CSW Teams Capture Top Honors at Envirothon
Congratulations to CSW’s Envirothon Team B for capturing 1st place at the state Envirothon Competition. Our A team placed 2nd and our C team placed 6th in the state. Our state champions now move on to the National Envirothon Competition at Trent University in Ontario, Canada, July 24-29. Kudos to CSW teacher moderators Rose Lounsbury and Greg Darone! Look for more information in the May newsletter.
The Charter School of Wilmington’s English Department is requiring that all students read one book prior to the start of the 2016-2017 school year. Here is our Summer Reading list!
Please note that AP students (both AP English Language and AP English Literature) will have additional books to read in preparation for the rigors of an AP course. These additional readings will be communicated directly from AP teacher to student.
Hopefully the selections will be both enjoying and interesting. We encourage parents and the rest of the CSW faculty to explore these books as well.
While we are requiring only one book for summer reading, we do hope that students take advantage of summer break to delve into reading by exploring the classics and discovering freshly published works. If you would like some guidance, please contact your English teacher, the English chair or Mrs. Mary Tise, the school librarian.
Please have the book in hand for the first day of class. In addition, the English department recommends annotating the book to promote active reading.
The Nerds are coming on March 31!
The Charter School of Wilmington’s Parent Association is throwing CSW a 20th Birthday party! The Nerds, New Jersey’s favorite cover band, will help the school celebrate twenty years of Nerds! The band plays a variety of R&B, Blues, Funk, Classic Rock, New Wave and Pop and is known for great music, horn rimmed glasses, ugly plaid shirts and a good time.
Ticket Sales
Floor/General admission tickets: $35
VIP balcony seats: $85
To order tickets, please visit http://www.worldcafelive.com or call The Queen’s Box Office at 302.994.1400
(Tickets purchased through The Queen are subject to processing fees. VIP tickets must be purchased through The Queen.)
General admission tickets may be purchased through CSW with no processing fees. Please email Brooke Balan at thebalans4@comcast.net to order.
Please include the following information in your email:
Ticket sales will also be available at various CSW events and in the coming weeks during lunch.
Silent Auction Information
Calling all Charter Parents, Alumni, Business Owners, Friends of Business Owners or Employees, or just anyone willing to ask for a donation! The Parent Association is now accepting any and all donations to be used in the silent auction for The Charter School of Wilmington Celebrates 20 Years of Nerds at the Queen concert event.
If you would like to make a personal donation, own a business or know any businesses that would like to make a donation we will gladly accept them. Charter Parents and Businesses who donate to our auction not only show their support to Charter, they also get publicity at the event which will be attended by hundreds! We are excited that we are not limited by space at the Queen and can have a truly amazing auction! All donors will get a thank you letter with the tax ID number so they can get a tax deduction.
You can drop donations off at the CSW Main Office, or Kelly would be happy to pick up your donations.
Contact Kelly Coffey if you have any questions or concerns at dksscoffey@gmail.com
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Summer Driver Education Opportunity – Register Online Today
Driver Education is offered free of charge to all Delaware 10th grade residents during the school year. Students who choose not to take Driver Education during the school year or have not successfully completed the course during the school year, may pay $550 to take CSW’s Summer Driver Education program.
The Class of 2016 continued the tradition of presenting the CSW faculty a Senior Class Gift at Commencement on June 4. This year’s award was a two-part gift. AaronRey Ebreo performed at Charter’s 20th Anniversary Concert on May 14. He generously offered to make the performance a part of the class gift, so $1,100 in ticket sales was donated towards the Senior Gift.
On June 4, Student Government President Jayna Lennon and the Class of 2016 presented Dr. Samuel Paoli and Mr. Pat Liberato with a check to purchase a SMART Board for a classroom on the “waiting list.” Senior students and families raised $2,864 for the SMART Board.
Concert attendees enjoyed Frank Sinatra songs and other songs performed by CSW senior AaronRey Ebreo, a Carnegie Hall repeat performer, at the 20th Anniversary Concert on May 14. Special guest performers included fellow classmates Stephan Habash, Esha Mishra and Hayeon Park.
First State’s Finest, an independent hip-hop/R&B record label run by CSW students, hosted the event.
Through Delaware’s SPARC initiative, Delmarva Power is partnering with The Charter School of Wilmington offering internships, job shadowing opportunities and scholarships to juniors and seniors.
