2007-2008

2007-2008 Events:

CCHS Designated a National School of Caring
Souper Bowl of Caring is proud to recognize our school as an official member of the 2008 National Schools of Caring. The recognition is due to the efforts of Key Club members and our students that collected over 4000 cans this past February in the Souper Bowl of Caring. All the student clubs competed against each other in "Souper Bowl" match-ups.

Lariat wins big at Sun-Sentinel Awards
The Lariat won big at the Sun-Sentinel High School Journalism awards presentation May, 2008. Several students working on the CCHS Newspaper were acknowledged in 15 out of 19 catagories and won a total of 20 awards, more than any other school in Broward County. Kudos to all our students, and their advisor, Tom Grozan!

Photographer: 1st Place - Robert Yanks & Honorable Mention - Michael Worley
Headlines - 1st Place
Front Page - 2nd Place
Editorial Writer: Honorable Mention: Max Levy
Entertainment Writer: 2nd Place Jaime Sloane & Honorable Mention - David Nathanson & Taylor Cohen
Entertainment Section - Honorable Mention
Graphic & Illustration: Honorable Mention - Juyoung Lee
Layout & Design - Honorable Mention
Features Writer: Honorable Mention - Jennifer Pritchard & Rebecca Weiss
Sports Writer: Honorable Mention - Robert Yanks
Sports Section - Honorable Mention
News Writer: Honorable Mention - Monica Berra & Rebecca Weiss
News Section - Honorable Mention
Most Improved - Honorable Mention
Advisor of the Year - Tom Grozan

Student Rick Oxenhandler Awarded AOF Scholarship
Cooper City High School and the National Academy Foundation are pleased to announce that senior Rick Oxenhandler has been named a Citi Academy of Finance (AOF) Scholar for 2008. This prestigious program provides recipients with $20,000 in scholarship money, as well as the chance to apply for an internship with Citi in the summer of their junior year in college. Only 25 graduating seniors from Academies of Finance nationwide were awarded this honor. Congratulations to Rick Oxenhandler.

CCHS Students Win Ford/AAA Auto Skills Competition
Thomas Joswick and Christopher Dillman, students in the CCHS Automotive Program, have won the Florida State Finals, competing in the Ford/AAA Student Auto Skills competition, April 2008.

Each student walked away with an $8,000 scholarship, including a full scholarship with the Ford ASSET / Broward Community College educational program.

They won by finding and repairing approximately 13 problems (bugs) that are intentionally put into the engine, lighting systems and accessories systems of the vehicle. The CCHS team repaired a 2008 Ford Escape in 55 minutes, well under the 90 minute time limit. In doing so, they defeated 9 other schools from around the State of Florida in this ‘hands-on’ contest. The Cooper City High team managed to repair all of the “bugs” on the vehicle, and turned in a perfect car, in the fastest time.

Thomas and Christopher and their automotive instructor Dan Sorrentino will be traveling, all expenses paid, to Dearborn, Michigan, June 21-24, to compete in the National Auto Skills Competition, against the other 49 States. The budget for last year's state & national competition was approximately 13 million dollars. This is the grandest of all automotive competitions.

This is the 7th time CCHS students have won this prestigious contest! We have won in 1999, 2000, 01, 03, 04,and 06.

DECA Students Make Finals at ICDC
Cooper City High School's DECA chapter just returned from competing at DECA's International Career Development Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Our chapter took 52 students to compete - the most that we have ever sent to ICDC in a single year. Those students had to finish in the top five at the recent State competition in order to earn the right to travel to ICDC. There were over 13,000 DECA students from every state, and several other countries attending ICDC this year. Our student's enjoyed tremendous success with 10 of the 52 making it to the stage as finalists or higher.

