Last Wednesday, Magnetos of all grades gathered in the North Commons for a shared early release lunch of socializing and great food. Thank you to all the parents who provided refreshments and helped to organize …
On January 15th, Dana Sparling gave a radio broadcast recital on All Classical Radio, a station with over 250,000 listeners across the world. Dana is a rising flutist and All Classical Radio’s current young artist …
Registration is now open for the Beaverworks Spring Yes You Can! program for 9th and 10th grade students! This is a Completely FREE program designed for students with little to no prior STEM experience, allowing them to explore …
Calling all students planning to apply to the CHS MST Magnet program! Here’s an overview of the admissions timeline. Our first first event of the year will be the Parent & Student Magnet Info Night …
As a Magnet tradition, we usually have a program-wide breakfast every semester. Our first semester breakfast, held on the Friday before winter break in the North Commons, was a great success. Students of all grades …
In early December, our freshmen and sophomore students present their 1rst semester research progress their research to their peers and a panel of MST staff and graduates. Our returning MST alumni come from all over …
On December 8th, the MST Senior Symposium was held at the Zellerbach administration center. Seniors presented the internship projects that they completed over the summer to the Camas School District community as well as MST …
Since the beginning of the school year, sophomore Magnetos have been reading and analyzing Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. After studying the play, the students were challenged to create their own short movie retellings of key scenes …
Our MST overnighter the Friday before Thanksgiving break was a great success. Magnetos spent the night at CHS playing games, doing karaoke, sharing snacks, and enjoying one giant schoolwide sleepover! Students bonded overnight while building …
Last Friday, 10th grade Magnetos had a pizza party in Ms. Robert’s class to celebrate their success on last year’s AP Environmental Science exam. Through hard work and dedication, the whole Magnet APES class finished …
Each December our freshmen and sophomore students present their 1st semester project study progress to a panel of staff and program graduates. It’s one of the highlights of our year, as graduates returning home from college, grad school, work, get to spend time with family and friends and also reconnect with our program and help give feedback. After formal presentations from the students, our grads participate in a panel where they share their post-high school experience with us. This is one of the three panels that took place in our three presentation rooms. If you watch the video of the grad panel, be sure to turn on the auto-generated subtitles to help you “hear” what they’re saying. (Room #2 Panel & Room #3 Panel)
On December 11th, 2023, the Magnet senior class presented their summer internship work and projects to the Camas School District school board and community at the Zellerbach Administration Center. After the poster fair, staff, students, and community convened for the regular school board meeting to hear formal presentations of internships by seniors Shiven Friedeman and Madi Williams.
Mr. Friedeman collaborated with Dr. Guo in California to observe technological trends in medicine and collect data on their efficacy. His abstract goes into further detail on this process: “The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness and longevity of … new forms of technology in patients following operation. The sample group with which data was derived all had PAD or CKD, surgical treatment involving the use of new technology within the last 12 months, and two ultrasounds surrounding the time of surgery. Based on a paired t-test, we fail to reject the null hypothesis, supporting the notion that these technologies have a prolonged effect on the body; however, there is not enough information to reasonably conclude that these technologies are more efficient. In order to answer the guiding question, more data over a greater period of time is required.” Poster: Impact of Modern Vascular Technology on Patient Health
Ms. Williams conducted an internship at the PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center within the anatomic pathology department working with Dr. Singh and Dr. Allen. Here’s a synopsis of her work: “The purpose of my research was to determine if the PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center needed to refine its practice of formalin use within the anatomic pathology department. Currently, if a sample is removed from the patient in the operating room over the weekend, it will be placed in the fridge in the gross room until the lab techs can place it on formalin on Monday. Because this allows the sample multiple days to begin autolysis, the pathologists were interested to see how often this degradation period would actually affect their ability to get a diagnosis from the sample. This information could then be used to determine if the practice in the gross room at the hospital needs to be changed in order to improve patient care …”Poster: The Effects of Delay with Formalin Use in Pathology
Congratulations, seniors, on completing your internships and moving one step closer to graduation!
