GRYPHON MISSION BRIEFING
For Thursday, May 10, 2018 – L-day
SENIOR L-day CLASS FINALS
School Mission – Boundless STEM: Learning & Leading
L&N Student Mission – #Own it!
Special
Ops:
Special
recognition to all students and staff members –
·
This week L&N was named by
the TN Dept of Ed as Knox County’s only STEM Designated school. We are one of only 3 high schools across the
whole state. This was following a
lengthy application process that included an evaluation team’s visit to the
school.
·
US News & World Report, the
publication which ranks high schools, colleges, and universities across the
country, has awarded the L&N a Silver Medal for accomplishment for
2018. They rank us as the #6 best high
school in the state of TN (6th of 363), #118 out of all magnet
schools in the country (118th of 937), and #821 best high school in
the whole country (#821 of 5928).
WELL DONE GRYPHONS!!
School
Ops:
·
Start making plans now all students – next Thursday, May 17, is
graduation for the Class of 2018 at 3:00 at Thompson Boling Arena. We will dismiss school for all
students at 1:00 – lunch will be served to everyone until 1:30. You will meet all 4 L-day classes in
shortened periods before 1:00. Students
who have transportation or a way home may leave (just like an Early Release
day). Students who ride buses will wait,
supervised, in the Commons/Verandah until 4:30.
·
A series of disastrous blind dates! Teens who express their angst by
sharing selfies! A man obsessed with small, fluffy animals! Come out and enjoy a night of theatre on May
15th from 7-9pm in the Commons! The Advanced Theatre class will perform three
one-act plays: Check Please, Selfie, and Of Mice and Men. Refreshments will be
for sale and a donation of $5 is appreciated.
·
Well, it has taken 2 years from the inaugural Water Bottle Rocket
project (Scientific Research) and the original record set by Team
Horrocks, but alas we have a new record... Congrats
to A. McGhee and E. McFarland for breaking the hang
time record with a time of 12.9 seconds! This is quite an
engineering achievement- Well done!
·
Students – today
is the last day to go online and vote for your freshman classmate, Evan Carr. He’s been nominated for this week’s Prep Xtra
Player of the Week for his great tennis performance! Go here
to vote. You can vote more than once!
· Huge
congrats to Haley Folsom, who
graduated with her Associate’s Degree from Pellissippi State Community College last
Friday – 2 weeks before she’ll earn her high school diploma from L&N! For more information, click
here for an article from PSCC about it.
Way to go Haley!
· Congratulations
to the STEM Ultimate Frisbee team! They
won the TN State Championship for the 2nd year in a row over the
weekend! Well done team!
·
Students – as we enter the last 2 full weeks of
school you should have a good idea where your grades will wind up for the
year. There will be a meeting on Monday, May 14, at 5:30 p.m. in the Commons for all information and registration for
summer school courses. Summer
school will run as in years past at the L&N where all students start
out working daily on campus and once you’ve made adequate process you can
complete the course from home. Summer
school runs from May 29 – June 29 and costs $10 per course. You may take 2 courses per summer. Other questions? Come to the meeting on the
14th!
Community & Guidance Ops:
·
Big shout out to Chloe Weaver and Caleb Weaver for being
accepted to a 5-week summer program at the Berklee School of Music in Boston
for this summer! Bravo!
·
Congratulations to Eddie Ceasu, who signed yesterday to swim for
the University of the Cumberlands! Good
luck!
Quote of the day from Carl Bard:
Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can
start from now and make a brand new ending.
Practice
L&N Habits every day: Professionalism, Critical Thinking, Collaboration,
Innovation, Inquiry, & Design
L&N STEM Academy – TN Designated STEM School, TN’s
First Apple School of Distinction, 4 time - US
News & World Report medalist – Silver 2018, 2017, Gold 2016, Bronze
2015, 3 time - Newsweek’s Top 500
American High Schools 2015 – 17, TN Reward School (2014, 2015, 2017)
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