Dear Hyde Park Families,

This has been an exciting year, and with the ongoing support of our

parents, Hyde Park continues to be a 5-Star school. We will maintain

our strong tradition of excellence as a community of learners.

Our students and staff have done amazing things this year, traveling

far and wide, to bring home an impressive array of distinguished

awards. From athletics to music, community service to science, art to

mathematics, and everything in between — Hyde Park shines!

As we close out the 2015-2016 school year, we would like to take this

opportunity to claim our “bragging rights” with this last newsletter of

the school year — our

YEAR-END SHOUT OUT!

Have a great Summer!

Sincerely,

Anna Belknap

From our PRINCIPAL

P a n t h e r T r a c k s

HYDE PARK MIDDLE SCHOOL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS

Volume 22 Number 4

Year End 2016

Important Hyde Park

Middle School

Telephone Numbers:

Main Line: 799-4260

Principal’s Office

Ext. 4100

Assistant Principal’s Office

Ext.4200

Academy Office

Ext. 4044

Dean’s Office

Ext. 4500

Registrar

Ext. 4065

Attendance

Ext. 4035

Counselors:

6th …………….…Ext. 4301

7th …………….…Ext. 4303

8th ……………….Ext. 4302

Cafeteria

Ext. 4012

Custodians

Ext. 4014

Health Office

Ext. 4021/4022

Mission Statement:

The Hyde Park Middle

School community supports

and empowers learners.

The Academy of Science and

Mathematics at

Hyde Park Middle School

nurtures and enhances

students’ scientific

and mathematical inquiry.

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Student Council

CONGRATULATIONS! Your school has

earned the 2016

Spirit of Nevada

Award.

Congratulations to

our STUCO and to

Kelly Heilman and

Bonnie Karch for

winning 2 years in

a row!!

Future Cities 2016 Competition Winners

Our 2016 competition has wrapped up, and we're proud of all the students who

participated in this year's Southern Nevada Future City Competition.

First Place: Kilau - Hyde Park Middle School

Second Place: Kyuego City - Mack Lyon M.S.

Third Place: Taiparehu - Las Vegas Day School

Fourth Place: New Hope - Cashman M.S.

Fifth Place: Sanitary Safe Haven - The Meadows

Best Virtual City: New Hope - Cashman M.S.

Best City Description: Kyuego City - Mack Lyon M.S.

Best Presentation: Kilau - Hyde Park Middle School

Student Choice: Kilau - Hyde Park Middle School

Top 5 Physical Models:

Kilau - Hyde Park Middle School

Kyuego City - Mack Lyon M.S.

Cristallum Civitatum - Mack Lyon M.S.

Digitizers - Las Vegas Day School

Taiparehu - Las Vegas Day School

Special Award Winners

Most Innovative Moving Part:

NW Career and Technical Academy- DreamWorld -Lied Middle School

Best Educational Community:

CCSD – Paraiso – Hyde Park Middle School

Optimum Use of Resources for Energy in a Future City:

NV Energy – Wonderland – Lied Middle School

Most Sustainable Future City:

Black & Veatch – Puritas – The Meadows School

Best Use of Recycled Materials:

Amer. Society of Civil Engineers-So. NV Branch-Maedaleesi-The Meadows School

Most Innovative City:

National Engineers Week of So. NV-Cristallum Civitatem-W. Mack Lyon Middle

School

Disaster Preparedness:

National Security Technologies LLC – Paraiso – Hyde Park Middle School

Most Innovative Transportation System:

VTN – Crystal Light Waters – Jerome D. Mack Middle School

Most Innovative Energy System:

Southwest Gas Corporation – Tomorrowland – Lied Middle School

Most Sustainable Food Production Award:

American Society of Agricultural & Biological Engineers (ASABE) – Hepppin

Lousen – James Cashman Middle School

Best Use of Aerospace Technology :

Futron – Las Vegas Day School

Most Holistic City:

CH2M HILL Foundation – Digitize – Las Vegas Day School

Best Land Surveying Practices:

National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES)-New Tokyo

- James Cashman Middle School

Most Innovative Use of Construction Materials :

Intellecom Communications, Inc. – Dal City – Lied Middle School

Best Communications System:

Techsico Carrier Services – The City of Never Ending Water – Jerome D. Mack

Middle School

CCSD

Geography Bee

After a very tough battle

with the last two students

going

head –to -head,

congratulations to the

following Geography Bee

winners:

1st Place-Raj Patel

2nd Place-Shadman Kabir

3rd Place-Krishna Patel

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2016 National K-12 Statistics Poster Competition Winners

What is the Best Position in the NFL? has won 1st place in the American Statistical Association's national poster

competition in the grade 4-6 category. Congratulations to Alex Fiore and to advisor Judy Kraus of Hyde Park Middle School,

Las Vegas.

