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Darien High School Guidance Dept Named State’s Outstanding Comprehensive Program of the Year

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Darien High School’s guidance department has been recognized as “The Outstanding Comprehensive School Counseling Program for 2016″ by the Connecticut School Counselor Association, the high school announced. “I am honored to accept this award from the Connecticut School Counselor Association,” said Paul Ribeiro, co-ordinator of the department, said in the announcement. The award given based on the department’s Guidance Seminar Program in which school counselors meet with students in different grade levels each quarter. In the program, first fully implemented in the 2014-2015 school year, counselors work through key skills with small groups of students, to improve their experience in school. Counselors work with different grade levels each quarter.

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DHS Educator Jeromy Nelson Named ‘CT Technology & Engineering Teacher of the Year’

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Jeromy Nelson, coordinator of the Darien High School technology and engineering education department, has been named the “Connecticut Technology Education and Engineering Teacher of the Year.” The International Technology and Engineering Education Association gave Nelson the award at the group’s annual conference in Washington, D.C.

 

“This award is one of the highest honors given to technology and engineering education classroom teachers and is presented in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the profession and their students,” according to an announcement from Darien High School. The announcement quoted two unnamed students:

“Mr. Nelson is the teacher that in 20-30 years you will remember as the one who changed your life. He is devoted to the success of his students, not simply educating them but making them into positive, functioning members of society.”
“I have met few people in my life as supportive as Mr. Nelson. Each day he goes above and beyond to give his students every opportunity to be successful in exploring their interests and furthering their education.”

Nelson has taught in the department for 13 years.

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Gun Brandished by Teen in Snapchat Video Still Not Recovered

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Police say they haven’t found the gun shown by a 16-year-old Darien boy in a Snapchat video that resulted in the boy’s arrest on Friday. The boy was taken into custody in Darien High School late Friday morning after the school resource officer met with him in an office to ask him about the video, according to police. The police officer had been made aware of the video and saw the boy, his face partly obscured by a bandanna and brandishing a handgun in it. The video was not shot at Darien High School. __________

— See Darienite.com’s first article: “Police: DHS Student Seen in a Video with a Gun Taken into Custody” (Friday, March 4)

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Police said the boy issued “taunts” in the video, but no threats.

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Police: DHS Student Seen in a Video with a Gun Taken into Custody

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A 16-year-old Darien High School student is being held at the juvenile detention facility in Bridgeport after he was seen in a short video brandishing a handgun and issuing taunts, Darien police said. “There is nothing to suggest that any criminal act was being planned,” Police Chief Duane Lovello said in a news release, but the boy was arrested — on what charges, police didn’t say. Police gave this account of the matter, including accusations that have not been proven in court:

At mid-morning Friday, the school resource officer (a police officer) at Darien High School was made aware of the video “depicting what appeared to be a young white male, his face partially obscured by a bandana, brandishing what appeared to be a handgun as he issued verbal taunts,” police said. “These taunts were not specifically directed against any identifiable person, group, place or institution.” The officer saw the video, which was not made at the high school, and identified the student in the video.

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Five from Darien High School Nominated for Presidential Scholars Program

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Five Darien High School seniors have been selected as candidates for the United States Presidential Scholars Program. The five are, Sarishka Desai, Christopher Drake, James Garijo-Garde, Katie Tsui and Chloe Zhou. These students have been identified based on broad academic achievement and having scored exceptionally well on the SAT or ACT. The United States Presidential Scholars Program was established in 1964, by Executive Order of the President, to recognize and honor some of our Nation’s most distinguished graduating high school seniors. Each year up to 141 students are named as a U.S. Presidential Scholar, one of the Nation’s highest honors for high school students.

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Darien’s National Merit Scholarship Finalists Named

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Ellen Dunn, Principal of Darien High School, announced that the following five seniors have been named as Finalists in the 2016 National Merit Scholarship Program:

Sarishka Desai, Kristen Moran, Claire O’Leary, Katie Tsui, and Chloe Zhou. The selection of approximately 8,000 Merit Scholarship winners from the group of more than 15,000 Finalists is now in progress; the scholarship winners will be notified in March. — an announcement from Darien High School

 

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Darien High School Students Work with Chinese Students at Model UN

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Darien High School students crossed language and culture barriers recently to work on human rights issues at the United Nations headquarters in New York City. The US-Chinese collaboration was part of the Model United Nations program, which is a simulation of the actual United Nations. This year, the theme was around respect, understanding, and cooperation. “This particular conference was special because DHS students worked with Chinese students. While playing the role of delegates, they sat in the same seats that UN delegates sit at to discuss the issues,” said DHS History teacher Dennis Cabrera.

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SAT Rescheduled in Darien for Feb 20

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A message from Darien High School Principal Ellen Dunn:

Due to the impending inclement weather, the Darien Public Schools has informed the College Board that the district will not be open on Jan. 23, 2016 for the administration of the SAT.  The make-up date provided by College Board is Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016. Please note that we are aware that this date falls within our February vacation.