Thanks to all the teachers who participated in the dunk tank on Friday at Arts Fest! We thank you for being brave in the cold to help us out!

Mr. Rodgers

Mr. Swift

Mrs. Porter

Ms. Maroni

Ms. Mohr

Mr. Eckman

Mr. Thomas

Mr. Fleming

Trainer Phil

25th Annual Arts Fest-Friday May 24

Arts fest is not just a day off from school. Arts fest is a day to appreciate art around I.H.S. and do many things that you would not be expected to do. The 25th annual Arts fest is May 24^th. It starts second period and its goes all the way to eighth period and during ninth period there is a softball game between the seniors and the teachers.  I-town connect is promoting arts fest by running a dunk tank again this year and selling bottled water. We have coupons on line for free throws, so check our website for more information.  

Come dunk your favorite...or least favorite teacher!

Schedule- Per 2 /3  Mr. Rodgers

                 Per 4       Mr Swift

                 Per 5       Mrs Porter

                 Per 6       Miss Mohr and Mrs Maroni

                 Per 7       Mr Eckman

                 Per 8       Mr Thomas and Mr Fleming

$1 for one throw and $5.00 for 10 throws-coupons above for Buy one get one free throws

We will Also be selling water bottles for $1.00

Come see the band EKG preform at arts fest in the auditorium from 12:45 – 12:55 preforming songs like Reaction, Roulette, and Aerials. The band members are Garrett (11 grade) Steve (11 grade) Devin (11 grade) Josh (11 grade) and Andrew (10 grade). Be there or be square!   

Thank you I-Square for joining itownconnect.com as our site sponsor. As members of this Irondequoit community we fully support the I-Square project and are excited to help spread the word of I-Square developments. Check out our newest I-Square page and stay tuned.

http://i-square.us/

25th Annual Arts Fest-Friday May 24

Arts fest is not just a day off from school. Arts fest is a day to appreciate art around I.H.S. and do many things that you would not be expected to do. The 25th annual Arts fest is May 24^th. It starts second period and its goes all the way to eighth period and during ninth period there is a softball game between the seniors and the teachers.  I-town connect is promoting arts fest by running a dunk tank again this year and selling bottled water. We have coupons on line for free throws, so check our website for more information.  

Come dunk your favorite...or least favorite teacher!

Schedule- Per 2 /3  Mr. Rodgers

                 Per 4       Mr Swift

                 Per 5       Mrs Porter

                 Per 6       Miss Mohr and Mrs Maroni

                 Per 7       Mr Eckman

                 Per 8       Mr Thomas and Mr Fleming

$1 for one throw and $5.00 for 10 throws-coupons above for Buy one get one free throws

We will Also be selling water bottles for $1.00

TWO nights. FOUR stories. ONE mission

You are cordially invited to the public viewing of the PBS documentary, Half The sky . come see the story filmed in ten countries that shows how women around the world are turning "oppression into opportunity".

WHEN: Wednesday may 8th and Friday May 10th, 2013

From 6:00pm-9:00pm, in the IHS auditorium

Concessions will be sold- and all proceeds will go to support Half The Sky

we will also collect pretty pillow cases to donate to "little dresses for africa". for each pillow case donated, you will recieve a raffle ticket.

Donations will be collected for each of Featured Wommen in the documentary.

Thank you I-Square for joining itownconnect.com as our site sponsor. As members of this Irondequoit community we fully support the I-Square project and are excited to help spread the word of I-Square developments. Check out our newest I-Square page and stay tuned.

http://i-square.us/

DECA , an international student organization, enhances the preparation for college and careers by providing co-curricular programs that integrate into classroom instruction, applying learning in the context of business, connecting to business and the community and promoting competition. Its student members leverage their DECA experience to become academically prepared, community oriented, professionally responsible, experienced leaders. Information about DECA can be viewed at  www.deca.org.

16,000 attendees from all 50 states and five different countries competed in over 50 different business disciplines. Each event had qualifying rounds at either the state and/or the county level. Students preparation for these events take place in classes at Irondequoit High School such as VB Management, Sports Marketing, College Accounting, College Business Law, Fashion & Entertainment, International Business, Career & Financial Management and E-Commerce.

