Columbus Alternative High School

Friday, May 15th at 7 PM the CAHS Chorale will have their spring concert in the CAHS auditorium.  Please feel free to grab the attached flyer and come see a great performance.

  Spring Chorale Concert 2009 (148.8 KiB)

Dear Past and Current Friends of CAHS:

Kroger is changing how it donates to our school’s PTA and as you know the money that the PTA earns goes to buying needed supplies, equipment, etc for our school.  Here’s how you can help -

Kroger has restructured its Community Rewards Program to make it even easier to earn money for Friends of Columbus Alternative High School PTA.  Beginning May 1, if you are a Kroger shopper, you need only scan your registered “Kroger Plus Card” when you make a purchase and Kroger will donate a percentage of your purchase to our school – you pay nothing extra!   Simply register your card and designate Friends of Cols. Alternative High School PTA as your Community Organization by following the instructions below. If your card is already registered online, it will take you approximately 1 minute to add Friends of CAHS PTA as your organization.  If you are not currently registered, the process takes approximately 5 – 10 minutes.

Please take the time to enroll today to help earn money for our school!  Every dollar helps!

TO USE THE KROGER COMMUNITY REWARDS PROGRAM:
•       Register online at  www.krogercommunityrewards.com
•       Be sure to have your Kroger Plus card handy to register your card with our organization after you sign up.
•       If you do not yet have a Kroger Plus card, they are available at the customer service desk at any Kroger.
•    Click on Sign In/Register
•    If you are a new online customer, click on SIGN UP TODAY in the ‘New Customer?’ box.
•    Sign up for a Kroger Rewards Account by entering your zip code, clicking on your favorite store, entering your email address, creating a password and agreeing to the terms and conditions.
•    You will then be instructed to check your email inbox and click the link within the body of the email to confirm your registration and continue.
•    Click on My Account and use your email address and password to proceed to the next step.
•    Click on Edit Kroger Community Rewards information on the right side of the page and input your Kroger Plus card number.
•    Update or confirm your information to go to the next step.
•    Enter the number 81923 or FRIENDS OF COLS. ALTERNATIVE HIGH SCHOOL PTA and select our organization from the list and click confirm.
•    To verify you are enrolled correctly, you will see FRIENDS OF COLS. ALTERNATIVE HIGH SCHOOL PTA on the right side of your information page.
•    REMEMBER, purchases will not count for our group until after you register your card.
•    If you use your phone number at the register and do not know your Kroger Plus number, call 877-576-7587 to get your Kroger Plus card number and register your card.
•    Members must swipe their registered Kroger Plus card or use the phone number that is related to their registered Kroger Plus card when shopping in order for each purchase to count.  Alcohol, tobacco, gift cards and fuel purchases do not count toward the Community Rewards Program.

If you are currently using a rechargeable gift card balances will not be effected by the new program.  You can recharge your gift card until April 30.  Please register your plus card and continue to use your gift card until it has a zero balance.  Purchases made with your gift card after May 1 will count towards our program if your plus card is registered and scanned.  If you have any questions, please email us at cahs.pta@gmail.com

CAHS’ is proud of our Poetry Slam team, which competed in the first ever Columbus City Schools’ Poetry Slam on April 30th.  You can watch the action here.

A special congrats goes to CAHS student Ben Leach who earned second place out of 50 poets at the competition.

The CAHS Poetry Slam Team consists of:  Na’Quasha Hendree-Williams (12th), Ben Leach (11th), Carrissa Thomas (11th), Rachel Wiltshire (9th), and Sarah Sinclair (9th); alternates are Micah Naguit (9th) and Zayid Oyelami (9th).

A lot is still happening at CAHS, even as the school year starts approaching the end.

• Holly Tilley was named 1st team all-city in soccer and bowling. She collected many medals on her way to a top 3 finish in the District Bowling Tournament. She also was named “Athlete of the week” by both the Columbus Dispatch and 610 Radio.
• D’zjera Latham was named one of The Links 2009 Prelude Scholars. She will receive a certificate on Sunday May 1, 2009 @ Hilliard Darby High School.
• Congratulations to Mr. Dodrill! He was a finalist for the 2009 Columbus Council on World Affairs International Educator of the Year. He was honored at the International Awards Ceremony on March 3rd at the Columbus Convention Center.

Lastly, if any parents of students would like to send in scholarship info (amount and organization/university) I will try and post that by the end of the year. Hopefully this will help younger students appreciate the value of being successful at CAHS.

There have been two recent Chess tournaments, the City Speed Chess Championship and the State Championship.  The CAHS chess team has managed to win both, including recording the 11th straight state chess championship for the school.  Brandon Barcus finished 1st overall in speed chess individually as well.  Congratulations for another outstanding victory for CAHS chess team.

At CAHS we recently had the FIRST Robotics team compete at the Buckeye Regional and get 11th place overall, after earning the 7th spot in the finals.  Its a great performance and the team should be congratulated for all their hard work and time put in to the program, as well as Mr. Qualls for coaching the team.

In other news, senior Leah Walkowski is moving on the state competition for Poetry out Loud.  She was featured in an article found here for her achievements and we wish her luck at the competition.

Lastly this week, senior Emily McGinty earned the MVP award in soccer, playing for Beechcroft HS.

Nick Kotz won a Silver Medal for CAHS in the 2008-2009 Ohio High School Fencing Championships in Sabre this month. This is his second medal for CAHS, last year Nick won the Bronze Medal.  CAHS student Ben Leach also won the City Championship in wresting (he wrestles for Whetstone).

The Mock Trial team also finished up the district competition, with Leslie Krivo-Kaufman winning Best Attorney (again!) and Zach O’Keffee winning Best Witness.

We congratulate all our CAHS competitors for their achievements and effort.

CAHS Mock Trial group will be competing in the regional competition for the first time on Feb 20th.  At the district level competition, Kimron Flicker and Leslie Krivo-Kaufman each won outstanding attorney.  Justin Sherman won outstanding witness.  Congrats to the Mock Trial Team, and their advisor Dr. Murray, for their achievements.