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Upcoming Events
Glenbrook High School District Summer School will be held at Glenbrook South High School. Summer school begins June 16 and first semester ends July 7. Second semester begins July 8 and the last day of summer school is July 28. Glenbrook Summer School serves both Glenbrook North and Glenbrook South students, freshmen through seniors, who are enrolled for the 2010/2011 school year. Courses will be offered in the applied arts, fine arts, consumer education, health education, driver education, physical education, study/learning skills, English, mathematics, science, social studies, special education and world languages. In addition, career summer experiences will also be offered in conjunction with the North Suburban Educational Region of Vocational Education and Oakton Community College. Classes will meet at Oakton Community College and transportation will be provided from GBS. The three areas of study are Careers in Business and Law, Careers in Healthcare and Careers in Engineering and Robotics.
In accordance with Illinois statute, Glenbrook North High School will destroy temporary records for class of 2005 graduates on June 15. Students who have graduated, transferred or withdrawn from Glenbrook North and would like to take possession of their temporary records may do so by contacting the school’s registrar prior to June 15. Students interested in obtaining their temporary records should contact the school’s registrar, at 847-272-6400. Only temporary records will be destroyed. In accordance with the Illinois Student Records Act, Glenbrook North will retain transcript, health and awards records.
Glenbrook North High School has qualified six speech and debate students to the National Forensics League national debate and speech tournament, the Nationals, to be held June-13-18 in Kansas City. In addition, Glenbrook North won the Sweepstakes trophy based on the combined results of debate and speech competition. Over 200 students in the Northern Illinois District competed for the two top slots in debate and speech competitions to qualify for the national tournament. The Northern Illinois District qualifying tournament was held March 5 and 6 at Glenbrook North High School; Greg Malis was the tournament director. Students competed in four categories of debate and six categories of speech.
In Policy Debate, Vinay Sridharan and Alexis Shklar from GBN were one of the top two teams, thereby qualifying for Nationals. Flynn Makuch and Alex Pappas were among the top five teams at the tournament. In Lincoln-Douglas debate, Pat Donovan qualified, and in Public Forum Debate, Josh Wolken and Adam Wolken qualified. Michael Greenstein is the head debate coach.
In speech events, Melissa Lee-Litowitz qualified in International Extemporaneous Speaking. Alma Nicholson is the head speech coach for GBN.
Math students, senior Brian Freidin, juniors Jason Hirshman, Ho Hyun Sun, and Ho Jin Sun, and sophomore Adam Sandler, all were selected to be part of the Chicago Area All-Star Math Teams. These teams represent all of Northern Illinois and will compete nationally at the University of Iowa in June.
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