Congrats to 2019 CHS/MST alumna Rachel Blair on the recent publication of her thesis research on military justice in Chile. In her words: “I am excited to share that my paper on military justice in Chile has been published! Thank you to the Mary Gates Endowment for supporting this research, my wonderful thesis advisor Angelina Godoy and the JSJIS team for their collaboration and insight during this process.”
The Camas High School MST Magnet program (45 students and 5 staff) took a field trip this past weekend to Ashland, Oregon, the home of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, to see productions of Romeo and Juliet and Rent, as well as participating in a workshop on Saturday morning with OSF staff. The trip was a rousing success, representing our triumphant return to this beloved field trip that last happened in 2019! A special thanks to the students, staff, and parents who worked together to make this yet another memorable trip. We are already counting the days till the 2025 trip!
Each year we host an orientation for our incoming freshman class where our newest students, staff, and upperclassmen play ice breakers, tour the school, and compete in the annual Magnet Olympics. Congratulations to this year’s winners: Liya B., Adiv C., Elly J., Kyla J., and Grant P. Their inscribed name plaque joins a long and distinguished list of Magnet Olympic winners going back over a decade. Nice work, Magnetos!
See below for a recent release from our friends at M.I.T. These are great, well-run programs that are offered. We’ve had several students benefit from them.
We are excited to announce the BWSI Fall Program (virtual) for 10th and 11th Grade female students starting in October. The program is completely free, all students need are laptops and wifi to be a part of the program. If a student does not have a laptop they can reach out to us for a loaner so make sure that doesn’t stop anyone from signing up. While all BWSI programs are open to eligible students of any gender identity, this fall program is designed to encourage and support female students in STEM.
We are offering the following programs: Girls Who Program Autonomous Cars! Girls Who Design, Build and Fly Model Aircraft! Girls Who Want to Learn Many Interesting Things (MIT)! Girls Who Program Cognitive Assistants! Girls Who Want to Learn Back to bASICs! Girls Who Program Racing Drones!
WHO: High School 10th and 11th Grade Female Students (9th grade students can apply as well, but first spots will be given to those in 10/11th grade)
WHEN: Saturdays 11am-2pm (EST): October 14, 21, 28, November 4, 11, 18, December 2, 9, 2023
The attached brochure has more information on what each course will be offering. We would love it if you could share with your students. The first page has all the information and can be posted around your school or emailed to your students!
Must fill out application link to be considered, the application is very quick. Students must sign up by September 18, 2023.
We appreciate your help in letting your students know about this program for them and look forward to seeing them participate in the program!
Magnetos from grades 9-12 (and even a few alumni) attended our annual end of the year picnic on Friday, June 2nd, at Grass Valley Park in Camas, WA. The sunshine was flowing, as well as the spikeball, volleyball, basketball, burgers, and dogs. Thank you to all the MST parents and students who contributed side dishes, condiments, drinks, etc. for this annual tradition. We’re almost there, Magnetos …
It was a great to see so many parents, friends, family, mentors, and many of our newest MST cohort (Class of 2027) at last week’s Spring Research Symposium, our 16th annual. While the poster fair took place in the Commons, this slideshow played in the background. It celebrates in particular our graduating seniors, but it’s also really a celebration of the work and play that is at the heart of our community and program. Best of luck to our graduating seniors, wherever they may be heading next. And thank you as always for your continued support. Have a great end of the year and summer.
You are cordially invited to our 16th annual MST Symposium on Wednesday, May 24th, at Camas High School. Our 9th, 10th, and 12th graders have spent considerable hours on their research this year and would love to show you what they’ve accomplished. The first hour (6:00 pm to 7:00 pm) will be an informal showcase and poster fair in the Main Commons with light refreshments and some musical entertainment from some of our students. The second hour (7:00 pm to 8:00 pm) will be in the Theater, with a senior panel sharing about their high school experiences, some presentations from seniors and a sophomore group, and awards. We know life is busy right now, so please feel free to join us for part of the evening if you can’t stay the full two hours.
We look forward to seeing you at Camas High School on Wednesday, May 24th, 2023. Please join us in celebrating their work!
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