Outstanding 8th Graders Receive Academic Honors at Moving Up Ceremony!

On Wednesday afternoon, 8th graders at CHAH celebrated their completion of middle school with the annual 8th Grade Awards & Moving Up Ceremony. 8th graders Nathalie and Gracelyn emceed the event with poise, humor, and confidence.

At the ceremony, students, teachers, and parents filled the gym to hear inspirational words from Mr. House ("It's not just about dreaming, but about doing") and to be honored for their academic accomplishments.

Plaques were awarded to the highest achieving student and the most improved student in each of the content areas. Students reaching mastery in all of their classes were given special medals of achievement. Finally, the top students of the class were honored: Lawrence Diaz as salutatorian and Joy Chen as valedictorian. The winners' classmates were energetic and supportive as students walked across the stage to receive their awards.

Congratulations to the Class of 2021 on reaching the next step in your education!

The Class of 2017 Senior Walk! Congratulations!

Continuing the CHAH tradition we started last year, this year's graduating Class of 2017 did their Senior Walk.  The graduating seniors were applauded by the underclassmen and middle school students, as well as the staff and faculty as they walked through the building in their cap and gowns.  Keep your heads held high, Class of 2017!  And keep moving forward!  Congratulations!

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Cop? Nurse? Actor? Massage Therapist? Plumber? It's Career Day at CHAH!

A couple weeks ago, we hosted our annual Career Day here at CHAH.  Over ten speakers came into our classrooms to talk about their work in fields varying from healthcare to entertainment, from law enforcement to massage therapy.  It was an incredible, eye-opening opportunity for the students who never knew, for example, that many people simply slide into their careers by accident or that plumbers make quite a bit of money.

Francisco Nahnny and Johanna Nunez are Registered Nurses who demonstrated how to take a correct blood pressure. 

Mr. McNara is a retired NYPD Police Officer and spoke to students about his experiences as cop.

Lindsay Gregorio is a construction project engineer who spoke to students about working in a field dominated by men.  Her work consists of making sure the "project site is safe for the workers and budgets are met."

Kevin Plybon is a former math teacher from CHAH, who returned to share his experiences about being a technical writer at Promenet, Inc.

Mr. Victor Pena-Bastalla works for Major League Baseball as an information technology technician and travels around the world setting up equipment for international baseball games.

The beauty queen Alice Giannetta Esq, a practicing attorney and the first Asian-American to win the title Mrs. New York, was among our speakers!  She encouraged CHAH students that being an immigrant (she immigrated to the U.S. at age 8 from Taiwan) should not stop them from pursing their dreams.

The students also heard from an actor who's been in television shows with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, a plumber who owns his own business and has over 25 employees, a massage therapist who charges $200 an hour, and a team of millennial public relations consultants who know what's trending on Instagram and Snapchat as much as our students do.  

CHAH Boy's Basketball Team Goes to Fordham University!

The CHAH Boys Basketball team attended the Fordham Team Camp last week. The camp was four days after school, where the students were able to visit the world-class campus and play against top notch competition from all around New York State.

Wa-Shokuiku Program, Japanese Cuisine, and the CHAH Food Ambassadors

Do you know the concept of mottainai? Have you ever made kombu or tasted nori? Thanks to the Wa-Shokuiku Program, CHAH's Food Ambassadors have had the opportunity to experience and learn about all of these elements of Japanese food education.

Wa-shokuiku comes from the Japanese words "washoku" for Japanese food and "shokuiku" for food education. The project, developed by nonprofit Table for Two USA, chose CHAH to help pilot their cooking class series.

While healthy cooking is familiar territory for Food Ambassadors, Japanese cuisine and values are new and exciting to learn. Students count to ten in Japanese as they wash their hands before cooking. They are taught about staple ingredients such as rice, seaweed, and fish. They prepare beautiful and wholesome bento boxes with a variety of colors, flavors, and textures, eager for the moment that they get to say "Ittadakimasu" (a polite way of saying, "Let's eat!") and enjoy their creations.

We are grateful for the Wa-Shokuiku Program for expanding our culinary horizons!

For more information on the program or the classes they provide, check out wa-shokuiku.org