Greetings CLF Families, It's that time again. Our annual Black History Essay Contest has begun. Please see the attached flyer for details and submit your completed essay, no later than February 21, 2022 to Dr. Gaskins. rgaskins@cmitacademy.org

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Dr. Rosalynn Gaskins rgaskins@cmitacademy.org

Greetings CMIT family, CMIT staff members are excited about the upcoming activities and programs to celebrate Black History Month. We are inviting parents and scholars to participate! If you have a presentation, poem, or topic that you would like to share for Black History Month please let me know! We want to celebrate various topics to celebrate the past and present contributions of African American figures! In addition, we are planning to invite guests to discuss topics that impact the African American community. Interested topics: Poetry, Music, Mental Health & Fitness, Art, HBCUs, Divine Nine organizations, Natural Hair, Fashion, and so much more! If you or someone you know is interested in participating in our Black History Month activities please email Dr. Gaskins. Thanks so much!

Dr. Rosalynn Gaskins rgaskins@cmitacademy.org

LAST YEAR'S Yearbook has finally arrived. Emails will be sent to those who purchased yearbooks with details on when to pick them up. If you did not purchase a yearbook last year, we do have extras. They are $55 and can be purchased from Ms. O'Donnell. Again, I am grateful for everyone's patience. Be on the lookout for an email this week.

Tammy O'Donnell

I have been in touch with the photographer and unfortunately, the casual picture date will have to moved to May. There simply aren't enough photographers to schedule a date sooner. The MAKE UP day for senior pictures will be THURSDAY FEBRUARY 10TH FROM 9-12. First priority will be given to those students who DID NOT have a picture taken AT ALL in December. If there are still spots available, it will open up to retakes. An email will be sent to students by Monday. If the student wishes to be scheduled they should complete them form by midnight. I have been getting questions on which picture will be in the yearbook for seniors. It will be the drape/tux picture. Students/parents will be able to choose which one. If you have any other questions, please let me know. Thank you all again for your patience!

Tammy O'Donnell

Thank you again for students judging our virtual STEM fair on Saturday, February 05, 2022. The CMIT STEM Committee appreciates your participation in making this possible as well as providing constructive feedback for students' development. On Monday, February 8, 2021, all comments submitted to the STEM Fair organizing committee will be used for the Questions and Answers. In this stage, we will choose six outstanding projects who will be evaluated by the district's STEM coordinators. We highly expect all six will be accepted to compete in the district and inter-district annual fair. Here are the top first 9 students who will advance for the stringent Q&A portion with their 3 minutes video. Allen GASKINS, Robotics & Intelligent Machine https://drive.google.com/open?id=1kkJBE9c2Y69eJAU66Nrd_h88qq7zz6p7 Phoebe BROWN, Biomedical & Health/Environmental Science https://drive.google.com/open?id=1eQfoei4i0J4Px7AZUBED7U9ev9TMFL-x Leah BROOKS, Energy: Sustainable https://drive.google.com/open?id=1cWJDgJSI_r5IWogUQQQWLqTVn6ML9xuf Leonard BOURNE, Engineering Mechanics https://drive.google.com/open?id=1aBeQ8cd9wK2VHyjCvWxl1UxPf4gzyX2f Leila OGBA, Materials & Design https://drive.google.com/open?id=1D6kt2h9e_ABpumQXXZvD7XEnOBu3RiMm Jasmyne WILSON, BioChemistry https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Vj0NSgzFOizbb-cDZvTwSu8S_CffIzgr Diya MISTRY https://drive.google.com/open?id=1t2Du2NQbDfSO4qQWoK1mmGr_qHLyR1wN Kaleb Castleman https://drive.google.com/open?id=12Emlssr77aNbWICBKIDP8wmt85shMxXu Oludijo Agbayanaka, Plant Science https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ohpbKhApJBoI0FwW7ewoTgpkJYWPRr8p The CMIT STEM Committee highly recognized the great suggestions from the teacher judges for improvement for next year's fair! Thanks for being awesome!

