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Good evening everyone and welcome. I'm Cindy Sarlo, the math department chair here at Cheshire High School and go CHS math and Mrs. Debaro. You met her last time and she has joined us in the uh STEM portion of our program. So I will present so you can can see some of the information that we had last time and we're going to begin with uh Mr. Mchuan and we wanted to know if you could could share with our our viewers uh what is the best CTE class career and technical education class that an incoming freshman should take to open up your information slides. Um yeah it's a it's a couple page pamplet that they can look through.
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It has all of our courses and okay are available and some some other addition in there but yeah thank thank I mean we have 11 courses that friend can sign up for and by time they're a junior have over 30 courses that that students are available to take. Uh there alone we have 33 section freshmen are currently enrolled in. So we have plenty of them. So I guess I I'm going to turn the question back on to you and say, you know, what is that student interesting about? You know, because we we have department that encompasses family consumer classes all the way to technology um so if a student has interest in hospitality tour, I would recommend that they would start off in our culinary arts course because these can lead into other courses and foods and our peticery classes. Um, if a student has any education and training and human services, um, I would recommend that they would till their 10th grade year and sign up for one of our child development classes.
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Um, and until their 11th grade year, they'd earn college credit for the Yukon C into informationology creating on a computer whole ton of classes in the fresh air that we had more but something like a graph design class or our production course. Um, our one most popular freshman and we also have a class medium print production and they work on our high school yearbook. If you um swing and hammer and uh learning learning the parts of architecture, I would recommend possibly a resident class or our technical theater course that builds the sets for our fall play. Maybe maybe you see going into a career with them. Um, you know, we have a robotics engineering design class. I believe also one of our most popular course freshmen. Um, and I did see a question that, you know, if you're interested in being on our team, our robotics team 999 class is wonderful and class in our engineering profit in drawing dimensional dimensional CAD program.
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But what's really is what next year you coming freshman have opportunity some of our manufacturing course that are in partnership with Nagatuck Valley Community College new courses manufacturing specific manufacturing course um as a manufacturing fundamentals and those are going to be your foundation for more courses uh over the next two years where you earn industry level certifications and leave with some serious college credits um and prepare yourself for their advanced manufacturing or STEM or transfer those credits onto another four-year university. So, we have plenty of offerings and that's just your for your freshman people. Um so, come see us. We we have tons of hands-on classes that operate upstairs and downstairs. And if you have come see me later on, thank you so much. And just each segment is balanced. I forgot to introduce someone in the last segment and I forgot to introduce someone in this segment.
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How could I have forgotten Mrs. Leslie Pere who is the chair of our business department and actually the next question is for her. All right. Well, welcome um eighth graders who are going to be coming to the high school next year. We're looking forward to having you here. Um, my name is Lesie Pere and I am the business department chairperson and um some courses that you could uh take your freshman year. We offer four courses that um that really will help prepare you for your high school experience and beyond. And um those courses include a computer essentials class where you're going to learn a um keyboarding skill. I know most of you can type already, but this is a little bit different. Um, you're going to gain speed and accuracy. You're going to learn how to format documents that you're going to be creating at CHS in many of your other classes.
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Um, you'll learn how to format MLA reports. You'll be writing reports in your English classes, science classes, social studies classes. Um, you'll learn how to create tables. You might use those in your science classes, maybe in some of your math classes. So, there's a lot that of um of skills that you learn in the computer essentials course. There's a halfyear course and then there's a year-long course. And the year-long course differs a little bit where you're really going to take your um the skills that you learn to the next level. You'll be um you'll be creating uh documents with graphics um tables that are shaded and have many other um options. um you'll create brochures and you're also going to learn how to use uh Microsoft Excel. So, that's a a great way to get yourselves started um for your high school career. Um we also offer Microsoft Office and um that's another option.
