Excited to announce that The South Suburban Blue Conference Champions are....
YOUR VERY OWN Oak Forest Varsity Cheer Team!!
CONGRATS & Good Luck at Sectionals!
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Friday Fun in Mrs. Hellinga's Chem class - learning through various experiments about polarization and intermolecular forces.
Great job Dean Pluhar!!
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Tanya Wiseman, senior at Oak Forest High School, is a leader with a compassionate heart. She is not only a student leader, but a driving force behind the "Leading with Heart" initiative at Oak Forest High School.
Read more about this fantastic Bengal by heading to our website: https://tinyurl.com/2zydn2z2
Congrats to our OF Bengal Freshmen Wrestlers!!
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At tonight's board mtg Varsity Club & our Social Workers presented about their involvemt in the FLC - they mentor & guide OF Freshmen during their Freshmen Learning Ctr time. Thank you to our SW & Varsity Club students for going that extra mile for our freshmen!
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Help support Sr Tanya Wiseman & Interact Club w/ their fundraiser that runs through March. They are collecting gently used shoes to benefit the Giving Heart Foundation for Lurie Children's Hospital for children w/ congenital heart diseases.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service for our OF Bengals - 50 Bengal students from the Diversity Club, Key Club & Pep Club visited Feed My Starving Children where they filled bags of MannaPack rice & filled over 107 boxes (which will feed 63 kids a daily meal for a year)!!
IMPORTANT: With the expected low temperatures tomorrow we will be moving to an e-Learning format for Tuesday, January 21st, 2025. Consult your email for more information about attendance and the format for this school day. Regarding after school activities, your coach or sponsor will communicate with each group the specifics of that group.
- Your student needs to complete the Attendance Google Form by 10 a.m. in order to be considered "present" for school.
- Your student should refer to his/her Google Classrooms and complete all assignments posted by the teacher.
- Classroom teachers are available to assist your student between the hours of 12 pm and 2 pm. Help can be provided via Google Classroom, Voice, Meet and/or email.
All D228 buildings are closed today.
Arbor Pk & Hille 8th grade choir students recently visited OFHS & performed w/our very own OF choir & Mr. Pazik.
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Congrats to our OF Varsity & JV Chess Teams on Conference!
Well Done!
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OF students from Ms. Jones', Ms. Dytrych's & Mr. Alvarez's classes recently visited the Holocaust Museum - Education is the key to learning from the lessons of the Holocaust.
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Please join the FCA Club & OF Bengals as they show their support for cancer patients through Phil's Friends - an amazing organization that create care packages for cancer patients for comfort during their treatments.
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Did you check your mailbox this week? We sent our annual District Scoop your way!
Congrats to our OF Cheerleaders on taking 1st Place this weekend @ the Buffalo Grove Coed Invite!!
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Congrats to our OF Boys Bowling SSC Blue Conference Champs!!
**11th consecutive year**
Varsity Medalists - 10th Ryan O'Conner; 1st Aiden Kidd; 3rd Jacob Serrano
JV Medalists - 7th Daijon Lewis; 6th Nathan Schmidt; 5th Nick Alaska; 10th Angelo Cervantes
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BHSD228 Families and Students,
On Tuesday afternoon, our Student Information System vendor PowerSchool notified our District that we may be among the many PowerSchool clients worldwide whose data may have been accessed during a cybersecurity incident. On Wednesday at 2PM, we attended a detailed PowerSchool debrief about the data breach.
While PowerSchool is responsible for this incident and its impact, Bremen High School District 228 is committed to protecting our student, staff and family data and is committed to communicating with transparency about this incident. We are providing the information we currently have and as more specific information becomes available we will share it.
What happened?
According to PowerSchool, someone used a compromised PowerSchool credential to access an internal PowerSchool system that is intended for supporting their clients through a maintenance connection to individual district PowerSchool systems. When PowerSchool became aware of the incident on December 28, 2024, they notified law enforcement, locked down the system, and engaged the services of CrowdStrike (a cybersecurity company that develops software to help companies detect and prevent cyberattacks) and Cyber Steward (a professional advisor with experience in negotiating with threat actors).
What data could have been accessed?
District 228 has not received specific details about the extent in which D228 faculty and student information was accessed and they have assured us that further analysis of our particular situation will be shared in the weeks ahead. Information accessed may include demographic and contact information, including names, addresses, and phone numbers as well as some limited health information for some students. District 228 does not collect or retain student or staff SSNs in PowerSchool and to our knowledge, no financial information was included in the data breach.
PowerSchool states that they have received “reasonable assurances from the threat actor that the data has been deleted and that no additional copies exist. We do not anticipate the data being shared or made public, and we believe it has been deleted without any further replication or dissemination. We have a video confirming deletion and are actively searching the dark web to confirm.”
What happens next?
PowerSchool has stated that the incident is contained, and they have no evidence of malware or continued unauthorized activity in the PowerSchool environment. They are not experiencing, nor expect to experience, any operational disruption and they continue to provide services as normal to school districts.
Although PowerSchool has assured us that the risk of data dissemination or misuse is low, we remain vigilant and are leveraging all available resources to thoroughly assess the situation and strengthen the protection of our systems.
Communication and Transparency
District 228 personnel will continue to work with our PowerSchool representative and we will share relevant information as it becomes available to us.
District 228's Operation Snowball is having a fundraiser at Portillos in Tinley Park on January 16th from 5-8pm! Save the date! Details can be seen below.
Congrats to the OF JV & Varsity Dance Team on their wins @ the IDTA comp!! JV 1st in open pom & qual. for IDTA State; Varsity 1st in AAA open pom & qual. for IDTA State; Varsity 2nd in AAA Jazz; Varsity 2nd in Jazz on IHSA rubric; Varsity 3rd Pom routine on IHSA rubric!!
Join us for a special night as we honor two Oak Forest Bengals into our Hall of Fame - former Athletic Director Sue Bonner & former Athletic Secretary Betty Fox!
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#Once a Bengal Always a Bengal
