Thursday, May 10, 2018

5-11-18 Student Mission Briefing


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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