2021-2022 ASB Leadership
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BERKELEY HIGH SCHOOL
STUDENT BULLETIN
Lottie D., Chief of Publicity
Adam W., Chief of Publicity
Jack W., Chief of Publicity
Mr. V, Director of Student Activities
Current Bulletin Schedule Monday, Wednesday, Friday
October 6, 2021
Watch today’s bulletin on our @Juicethejackets Instagram
Here is today’s video bulletin
School board Meeting is Tonight
Come to the school board meeting on Wednesday, October 6th at 7:00 pm to speak on a student vaccination mandate and your experiences with Title IX and sexual harm at BUSD.
Zoom link and agenda in @anjunamschoolboard instagram account.
Title IX Resource Document
Curated by Abby Lamoreaux
Last Chance Student ID photos is TODAY!
If you missed taking a student ID photo during registration week there is one last make-up day scheduled for Wednesday October 6th during lunch and after school in the BHS Cafeteria.
BHS STAFF, please stop by during your prep starting at 10:00 am.
Visit Mylifetouch.com for information on 2021-22 LifeTouch School Photos
To browse and purchase packages before your Photo Day.
To purchase packages after Photo Day, you will need a Portrait ID from the order form.
SENIOR PORTRAITS ARE COMING UP!
October 25th-28th & November 1st-6th
Emails will be sent out 14 days prior to your appointment with your date and time.
Prestige Portraits will be offered on the BHS Campus in the Wrestling Mat Room located adjacent to the M-Gym.
If you need to reschedule-or have not gotten an email;
please reach out to: byarea@lifetouch.com
Jazz @ Lunch returns this Friday
Ba-da-bass and rattling drums on a rumbling stage…This Friday at lunch, Jazz Band Director Ms. Cline will present to Berkeley High the Four O’Clock Band. The concert will take place by the portables between M gym and Jacket stadium. Tables and chairs will be set up.
BHS Athletics Update
Join BHS Wrestling
For anyone interested in joining the wrestling team this year, there will be a pre-season meeting next Tuesday (October 12th) in room H112 at lunch. Don’t have any idea what the sport is about? This is the time to learn. Want to meet the team? We’ll be there.
If you can’t make it but are still interested, just let us know. You can talk to Mr. Nathan (in H112) or the captains, Marina Pedemonte or Dash Allen.
Submitted by benjaminnathan@berkeley.net
Softball Players
There will be a meeting for everyone interested in playing softball next year on Wednesday, October 6th at 4:30 on the BHS varsity softball field. Information will be provided about offseason conditioning, practices and the softball season. The meeting is for players and coaches only, no parents are allowed on campus due to COVID restrictions.
Please register for softball using this link: BHS Athletics – Athlete Registration
Here is this week’s Yellow Jacket sports action…
Girls Field Hockey faced off against Lick-Wilmerding Tigers on Monday and travel to the Tamalpais Red-Tailed Hawks today.
Girls Tennis had a home match yesterday versus the Hayward Farmers with a home match versus the San Leandro Pirates.
Girls Golf swing the clubs tomorrow against the Albany Cougars.
Girls Volleyball played the Piedmont Highlanders at home yesterday and again in Donahue Gym versus the Alameda Hornets
The Boys & Girls Water Polo teams play Lick-Wilmerding today in the BHS Natatorium. The Boys Water Polo plays on the road at Tamalpais High tomorrow.
Cross Country has a meet at Hayward High today.
And on Friday night, the Football & the BHS Cheer Squad will swarm all over Piedmont at Jacket Stadium.
Good luck Jackets!
In addition, you can tune into games on the (BHS ATHLETICS YOUTUBE CHANNEL).
Monday: 4:30 – Varsity Girls Field Hockey vs. Lick-Wilmerding
Tuesday: 6:30 – Varsity Girls Volleyball vs. Piedmont
Thursday: 6:30 – Varsity Girls Volleyball vs. Alameda
Friday:
4:30 – JV Football vs. Piedmont
7:00 – Varsity Football vs. Piedmont
Water Polo is also streaming live on Wednesday on their Twitter channels:
4:45 – Boys Varsity vs. Lick-Wilmerding (https://twitter.com/JacketBoysPolo)
5:45 – Girls Varsity vs. Lick Wilmerding (https://twitter.com/JacketGirlsPolo)
For upcoming games & more scores, visit
Would you like to change the world?
