**Last Issue of Cougars Roar for This School Year**

VICENZA OFT AWARDS FIRST $500 SCHOLARSHIP

The Vicenza OFT just awarded their first $500.00 scholarship to a 2008 graduating senior.

The recipient, M. L., met every requirement beyond expectations.  She has a 4.0 GPA, has had leadership positions in student government, sports, volunteer work, and participated in DoDDS-E sponsored events, such as Odyssey of the Mind and National History Day, for which she won 1st place in the Mediterranean District.  Megan has also been active in an array of community and church events.

OFT Vicenza is extremely happy to have had such a deserving student receive our very first OFT Scholarship.

Block Leave Packets
Are you planning to go on block leave at the end of the summer? Many of the teachers at VMHS have compiled packets of assignments for the first few weeks of school. If you are planning to be away when school starts up again, see Ms. B. or Ms. F. in the main office to pick up the work that you child will miss while he / she is gone. This will help ensure that your child will not have a pile of work to make up upon return to school.

Links of Interest

School Improvement Among the classroom activities planned to implement goal 2, i.e., information literacy, the social studies and foreign language focus group determined to use webquests. Indeed by locating, utilizing, and evaluating source materials, website evaluation, resource based learning, problem based learning, students improve their information literacy. Therefore, Italian 2 and 3 students worked on a webquest to create a travel brochure on a region of their choice. In the introduction they were told that they had just been hired by their local travel agency and their first job was to create interest in traveling to an Italian region. Their new boss had told them to create a travel brochure that could be presented to civic groups around the city. Their job depended on how many people signed up to visit the region they were describing. Here are some examples of students’ work.

Original wearable art! Check out shirts done by C. R., Y. A. and M. W.!

Have a cool idea for a T-shirt? Want something to do this summer with your friends? Ms. O.'s, Art Fundamentals class designed and painted their own t-shirts. Anyone can create their own design, the steps are simple:

1.Stretch a prewashed t-shirt over stiff cardboard that is covered with newspaper, stretching it smooth.
2. Draw your design lightly with chalk
3. Mask around or over your design with regular masking tape, making sure to apply it smoothly and cover all areas that you do not want to paint with newspaper.
4. Using only paste like acrylic paint
(add NO water) brush the paint straight down in a tapping motion, rather than back and forth.
5. Let dry and peel off the tape----and Voila!!

JROTC Chain of Command for Next School Year

For next school year, the following cadets have been selected to key leadership positions within the Vicenza High School Junior Reserve Officer Training Course (JROTC). The Cadet Commander will be Cadet Staff Sergeant A. C. The Executive Officer will be Cadet Staff Sergeant J. R. Performing duties as the First Sergeant will be Cadet Corporal R. U. 

The Cadet Staff will consist of Cadet Corporal T. T.y as the Personnel Officer, Cadet PFC A. R. as the Armorer, Cadet Sergeant T. N. as the Operations Officer, Cadet Corporal R. G. will perform duties as the Supply Officer, and Cadet Corporal A. Z. will be the Public Affairs Officer for the program.

Cougar Quick Clips

• Parents, did you register your children for school year 2008-2009? If not, please stop by the High School Nurse's office any school day between 0800 and 1500. Your child will not be assigned to a class until the registration process is complete.
  If you are not returning next SY, please contact Ms B. at the HS Office- 634-7072 - to request school records be prepared for withdrawal. Pick up records date is June 20th from 8.30 to 12.30.
• All students in 9th-12th grades must have a minimum cumulative grade point average of 2.0 in order to graduate from a DoDEA high school. 
• This is the first year that 1.5 credits of physical education is required to graduate from a DoDDs school.  The three classes are:  Physical Activity & Nutrition, Personal Fitness, and Lifetime Sports.  For more information, please see the high school counselors.
• The new primary contact phone number for the High School is 634-7374.
• The purpose of the H2.0 program is to improve students’ work ethic in completing assignments, to set high expectations for the quality and quantity of student work, and to help students meet the DoDDS’ 2.0 minimum GPA graduation policy.
• A reminder that ALL visitors to the school, including parents, need to get visitor badges before proceeding to their destination.

Chess Tip Of The Week Up until the early 20th century, it was mandatory to announce a check. Up until the late 19th century, it was mandatory to say 'check to the queen' or 'gardez' when she was attacked. At one time, if the King and other piece were simultaneously attacked by a piece, it was customary to announce the fact by saying check to both pieces.