Can We Keep up with the Average Time it Takes to Solve a Rubik's Cube? has won 3rd place in the American Statistical

Association's national poster competition in the grade 4-6 category. Congratulations to Aryaman Bisen, Fikreabe

Getachew, Colin Jewell, Aaron Luyen, and to advisor Judy Kraus of Hyde Park Middle School, Las Vegas.

Student names and pictures of the winning posters will be featured in the August issue of Amstat News and on the ASA

website at http://www.amstat.org/education/posterprojects/index.cfm.

2016 Nevada K-12 Statistics Poster Competition Winners

The Nevada Chapter of the American Statistical Association (NVASA) is proud to announce the winners of its 2016

Nevada K-12 Statistics Poster Competition.

4–6 Category

First Place: Amanda Chang and Jadyn Tian

6th Grade, Hyde Park Middle School, Las Vegas

Dreamworks vs. Pixar-Advisor: Judy Kraus

Second Place: Alex Fiore

6th Grade, Hyde Park Middle School, Las Vegas

What is the Best Position in the NFL?-Advisor: Judy Kraus

Third Place: Sanjay Soni

6th Grade, Hyde Park Middle School, Las Vegas

Pencils vs. Pens-Advisor: Judy Kraus

Honorable Mention: Aryaman Bisen, Fikreabe Getachew, Colin Jewell, and Aaron Luyen

6th Grade, Hyde Park Middle School, Las Vegas

Can We Keep up with the Average Time it Takes to Solve a Rubik’sCube?-Advisor: Judy Kraus

7–9 Category

First Place: Megan Huynh

7th Grade,Hyde Park Middle School, Las Vegas

This is the Game of Concentration-Advisor: Denise Romonoski

Second Place: Amanda Tian 7th Grade, Hyde Park Middle School, Las Vegas Let’s Get Poppin’!-Advisor: Denise Romonoski

Third Place: Alexander Ballin 7th Grade,Hyde Park Middle School, Las Vegas

Lacrosse Ground Balls win Games-Advisor: Denise Romonoski

Honorable Mention: Angel Rocha-Aguilar 7th Grade,Hyde Park Middle School, Las Vegas

No Pain No Gain-Advisor: Denise Romonoski

Please congratulate Eshaan Vakil, the CCSD 8th Grade Spelling Bee Champion!

He will be competing next month for the state Spelling Bee. (FYI- as a 6th

grader, he placed 2nd in the state; and as a 7th grader, he placed 3rd in the

state. We are hoping for 1st place this year!)

Additionally, please congratulate Alex Tuman, our 6th grader. He placed 3rd

in the district for all 6th graders.

Hyde Park Middle School

House of Cards This year’s House of Cards competition was held at NWCTA. Hyde Park won the traveling trophy and swept 1st - 3rd place. The first place winners are: The Knights of the Round Table; Daniyal Qazi; Manav Dudhia; Gregory Cook; Grant Nehls and Collin Guerrero Second place: The Cards of Quidditch: Daryl Casas; Alexus Medina; and Savannah Taylor Third place : The Spartans: Ayan Patel; Kriya Patel; Neel Vasu; and Krishna Patel Congratulations to all the teams that participated.

Susan Zajack

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MathCounts

On 3/12/16 the students listed below participated in the

2016 MathCounts State Competition at UNLV. Alex

Bean will represent Nevada at the National Competition

in Washington DC in May. The results are....

1st Place: Davidson Academy of Nevada

2nd Place: HPMS

3rd Place: Coral Academy

4th Place: Bob Miller

5th Place: Meadows

Individual Results: 2nd Place: Alex Bean

5th Place: Jason Lee

12th Place: Jang Choe

17th Place: Shadman Kabir

18th Place: Craig Hammond

27th Place: Ryan Yi

28th Place: Brandon Gong

37th Place: Joshua Lum

Countdown Round Results: 1st Place: Alex Bean

2nd Place: Jason Lee

Please congratulate these students on their fantastic

performance at the MathCounts State Competiton.

Brandon Lawrence

JV Quiz

The Hyde Park JV Quiz team won the championship

match! Please congratulate the following students:

Eshaan Vakil, Katie VanVoorhis, Sam Morgan, Isaac

Garcia, Emily Chen, Emily Peng, Dylan Patel, Colin

Jewell, and Lewis Hwang. You can watch the match on

Vegas PBS, Monday, April 25th at 7:30pm.

Robin Manning

Science Olympiad Congratulations to Hyde Park Middle School

Nevada State Science Olympiad Champions for

the thirteenth consecutive year! This was a close

competition with a six point margin of victory.