Get nominated for The Changemaker Project!
The Changemaker Project is a social justice leadership course, mentoring program, and design challenge for teens. TCP is looking for nominations of students with a passion for leadership and activism.
In the program, students from around the world join a live course each Wednesday @ 4pm to learn about social and climate justice issues, develop unique social impact projects, and build community with other activists from around the globe. You can win funding for your projects at Global Pitch, and receive mentorship throughout the year as you build and launch your projects.
Berkeley High has been participating in The Changemaker Project for the last four years, and our teams have won funding every year.
In order to participate, you must be nominated by a BHS staff member or TCP alum. The deadline to be nominated has been extended to Oct. 8th. If you’re interested in joining, ask a teacher to nominate you by giving your name to Matt Albinson (mattalbinson@berkeley.net) by this Friday, Oct. 8th. You can learn more about the program at thechangemakerproject.org.
The Guardian Project is Offering Free Martial Arts
Check out the promo video here
The Guardian Project is a 501c3 non-profit founded in 2015 that offers free martial arts to youth. Guardian has recently moved to South Berkeley at 3007 Sacramento St, less than one mile away from Berkeley High. With this move they are accepting new students ages 14-16 interested in learning Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.This program will focus on the grappling side of MMA with takedowns, dominant ground control, and submission attacks. All students will be 100% sponsored to take classes, provided training gear, and the chance to compete in local tournaments if interested. Classes will be held Monday-Friday 5pm-6pm beginning in mid October. Masks will be required.
This program has limited availability, if you are interested in enrollment please apply at guardiangym.org and you will get a response shortly.
For any questions you can follow Guardian on instagram at @guardiangym.
Join 9th Grade Leadership!
Hey Class of 2025, Rep your hive! Even if you have not thought of yourself as a leader, you should consider adding your name to the 9th Grade Leadership Lottery. Instead of an election or interview, ASB Leadership will be conducting a lottery to select one representative from each Hive and an additional five students from any hive.
Over the course of 10-12 weeks as a team, you will work on a team fundraiser, decide on an activity where you will spend those funds, and collaborate on a 9th grade community campaign. We hope that many of you in the Class of 2025 will enter into this Leadership Lottery starting today up until the deadline of October 8th. The team will be selected on lucky October 13th.
Complete this form by October 8th.
Submitted by Anna Khan-Akselrod, Commissioner of Elections and Mr. V
STEMinist Club Presents Robotics Month
Are you interested in learning about careers in robotics? Join the STEMinist Club’s exploration of the field during October! Hear from women guest speakers who are working in the industry right now. This includes Lisa Winter, a BattleBots Judge, and Ellen Novoseller, an artificial intelligence roboticist working on machine learning in healthcare. Introductory programming workshops, circuit kits, and a tour to the UC Berkeley Robot Learning Lab will be conducted as well. Join us in G213 on Wednesdays during lunch!
STEMinist Club Mission: Our mission is to create a safe and encouraging environment for people who are interested in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, and gender inequality issues, all while bringing awareness to the underrepresentation of women in STEM.
Submitted by bhssteminist@gmail.com
@bhs.steminist
Improve Writing Skills or Creativity with Youth Speaks
Youth Speaks Writing Workshops are Wednesdays 3:30-5:00 pm
If you are looking to improve your writing skills or creativity, consider joining the writing workshops with Youth Speaks. Register for the online After School workshop using the link in the bulletin.
In addition, their annual Life is Living Festival is officially on October 8-10. There are so many exciting opportunities for everyone to gather online and in-person this year, so check out the schedule and be sure to register to attend, especially for the safe outdoor activities for youth and teens at Lil Bobby Hutton Park in Oakland.
@youthspeaks
It’s Meatless Monday!
It’s Meatless Monday! Time to save the world and your pockets with delicious, affordable vegetarian and plant-based options around campus. Tofu Oori triangles? School lunch? Ike’s Meatless Mike? The options are endless. Reducing your meat consumption is one of the most effective ways to combat climate change and participating in Meatless Mondays is an easy and impactful way to do it. Look out for our new posters designed by Rioka Hayama around school starting this Tuesday. Take the challenge, Jackets!