Irondequoit Business student, sophomore Nick Charles, competed in the Virtual Business Sports computer simulation competition as well as the IHS freshman team of Ty'Reek and Danny Kalke. In this competition (designed by www.knowledgematters.com ) students make business decisions through a simulation program on managing a football team. Stadium location, Ticket pricing, promotion giveaways, licensing agreements, stadium personnel, sponsorships, and media planning are all decisions that need to be made quickly. Seven other student competitors are making similar decisions in a network set up trying to make more money than you. Hundreds of students competed on-line to make it to ICDC. Only 16 teams earned the opportunity. After five rounds of competition, the team of Sizer and Kalke finished 11th in the world and the other IHS team Nick Charles finished 4th in the world and received a sponsored prize of $100 and a top 10 medal on stage in front of the 16,000 attendees.

Sophomore Teddy Snyder and freshman Trevor Carney also competed in a computer simulation competition. Their competition was titled the Virtual Business Retail competition. This competition structure is similar in nature to the above mentioned sports competition, except their business decisions focused around maximizing profits through the management of a retail store like a Wal-Mart. Analyzing decisions around product offerings, merchandising, pricing/margins, advertising, staffing, inventory, security, financing, service contracts and market research are the keys to maximizing profits. Snyder and Carney at the end of the competition earned a top 10 medal, $250 and got to walk up on the stage and receive the 3rd place overall world trophy.

Seniors Sara Buckbee and Romel Williams competed in the individual series events. Sara competed in Business Services Marketing and Romel in Quick Serve Restaurant Marketing. In these events, students were required to take a 100 question multiple choice test on their respective cluster area and then read and analyze two different timed role-play scenarios. Upon completion of those two steps, students then present their solution to an industry expert judge who evaluates their solution and presentation and assigns a grade. The test and role play scores are added together and sorted - where medals are given out for top 10 performances for the test, each role play and an overall top 20 world medal. If a student receives a top 20 overall medal, they then compete in one last role play to determine the final winners. Williams, who is heading to NYU in the fall to study Economics, received a top 10 medal for one of his role plays and an overall top 20 world medal. Buckbee, who is heading to Bentley University to study Business, earned a top 20 and a top 10 world medals for her efforts.

We would like to welcome our sponsors Personal Design Florist and Tuxedo Corner to our prom page!  Click the PROM AND BALL 2013 page to view what they have to offer and click the E-Coupons for coupons to these places. Our new Sponsor is I-Square, and we were able to have them sponsor our website, itownconnect.com 

If you would like to send a birthday shout out  to someone fill out a request form in the Deca cafe at least a day in advance.

The two suspects in the Boston bombings were found but were not captured. The man in the black baseball cap was gunned down in a car chase last night wounding an officer in the process. The younger brother got away from the chase by running over his brother with his car. The father of the two boys says that they should turn himself in. Find out more here

If you see our very own Trevor Carney today wish him a very Happy Birthday! Good luck at the Deca International Conference in Anaheim California next week.

If you would like to send a birthday shout out  to someone fill out a request form in the Deca cafe at least a day in advance

We would like to welcome you to the 2013 e-commerce class at IHS. We hope you enjoy our web site and our e- business. Visit us in the DECA cafe during 8th and 9th period each day for snacks and don't forget to order your IHS sunglasses on our  online store Follow us every day for updated information. We would like to hear from you-if you have ideas you would like to see on the site please feel free to let us know at  itownconnect13@yahoo.com.

Important dates to look out for:

Junior prom: At Harro East on Friday May 24th, 2013 at 7:30

Senior ball: At Crown Plaza on Friday June 7th, 2013 at 8:30

Senior trip: May 18^th Darien Lake

Senior dues: are due ASAP

Ap test:  may 14^th-17th

Finals week:  June 11-21 Local/Regents Exams

Arts fest:  May 24th

IHS has a full week of sport games ahead of us this week.

 Varsity softball has games Monday Wednesday Thursday Friday along with jv who also has a game on Saturday

Jv baseball has games Monday Wednesday and Saturday

Varsity baseball has games Monday Wednesday and Saturday

Jv lax has games Wednesday and Saturday

Varsity lax has a game Tuesday and  Thursday

Congratulations to all of  the Irondequoit High School talent show participants. The show was very entertaining, and there were a lot of good acts. In third place the winners were Olivia Racja, Julia Rossi, Roxy Elahi, and Max Stephany. Next, the person that came in second place was Taeko Kelly, and lastly the winner of the Irondequoit High School Talent Show was Nate Diaz, who did his own Hip-Hop dance.