Andrew Becker - Finalist Full Service Restaurant Management
Jared Frieder - Finalist Buying and Merchandising Team Decision Making
Ben Schlang - Finalist Full Service Restaurant Management
Kenneth Gaudinez - Top 20 in world Hospitality and Recreation Marketing Research
Seth Mahl - Top 20 in world Technical Sales
Kendra Medrano - Top 20 in world Hospitality and Recreation Marketing Research
Kathryn Radovan - Top 20 in world Hospitality and Recreation Marketing Research
Brian Yip - Top 20 in world Accounting Applications
Ian Margol - Top 10 in world Hospitality Services Team Decisions Making
Steve Shatkin - Top 10 in world Hospitality Services Team Decisions Making

Congratulations to all students that participated, and a big THANK YOU to DECA teacher Brian Chalk for his leadership and support. We look forward to even more success at next year's ICDC in Anaheim California.

CCHS and Pioneer Students Win STN National Competition
The results from the STN Nationals mail-in competition were announced on Saturday, May 10, and Broward Teen News received 4 honors... Congratulations to the following students:

• First Place - Middle School Feature
  "Pioneer Read-In" by Jenny Tintner & William Dean, Pioneer Middle
• Third Place - Sports Feature
  "Cirque Dreams" by Alysse Pujol and Matt Spinney, Cooper City & Stoneman Douglas
• Honorable Mention - News Story
  "Iguana Invasion" by Jaime Kaufman and Ben Juster, Western & Cooper City
• Honorable Mention - Middle School Feature
  "Protesting for Pickers" by Jenny Tintner, Pioneer Middle
  
  This competition was nation-wide receiving over 600 individual entries. For more information go to www.studenttelevision.com. These students will be recogized for their accomplishments at the BTN Awards Ceremony on Wednesday, May 14, 2008.

Melaine Malcolm awarded 2008 Silver Knight
In recognition to her unselfish contributions to her school and community, CCHS senior Melaine Malcolm has been awarded the 2008 Silver Knight in Mathematics. After the Virginia Tech shootings, Melaine determined to have a Peace Rally for the Cooper City community. She and her friend Heather Green did the contact work with the zone school administrators, mayor, religious leaders and other community leaders to stage the Peace Rally that was held last spring on the football field. It had a unifying, healing effect on the community.
Also receiving Honorable Mention were Kelly Riley (Drama), Jared Frieder (English) and Nicole Biller (Speech).

Congratulations to Melaine, Kelly, Jared, Nicole and all our nominees for representing the best in CCHS!

CCHS Represented on All County Team

With an impressive 36-6 record, we are proud to congratulate Ariel Klein for being selected to the Miami Herald's All-Broward Wrestling, First Team!!  Click on the link below for more information.

http://media.miamiherald.com/smedia/2008/04/07/21/allbrow-cheerwrest_e.source.prod_affiliate.56.pdf

Felicidades to Students that Competed in World Languages District Competition Winners

Please join the World Languages Department in congratulating the following World Languages District Competition Winners. 
Impromptu Speaking:
    Patricia Mayer 1st place
    Cesar Perez 1st Place
    Emily Deacon 3rd Place
Declamation (poem recitation)
    Cesar Perez 1st Place
    Patricia Mayer 2nd Place
    Emily Deacon 3rd Place
Talent
    Carolyn Pao 3rd Place
Projects
    Katie Feldman 4th Place
Posters
    Christine Leverett 1st Place
    Christine's poster was also selected as one of the best in the county and is currently being displayed at the county board offices.  If you happen to be in the building, stop by the 5th floor and check it out.

CCHS is very proud to Announce the Following Students as Our Nominees for the 2008 Silver Knight Awards 

Drama - Kelly Riley
English - Jared Frieder
Foreign Language - Michael Eisenberg
Mathematics - Melanie Malcolm
Music - Katie Feldman
Science - Carly Weisser
Social Science - Enid Magari
Speech - Nicole Biller

Click here to learn more about what these special students have accomplished. We wish them all the best at the judge's interviews March 12 and the awards presentation and ceremony April 29, 2008.

