Girls Represent Lunchbox Talks

Interested in learning about a new career, helping close the gender gap in the workforce, and getting some free snacks during lunch? Bring your lunch and a friend to the Girls Represent Lunchbox Talks! The DECA Girls Represent campaign aims to encourage girls to pursue careers lacking female representation. These Lunchbox Talks are a series of inspiring and informative talks delivered by female professionals in underrepresented fields. The talks will take place during A/B Lunch in the CHS Library on most Tuesdays in October. Everyone is welcome! Speakers include:

  • 10/9 – Dr. Kiki Sanford (CEO/Entrepreneur & “This Week in Science” Podcast Host)
  • 10/16 – Dr. Cynthia Cooper (Professor of Molecular Biosciences at WSU-V)
  • 10/30 – Dana Lukens (Former Military Staff Sergeant, Current Director of Global Logistics at Emerald Kalama)

The Inventors: Team Mean Machine 2471

The unassuming facade of Liberty Middle School’s northern side hides one of the most advanced and technologically intricate facilities in the region. CNC machines, metal lathes, band saws, and enough computers to be reminiscent of Star Trek, line the walls.

Team 2471 is a competitive robotics team comprised of students from Camas, Hockinson, Discovery, and Washougal high schools. Together they design, build and compete with original robots every year.

“We are presenting kids with challenges that they don’t think they can achieve, and then showing them how to achieve it,” said Roy Thornley, an adult mentor for Team 2471. “Each time we do that, we give them another one and another one and another one, and they are, in the process of learning how to do that, gaining enormous confidence in themselves.” Read more here.

CHS Learning Center

A New Place to Gather…

The Learning Center is open and ready to support students in numerous capacities. Located across from the ASB window is an environment created to accommodate tutoring, test taking, a place to “be” before or after school, all things Senior Project…and more!!

With the support of our Papermaker staff and students we hope to create a space that encompasses the tools needed for life in and out of the classroom for any student. We will have our doors open and would love drop- ins during Open House on Wednesday September 26th from 6-8pm. Our goal is to build a community feel of academic support on our campus that allows any student to feel welcome. We encourage anyone to come and check us out!!

Hours: Monday-Friday 7:30 to 4pm
Our Website can be located here.

For more info please email:
Sarah Widdop, Lisa Schneider, Charlotte Waters and Kristi Bridges

Congratulations National Merit Semi-finalists!

We are proud of these Papermakers! Congratulations goes out to Angela Xu, Monica Chang, Maia Kawamura, and Abigail Jiang who have been recognized as National Merit Semi-finalists based on their PSAT scores from last year.

The National Merit® Scholarship Program is an academic competition for recognition and scholarships that began in 1955.  In early September, about 16,000 students, or approximately one-third of the 50,000 high scorers, are notified that they have qualified as Semifinalists. To ensure that academically talented young people from all parts of the United States are included in this talent pool, Semifinalists are designated on a state-representational basis. They are the highest scoring entrants in each state. NMSC provides scholarship application materials to Semifinalists through their high schools. To be considered for a National Merit® Scholarship, Semifinalists must advance to Finalist standing in the competition by meeting high academic standards and all other requirements explained in the information provided to each Semifinalist.

Exclusive Summer Science Program

 Camas High School senior Monica Chang was one of 36 students from around the world to participate in the Summer Science Program in Biochemistry at Purdue University in Indiana, where she and others used wet lab techniques and modeling software to study an enzyme from a fungal pathogen and to design a small molecule inhibitor to protect crops from that fungus. The 39-day program, which has been around since 1959, also brings in guest speakers and lets students go on behind-the-scenes tours of local scientific and cultural sites. In 2017, Chang won the Oregon Bioscience Showcase Research Fast Pitch competition by giving a three-minute presentation in front of 200-plus people in the Empirical Theater at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. (Alisha Jucevic/The Columbian)