Through this initiative, Delmarva Power sponsored $3,000 in scholarship awards at our Junior Science Fair for the second year in a row.
Delmarva Power Young Scientist Awards
Ashley Pennington ($500.00 Scholarship) Title: Investigating the Seebeck Effect at Ambient Temperatures: A Systems Approach
Christina Kim ($500.00 Scholarship) Title: The Effects of Wear on Exterior Paint
Delmarva Power Grand Awards
Grace Gong ($1,000.00 Scholarship – 1st Place) Title: Using Weather Balloons to Release Sulfate into the Stratosphere
YuQing Xie ($600.00 Scholarship – 2nd Place) Title: Electromagnetic Braking on a Copper Wheel: Modelling and Experiment
Jennifer Arisman and Evelyn Welsh ($100.00 Scholarship each – tied 3rd Place) Title: Comparing the Neurological Capacity of the Adult Flemish Giant and the Adult Mini Rex Oryctolagus Cuniculus
Maya Sitaram ($200.00 Scholarship – tied 3rd Place) Title: Role of Astrocytic Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors (mGluRs) in Synchronous Activity of Neurons
The Charter School of Wilmington is hosting its second Golf Tournament on Tuesday, June 20, 2017.
If you are a golfer, here’s your chance to play with CSW administration, faculty, alumni and fellow parents at the White Clay Creek Country Club on June 20. Look for registration information in a future email.
Interested in being a hole or event sponsor? Contact Donna Urban for more information by phone at 651-2727 (203) or by email at durban@charterschool.org.
Hole in One Car Sponsor
Garnet Volkswagen
Congratulations to our Envirothon teams!
On April 27, The Charter School of Wilmington captured the 2017 Delaware Envirothon state championship. Kudos to Team A members: Ashley Pennington, Allen Wang, Connor Sweeney, Catherine Yu and Siddharth Gangrade. The team will represent Delaware at the National Conservation Foundation North American Envirothon at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, Maryland in July.
Third place: The Charter School of Wilmington, Team B – Advaitha Anne, Albert Yuan, John Garcia, Elan Tran and Pooja Kaji.
Fifth place: The Charter School of Wilmington, Team C – Nicole Flowerhill, Tara Lennon, Eddie Huang, Priyanka Hoskere, and Harshitha Henry.
Team advisors: Rose Lounsbury and Greg Darone
Team A members: Ashley Pennington, Allen Wang, Connor Sweeney, Catherine Yu and Siddharth Gangrade
(photo by DNREC, State of Delaware)
The Charter School of Wilmington’s English Department is requiring that all students read one book prior to the start of the 2017-2018 school year. Here is our Summer Reading list!
Please note that AP students (both AP English Language and AP English Literature) will have additional books to read in preparation for the rigors of an AP course. These additional readings will be communicated directly from AP teacher to student.
Hopefully the selections will be both enjoying and interesting. We encourage parents and the rest of the CSW faculty to explore these books as well.
While we are requiring only one book for summer reading, we do hope that students take advantage of summer break to delve into reading by exploring the classics and discovering freshly published works. If you would like some guidance, please contact your English teacher, the English chair or Mrs. Mary Tise, the school librarian.
Please have the book in hand for the first day of class. In addition, the English department recommends annotating the book to promote active reading.
Back to School Dates
August 28 School opens for Grade 9 and Transfer Students (full day)
August 29 Grade 9 only (full day)
August 30 School opens for all grades (full day)
September 1-4 Labor Day holiday – No School
September 7 Back to School Night
September 21 Rosh Hashanah- No School – Teacher Work Day
CSW Recommended Calculator and Reward Stamps
All Charter students are required to have a basic TI-84 calculator. The teachers in the Mathematics Department use the TI – 84 plus silver edition. When you buy your TI calculator, please cut out the TI Technology rewards stamp, which is located somewhere on the packaging. Please have your student bring the stamp to Mr. Steve Satalino (Room 311) when school starts.
School Supplies
CSW does not have an official school supply list. Take advantage of the sales going on and when school starts, you may have a special request from a teacher for a binder, notebook, etc.
Summer Office Hours
The Main Office is open 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. daily.
