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Mrs. Shauna-Kay Jorandby Principal

Ms. Kimberly Johnson-Redder

Assistant Principal

Mr. Patrick Bilock

Assistant Principal

Mr. Vannest G. E. Wilkins

Vannest_G_Wilkins@mcpsmd.org

Newspaper Advisor

2018-2019 Edition

December 2018-

May 2019

Sligo Middle School - 1401 Dennis Avenue, Silver Spring, Maryland 20902

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/schools/sligoms/

Students News by Students for Students

Sligo is a Friendly

School of DiversitySMS Rising Ninth Graders

NASA Visualization Explorer is your portal to the coolest stories about NASA’s exploration of Earth, the sun, moon, planets and universe.

March 5, Ms. Maxson and Ms. Shane took over 40 SMS students in Honors Geometry to

NASA Goddard to tour the Visualization Studio Lab and the Earth Science Operation Area.

Mars' Magnetic Tail A Slice of Ice

Launching an ICON

https://nasaviz.gsfc.nasa.gov/12947

“Sligo is a wonderful place that shares patience and

dedication. A wonderful school that I love.” Estephanie P. said, “As I say goodbye to my

school and my teachers, I look forward to

meeting new teachers and friends.”

Lucas K said this “Sligo accepts you no

matter where you come from. Do your

best, respect, work hard and treat

others the way you want to be treat-

ed. You too, will enjoy SMS.”

Jasmine S. said this, “I look forward to meeting new teachers. But, I

will miss this school and teachers.”

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Former Sligo students—Nathaniel Tinbite Wins The SMOB Election

Above, in both photos is 2019 MCPS SMOB Candidate Nathaniel Tinbite enjoying lunch time with some of the hard

working SGA members and SMS SMOB Voting Staff. The voting precinct (Media Center) was set up in a very nice way.

To the left, is SMS SGA Advi-

sor and SMS SMOB Voting

Coordinator, Mr. Brett

Imamura. Kudos! Great lead-

ership and organization.

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2019 Spring Musical at SMS was more than wonderful! It was superb. Thursday, May 30th, these fabulous—remarkable stu-

dents from the cast of “Seussical” performed at Oakview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Special Kudos are graciously ex-

tended to Mr. Joe Davis, Ms. Beverly Parks and Ms. Karisa Leoni.

The Cat in the Hat Anjali Oforj

Jala Harper Cox

Horton, the Elephant Diego Chavez

Gertrude McFuzz Nora Meeks

Mayzie La Bird Leah Leonor

Mr. Mayor Saiyan Livelsberger

Mrs. Mayor Zoe O’Shea

Sour Kangaroo Mary Kelley

Young Kangaroo Azzy Scope

The Wickersham Brothers Daniel Swedberg

Clint Hensley

Wesley Brandt

Dignon Kelly

Jack von Kerczek

Bird Girl 1 Elle Jay Jeurgens

Bird Girl 2 Keelin Pegg

Bird Girl 3 Morgan Brakna

Bird Girl 4 Sonya Rubin

Bird Girl 5 Esraa Elzein

Bird Girl 6 Eliza Parker

Judge Yertle the Turtle Karla Ramirez

Vlad Vladikov Tia Miller

The Grinch Michael Tomasulo

The Whos Abigail Wunderfli

Talia Benson

Sophie Henderson

Gabriela Woodward

Chloe Pegg

Hannah St. Clair

Clara Jelen

Riley Smith

Gabby Gallo

General Genghis Khan Schmitz

Addie Wunderli

Cadets Morgan Brackna

Tai Miller

Emma Wartzack

Thing 1 Caroline Evans

Thing 2 Caroline Davis

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Book Wars Competition Sponsored by Media Specialist—Ms. Heller

6th Graders:

Sophie Henderson

Saiyan Livelsberger

Katrin Schrebler

Chloe Pegg

7th Graders:

Kiersten Engstrom

Marie Spirtas

Eleanor Greco

Zoe Duvall

Besu Liyew

Jonathan Dawit

Abenezer Shotela

Ben Handelman

SMS Celebrate Black History Month

Mary Oliver (Rising 9th Grader)

Sligo always celebrate cultural diversity such as Black Histo-

ry Month or the International Dance and Program and so

many other events highlight respect to all cultures.