@bhsmeatlessmonday
Hackathon
We’re TeenTechSF, a teen-run nonprofit committed to providing equal access to tech for all teens. On Sat, Oct 9th-Sun, Oct 10th, we hope your community will join us for our 2021 TeenTechSF Civic Hackathon, an amazing opportunity for hundreds of teens to explore the world of STEM! All of our events are free and peer-led.
All are welcome in two action-packed days of workshops, panels, and prizes, as teens collaborate to develop tech solutions to solve problems in our own communities! This year’s focus is on “Tech for COVID Recovery” – get together with other teens to create new innovations to tackle the spread of COVID misinformation, support small business owners and low-income families coming out of the pandemic, or improve accessibility to COVID and mental health resources.
First time hackers are highly encouraged to participate! Beginner friendly, we’ll have experienced mentors on hand to help with brainstorming and coding plus workshops on website & app development, pitch development, and prototyping. Sign up with friends or we’ll help you find a team! https://2021-ttsf-civic-hackathon.eventbrite.com/
Like all TeenTechSF events, this event is completely FREE, but advance registration is required! Open to all students 13-18 years old — no previous coding experience necessary.
Register now! 2021-ttsf-civic-hackathon.eventbrite.com
Event is free, but space is limited and advance registration is required.
TeenTechSF is run by and for teens – Find out more about Who We Are and What We Do at TeenTechSF.org and fill out bit.ly/TTSFLeadershipForm if you’d like to join the TeenTechSF student leadership team!
We hope to see your community at a TeenTechSF event soon!
@teentechsf
BHS Skateboard Workshop
Want to MAKE something awesome?
Are you interested in Art, Design, or learning how to work with tools?
Sign up for the BHS Skateboard Workshop and build your own skateboard!
This workshop will take a small group of students like you through the entire design process so no prior experience is necessary. From research and planning to woodworking, computer design, 3D Printing and casting you will learn as you build!
This is a very hands-on workshop where you learn safe tool use, practice craftsmanship, and use problem-solving skills to take your ideas from concept to completion. Start with raw wood and metal and walk out (roll out?) with a totally custom skateboard of your own design; built by you from scratch!
Apply at – at tinyurl.com/SkateWS . . . . . thats tinyurl.com/SkateWS
Workshop classes are on Saturday mornings starting October 9th.
Submitted by dirkwright@berkeley.net
@bhsskateworkshop
Physics Club Lecture on October 8th
The Berkeley High School Physics Club is back with their second event of the year! On October 8th, Dmitry Budker, will speak to us about the symmetries of the universe – or more specifically, how they are broken and what that means for the universe! Here is more information:
What: Breaking the Fundamental Symmetries of the Universe
Fundamental symmetries play a key role in physics. Interestingly, many of them are broken, with the most famous example being violation of spatial inversion symmetry (parity). We will discuss how fundamental symmetries are studied in the laboratory, for example, in table-top atomic and molecular physics experiments.
Who: Professor Dmitry Budker
When: October 8, 3:30 PM Pacific Time
Where: Zoom
We hope you can join us!
Submitted by physicsclubbhs@gmail.com, alessandraionescuz@students.berkeley.net, anoushkachitnis@students.berkeley.net
@physicsclubbhs
Improve Writing Skills or Creativity with Youth Speaks
Youth Speaks Writing Workshops are Wednesdays 3:30-5:00 pm
If you are looking to improve your writing skills or creativity, consider joining the writing workshops with Youth Speaks. Register for the online After School workshop using the link in the bulletin.
In addition, their annual Life is Living Festival is officially on October 8-10. There are so many exciting opportunities for everyone to gather online and in-person this year, so check out the schedule and be sure to register to attend, especially for the safe outdoor activities for youth and teens at Lil Bobby Hutton Park in Oakland.
@youthspeaks
Art Contest for the Tobacco Prevention Program
The City of Berkeley’s Tobacco Prevention Program developed a contest that focuses on the dangers youth see from flavored tobacco products. The type of art is any art that can be submitted via pdf. Please create and send an 8.5 x 11-inch size image. It can be a photo, drawing, painting, sculpture, magazine clippings, etc… There will be Target gift card prizes for the top 3 submissions as judged by the Tobacco Prevention team. The deadline to submit is November 30th. Review the flyer and click here for more details.
