Welcome Fest Open House for Our New Patriots!
George IB will host a Welcome Fest on January 31 from 6-8PM for our 2012 freshmen and transfer students. Drop in when it is convenient; the ever-popular Chemistry Club demos will take place at 6:30 and at 7:30. All new George Patriots are welcome.
Critical Information If Your Student Is
Enrolling in the GWIB Program Next Year
Is your student enrolling in the GWIB program for the 2012-2013 school year? And, is George Washington NOT your neighborhood school? Then you must turn in a completed SchoolChoice application by January 31, 2012.
This is an absolute deadline. All questions about this process should be directed to the Office of Choice and Enrollment Services.
The December GW IB Broadcaster
is Now Available Online
Patriot Games
Most of our team was involved in hosting the Patriot Games last weekend, so we did not enter many competitors ourselves. Nonetheless, the few competitors we entered still made an impressive showing, with several finishing as finalists:
1st: Novice CX: Sophie Levine and Mason Munro
3rd: CX: Parker Davis and John Conrad
4th: Novice CX: Kyle Berlind and Zach Steineker
5th: US Extemp: Susanna Steele
Congratulations, Patriots!
Patriot Speech & Debate at the Cheyenne Holiday Classic
Results from the Cheyenne Holiday Classic Speech and Debate Tournament that was held December 16-17, 2010.
- First Place - CX/Policy Debate: Lucy Shen and Sarah Pierce
- First Place - Novice Extemporaneous Speaking: Jack Glaser
- Top Speaker - Lincoln-Douglas Debate: Michael Homiak
- Second Place - Original Oratory: Ben Reilly
- Third Place - Novice CX/Policy Debate: Stephanie Alexiev and Binyu Jiang
- Third Place - Novice Lincoln-Douglas Debate: Melay Gebresellassie
Congratulations Patriots! [ Complete Results ]
"Friend" the Friends of George IB Foundation
The Friends of George IB Foundation is reaching out to alumni, current students, families and friends of IB as a way to stay in touch, help with fund-raising efforts, and to draw on everyone's vast reservoir of talent and experience.
IF YOU KNOW AN ALUM of the program – your own child, someone else's, a friend, etc. – please send me their contact information as well. PASS THIS MESSAGE ON – send it to colleges, companies, etc. Mention it at gatherings and dinner. WE WANT TO FIND EVERYONE!!
Simply send Tom Zeiler (IB Foundation President) (thomaswilliamzeiler@gmail.com) your e-mail address and phone or address information if there is no e-mail.
On facebook, please join by a friend request to: GW IB Friends
We hope to set off a chain-reaction through you: we'd like your contact information and then to tap into your storehouse of connections. So, please give us the e-mail addresses of your friends and family who were in the IB program. Then, they can give us their contacts. A multiplier effect is what we're after!!
Let's try to build a NETWORK of IB Friends for the benefit of the program and the future. And who knows: maybe you'll be able to reconnect to long-lost friends!
And DON'T FORGET: the Ebrahimi Family Foundation has again pledged to match $15,000 of contributions to the IB Foundation from IB families, alumni and friends. This means that the first $15,000 of contributions from IB families, alumni and friends will be doubled to $30,000. Also remember that because part of the Ebrahimi Challenge Grant is designed to match contributions from other foundations, please let me know of any charitable foundations that might help us out. Let's meet the challenge!
Patriots in the Candlelight
Patriots shone at Overland's Candlelight Invitational the first weekend of December. Even with some of the team's varsity members out of state, eleven GW entries were finalists at Overland.
Especially noteworthy was Dan Morgan-Russell's second tournament in a row of "picket fences", that is, a score of "1" from every judge in every round, the best score possible for each of his last eighteen scores.
Congratulations, Patriots!
1st Place:
Foreign Extemporaneous Speaking: Dan Morgan-Russell
2nd Place:
US Extemporaneous Speaking: Margaret Schaack
Original Oratory: Ben Reilly
JV Cross-Exam Policy Debate: Thomas Angus/Maddie Hicks
3rd Place:
JV Cross-Exam Policy Debate: Bruce Margoshes/Joe Gordon
4th Place:
Original Oratory: Angie Neslin
Duo Interpretation: Hope Cornish/Adam Wise
JV Cross-Exam Policy Debate: Mason Munro/Ben Papadopoulos
5th Place:
US Extemporaneous Speaking: Elizabeth Jacobs
6th Place:
Foreign Extemporaneous Speaking: Samantha Walisundra
Original Oratory: Mali Garrett-Mills
Scaling the Heights at Alta
Patriot debaters traveled to Alta, Utah the first weekend of December to compete in a national-level tournament and returned home with high honors. Our Public Forum (PF) team of Emma Thompson and Miles Moore earned the Top Speaker Award, the PF team of Langston Williams and Eli Gordon earned the Second-Place Speaker Award, and Matt Zavislan earned the Tenth-Place Speaker Award in Lincoln-Douglas. In the debates themselves, four of our entrants finished in the late rounds:
Semi-finalists:
Public Forum Debate: Emma Thompson/Miles Moore
Lincoln-Douglas Debate: Matt Zavislan
Octa-Finalists:
Public Forum Debate: Langston Williams/Eli Gordon
Cross-Exam Policy Debate: Sarah Pierce/Lucy Shen
Congratulations all around!
Attention Parents of Current 8th-Grade Students
Is your student enrolling in the GWIB program for the 2012-2013 school year? And, is George Washington NOT your neighborhood school? Then you must turn in a completed SchoolChoice application by January 31, 2012.
This is an absolute deadline. All questions about this process should be directed to the Office of Choice and Enrollment Services.
IBPA President Needed for 2012-2013
Kristi Butkovich, IBPA President, is the parent of a senior and will not be returning next year. The IB Parents Association needs to fill her vital board position ASAP so that the new volunteer can take full advantage of working together with Kristi this year. Please e-mail Kristi, kbutkovich@comcast.net for information.
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