Now, here’s Mary Oliver review about the Black History Month program. “I thought the

BHM assembly performance from the Einstein HC was amazing. Not only did the event

highlight Sligo’s love for the Black Community, but it also was empowering the student lead-

ership who managed this event. I love the step team and the Caribbean Dance Team. They

all showed pride in their roots through dance and it “wooed” the audience. There were sev-

eral students reciting poems and giving speeches, all done in a most excellent way.

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301 – 279 - 3234

Homework Hotline Live Info for School

• For intercom and school TV announcements

• Go dates: 9/25/18 – 4/1/19

• Please read copy below often during above dates

General Info:

Phone: 301-279-3234 to call in with question

Text: 724-427-5445 to text questions/send photo of

problem

Live TV show on Comcast 33, Verizon 35, RCN 88

www.AskHHL.org

Sixth Graders Outdoor Education

Sixth Graders namely, Lena, Sophie,

Keelin, Riley, Cady, and Monica stated

(over and over while smiling and laugh-

ing) that they had a wonderful time at

Outdoor Education. It was quite an

enjoyable experience. When asked to

share one word that defines your out-

door experience, the ladies named

above said, “it was funk, exciting , de-

veloped friendships, educational, very

cold, kool, tight, different, adventurous ,

must do again and memorable.”

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Sligo MS do have some real Kool Fun Days!

Just to name a few, Hannah Baily, Mario Guerrero, Asia Kerr, Erik Anderson, Keirin Marquez Castellon, Aniyah Alexander, Fiorella

Trujillo, Erick Carrasco-Barraza, Michael Gent, Tuluumaa Tollossa, Raphael Utterwulghe, Emily Mann, Yarixa Anderson-Espinoza,

Zakeia Jackson, Marlon Lopez, Luke Salazar, Ozzie Arias, Miranda Rose, Ruth Tsehay, Egber Alvarenga, Naiami Desouza, Sage Kudi,

Cady Emerson, Tekleab Awoke, Alexander Garcia, Manfredy Argueta Ochoa, Asanji Mbony, Matthew Hughes, Jason Argueta-

Amay, Erica Montgomery, Noel Diaz, Lianna Meklir, Abenezer Shotela, Eric Carrasco Barraza, Amber Mantiply, Elle Juergens, Erick-

son Pabalan, Edwin Reyes, Gerik Santos, Yoni Perez Marquez, Darby Poore , Giovanni Rodriguez, Adam Gleason, Geurjen Ramos

Garcia, Dennis Carballo-Torres, Owen Perez, Ila Raso, Elijah McMillian, Yerienne Bautista-Mancia, Geo Perez, Natalie Umana, Tre

Do, Clint Hensley, Brian Aguirre Gomez Jonathan Windt, Alejandro Escobar, Madeleine Wenk, Ashley Bravado, Evelyn Hoskins-

Hynek, Stephany Flores, Sylar Paige, Leilani Maith, Kavitha Reddy, Anthony Maybin, Delanys Hernandez, Kaylon Simms, Leah Le-

onor, Giselle Rivera, Matthew Cappelina, Jefry Rivera Carranza, Luis Osorio Escobar. You may view the entire list at:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OJExzAvTTI8B35lYPo5_xVdnRh5hcjzmqZ2MvTQE0sc/edit?usp=sharing

162 Students Have Earned Sligo All-Star T-Shirts

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Recent state law requires that all public schools in Maryland survey students about school climate. The purpose of the sur-vey is to gain valuable information about the quality and char-acter of each school’s learning environment so that schools can promote a climate that supports student learning. Students took the survey during regular school hours between April 8th and 16th. The survey will ask students about topics such as stu-dent engagement, interactions with adults and with other stu-dents in the school, the school environment, bullying, and safe-ty. The survey will not ask about a student’s personal experienc-es, and students will not be asked to provide any information that might violate his or her privacy. The survey is confidential and school personnel will not have access to the responses of specific students. The response students provided where com-bined with the responses from other students in the school, and the results will be reported for each school and district. It’s true, in MCPS, students voices are heard.

Annually, Mr. Brian Brewer with our kind Admin and

our wonderful staff and student body support leads

Sligo Middle School in raising funds for Kids vs. Can-

cer. This is always a very successful fundraising

effort. The staff vs student basketball game is over-

whelmingly a fun activity. O.k, as usual, staff has

continue to out do the students but end up going

home using Mr. Ben Gay. Special thanks is extended

to each basketball player for helping to make this a

Fun Day with a sure purpose.

