Daily Announcements March 18, 2022

  March 18, 2022                                                  Friday

• Students at ARHS led by The Environmental Action Club are hosting a tree planting event in the greater Amherst Community to offset some of our carbon emissions and make up for our school's paper usage.
  This year's event will take place on April 23rd. You and other volunteers will plant trees at homes all over our town. If you would like to make a positive impact on the environment and our community please consider buying tree saplings.
  Each sapling costs $5 and can be ordered online at our website here. We are offering three different species: The Pin Oak, Red Maple, and The American Sycamore. Order your trees by March 21st and help celebrate Earth Day by planting trees on April 23rd!

• Attention singers! Auditions for new members of Chorale and Hurricane Singers will be taking place starting Friday, March 25th. Auditions are only ten minutes long and are designed to be low stress, with no preparation required. There are several slots available after school, during first lunch, and during plus blocks. You can sign up for an audition time outside of the choir room. Reach out to Mr. Fruth if you have any questions. 
• Any students who are taking ELA MCAS on Tuesday or Thursday next week can check out this MCAS ELA prep slideshow for more information about the format of the test. If you are currently in a tenth-grade English class, your teacher will review it with you before the test. However, if you took English in semester 1, this may be helpful! 

• SENIORS- Are you not sure what you will do next after graduation? How about exploring career options in manufacturing?  The Manufacturing Skills Initiative (MSI) training partnership with Greenfield Community College offers quick, non-credit certificates! Some of our manufacturing employers offer education benefits that can provide ways to pay for college credits and certifications to build toward high-skill careers.
  
  
  We offer two short non-credit MSI trainings that can be fully funded by state and federal job training grants for eligible participants.  The first training is a short 4-week classroom course called Foundational Manufacturing that starts in June (or September) and teaches basic skills in industrial blueprint reading, precision measurement, OSHA safety, shop math and career readiness.  The second is an 8-week hands-on CNC Operator training for entry level machinist skills in precision metal work that is offered at the Franklin County Tech School machine shop. Students learn manual and CNC mill and lathe techniques, an introduction to CAD and programming with G & M code – the language for programming machine tools. These are evening trainings for adults aged 18+ that start at 4pm.  We have graduated over 190 adults from the CNC Operator training over the past 8 years with about an 85% job placement rate. Some of our graduates are already earning over $30/hour!
  
  
  If interested, your first step is to participate in an information session which takes place the first Monday of every month, from 3:00-4:00 pm. Next one is April 4th. Sign up at: gcc.mass.edu/manufacturing or call 413-774-4361.

• Do you ever feel like you want to do something about climate change but you're not sure what? If the answer is yes, you can join Amherst Sunrise! All you need to do is come to a one hour meeting once a week on Saturday, at 8:00 pm. These meetings are usually at least 30% not serious. We will also make sure that you feel welcome and know what's going on, and not just like you're going to the meeting for no reason. If you are interested, email warrenje@arps.org"

• Interested in supporting Ukrainian resistance?  Come to a special Russian Club meeting this Friday at 3:45 in room 151.  Come join us as we plan our fundraiser for people with disabilities in Ukraine who may not be able to relocate.  Want to stay involved?  Keep coming every Tuesday from 3:45-4:55 in room 151.  

• We are thrilled to share that senior Rebekah Hong is a 2022 Coca-Cola Scholar – congratulations, Rebekah, on your $20,000 college scholarship! In addition to exemplifying superior leadership, service, and academics, Coca-Cola Scholars are change agents, positively affecting others in their community, and we are so proud of Rebekah. Less than 1/4 of 1% of the 68,000+ applicants from across the country were selected to receive this award.

• A full list of recipients is available at Cokeurl.com/2022Scholars.Current ARHS juniors – look out for the Coca-Cola Scholars 2023 application to open again in August!