Spring Break is coming up in a couple days and people are looking for somewhere to go, we found the top 10 places to go to spend your break.

http://studenttravel.about.com/od/springbrea1/tp/to_spring_break.htm

1)Cancun

2)Panama City, Florida

3)Miami and South Beach, Florida

4)Europe

5)Puerto Vallarta

6)Acapulco

7)Bahamas and Jamaica

8)South Padre Island, Texas

9) All Tied and All Good - Baja (Rosarito Beach, Cabo), DR, Puerto Rico

10)North American Ski Resorts

Remember we have a trivia tab above and if you answer the question right you win a coupon for some candy from the deca cafe!

On Thursday 3/28/13 our Ecommerce 8th period class will be having a SPRING SCAVENGER HUNT. The scavenger hunt will include our 8th period class hiding easter eggs around the school before homeroom, they will have candy in them and a coupon for free sunglasses. Collect your reward in room 1072 in the business hallway. Good luck!

With all this new technology and phones coming out recently, the iPhone 5 and the Samsung Galaxy SIII are two of the most controversial smartphones of 2013. So which one's better? There are many opinions and facts to back this up. From a factual standpoint the Galaxy is the best option so far, due to the faster processor, reliability, larger app market, better camera, larger screen, and it is also supported by all carriers instead of just a few. Although the Galaxy uses the less popular Android Market it is still the more reliable phone and costs $100 with a contract instead of $659.  The iPhone 5 also has it's benefits as well, including, the slim and lightweight style, popularity, usage of itunes for music, and the iphone also has the widest range of different style and types of accessories.

To check out more and read the fine details of this common argument http://smartphones.techcrunch.com/compare/245-355/Samsung-Galaxy-S3-vs-Apple-iPhone-5">click here

Irondequoit High School Business Students Earn 15 Top 10 Overall Medals and 37 Medals Total

IHS Business Students Competed at the 53rd  Annual DECA State Career Conference March 6-8th     For Irondequoit High School business students the past few days were about applying the business knowledge they learned in the classroom in their respective DECA event at the Rochester Riverside Convention Center. The 53rd  Annual New York State DECA Career Conference (SCC) was held and over 1,800 high school business students from all over New York State came to compete in over 40 different competitive events.   DECA, an international student organization, enhances the preparation for college and careers by providing co-curricular programs that integrate into classroom instruction, applying learning in the context of business, connecting to business and the community and promoting competition. Its student members leverage their DECA experience to become academically prepared, community oriented, professionally responsible, experienced leaders. Information about DECA can be viewed at www.newyorkdeca.com and www.deca.org.    Students choose an area of business that is of interest to them at the start of the school year and prepare to compete in their area through business classes and other resources available through DECA. Most of these students qualified at the regional level to make it to this conference. Students can earn medals in their respective events by earning a top ten place for either their test, or for role play(s) they compete in. Earning a trophy at SCC qualifies a student to compete in their respective event at the DECA International Career Development Conference (ICDC) in Anaheim, CA at the end of April with over 14,000 other DECA business students from around the world.   IHS DECA advisors (Lou DiCesare, Jeanine Lent and LaVon Bucciarelli) were extremely impressed by the wide variety of events that students qualified to compete in at the SCC. Even more impressive was the number of top ten medals earned in a test score, role play performance or overall top 10 recognition.   So many hard-working students realized months of preparation for their events and fundraising to help defray the costs to compete. Students who place fourth or higher qualify to compete at ICDC. Thirty six IHS students attended the event. Thirty-seven total medals were earned. Fifteen Irondequoit students finished in the top 10 overall.  And two students (Romel Williams and Sara Buckbee-seniors) earned a trophy in their respective events to move on to the International Career Development Conference to join Daniel Kalke, Ty’Reek Sizer, Trevor Carney, Teddy Snyder and Nick Charles (who qualified last month in the on-line challenges). Here are the results of Irondequoit students competing at the State Career Conference last week:

Medal Winners     Test (Top 10) Role Play #1 (Top 10) Role Play #2 (Top 10) Top 10 Overall (Top 10) National Qualifier (1st-4th Place) Buying & Merchandising Team Decision Making           Connor Hynes (Junior) &   N/A X X 5th Vincent Guida (Senior)   N/A X X 5th Financial Services Team Decision Making           Charles Cosentino (Senior) X N/A X X 7th Alana Russell (Senior) X N/A X X 7th Accounting Applications           Ian Mohr (Senior)     X     Apparel & Accessories Marketing           Casey Chase (Senior)     X     Sports & Entertainment Individual           Megan Vadala (Junior)   X   X 7th Automotive Services Marketing           Jack Deyaeger (Junior)   X X X 7th Business Services Marketing           Sara Buckbee (Senior) X X X X 2nd Hotel & Lodging Management           Jason Runyan (Junior) X X   X 10th Marketing Management           Daniel Duguay (Soph) X   X X 10th Quick Serve Restaurant Management         Anything Goes Opens Tonight   Irondequoit High School Presents Anything Goes March 21-23 at 7:30 pm and March 24th at 2pm in the IHS Auditorium. tickets are $10 and $8.00 for students and seniors   Irondequoit Wins Adam Milne Game Irondequoit staff beat Webster Thomas for the second year in a row Friday night. After some impressive plays by our very own  teacher Eagles....the streak continues.   Courtesy of D&C.com I-Square Is a Go! After more than a year of legal battles with the Irondequoit Town Board-the I-Square project has finally been approved. The long awaited project received the green light 2/19/13 and cheers from the crowd. Irondequoit has been anticipating the new project to enhance the Cooper Rd Titus Avenue square. This type of innovative thinking is what our town needs and this community is looking forward to the newly renovated shops and public facilities that developer Mike Nolan has planned. For more information click on the link to the article below. http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20130219/NEWS01/302190065/?source=nletter-top5   Welcome to itownconnect.com We would like to welcome you to the 2013 e-commerce class at IHS. We hope you enjoy our web site and our e- business. Visit us in the DECA cafe during 8th and 9th period each day for snacks and don't forget to order your IHS sunglasses on our  online store Follow us every day for updated information. We would like to hear from you-if you have ideas you would like to see on the site please feel free to let us know at  itownconnect13@yahoo.com.   DECA Regionals 2013 DECA 2013 At the DECA Regional Career Conference, the following winners received the privilege to represent Monroe County at the state competition level. The Conference will occur from March 6th-March 8th. Two thousand business students from all over New York State will meet at the Rochester Convention Center for the conference. The winners include:   1.)    Buying and Merchandising Team Decision Making Connor Hynes (11th grade) and Vinny Guida (12th grade)   2.) Hospitality Services Team Decision Making Joey Barr (12th grade) and Daniel Vanill (10th grade)   3.)Sports and Entertainment Team Decision Making Daniel Kalke (9th grade) and TyReek Sizer (9th grade)   4.) Principles of Finance Erica Plukas (11th grade)   5.)Principles of Hospitality and Tourism Liz Chodak (12th grade)   6.)Principles of Business and Administration Renato Gimenez (11th grade) and Julia Palvone (11th grade)   7.) Sports and Entertainment Marketing (Individual) Justin Cribbin (10th grade)   8.) Retail Merchandising Cortney Mykins (11th grade), Lauren Kiedrowski (11th grade), Kara Frachioni (10th grade), and Dylan Nicholas (11th grade.)   9.) Quick Serve Restaurant Management Romel Williams (12th grade) and Ted Snyder (10th grade)   10.) Marketing Management Galina Kreminskaya (11th grade), Daniel Duguay (10th grade), and Alexa Mummery (12th grade.)   11.) Hotel and Lodging Management Jason Runyan (11th grade), Abby White (10th grade), and Riley McGwin (10th grade.) 12.) Food Marketing Jamie Smock (12th grade), Zach Imm (11th grade), and Josh Merkel (11th grade.)   13.) Business Services Marketing Sara Buckbee (12th grade)   14.) Business Finance Kyle Napierela (12th grade) and Julianna Carney (12th grade)   15.) Automotive Services Marketing Jack DeYaeger (11th grade), Graham Gooch (11th grade), and Adam Kirchgessner (10th grade)   16.) Apparel & Accessories Marketing Casey Chase (12th grade)   17.) Accounting Applications Joel Roemer (12th grade, Liam McKee (12th grade), and Ian Mohr (12th grade)   18.) Financial Services Team Decision Making Alana Russel (12th grade) and Charlie Cosentino (12th grade) Bridget Odorczyk (12th grade) and Ali Whiting (12th grade) Sam Accorso (12th grade) and Jake Zarzycki (12th grade)   19.) Business Law and Ethics Team Decision Making Dalton Thomas (12th grade) and Robert-Campbell German (10th grade) Micki Battaglia (12th grade) and Marisa Orlando (12th grade)   Congratulations to everyone!