GRYPHON MISSION BRIEFING
For Monday, April 10, 2017 – “M”
day
L&N Student Mission – #Own it!
Early Release Schedule
School Ops:
·
Special Congratulations edition
of announcements today! Gryphons had
quite a weekend! Here are the winners we
know of so far:
o
Tennessee History Day – the
following winners qualified for National History Day at the University of
Maryland in June –
§ First
Place Senior Group Exhibit—“Anne Hutchinson:
Religious Rebel” by Hyatt Christenberry, Molly Miller, Aruha
Khan, Madison Jackson. Teachers: Norton and Griffin
§ Second Place Senior Individual Documentary – “The Bijou Theatre: Taking a
Stand for Equality” by Jared Watkins.
Teacher: Stanish
§ Third Place Senior Group Documentary – “The Coal Creek Sage: When Miners
Stood Up for Their Labor Rights” by Zachary Medly, Abigail Wells, Alexandra
Lee. Teachers: Norton and Griffin
§ And special shout out to Mrs. Robbins – who was honored as the THD
Teacher of the Year for 2017!!
o
TN Music Educators Association All-State String Orchestra
- Congratulations to Connor McGinley for an outstanding
performance on violin in Nashville at TMEA All-State String Orchestra! Top
musical honors for one of our best musicians at L&N - way to go, Connor!
o
PC Pro Industry Certifications – last week Ryan
Barrick was our first, and already we’ve added Nathan Carpenter as PC-Pro nationally certified! Congratulations guys!
o
Technology Student Association (TSA) also had the state tournament over the weekend. L&N cleaned up there, too! It is a big list and we’re still compiling
the winners so watch tomorrow’s briefing for a complete list!
·
Hey students! Have you noticed the new green screen wall on
the 2nd floor of the Depot building? It is in the vestibule outside the STEM
Space. We put it there for you to
exercise your creativity. If you post a
picture on Twitter or Instagram using it please tag the school @LNSTEMAC or
#LNgreenscreen so we can collect them!
Let your imagination take you everywhere with it!
·
Show your school spirit
by for voting for our school in the School Spirit Contest. The
school with the most votes wins $2500. Tell your family and friends to
vote, too! http://www.knoxnews.com/search/school%20spirit%20challenge/
· The Advanced PE class is sponsoring the 2nd Annual SpikeBall Tournament to benefit the
downtown YMCA. Our students get to go
the downtown YMCA for free whenever they want with the class. This is our way
to give back to thank them and have some fun. If each team donated $10 we’d have a nice
donation to make to the programs at the YMCA that we and the community get to
use! Please respond to this survey by
Wednesday, April 12 to sign up for the tournament! https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/VGVHV23
·
Attention Seniors and Senior
Parents! The PTSA is sponsoring an
interfaith baccalaureate service for graduating seniors and their
families. This year's service will be held on Sunday, May 7, at 3pm at
Immaculate Conception Church located at 414 West Vine Street. This
promises to be an uplifting ceremony as we kick-off the many graduation-related
activities for the class of 2017.
·
The L&N Stem Academy staff
and faculty will be honoring the 2017 graduates at their annual senior
reception. This year's reception will be held at the school on
Sunday, May 7 at 4pm. Again, all seniors and their families are
encouraged to attend.
·
News from the Arts:
o
Congratulations to Austin Bradley,
who won second place in the Rhythm & Blooms Guitar Design Contest with his
entry, "American Woman". Austin will receive a cash award and tickets
to the festival this weekend. Please go to Awaken Coffee at 125
W. Jackson this week and vote for Austin's guitar for the People's Choice
award.
o
Visit Ijams Nature Center this
month and enjoy the L&N AP/Honors Art Show on display there. Ijams'
Visitor Center is open Monday – Saturday 9 am to 5 pm and Sunday
11 am to 5 pm. The exhibit will be up for the month of April.
o
Thanks to NAHS members Ayesha,
Savannah, Travis, Desiree, Meliya and Ben for representing us in the
Dogwood Arts Festival Chalkwalk Festival. Desiree's image was beautiful and
they made us proud.
·
Have you heard of STEM Fruved? We are a health-based
student organization that has grown across college campuses that focuses
on helping students manage their weight and live healthier by focusing on
improving dietary intake, increasing physical activity, and improving overall
stress management skills. The lead team at UT’s chapter wants to begin
groups at high schools and we are their national pilot. Your involvement will help them create a
program that is attractive and useful to high school students across the
country. Please consider contributing to
this prototyping by joining the group for its next meeting. We meet in the STEM space on Monday’s from 3:30-4:30pm.
Community & Guidance Ops:
·
Interested in taking Driver’s
Ed over the summer? Knox County Schools
is offering classes at 2 locations. Go here for more
information. Pay attention to the
registration opportunities listed. There
will be no exceptions.
Quote
of the day from Carl Sagan:
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Practice
L&N Habits every day: Professionalism, Critical Thinking, Collaboration,
Innovation, Inquiry, & Design
L&N STEM Academy – TN’s First Apple School of
Distinction, US News & World Report
Gold Medal 2016, Newsweek’s Top 500
“Beating the Odds” school
No comments:
Post a Comment