Ms. Fuller, LOLHS School-to-Career Coordinator, organized a 2-school Medical Careers Day on April 26.  Sixteen LOLHS students, including interested members of FBLA, and an additional group from Valley Regional High School attended the Zoom-presented Medical Careers Day conducted by staff from Yale-New Haven Health.  ​

On Saturday, April 24, members of the LOLHS Environmental Club and Community Service Club cleared more than 200 pounds of trash from the northbound I-95 onramp at the corner of Lyme Street. Recent clearing of the brush had left a large amount of trash that had been caught under the brush exposed. Members worked for over an hour to clear the trash. This year they have focused on taking responsibility for cleaning up their community and acting as local land stewards. This was the third road side cleanup organized by these two groups this year and in all they have picked up close to 1000 lbs of trash along Halls Road and Lyme Street.

​Thank you to everyone who participated in our TREX Plastic Film Recycling Challenge! Lyme-Old Lyme High School recycled a whopping 2,230 lbs of plastic earning 2nd place in our division and 10th overall (out of 270 schools)!!! For our achievements, Lyme-Old Lyme High School will receive a TREX bench. A special thank you to Ezra Pyle, Katie Zbierski, Paige Winchell, Robyn King, Evan Visgilio, Owen Ingersoll-Bonsack, Cailin Ruhling, and Parker Holland for their efforts in collecting and weighing all of the plastic that submitted. 

​Do you have confidential documents that need to be safely and securely destroyed?
 
On Saturday, May 1st, from 9am to 12pm, the Classes of 2022, 2023, and 2024 will be hosting a Shredding Event fundraiser.  Come by the Lyme-Old Lyme High School parking lot (near the tennis courts) to drop off any unwanted documents you want to be destroyed.
 
Cash donations accepted, which will be used for activities put on by the Classes.  Come support LOLHS and the Classes of 2022, 2023, and 2024!

​This year, in lieu of a trip, the Ski Club hosted a coat drive from February 1 to April 1. The drive was a huge success, collecting over 200 items of clothing including 53 coats! All the coats were donated to Button-Up Connecticut, a local non-profit organization, in hopes to give back to our community during the pandemic.
Special thanks to members of the club who assisted with collecting coats and hanging signs for the drive around the school and the new club officers, Adeline Riccio and Kian Kardestuncer for assisting with the final donation! Thank you to everyone who donated! Hopefully, we can continue this drive every year along with the ski trip!

            See more about Button-Up CT here: http://www.buttonupconnecticut.org/ 

by Phoebe Lampos

​The Robotics season has been very different this year for FIRST Team 236-TechnoTicks. The team met via Zoom, and programmed using remote collaboration software. Even the challenge was different this year. Instead of building and programming a robot for the FIRST Robotics Challenge, this year there was the FIRST Innovation Challenge. Teams were asked to “identify a problem or opportunity and design a solution to help people keep, regain, or achieve optimum physical and/or mental health and fitness through active play or movement.”

The TechnoTicks realized that Old Lyme, Lyme, and East Lyme provide many opportunities to engage with nature through hiking trails and open space, but many of the trails are underused. The team designed a system called “Lymelyte”, which consists of a mobile application called “Trailyte” and a Cube Satellite called “Satlyte” to encourage people to experience our local trails.
The Trailyte app provides a hyper-local, personalized experience of the trails in Lyme, Old Lyme, and East Lyme. Although there are some commercial trail apps available, Trailyte is uniquely focused on trails in our immediate area, providing a detailed level of focus that is not offered by other apps. Trailyte will ultimately be augmented by Satlyte, a compact cube satellite that will provide real-time information to the Trailyte app about weather, trail conditions, and more. The team plans to test our prototype Satlyte via tethered weather balloon at the end of April.

To communicate our ideas, representatives from the TechnoTicks wrote and delivered a live presentation to a panel of judges in a remote interview. The judges asked questions about the project components and goals. If the TechnoTicks advance to the Semifinals, the team will create a more detailed presentation and advanced satellite prototype. 
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Check out the TechnoTicks' Business Pitch and Technical Presentation on youtube:

By: Sr. Vázquez
Colleen Walsh (Kelly’s older sister), a former LOLHS student, shared her experience with studying  Spanish in college.
Colleen is studying at the University of Alabama. She is currently minoring in Spanish and majoring in Public Health.  She said that she was going to change to a major in Spanish.
She emphasized the importance of studying Spanish in order to be connected with friends and family, but most importantly, for having more professional opportunities. She said that she left LOLHS well prepared for the challenge of continuing to study Spanish in college.  She told us that one remarkable experience was to volunteer in a clinic and to use Spanish often with patients.  She did this as part of her course called Spanish Healthcare for Professionals.
After answering questions, she said goodbye and encouraged students to keep studying Spanish.
  
Link to watch & listen the presentation: https://region18.zoom.us/rec/share/aVI3UCWHLBdwuG6zCz_QS22j1okXDmIAdUkYSGL0hpJP4eaNevFtKcnTmNUw17A.SekXOJnIHuwCEYFX
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In the Modern US History classes students worked in groups to create a panel of a mural that both represent the art  and the history of the Great Depression. The mural topics included: The First New Deal, Protests and Political Change, The Second New Deal, and Social and Political Impacts. Once completed, students participated in a Gallery Walk where students spend time at each panel analyzing the images  and collecting critical information from each topic.

Take a look at some of their work!

The Chinese III Class had a chance to zoom with their penpals again after several months of periodic emails between each other. The kids used both Chinese and English to discuss their own schools and hobbies and other activities of interest. It's always exciting for all to share their favorite celebrities, movies, and sports, and to find out about each other's academic courses and schedules. They also shared a lot of laughs and a few dance moves. However, it's pretty clear that the Chinese students seem to know a lot more about the American pop culture than their counterparts. 

We had a wonderful time at the Designing Graphics to Share Career Presentation! In collaboration with the Phoebe-Griffin Noyes Library, over 20 students heard how two culture creators (Juanita Austin, college graduate and a creator and owner of a collaborative in New London, & Andre Salkin, Boston University student and a 2020 graduate of LOLHS) got started and how they have used design to accomplish their goals. Students learned about free design software, using and citing credible sources, and establishing an audience and a “look”.