National Honor Society 11K In 2011 Food Drive

Pueblo’s National Honor Society is sponsoring a drive to help the Community Food Bank. Their goal is to allow them to buy $11,000 worth of food this year. Each dollar donated will buy $10 worth of food.

Money collected as of February 28th, 2011: $900.00 of $1,100

The donations will be collected in the following ways:

A) through Advisory
B) at lunch
C) in the front office
D) at athletic events

Christian Malena & Brandon Sanchez explain drive to faculty

Help us make a difference in our community.

[Download $11k In 2011 PowerPoint Presentation]

U of A Students Visit American History Chicano Perspectives Classes

Twenty University of Arizona students from a class entitled “Race, Ethnicity, and the American Dream” visited the American History—Chicano Perspectives classes and did a number of activities with Pueblo students around racism and white privilege.

Group activity that focused on racism & white privilege.

Afterward the students all discussed the potential impact of the ban of ethnic studies classes, which is supposed to go into effect on December 31.

Small groups discussed upcoming ban of ethnic studies classes.

Thank you to these U of A students for taking the time to visit our campus.

Chemical Reaction Experiment

Honors Chemistry students were conducting an experiment involving mentos & diet soda to test the chemical reaction between the two.  The result is a giant geyser of soda spewing from the 2 liter bottle.  The questions is why?

Students love to conduct this experiment and the reaction on their faces is always the same. They tried different variables to see which produced the highest geyser. Check out the video:

This experiment was part of a training for these honors students by the University of Arizona.  They will be tutoring other students in science.

Training conducted by Jose of the University of Arizona
Training session by University Of Arizona

You can try this at home yourself.  You will need:

  • A roll or box of Mentos mints
  • 2-liter bottle of diet soda (diet or regular soda will work, but diet soda is not as sticky)
  • Piece of paper to use a funnel to drop Mentos in bottle

Stella Pope Duarte Visits Pueblo

On September 30th, with funding by GEAR UP, Pueblo High School was fortunate to have Stella Pope Duarte speak to junior and senior students.

Stella Pope Duarte is the author of Let Their Spirits Dance, If I Die in Juarez and her collection of short stories Fragile Night and Women Who Live In Coffee Shops and Other Stories.

Stella Pope Duarte speaking to Pueblo students.

Pope Duarte spoke to Yolanda Sotelo’s 4th period Latino literature class. The seniors who were in the process of reading Let Their Spirits Dance were thoroughly engrossed in her presentation to them about her novel. Pope Duarte then spoke to the juniors in Sally Rusk & Yolanda Sotelo’s ethnic studies classes, Ms. Mariscal’ s exception education students and other students during advisory about her writing process and her novel If I Die In Juarez. This is Stella Pope Duarte’s 3rd visit to Pueblo.

Stella Pope Duarte

The students enjoy her because she is informative, inspirational, and entertaining and they especially enjoy reading her short stories and novels.

Dr. Andrew Lettes Awarded

Congratulations goes to Dr. Andrew Lettes, biotechnology teacher at Pueblo, for being awarded the Arizona Innovation Heroes Award by the Science Foundation Arizona.

The award recognizes those who are leading in the fields of innovation, technology and entrepreneurship or have instituted innovative practices or curricula to advance student success and enhance student interest in STEM. (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Education)

Dr. Lettes with Pueblo CTE Department

Students, colleagues and distinguished guests joined us for the celebration and had very positive statements about our biotechnology program.

On behalf of all the Pueblo Family, we congratulate Dr. Lettes.

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