GRYPHON MISSION BRIEFING
For Friday, May 11, 2018 – N-day
SENIOR N-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:
·
All 9th – 11th grade students should receive
permission forms to leave early for half-day exams on May 22 and 23rd
from your 4th period teacher today.
They are due back no later than Wednesday, May 16.
·
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!
· 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! They each received full
scholarships worth $10,000! Bravo!
·
Congratulations to Eddie Ceasu, who signed yesterday to swim for
the University of the Cumberlands! Good
luck!
Quote of the day from Albert Einstein:
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
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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