Century High School

Real-world application is one of the ways our science curriculum resonates with our students. Recently, juniors and seniors in Ms. Unterholzner's Fundamentals of Anatomy and Physiology course began dissecting cow eyes as part of the nervous system unit. By exploring the eye's structure first-hand, these students are gaining a better understanding of how we perceive the world around us. There's nothing quite like "learning by doing" to make complex biology click!

The MCSU Soul Food & Conversation event is happening Friday, February 6th, in the North Cafe from 4:30–6:00 PM! Come enjoy delicious soul food, connect with friends, and take part in meaningful conversation in a fun and welcoming space. For food ticket prices, check out your grade level google classrooms. Food tickets will be sold during lunch hours on February 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th, and tickets will also be available for purchase at the event. All are welcome, don’t miss out! Come eat, converse, and have fun!.

The offseason is a wrap for our Robotics team, and we can tell Team 2530 is ready to take the title this year. They're already hard at work strategizing, prototyping, and setting big goals.

2026, prepare to be Inconceivable. We can't wait to see these students apply their learning through this amazing club.

Century Science Olympiad had an excellent performance at the University of Wisconsin - River Falls Invitational on Saturday, earning second place out of over 30 teams with numerous individual medals including:
Anatomy & Physiology (Colin Chen & Artina Kazemi): 1st
Astronomy (Ardashir Kocer & Vikram Manivannan): 2nd
Circuit Lab (Ardashir Kocer & Eric Ding): 3rd
Code Craze (Vikram Manivannan & Eric Ding): 2nd
Designer Genes (Colin Chen & Xiaoyan Ye): 3rd
Dynamic Planet (William Yan & William Taunton): 1st
Experimental Design (Colin Chen, Julia Wang, & Eric Ding): 1st
Forensics (Jerry Zheng & Xiaoyan Ye): 4th
Hovercraft (Guru Senthilkumar & Joshua Wang): 1st
Material Science (Ardashir Kocer & Carson Herr): 2nd
Protein Modeling (Carson Herr & Yash Saoji): 3rd
Remote Sensing (William Yan & Avalynn Arnold-Patterson): 1st
Rocks & Minerals (William Yan & William Taunton): 1st
Water Quality (Colin Chen & Artina Kazemi): 1st

Special shout out to new head coach- Mr. Elias and Dr. Jun Chen (JV team supervisor) for their time commitment and support.

What a way to cap off the semester! 🎉 We wrapped up with an incredible celebration honoring our Century High School interns and the business partners who opened their doors to truly life-changing experiences. Students shared powerful final presentations, highlighting how their internships shaped their personal growth, future goals, and career aspirations. A special thank you to @IBM (Mike Vance), @Mayo Clinic (Dr. Karina González Carta – Orthopedic Surgery Artificial Intelligence Lab), @Bolton & Menk (Brian Malm), @Minnesota DNR – Crystal Springs Fish Hatchery (Luke Jadwin), and @Limb Lab (Tiffany Strande) for making these opportunities possible. Your partnership has a meaningful and lasting impact on our students, and we are grateful for the opportunity to continue working with you in the future. If any businesses are interested in learning more about how these internship experiences can be made possible, I would welcome the opportunity to explore how a partnership could work for your specific organization. Please reach out to me at ryraabe@rochesterpublicschools.org

Let's Go Raiders!
https://www.postbulletin.com/sports/prep/rochester-raiders-floor-hockey-knock-off-minneapolis-south-in-home-opener

Check out the January edition of the Panther Parcels!
https://rochesterpsmn.edurooms.com/engage/century-high-school/newsletters/panthers-parcels-january-9-2025

As we close out 2025 it's a great time to celebrate our annual fundraising for Bear Creek Services and this year the Rochester Flyers. We were thrilled to raise 33, 067.67. This is truly a community effort with our Sports bio students raising well over $3,000. Our music programs raising close to $2,000 at concerts and other events, classrooms netted $4000 in various activities, Our one of a kind Cinderella Tea and annual Breakfat with Santa brought large numbers of community members into our orbit as did our auction. with both donors and bidders helping us reach our goal . Student govenrment members carried out individual projects and spent countless hours in the concession stand while helping to keep the energy high. Our book club, FCCLA, GSA, boys soccer team, Key Club and Honor Society members also contributed greatly through book sales, cookie baking, hot chocolate, Matcha, handcrafter item sales and SO MANY COOKIES! Even the kids at Churchhill/Hoover had a penny war and earned over $400! It took a village!

A great article about the CHS Chess Program

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/12/26/century-high-school-chess-team-in-rochester-eyes-another-statewide-title

Before we officially begin winter break, we want to take a moment to celebrate the amazing students we have at RPS! During their annual fundraising competitions, our high school students raised a combined $123,077.95 for local organizations! Thank you, students, for all your hard work and effort to invest back into our community.

Support the Century Band Boosters by dining at Tap House West anytime on Sunday, December 14!

The Century Debate team rounded out its high performing and award winning season with a trip to state Classic League debate tournament on December 5th and 6th. Three teams made it through to Octa finals and semifinals in the Junior Varsity category. Zainab Iftikar and Mia Milosevic won a semi finals award (top 8). Vikram Manivannan and Henry Krysch as well as Idris Caamir and Cole Lappi got Octo finals awards (top 16) meaning three Century teams took three places in the top sixteen statewide.

Congratulations to Century Junior, Norah Chonis, who received the Mayor's Medal of Honor for Youth Serving the Community!

Join the Century Drumline at the RPS Drumline Showcase as we unite with the Mayo and JM Drumlines to raise funds for each school's respective Winter Fundraiser. Go Panthers!
Advanced Go Fan tickets available at: https://gofan.co/event/5559150?schoolId=MN22466

Century Girls soccer and Student Government hosted our second Unified event of the school year, Friendsgiving. It was a morning spent with our amazing students showing what unity truly looks like and celebrating the spirit of inclusion that makes our community so strong.

It's a great day to be Unified!

Century students had a great time atyesterday's STEAM Summit, exploring careers in science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics. A huge thank-you to the Rochester Chamber of Commerce and all of the participating businesses for investing time and energy into making this career-connected learning event such a valuable and memorable experience for our students. Your support truly helps inspire their future pathways!