This Week at BMHS March 13 - 20, 2017

Prevention Resources and Education for Parents

The Billerica Substance Abuse Prevention Committee will be hosting a pre-prom event, PREP, on Tuesday, May 9 at 7 p.m. in the BMHS Auditorium. This event will follow a school presentation during the day for our juniors and seniors. The Junior Prom is on Friday, May 12 at Tewksbury Country Club and the Senior Prom is on Friday, May 19 at Danversport Yacht Club.

Transition Resources Fair

Billerica Memorial High School special education staff have worked with their counter-parts at Lowell High School to put together a Transitional Resources Fair March 28th at Lowell High School.  This event is an opportunity for students with disabilities and their families to learn about supports, services and programs that may be available to help them navigate adulthood when they leave high school or other public school programs behind.  There will be over 20 agencies, support programs and other vendors  present to provide information and answer questions.   Please see the attached flyer for details.  

BMHS Winter Guard and Percussion Performance

The BMHS Winter Guard and Percussion "Friends and Family Night" is scheduled for this Friday, March 17 at the Marshall Middle School Gym beginning at 7 p.m. Tickets are $5 for students & seniors, $8 for adults and $20 for a family. Please see flyer for additional information.








Team 4909

FIRST Team 4909 - Bionics will be competing at the North Shore District Competition at Reading Memorial High School on Sat/Sun this weekend. This is their first event and they hope to get enough ranking points to qualify for the New England District Competition. The event is 8:00am - 6:00pm on both days and open to the public with FREE admission. Come on down and support BMHS as they take on the challenges of SteamWorks, the new FIRST Robotics challenge for 2017. Visit www.team4909.org to learn more.

College Fair

The BMHS College Fair that was scheduled for March 14 has been moved to April. The exact date will be announced next week.

DECA

This past weekend @BMHS_DECA traveled to Boston to participate in the annual Massachusetts State DECA Conference with the hopes of sending members of the team to the International Career Development Conference (ICDC) in Anaheim, California. The good news began with Joe Hodgkins election as a new State Officer and was quickly followed up by freshmen Julia MacEachern earning Billerica's first ticket to Anaheim for Principles of Business Management. 


The following students will be representing BMHS at the ICDC in Anaheim:

Vanessa Mattar, Dominique Hughes, and Hailee Jenkins (Creative Marketing Project)

Sean Climo, Rachelle Mejia, and Matt Marini (Creative Marketing Project)

Colleen Callahan (Advertising Campaign Event)

Nicholas Scuccimara (Hospitality and Tourism Professional Selling)

Ciara Lydon (Professional Selling Event)

Shaun McAvoy and Aidan McCarthy (Sports and Entertainment Operations Research)

Natalie Nardone and Morgan Bauman (Sports and Entertainment Operations Research)

Camryn Brothers, Aiden Cliff, and Tanvi Patel (Hospitality and Tourism Operations Research)

Clare Conway and Kayleigh O'Mahoney (Hospitality and Tourism Operations Research)

Tyler Morris, William Brunetto, and Nick Hulsoor (Buying and Merchandising Operations Research)

Joe Hodgkins and Isabel Doonan (International Business Plan)

Catherine LoGuidice, Olivia Raney, and Alannah Biancuzzo (Independent Business Plan)

Ryan Cahill, Kylie Hopkins, Katelyn Gallagher (Independent Business Plan)

Brendan Maloney & Melissa Johnson (Franchise Business Plan)

Roshni Bhat (Principles of Finance)

The following students finished in the Top 10 in Massachusetts:

Tyler Bradanese, Duncan McGarry & Max May (Public Relations Project)

Brittni Maniscalco, Julia Lemelin & Libby Hawkins (Learn and Earn Project)

Nick Recupero, Vanessa Attaya & Julia McCarthy (Creative Marketing Project)

Sophia Dinsmore and Kaitlyn Brouillette (Fashion Merchandising Promotion Plan)

Nick Cote and Sreyas Yenampelli (Professional Selling Event)

Olivia Smith (Hospitality and Tourism Professional Selling)

Dylan Coppinger, Emily Todd, Kasey Williams (Hospitality and Tourism Operations Research)

Mackenzie LeLievre, Abby Acone, Molly Fraser (Buying and Merchandising Operations Research)

Nick Arpino & Dan Trask (Business Services Operations Research)

Benjamin Gately, Mike O'Connell, Akash Rana (Business Services Operations Research)

Collin Robson, DJ Fantasia, Zach Russo (Business Services Operations Research)

Ethan Hadley & Ryan Jackson (Independent Business Plan)

Kristen Laquidara & Emily Cote (Independent Business Plan)

Brandon Murphy (Entrepreneurship Innovation Plan)

From the desk of Mr. Lezenski

Our Cheerleaders enter the weekend vying for the MSSAA State Championship at Wachusett Regional High School on Sunday, March 12 at approximately 10:15am.  The team has have a spectacular season placing 1^st in the Central Catholic Invitational, Grand Champion/1^st Place in the Wilmington Invitational and 1^st Place in the MVC Conference Championship. 

The Girls Varsity Basketball team had another exciting season making it all the way to the MIAA Division 1 North Semi Finals.  The girls played a spirited contest in the semifinal against Andover going nip and tuck all the way until the final basket in a truly exciting game.  We know that there will be many wins next season for the Indians.

Finally, the BMHS Wrestling team had a great season, finishing in 2^nd place in the MIAA State Wrestling Championships.  Henri Behaeghel and Ryan Higgins were MIAA All State Champions.  A tremendous accomplishment!!!

The Winter Season Athletic Awards Night will be March 21 at 6:30pm in the BMHS Auditorium.