject. The site offers help is dozens of courses, from World History to Differential Equations. The site gives the students practice in a subject, or area, and extra assistance if it is needed for a student to comprehend the material. It is also a valuable resource for PSAT and SAT prep. The website can be found here. 
• Complete Biology: This is an app that Mr. Simmarano found for his class specifically. Complete Biology is an android app that allows users to read through biology notes and diagrams as they are quizzed on it. This is an excellent resource while studying for a biology test. Look at the app here. 

T-Shirt Contest Winners

The two winners of the ETA t-shirt contest are Sophia Puch and Adish Khatiwada. Congrats to every one who entered and thanks for participating! 

Welcome, Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito!

The Engineering and Technology Academy was honored today to host the Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, Karyn Polito.  Lieutenant Governor Polito was welcomed by Principal Sally Maloney, Head of the ETA John Staley, before being given a tour of the ETA's two workshops, as well as two classrooms. Guests were invited to see the freshmen students at work, the robotics team, and the sophomore students working on programming and building robots. Then, in the library, a series of speeches were given about the importance of STEM programs for K-12 students. These speeches were given by Karen Polito, Dr. Rex Bolinger (Senior Vice President of PLTW), Katherine Skrivan (Mass STEM Hub), and Bruce Bursten (WPI). 

Lt. Governor Polito speaks to the robotics club

Lt. Governor Polito 

Katherine Skrivan

Dr. Rex Bolinger

Bruce Bursten

The ETA would again like to thank our many guests and we hope you enjoyed the visit as much as we did!

T-Shirt Contest CLOSED

Thank you to everyone who submitted a design! The results will be announced in a few weeks.

Update!

The T-Shirt contest is being extended by another week for sophomores and seniors! Submissions are due on Tuesday, February 7th, 2017. Please submit more designs! Continue to creatively think of designs!

ETA T-Shirt Contest

The ETA will be holding a t-shirt design contest! The most inventive and creative design will be on the ETA's new t-shirts and sweatshirts, which will be for sale sometime in 2017. 

The Rules for Designing:

• All school dress code rules must be obeyed in creating your design
• Do not use a copyrighted image
• All logos must have a white background behind them, for dark print shirts
• Design can have up to three colors
• Design can be a t-shirt, a long sleeved shirt, or a sweatshirt
• Design can be on the front, back, sleeve, hood, or pocket of a shirt/sweatshirt
• The Project Lead The Way logo can to be on the t-shirt design somewhere (is provided below). This logo is navy blue and white. 
• Use a t-shirt designing site (i.e.: CustomInk or UberPrints) to create your design (DO NOT PURCHASE YOUR IDEA)
• You can create multiple designs! All will be considered separately
• Be as creative as possible! Think outside the box with your design

The Rules for Submitting Your Design:

• Send it to this site, through etadmhs@gmail.com
• Send a picture of your design, and all of its parts
• Send it from your student email 
• In the "Subject" line write: "Your Name, Grade, Homeroom Teacher, Design #"
• Ex: "Aaron Aaronson, Freshman, Ms. Cochran, Design 1" or "Bob Blair, Junior, Mr. Hankey, Design 25"
• The inbox closes on Tuesday, February 7th, 2017, at 11:59 pm
• Designs submitted after this time will not be accepted
• The person with the best design in each grade will receive a free t-shirt
• The person whose design is chosen will also receive a free sweatshirt

Good luck to all students!

Project Lead the Way Logo:

Congratulations!

     This is the end of the site's first year, and it has been a fantastic experience. Freshmen have learned the basics of engineering, sophomores have finished their MCAS tests, and juniors have started looking at colleges. But praise must be given to the Engineering and Technology Academy's graduating seniors. 
     The seniors have lasted for four years in the ETA, surviving the challenging tests and high standards of teachers yearning to bring out the best in them, and this site would like to honor them.

The ETA's Graduating Class of 2016
Andres Acosta Acevedo
Linda Adarkwah
Jared Aubin
Miles  Bickford
Cooper Blanchard
Dorotea Bruzho
John Campoverde
Lily Carmody
Mousa Chamoun
Marisa Cika
Devlin Courtney
Tyler  Delorge
Nicolas Demauro
Vasiliqi Doko
Kathryn Evasius
Che Gardner
Chaim Gaval
Steven Gjino
Xhino Gjokollari
Andonaq Grozdani
Thuan Ha
Joseph Harrity
Alaa Hassan
Theofilos Hatzopoulos
Patrick Hopkins
Victoria Ishola
Cameron Kasper
Angelo Kristo
Jackie Lam
Caitlin Lamonda
Madeleine Lang
Andi Leka
Tiana Lopez
Nareg Manoukian
Emma Marx
Isabelle McCarthy
Megan McGrath
Alex Micheni
Ada Monteiro
David Moreau
Tuan Nguyen
Esmeralda Noguera
Justin Pearce
Katerina Pela
Kacie Perkins
Priscilla Pham
Vivian Pham
Yousef Plant
David Pratt
Victor Sanchez
Jared Silkman
Enida Sulaj
Dalena Truong
Tavian Vassar
Samuel Vengerik
Dmone Walker
Crystal Zaimi
Mario Zguro
Dhionis Zhidro

     Congratulations on four amazing years, and good luck where ever you go!