Wrestling Team wins 2008 District Championship

Congratulations to Coaches Sodergren and Schwartz and the Cowboy Wrestling Team for becoming 2008 District Champions. 10 out of 14 Wrestlers have advanced to the Regional Tournament at Stoneman Douglas High School. We are proud of how all our athletes placed. On to Regionals and States! Go Cowboys. Pin to Win!!

CTV Students Honored

Congratulations to Mr. Pichardo and two of his finest students,  Amanda Katz and Monica  Berra,  for their creation of the "Cooper City: Someplace Special" video.  The two students  created this video especially for Mayor Eisinger to take with her to an awards event hosted by Family Circle magazine, and attended by all of the Mayors of the top ten cities "in which to live and raise a family", including Cooper City, were recognized.   It was really a well-directed and cleverly filmed  video highlighting our very own Cooper City.  As a result of their excellent work the Mayor proclaimed December 11, 2007,  CTV DAY, at the commission meeting on December 11th.

Drama Department Deserves a Standing O

Congratulations to Cooper City High's Drama Department!! Not only did they receive straight excellent and superiors they were the only public school to receive two BEST in District Awards. Daniel McGuire for monologue acting, and Megan Boehm for costume design at the district competition this past week-end. These students along with Melissa Berger who won the Outstanding Thespian Scholarship award will represent Broward County at the State Competition in April.

JV Wrestling Team off to a Great Season

 The JV Wrestling Team had a successful start to their 2007/08 Season. Individual place winners at the Cypress Bay Tournament were: Jordan "Michigan" Smith - 1st (HWT), Gabe Gutierrez - 2nd (HWT), Cory Goldman - 2nd (152), Max Mittler - 2nd (145), Kaheem Jones - 4th (152). All other wrestlers performed well in their inaugural tournament.

Outstanding Band Performance at the State Championships

Congratulations to the Cooper City HS Sound of Pride Marching Band for their outstanding performance at the State Championship in St. Petersburg, FL.  In the preliminary competition the Sound of Pride scored high enough to place 4th in their class  which allowed them to move on to finals competition later that evening.  They were very consistent with their performance and kept their 4th place finish in the 5A class . This year they grew closer as a family and were one of the most professional groups at the show as they performed both on and off the field as champions. We're extremely proud of them all!  It truly was one of the most memorable shows in the State and thank you for keeping the name of Cooper City  HS strong in the State of Florida.

Cross Country Champions

Congratulations to Cross Country runners Brock Snider and Lyndsay Nichols for their performances at the Class 4A Cross Country championships. Brock and Lyndsay both finished with personal best times for the year and placed 67th and 59th respectively!

National Achievement Scholarship Semifinalists
We are very pleased to congratulate the following high school seniors who have been selected from the National Achievement Scholarship program participants who scored in the top 5%  and requested consideration in the 2008 National Achievement Program when they  took the 2006 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.  As semifinalists these students have an opportunity to advance in competition for scholarships to be offered in the Spring of 2008.  Congratulations to all of you for your academic excellence!!!!!

Winston Sanks
Ricky Oxenhandler
Kathryn Stemper
Thilan Wijeratne
Jeffy Joseph

Outstanding Student Writers Nationally Recognized
This month, the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) honor 595 high school outstanding seniors  as outstanding writers  in the 2007 NCTE Achievement Awards in Writing.  The recipients were chosen from 1937 students nominated in their junior year by their teachers from over 50 states.  Congratulations goes out to Jared Frieder and  Katie Ackley for their academic excellence in writing.

Outstanding Math and Science Students
Congratulations goes out to Jeffy Joseph and Cindy Gicala for having been selected as Cooper City High 's nominees for the 2008 Sunshine State Scholars recognition Program for Math and Science. The program is designed to recognize high school seniors by district, region and state who excel in mathematics and science.  District scholars will be determined locally and an asessment process developed.

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