Principal's Page

April 17, 2013

• Congratulations to Amanda Malstrom and Julie Caracci of the History Department who were recently awarded a Teachers Fellowship grant through the Chicago Foundation for Education. Through this grant, Amanda and Julie will be traveling to Europe this summer to do research for their history classes.
  
  
• Thank you to Joe Sweet, Matt Hudson, and the Music Department for putting on a great guitar concert on April 4, 2013! The students sounded wonderful and we had a great turnout!
  
  
• Congratulations to the Lane Tech Robotics Team, X-Machina who qualified for the World Championship Tournament at this weekend's Midwest Regional Competition! In addition to claiming the Rookie All-Star Award, our students will now be able to participate in an event which, in previous years, has been emceed by Morgan Freeman and will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas. Teams from Australia, Japan, Israel and all around the globe will now have to contend with our students and their robot which has earned our school the right to say that we have a world class robotics team! We are extremely proud of our students and all they have accomplished in their rookie season. Click here for more information on the World Championship event. Go Lane Go!
  
  The key students on the team are Kent Lopez, Cydni Heidemann, Dimitri Tianis, Kalina Fleming-Lopez, Alejandro Bueno, Dennis Hehn, Joey Blatz, Kayla Condrella, Domingo Mesa, Jeremy Hernandez, Francisco Macias and Vanessa Roman. Congratulations also to the awesome coaches Benjamin Durham, Lindsey Smit, and Daniel Law!
  
  In honor of National Robotics Week, The Museum of Science and Industry is hosting a Robot Block Party, and Lane's FTC and FRC teams have been invited to participate!
  
  
• Congratulations to the LT JV Debate team who won city championships yesterday. Congratulations to the following students for their honors:
  
  The following students were octo-finalists
  Jennifer Marnul, Aaron Phalin, Keryk Kuiper, Ernest Kabashi, Dara Davis, Ayesha Patel, Peter Kepner, Skyler Ohlicher, Linda Brito, and Nahin Cano
  
  The following students were quarter finalists
  Enrique Hernandez, Araceli Martinez, Regina Manalo, Angelica Soto, Ariana Arnone, and JP Walsh
  
  The following students won top speaker awards
  Jennifer Marnul, Neil Manansala, Benjamin Zamudio, Keryk Kuiper, Damariz Posadas, Ernest Kabashi, Joel Veizi, Araceli Martinez, Aaron Phalin, Nahin Cano, Regina Manalo, JP Walsh, Skyler Ohlicher, Ariana Arnone, Peter Kepner, Angelica Soto, and Dara Davis
  
  Congratulations to Benjamin Zamudio and Deandre Sturdivant who were the overall junior varsity tournament champions!!
  
  Thank you to coaches Andy Fine and Valerie Mason for all of their hard work!
  
  
• Congratulations to the Lane Tech sinfionietta in their recent competition in the IHSA Competition. The Lane Tech Sinfonietta received a Division I Superior Rating with the following scores out of 40 (37.2, 38.2, and 40). It's been eight years since the orchestra represented Lane. The event was held at Whitey Young HS, Friday, April 12 @ 7PM. A big CONGRATULATIONS to the Sinfonietta members on a job well done!
  
  
• Congratulations to the Lane Tech Math team for finishing in the top 5 in the city at this past weekend's Chicago Citywide Math League Finals. Over 450 students from 27 Chicago Public Schools competed in the competition, hosted here at Lane Tech.
  
  Lane Tech swept the Algebra 2 competition with Juniors Phong Bui placing 1st, Luis Chavez, placing 2nd, and Mateo Muro placing 3rd! Thank you to Melanie Pierce and Josh Jeon, coaches, for all of their work with the students!
  
  
Thank you students and faculty for all your accomplishments!





Sincerely,

Christopher A. Dignam, Ed.D.
Principal