The Charter School of Wilmington’s Open House for prospective students will be held on Saturday, October 28, from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. If you know any 7th or 8th graders who may be interested in applying to The Charter School of Wilmington, please encourage them to attend our Open House.
Guests will visit our Nanotechnology Lab and see our PumpLab Centrifugal Pump & Process Control System, a fully self-contained fluid flow laboratory enabling a range of study from introductory fluid mechanics through advanced fluid machinery analysis.
Meet our students, faculty, parents, alumni and Board members. Learn about our new initiatives and why we are excited about the Summer of 2018!
If you love Legos, K’nex, puzzles, computers, and math or science and have a desire to learn from an engaging faculty, then The Charter School of Wilmington is the right school for you!
Advanced Placement (AP) courses offer high school students the opportunity to demonstrate college level achievement. Advanced Placement exams are national tests, which are graded on a scale from 1 to 5, with 5 being the highest possible grade. Many colleges and universities allow students who have received a score of 3 or above to waive certain introductory courses and to apply those credits toward their degrees.
The Charter School of Wilmington offers the following AP Classes: Calculus (AB & BC), Statistics, Biology, Chemistry, Physics C, Environmental Science, Computer Science A, English Literature, English Language, Latin, Spanish Language, French Language, Psychology, U.S. History, U.S. Government and Economics.
Last May, 192 CSW students were named AP Scholars in the following categories:
63 AP Scholars - Granted to students who receive scores of 3 or higher on three or more AP Exams
41 AP Scholars with Honor – Granted to students who receive an average score of at least 3.25 on all AP Exams taken, and scores of 3 or higher on four or more of these exams
88 AP Scholars with Distinction - Granted to students who receive an average score of at least 3.5 on all AP Exams taken, and scores of 3 or higher on five or more of these exams
In addition, 37 students were named National AP Scholars (Granted to students in the United States who receive an average score of at least 4 on all AP Exams taken, and scores of 4 or higher on eight or more of these exams).
* Data taken from 2016 AP School Scholar Roster
UNICEF Club
In 1996, The Charter School of Wilmington opened its doors as one of the first independent public charter schools in the United States. For over two decades, we have offered a college preparatory program with a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics focus to high school students who are interested in math and science.
You do not need a perfect report card to apply. If you are excited about math and science and have a desire to learn from an engaging faculty, then we are the right school for you!
Read more about CSW’s admissions process here!
Learn more about the PSAT from this student presentation from the CollegeBoard. Topics include understanding scores, benchmarks and percentiles. Students can identify their strengths and work on skills that need improvement.
Coming in January 2018!
Senior YuQing Xie has been named one of 300 top scholars in the Regeneron Science Talent Search, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious math and science competition for high school seniors. YuQing was selected from more than 1,800 applicants due to his exceptional scientific promise, excellent academic record and outstanding recommendations from teachers and other scientists.
The title of his research is: “Modeling and Experiments of Electromagnetic Braking.”
Happy New Year!
We hope that everyone had a relaxing break and we just wanted to start 2018 by reminding our CSW families that we are here to serve you. Our administration, faculty and staff are expected to adhere to a mindful culture at all times. The pillars of our mindful culture can be found in the acronym PEACE:
Professional: CSW faculty are team players that are always prepared, diplomatic, timely, respectful, that refrain from gossiping and contributing to the rumor mill.
Productive: CSW faculty set goals and stay focused to complete them. We believe and model for our students the practice of working smarter and not harder.
Present: CSW faculty are always attentive to the immediate and live in the moment. We let the past go and allow for the future to work itself out.
Easily Accessible: CSW faculty are welcoming and have an open-door policy. Not only do we make ourselves available, but we respond quickly to emails and phone calls and are visible members of the CSW community.
Amenable: CSW faculty are receptive, responsive, adaptable, flexible, and open-minded to a variety of challenges and situations.
Compassionate: CSW faculty members are empathetic, non-judgmental, accepting, caring, helpful, sensitive, charitable, and understanding.
Egos checked at the door: CSW faculty embody humility, awareness and make student-centered decisions.
If at any time this is not your or your student’s experience, please do not hesitate to reach out to a member of the CSW Administration. We depend on your feedback to help keep The Charter School of Wilmington one of the top high schools in the nation. We look forward to a healthy and happy new year for all of our students.
Best Wishes,
CSW Administration