Dr. Clarke Science Teacher Tutoring & Academic Services Saturday Academy, Liaison STEM Fair Coordinator Green School, Advisor

Overwhelming teamwork and perseverance have been demonstrated by the Forensic Mock Trial Team that fought over different districts for the past four weeks. The team has ups and down moments, by winning and losing some points. But what makes this team most promising is that the Judges of the district the team competes with each week never failed to recognize our student's ability to public speaking, critical thinking, and part of forming a persuasive, cohesive argument. The team stayed and fought till almost 9:00 p.m. each week to give our school prestige. You might think you already know how to give a good speech or that you're pretty good at debating with your friends, but Mock Trial is on a whole other level. Assume you're delivering a direct examination and the other team's attorney raises an argument you've never considered. You must deconstruct the argument, apply federal rules of evidence to it, come up with two counter-arguments, and then condense everything into a three-sentence answer. You only have roughly 10 seconds to complete the task. When you see these students, please address your congratulations to them as they work around the clock to bring prominence to CMIT. Emnete Theodros and Lea Brooks, Grade 10 (Counsel/Lawyer 1) Gabriell Hernandez-Grade 10 & Naysa Wayne Grade 11(Co-Counsel/Lawyer 2) Rachel Salazar-Aparicio, Grade 10 (Witness 1). Genesis Edwards-Grade 10 (Witness 2) Carlos Lopez-Ramirez, Grade 10, Nketchi Ekekwe, Jaylene Bright as Student Coaches, VeaFrancine Corder, Grade 9, Bailiff Phoebe Brown-Defendant/Plaintiff Kelly Shawm-Grade 11, Reliever Lawyer Huda Chaudry-Grade 9, Nahome Nonila, Grade 9 Reliever Lawyer. As their coach, I can never be prouder.

Dr. Clarke Science Teacher Tutoring & Academic Services Saturday Academy, Liaison STEM Fair Coordinator Green School, Advisor

Hello there, we are the CMIT Green School (GS). GS is much more than just curriculum, programming, and physical structures. It has 78 active members and works together as a team. It is a school that is committed to global sustainability in every way. A green school starts with the future in mind, creating a learning environment for students that will educate them to lead the world toward a healthier, cleaner, more sustainable future. Last Thursday, despite the early dismissal, lead members of the team stayed and presented their achievements and current project to our principal, Ms. Gonul Ozturk. We began our journey in the middle of the school year 2018-2019 and were able to receive our awards plaque and certificate of recognition as a Certified Green School at the end of the year from the Maryland Association for Environmental & Outdoor Education (MAEOE), the institution approved by the Prince George's Department of Education and supporting Maryland State Department of Education graduation requirements and standards. Our goals and aspirations are (1)Enhance environmental education to achieve systemic sustainability. (2) School-Wide awareness through students' and staff professional development. (3) Accelerate Environmental Behavior Change (4) Create and Celebrate Partnerships Using Student-Led Sustainable Practices (5) create scholarship application portals to help our members get college scholarships. At the moment, we have projects lined up, such as  (1) We are preparing to renew our Green School certification for the school year 2022–203. (2) Working to receive Bronze, Silver, and Green Flags from the Eco-Schools-USA, the most prestigious of the Green Flag Awards, is the third of three award levels in the Eco-Schools USA program. To be eligible for the Green Flag Award, a school must follow the Seven Step Framework. (3) working with the robotics team to create an aquaponics garden and a solar power clock garden Aquaponics delivers a consistent supply of organic, pesticide-free herbs and vegetables since the procedures are completely natural. As a result, staff and students will have easy access to nutritious and organic vegetables. At the same time, the solar clock is part of our school's beautification and reinforces for students the relationship between the Sun's motion and our concept of time. (4) partnering on The Climate Change Action Plan. It is a group full of decision-makers, and experts, that ensure CMIT along with PGCPS meets its Climate targets. Lastly, this year, Green began joining Envirothron. The Envirothon is a yearly competition where teams compete for recognition and scholarships by proving their understanding of environmental science and natural resource management.

Dr. Clarke Science Teacher Tutoring & Academic Services Saturday Academy, Liaison STEM Fair Coordinator Green School, Advisor

John Hopkins University, School of Medicine, and Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Informatics, Dr. Christopher Chute, will be visiting CMIT Saturday Academy from 9:00 am to 12:00 noon on February 12, 2022, to provide our students with hands-on knowledge on the importance of health informatics. Because of the overwhelming number that wanted to register and attend the Physical conference, the Saturday Academy decided to have a zoom account to accommodate all those parents and students to join us Virtually. The Saturday Academy team apologizes that we can only accept 50 participants in the cafeteria room due to the COVid restrictions. If you want to attend the conference virtually, please register by your email and use the same email to join us in zoom with the following link. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc2aZUqTy9dQP6TRc_YdKQxJA4bcEovMJk48ytrBoS25gSt8g/viewform?usp=pp_url If you want to pave your path in a field that combines healthcare and technology, health informatics is an ideal choice. Not only do health informatics occupations enable you to use your technical abilities to better the lives of others, but they also provide competitive income and job stability due to the industry's growing demand for competent personnel. Dr. Chute will help students explore the potential and significance of health informatics in representing COVID-19 medical data to forecast trends at the population level and discover predictors, treatments, and mitigations. I am also pleased to inform you that Dr. Chute runs on several large national class grants funded by the National Institute of Health in the United States. * All Physical attendees are required to have their publicity release form (No longer collecting responses). * All Virtual attendees must register with the email they will use to attend the conference via the registration form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc2aZUqTy9dQP6TRc_YdKQxJA4bcEovMJk48ytrBoS25gSt8g/viewform?usp=pp_url * For further information, email gclarke@cmit academy or ggraham@cmitacademy.org.