They earned 11 gold medals, 14 silver medals, and

10 bronze medals in 23 different events! Please

congratulate the students as they proudly wear

their medals!

Judy Kraus

Science Bowl

On Saturday, March 5th, 15 Hyde Park Students competed in the 9th Annual Middle School Science Bowl competition. Last year, we had a fantastic showing with a first, second and seventh place finish. This year, we won first place, and our other two teams placed fifth and tied for eighth out of 23 competing teams. This is our fourth year in a row taking home the trophy, with six first place finishes out of the 9 years the tournament has been held. Please congratulate Alex Bean, Craig Hammond, Audrey Wetjen, Madison Rollf and Sean Mikologic on their victory. They will be traveling to Washington DC April 28-May 2 to compete in the National Tournament.

Amy Wetjen

Stock Market Game

Congratulations to Mrs. Kraus and her students for placing 1st in the fall Stock market game. Another great Panther accomplishment!

1st place team - Daniyal Qazi, Jang Choe, Christopher

Yeghiayan, Sanjay Soni, Darren Zhong

2nd place team - Kayla Yao, Krystal Manuel, Kevin

Sun, Edwin Jiang

5th place team - Dylan Larson, Cade Romero, Aaron

Luyen, Aryaman Bisen

ECYBERMISSION The Robotics Classes of Hyde Park Middle School have FOUR State Champions in ecybermission this school year.

Each of the teams listed below after being validated will find out if they are 1st or 2nd place State. The First place State teams will go on to regional Finalist the week of April 25 - 28,2016. If they win at the region they are a national finalist and get to go to Washington DC all expenses paid on June 20 - 24, 2016.

In 7th Grade : Hydro Tech and Cyberbananas are State Champions.

In 8th Grade: To Infinity and Boron and Camel Ninja Liamas are State Champions.

Mr. Patricks is proud of all his Ecybermission State Champions! Edward J Patricks

SKYBOT

Our Hyde Park Middle School Robotics Department won seven out of the top ten awards at the SKYBOT Challenge State Wide Tournament. Of the top seven awards, we also took the EXCELLENCE AWARD once again. The Excellence Award is the highest award in the tournament and indicates that our Hyde Park Team Platypi had top marks in all areas of the tournament. We also won top Business Plan and top Business Pitch among others. All Robotics students compete in SKYBOT through their corporations. Next year we will have even more competition when SKYBOT goes Nation wide. All winning state and region teams will be sent here to Las Vegas for the finals! Edward J Patricks

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UNLV Regional Science and Engineering Fair

The UNLV Regional Science and Engineering Fair was held on April

2nd. Please congratulate the following 6th graders:

Alexander Cichy - 2nd place physical science

Ian Schnedeis - honorable mention physical science

Cameron Dudeck - 3rd place invention

Colin Jewell, Ben Koppe, and Lewis Hwang - 3rd place team invention

Grant Chamberlain, Jadyn Tian, and Ben Jolley - 2nd place team life

science

Dallas Quaresma - 3rd place life science

Kristin Hofilena - 2nd place life science

Judy Kraus

HYDE PARK CHEER

On Saturday, April 23rd, the Hyde Park Cheer team competed

at the Sharp Las Vegas Nationals. The team placed 2nd in the

Advanced Large Performance Cheer division, 1st in the

Intermediate Stunt Group Division, and received a Judge's

Choice Award.

Additionally, Justin Lilang received 3rd place in Best Individual

Toe Touches, and Bryan Marrero received 5th in Best Individual

Toe Touches. Tsednia Yitbarek, Nickoluas Aguillon, Samantha

Malley and Aaliyah Avelar also placed 5th in the Stunt Down

Competition.

Guitar The HYDE PARK ADVANCED GUITAR

ENSEMBLE travelled to Boston to compete in

an Elite International Music Festival. They

performed beautifully and WON GOLD! This

was the first year both the INTERMEDIATE

and AVANCED GROUPS won high honors on

their individual trips! Congratulations to those

students for an amazing job!

Scott Miller

Earth Day Art Contest

This year there were more than 200 entries to the Earth Day Every Day Art contest sponsored by the Keep Las Vegas Beautiful group and Republic Services. The winners were announced at the sus-tain-able event at Town Square. What a beautiful day that was. The winners: Middle School 1st Place: Kailene Zapanta, Teacher: David Vivo Middle School 2nd Place: Jasmine Chung, Teacher: Kevin Chung Middle School 3rd Place:

Andrew Chang, Teacher: Denise Romonoski

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National Academic Quiz

Tournament

At the Western High School Invitational held on

1/23/16 in Las Vegas, the Hyde Park Middle School

team (pictured above) beat every Las Vegas High

School team while placing 3rd in the tourney. Our

team missed second place by only 10 points to a

powerhouse San Diego High School team. Notably,

team Captain Eshaan Vakil had the highest individual

performance of all participants.