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Microsoft Office is a semester class. And before I forget, you can also sign up for personal finance. Personal finance is a graduation requirement, but you could take that at any of your four years at Cheshire High School. So, just a few things that um you might want to consider um as adding that to your um nth grade course selection. So, did I answer that question, Mary? You sure did. And I would also add that the business department has a number of clubs where students take the skills that they learn in their classes and apply them immediately in in real world context. You want to talk just a second about some those those p those powerful experiences. I I do. Thank you for that intro. So, we have three great business clubs and it's a great way for new students to really meet other students um to get involved at Cheshire High School.
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And you might be thinking, well, we're, you know, we're not able to get together like we were before. These clubs haven't skipped a beat. They're meeting after school. Um, the Mock Trial Club, great club, especially if you're interested in possibly a legal career, um, or you're just interested in the law or you just want to participate. They're actually competing, um, this Friday against other teams throughout the state. Normally, that would take place in a courthouse, but they've got it all figured out this year, and it's going to be a great experience for the mock trial students. Um, we also have a club called DECA. And DECA used to be much more geared towards marketing, but it's really a much um broader business spectrum now. And students in the DECA club, again, starting with ninth graders, are learning great skills, presentation skills. Um, many of our students, including ninth graders, have competed at the state level as well as at the national level.
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So, as um as Dr. Gad said, you're taking skills that you're learning um in your business classes, also combining skills that you're learning in many of your other classes here at CHS, and you're able to compete. You uh create um all sorts of projects using those skills. Uh the third club that we have are is the Future Business Leaders of America. And um again, our focus is on business. Just a little bit of a a different um a different club um that students join. They're also competing at the state level and at the national level. Um they both DECA as well as um Future Business Leaders of America have guest speakers come in um to really um enhance the curriculum um enhance the club um and what students are learning. So, I hope you will consider taking one of our business classes. I think you'll really enjoy it after your freshman year.
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Many more business classes open up where you can really find uh an area that you're interested in, marketing, accounting, uh there's an introduction to business class. Um there are career classes. So, I won't list them all for you right now.
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Um but if you have any questions, feel free to email me. uh and um I will share more with you at that point. So, thank you. Thank you so much. And I'm hearing a lot of math in those courses that you that you just introduced. So, Mrs. Sarlo, can you talk to us a little bit about the math courses that students take and Mrs. Baro is u intimately involved in supporting a number of math courses. So, I will put the math course sequence up and we'd love to hear uh some of the experiences that our ninth graders have in the math department. Excellent. Thank you, Dr. Gad.
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And you know, I would be more than happy to talk math and you're only giving me a little bit of time, so hopefully if you have any questions beyond this little bit of time now, certainly uh join me at 7:15 and we can have further conversation about the best subject ever. Math is everywhere. So what you see in the the document that we have here is entitled typical course sequence in mathematics. And that's an interesting title for me because our students are all different. They they the piece that's typical for them is the fact that they're taking algebra 1, they're taking geometry, they're taking algebra 2. What's not typical is when they take it and what they take after that. So students graduating Cheshure High School the typical course sequence that they follow at some point they have a credit in algebra 1, geometry, algebra 2 typically.
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But as you know there are students that take algebra 1 at DOD. There are students that take geometry at DOD. So one of the questions that we had in the Google form was can a student coming from DOD get high school credit having taken alpha 1 at DOD and having taken geometry at DOD? And the answer to that is yes. with this new state graduation requirements. Yes, that student will be coming in with two Cheshire High School math credits, having taken algebra 1 at Dodd and having taken geometry at Dodd and successfully passed them. So, that student will be coming in as a ninth grader taking algebra 2. And to kind of segue into another question that we had um in the Google form, can I take AP classes at the high school? Absolutely. Um, so coming in once you get your algebra 2 background and from 10th grade and beyond, we have a number of AP courses that we offer.
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AB, AP computer science principles, AP computer science A for those who are interested in computer programming. We have um AP Calculus AB which uh provides the opportunity to earn a college credit in calculus one and AP calculus BC which provides the opportunity to earn two credits for college calculus calculus one and calculus 2. Um so that is our our furthest course. So we go from algebra 1 through AP calculus BC. And with algebra one, I'm going to defer to Mrs. Buro. We have um the honor and privilege of of having her be part of our math team py um and she helps to support our students in the mathematics classroom. So, Mrs. Petaro, you co-e with one of our teachers, uh Mr. Fidella. So, if you want to talk a little bit about that course, I'll defer to you. Sure. So, um, one of the unique opportunities Cheshire High School offers is what we call a double algebra 1 class.