Contact quitnow@cityofberkeley.info
Quick Links
Submit an entry for the BHS Film Festival BHS Film Festival Submissions
Complete a Free & Reduced Lunch Application secure.ezmealapp.com
Join a BHS Student Club BHS Student Club List
Register a new or returning club before October 31st Register a BHS Student Club for 2021-22
BHS Athletics Berkeleyhighathletics.org
Class of 2022 Senior Letter Senior Info, Dates & Resources
Submit A Bulletin
If any BHS student or staff member is interested in submitting an announcement,
there are some basic guidelines to follow:
Here are the basic guidelines for submitting a bulletin:
1. It must be relevant to roughly 100 or more students or staff members.
2. It must be a message that promotes community and builds up positive school culture.
3. Please no birthday announcements or personal requests.
Please submit your morning announcement to the Google From by Monday morning: http://bit.ly/bhsstudentbulletin
About
ASB Leadership is a collective student voice composed of a diverse body of student leaders. Our mission is to create a more positive and engaging experience at Berkeley High through civic engagement, community building, sustainability, social events, and positive staff-student relations.
Useful Links
Contact Info
Berkeley High ASB Leadership
1980 Allston Way, Berkeley CA United States 94704
johnvillavicencio@berkeley.net
510.644.8990
Go Jackets!
Notification of Non-Discrimination Policy
The Berkeley Unified School District is committed to providing a hostile-free working and learning environment. The District prohibits discrimination, harassment, bullying, intimidation, and retaliation, based on actual or perceived race, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding/lactation status (related medical conditions), religion, color, national origin (including language restrictions and possession of a driver’s license (issued under Vehicle Code), ancestry, immigration status, physical or mental disability (including clinical depression and bipolar disorder, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, epilepsy, seizure disorder, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and heart attack), medical condition (cancer-related and genetic characteristics), military and veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age (40 and above), genetic information, political belief or affiliation (unless union related), a person’s association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance, or regulation in any program or activity it conducts or to which it provides significant assistance.
Discrimination is different treatment based on a protected characteristic in the context of an educational program, work or activity without a legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason that interferes with or limits the individual’s ability to participate in or benefit from the services, activities, or privileges provided by the District or includes an adverse employment action.
Hostile environment harassment occurs when a target is subjected to unwelcome conduct based on a protected characteristic, which is both subjectively offensive to the target and would be offensive to a reasonable person of similar circumstances/characteristics and is sufficiently so severe, and so pervasive to interfere with or limit an individual’s ability to effectively work or to participate in or benefit from the services, activities, or opportunities offered by the District. Harassment may take many forms, including but not limited to, verbal remarks and name-calling, graphic and written statements, or any conduct that may be threatening or humiliating. Harassment based on any of the above protected categories is a form of unlawful discrimination and will not be tolerated by the District and can result in disciplinary action against the offending student or employee.
Upon witnessing an act of discrimination, harassment, bullying, intimidation, and retaliation, based on actual or perceived protected characteristics, school personnel are required to take immediate steps to intervene when it is safe to do so. Once a school/office has expressed notice or reason to know of such conduct, whether carried out by employees, students, or third parties, it should take immediate and appropriate steps to investigate, determine what occurred, take prompt and effective steps reasonably calculated to end the conduct, eliminate a hostile environment, if one has been created and prevent the conduct from occurring again. These steps should be taken regardless of whether an individual makes a complaint or asks the school/office to take action. Complaints are protected from retaliation. The District prohibits retaliation against any person who files a complaint or an appeal, reports instances of noncompliance, discrimination, harassment, bullying, and intimidation, or who participates in the complaint-filing or investigation process. This nondiscriminatory policy applies to all acts related to school activity or school attendance within any school/office under the jurisdiction of the Berkeley Unified School District.
For more information, or to file a complaint please contact:
District Title IX Coordinator/Compliance Officer Berkeley Unified School District, 2020 Bonar Street, Room 117, Berkeley CA 94702 Phone: (510) 486-9338; Email: complaints@berkeley.net