Dr. Clarke Professor & Secondary Science Teacher Tutoring & Academic Services Coordinator CMIT's Liaison with Saturday Academy STEM Fair Coordinator Green School Advisor

The Green school would like to repost and invite all students to join the WSSC One Water, Regional Art Contest Help WSSC Water highlight the importance of protecting our source water by submitting artwork focused on one or all of the watershed water drop following themes: The connection between human actions on land impacting water quality A community’s connection to local waterways – in terms of drinking water sources as well as places for recreation and enjoyment The role of water utilities is to protect our sources of water through environmental stewardship and responsible wastewater treatment Contest details Art will be judged in two categories: art fish water drop Painting and Drawing To include anything done in the following media - pastels, watercolor, acrylic, oil paints, colored pencils, crayons, gouache, spray paint or other non-digital media where pigment is applied to a physical surface such as canvas or paper Photography and Digital Art To include art produced with a camera, on a computer, digital tablet or phone One grand prize winner in each category will receive $100 in April. The two winners will have their work entered in a regional contest with other Washington, D.C. metro-area water and wastewater utilities. Submissions are due by Friday, March 18, 2022water around the world water drop The contest is open to any high school student in 9th-12th grade enrolled in a public, private or homeschool in Montgomery or Prince George’s counties. The art contest is supported by the region's water and wastewater utilities who are members of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG) Community Engagement Campaign. For more information, please check the link below https://www.wsscwater.com/artcontest

Dr. Clarke Science Teacher Tutoring & Academic Services Saturday Academy, Liaison STEM Fair Coordinator Green School, Advisor

Last weekend, Science Olympiad students competed in the University of Maryland Science Olympiad Invitational. Since our last invitational at National Cathederal, students were able to greatly improve and place top ten in several events such as Green Generation, going from 17th to 9th and Codebusters, going from 19th to 5th. Students were also able to place top ten again in WIFI Lab (7th place) and It's About Time (6th place). Science Olympiad students are preparing for the Regional's tournament this upcoming weekend, and plans to further improve on events. Congratulations Science Olympiad, great job, and good luck at next week's competition!

Joshua Ikegwu

Studio Magic art club has been busy making our own styrofoam prints. We planned by designing our prints on paper, then put the paper against styrofoam rectangles. Then, we traced our designs into the styrofoam and created a relief printing matrix by going over the lines with a pencil. We have just started practicing printing. You can see some of the practice results here.

Leora Gottlieb

The officers of SGA will attend a Leadership Retreat at CMIT North HS on SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12TH from 9am-3pm. Our guest speaker will be our District 1 Board of Education Member, Mr. David Murray. Students will have the opportunity to participate in leadership skill building, communication skill building and...have some fun. Mr. Mirza and Ms. O'Donnell are looking forward to working with these students and watch them continue to grow as leaders.

Tammy O'Donnell

The Yearbook Club has been working hard to collect pictures of events, write blurbs and designing what will be a yearbook like no other! Yearbooks are on-sale beginning this week. The link to order yearbooks is: https://strawbridge.fotomerchanthv.com/search/YB114796 The cost is $40. A flyer with details is also attached. Yearbook ads will also go on-sale soon. Information on pricing and size will be announced in the coming weeks. If you have any questions, please contact Ms. O'Donnell. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

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Tammy O'Donnell

Art 1 has just completed their Spirit Drawings based on the film "Spirited Away." They developed their own, unique spirit characters and a bathtub and room to put them in. Art 2 is in the middle of creating oil pastel macro (zoomed in) drawings of natural objects. This project is inspired by the vibrant artworks of Georgia O'Keeffe. Art 3 is in the midst of a printmaking unit. They made styrofoam relief mandala prints inspired by the artist M.C. Escher. Now, as part of Black History Month, they are studying the linocut prints of Elizabeth Catlett. Catlett was a prominent African American printmaker who commonly focused on themes of African American oppression and empowerment in her work. Students will design their own linocut prints focusing on these same themes.

Leora Gottlieb

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