GOOD JOB TEAM AND GOOOOO PANTHERS!!!!!

Mathematics Contest The 34th Annual Southern Nevada Secondary Mathematics

Contest was held Saturday morning at Clark HS. There were

about 100 competitors representing 20 schools. The Top 5

Finishers in each of the four events (Algebra I, Geometry,

Algebra II, and Comprehensive (including Calculus)) are

listed below.

Prizes were given to the top five finishers in each event:

First Place = One Year Scholarship to

UNLV, $100 Gift Card, and a plaque

Second Place = $75 Gift Card and a plaque

Third Place = $50 Gift Card and a plaque

Fourth Place = $25 Gift Card and a plaque

Fifth Place = $10 Gift Card

The One Year Scholarships were sponsored by UNLV for the

30th year. All other prizes were sponsored by the Southern

Nevada Mathematics Council.

Congratulations to all of the students who competed and

spent their Saturday morning solving very difficult

mathematics problems.

2016 ALGEBRA I TOP 5

1-Maxwell Lipshutz-Bob Miller MS

2-Brian Dorrough-Bob Miller MS

3-Melanie Ha-Coral Academy

4-Joshua Lum-Hyde Park MS

5-Jared Keller-Coral Academy

2016 GEOMETRY TOP 5

1-Alex Bean-Hyde Park MS

2-Jason Lee-Hyde Park MS

3-Richard Huang-Palo Verde HS

4-Joshua Tran-Coral Academy

5-Spencer Rhodes-Coral Academy

VEX

Hyde Park Middle School won the Excellence Award - the highest award given - at the VEX

State Championship at Coronado High School and will be going to VEX World's in

Louisville, Kentucky on April 20 to 23.

Edward J Patricks

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All Girls Math Tournament

About 3 weeks before the event, we became aware of an All Girls Math Tournament at Coral Academy. With no time

to coach, we asked how many girls would be interested in going in cold and giving it a shot . . .35 girls rose to the

challenge! We are doing something right at HPMS for girls to feel comfortable throwing themselves into the mix like

that! Way to go teachers & staff!

So, with no prep except a quick 30 minute meeting on strategies for working as teams on hard problems, they com-peted and here are the results:

5th & 6th Grade level, Second place in Team Round: Meghana Sunkara Zaryaab Shahid Emily Dieu Amy Lum Kayla Yao Anya Dong 7th & 8th Grade level, First Place Team Round: Sophia Adams Megan Adymy Jenna DeMaio Sofia Bermudes Kirupa Gunaseelan Caitlyn Coloma 7th grade, Third Place, Individual Competition: Riana Mission

And just so you have an idea of the level of these problems, here is a question from the 7th & 8th grade team round:

An orange is at the end of a long rubber band of length 3 meters. The other end of the rubber band is wrapped around a tree. A turkey starts at the tree and jumps onto the rubber band. Every second, the turkey jumps one me-ter towards the orange on the rubber band. However, each time immediately after the rubber band lands, the orange

also jumps forward one meter. After how many seconds will the turkey catch the orange.

Penny & Judy & Lauren

Seventh graders impress TI and NASA News Release

DALLAS, TX-(May 19,2016)-A team of five seventh graders from Hyde Park Middle School in Las Vegas, Nevada has won

the mISSion imagination design challenge from Texas Instruments and NASA. The national competition asked students from

across the country to propose solutions to challenges astronauts would face on a journey to Mars. The questions were based on

the challenges International Space Station (ISS) commander Scott Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko encountered in the

first year-long mission aboard the ISS.

The problems ranged from how to dispose of waste in space, to what to eat for optimal strength and nutrition. The winning

team of students developed plans for a vertical garden to better utilize limited space to help meet the nutritional requirements

of the astronauts. The students were also asked to design a spacecraft that could detect and prevent potential collisions with

orbital debris. The winning students proposed using a reinforced outer hull with aerogel, graphene, reinforced atomic-grade

steel and titanium-tungsten alloy to protect the spacecraft from the impact of potentially debilitating space debris.

Robin Hill, the students’ teacher, said he didn’t even know his students were entering the contest until they asked for help

submitting their project on the deadline day. “I was flabbergasted when I found out they won,” said Hill, science teacher at

Hyde Park Middle School. “I feel like the luckiest teacher in the world to get to work with such smart, curious and driven

students every day.”

As a prize, winning team members, Subhan Wade, Caitlyn Coloma, Jaiden Reddy, Isha Shah, and Nicholas Ho receive

assorted space goodies and their choice of either a TI-Nspire CX or TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculator and software. The team

will also have the opportunity to chat with a NASA astronaut about their winning submission.