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And that class is designed to, um, really provide students time to really um, master those foundational math and algebra one skills and um to also build confidence at the same time. And I I have to say that um you know we we we canvas our students often and the response that we get from the students that are involved in that particular classes they are um they have found it to be very successful and helpful and a great launching point or launching pad for the rest of their math career. Um I would have to say overall special education has a pretty strong presence in the math department. Um, we co-e uh algebra 1, geometry, and algebra 2 as well as we offer small groupoup math classes. And again, as I mentioned in the humanities portion of tonight, all of that individualized specialized instruction is driven by the PPT process and outlined in an individual IEP.
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Thank you, Mrs. Baro and Dr. G. I had one more question um that someone submitted. So, do I have time to get to that before you turn this over? All right. So, there was a third question that someone submitted. Can my son take algebra 2 before geometry? So, here at Cheshire High School, the way the math sequence is set up, students go from algebra 1 to geometry to algebra 2. So, here at Cheshure High School, the answer to your question would be no. your um child would take your son would take the algebra 1 then go to geometry and then take algebra 2. So I think that hits all of the questions that were submitted um and I did leave out AP stats and Dr. Gat if you give me 30 more seconds can I give a shout out to our extracurriculars. Excellent. Absolutely. Thank you.
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Excellent. All right. So, we have the coding club for those students who are interested in doing programming, just getting together with with other students who are interested in that same area. We have our our math teams. Greater New Haven Math League meets. Um it it's a wonderful opportunity for those students who are interested in math competitions. They meet once a month and they they meaning students from I believe it's 17 different schools in the area and it's about 300 students that descend on this competition and and do math problems for about an hour. It's a phenomenal experience just to witness the energy in the room and now witness the energy in the virtual room. So there's an opportunity to get involved there. We also have coming up next Thursday our um national mathematics competition. So, so there's an opportunity for for all those math lovers out there.
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So, go CHS math and and I'll turn it over. Thank you very much. Mrs. Barker, can you talk with us about the science offerings for incoming ninth graders? And I will put up your science course sequence. So we offer a variety of classes in science throughout the four years for our students and uh we have a typical science sequence and then we have an accelerated science sequence as well. So I encourage you to watch I did push out to you all the screencast that explains this in a lot of depth and detail for you. The two courses that we really have in freshman year are earth science or biology. The majority of our students will take earth science. This gives them that background to understand the the world around them to understand weather, uh, astronomy, geology, all of these things that occur in the world around us that we see every day.
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Um, and we work on building our science and engineering skills. We look at our crosscutting concepts that cut across all of our science classes. And we have disciplinary core ideas. These are all part of the next generation science standards which are incorporated in all of our classes. So for most freshmen, you will take earth science as a freshman. Um if you're ahead of grade level, uh you can take the CCP biology as a freshman. And this would then give you an opportunity to take more of our AP and advanced science offerings in your junior and senior year. All of our students will have the opportunity, should they choose, to uh try to take advanced and AP science classes, no matter which sequence they follow. Um, but by by taking that accelerated sequence, they can get more of them into their schedule. So, we offer a variety of things.
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All of our freshmen are either going to be in our earth science or our biology. Uh, and then the variety of offerings go from there. So hopefully that addresses the freshman year classes. Um, one of the questions that was on the Google form was about the AP and ECE class uh that we have. So we have many offerings here that are both AP and ECE courses. They include two AP physics courses. One is a calculus based and one is a an algebra based. We have a biology course that is ECE and AP. And we have an environmental science course that is both ECE and AP along with our AP chemistry class. So all of the ECE classes allow students to earn college credit through the Yukon program which can be used anywhere. Uh they can transfer those credits to almost any college. It's a nationally accredited program.
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