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Throughout the years Sligo has launched many community missions and pro-

grams. This year, staff and students honored this mission by collectively

wearing Pink on October 25th. This support helps to spread the word about

mammograms and raise awareness about the importance of early detection

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Producer - Organizes the crew, assigns jobs, over-sees whole production, keeps everyone on task.

Director - Calls the camera shots to the Technical Director, gives direction to Floor Director.

Stage Manager (Floor Director) - Maintains order in the studio, cues the talent.

Technical Director - Operates the video switcher. Listens to the Director.

Audio Engineer - Operates the audio mixer. Balances all audio levels as they happen.

Computer Graphics - Designs and displays the graphics for the show.

Video Playback - Plays the Pledge, Show Open and any other special videos in the show.

Digital Recorder - Records the show.

Teleprompter Operator - Operates the teleprompter during the show.

Anchors - write the script for the next day and give it to the teleprompter operator. (It has to be approved by me first.)

Weather Person - Looks up current and future weather conditions, writes script, gets appropriate graphics to the CG operator.

Sportscaster - looks up school sports news, game times, game results and writes their script.

(Assistants - if needed to give more students a job)

Production Assistant - Cleans up the set, passes out scripts, throws away old scripts - help where needed.

Mr. Vannest G. Wilkins, TV Director and Trainer

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1 Oscar Villatoro-Reyes

2 Lennox McLaughlin

3 Brennan Belser

4 Aidan Stillman

5 Marlon Lopez

6 James Mozden

7 Alex Vargas

8 Owen Peterson

9 Erik Anderson

10 Jack Von Kerczek

11 Daniel Webster

12 Egber Alvarenga

13 Saharat Chatchutchavan

14 Ian Gould

15 Matthew Cappellina

16 David Maya-Shelton

17 Josh Zenick

18 Mario Guerrero

19 Micah McKenzie

20 Kevin Umanzor

21 Geo Perez

22 Ben Landesman

23 Kaleb Bryant

24 Fallou Mboup

Practice Squad AJ Ildelfonso

Kobe Walker

Langston Keene

Yoni Perez

MANAGERS

Chloe Rogers Michael Flores

Games took place on March 27 (home vs. Newport at 3:30pm), April 2 (home vs Takoma Park at 4:30pm), April 9 (home vs. Eastern at 3:30pm), April 25 (AWAY - early dismissal -- vs. SSI), and our final game on May 1 (home vs. Briggs Cheney at 3:30pm).

(FYI: "Practice squad" students may travel to games but will have very limited playing time).

Addie Wunderli

Caroline Claire Seigel

Caroline Evans

Clarissa Quintero

Elena Perez

Eliza Parker

Ellie Pitner

Gabriela Delgado

Hannah St Clair

Maeve Salzman

Marcelle Perkins

Megan Mahtesian

Natalie Umana

Norah Dixon

Olivia Wenk

Renee Boissiere

Samantha Linares

Sarah Arias

Victoria Orellana

Yarixa Anderson

Manager:

Ariana Velasquez

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FROM THE DESK OF COACH LYNCH: Congrats to the Boys Softball Team for beating Eastern 10-2 for their final

game. The team was led by the three 8th grade All-Stars. Luke pitched a great game striking out several batters.

Aidan Schaffer stretching out to scoop up throws at first base. And Nathan porter cranking 2 homeruns.

FROM THE DESK OF COACH SHANE: The final cross country meet was held yesterday at home against Eastern

and what a way to end the season! Our girls and boys cross country teams both won... again! A personal best was

run by everyone. Eastern gave us some tough competition, but Sligo had enough runners in the top 7 to pull out one

more victory to go undefeated for the season one more time! Congratulations runners, on a race so well run, and to

another perfect season. You make us proud, not only in your win, but with your sportsmanship and grace. Well,

well done!

Luke Salzman

Langston Keene

Jude Brennan

Ben Landsman

Logan Donnelly

Elijah McMillan Diego Ramos

Saharat C

Wesley Brandt

Obeyd Shifa

Brennan Belsar

Michah Mckenzie

Kobe Walker

Fallou Mboub

Dignan Kelly