GRYPHON MISSION BRIEFING
For Thursday, April
11, 2019 – L-day
School Mission – Boundless STEM: Learning & Leading
L&N Student Mission – #Own it!
School Ops:
·
Information meeting
tonight for trip being planned for fall break 2020 to Italy and Greece! Come find out more tonight at 6:00 in the Commons with Mr. Blythe
and the Global Gryphons! Spots ae limited so don’t miss out!
·
Juniors/Seniors
attending prom: be sure to pick up your tickets from Mrs. Brown today and
tomorrow. All guest applications must be
turned in before Saturday. NO tickets
will be sold at the door. Plan to come
early from 6:00 – 7:00 to the Southern Railway Depot to get your picture made
in one of the train cars. Prom
photography will be available throughout the dance inside the venue, the train
car is a special arrangement for 1 hour only.
·
The L&N
STEMpunks are heading to the World Championships in Houston, Texas, but we need
your help to reach our fundraising goal! Please go to the link below to
purchase one our new L&N STEMpunks keychains, a team shirt, or to make
a donation! We appreciate your support! https://squareup.com/store/l-and-n-stempunks-inc
·
Congrats to all the
winners at the 3rd Annual L&N Film Fest! If you weren’t here last night you missed
first screenings of future big shot directors, writers, and producers! For a complete list of winners – see below.
·
Rising juniors and seniors – are you interested in taking
Dual Enrollment classes this summer or fall?
You need to come to an informational meeting to learn what to do and how
to do it. There will be one Thursday, 4/11, during 1st lunch in D119 and Friday, 4/12, at 8:30 in G006. Meetings last
about 40 minutes. Email Mrs. Morrell if
you have questions.
·
Thanks to the L&N Art Honor Society for our new
portable Wings mural now on display in the Commons. The design was by Hila Williford, and she painted it with
Cameron Ramsey, Rachel Barrick, Josie
Bresler, Jennifer Butler, Kirsten Carter, Helena Delzer and Lydia Foster. Stop by and take a picture with them and
if you tweet please tag our school @LNSTEMAC and/or #GryphonWings
·
What a weekend to be a Gryphon –
here’s a rundown of all the activities and recognitions earned just this
weekend!
§
Our TSA team competed in
the state tournament in Chattanooga – Max
Harper won 3rd place for Music Production.
§
Congratulations to the
L&N Art Honor Society for winning First Place in the Dogwood Arts Festival
Chalkwalk High School Collaborative category. Thanks to our NAHS members who
participated: Ayesha Ahmed, Rachel Barrick, Savannah Bresler,
Jen Butler, Kirsten Carter, Jemeria Davison, Travis Gardner, Kate
Jolly, Destiny Large, Mary Grace Mader, Audrey Moran, Cameron Ramsey,
Hannah Ray and Hila Williford. Special Thanks to Ayesha for the art that
inspired the work and Cameron who represented the group in the
awards. What a banner year for our NAHS, after winning the corresponding
award at the Oak Ridge Street Painting Festival, as well as the People's Choice
Award!
§
Golfer Madlyn Newman won the “putt” portion of the DriveChipPutt National
finals held at Augusta National course over the weekend – she finished 8th
in the nation overall!
§
Our Climbing club finished their season by wiping out all the other
novice teams at the final meet of 2019.
§
NHS
members volunteered at Beardsley Farm community gardens.
§
SGA
members who stayed in town participated in an effort to clean
up Second Creek along with the City of Knoxville water quality workers.
§
SGA members traveled to the State
Conference where Ashley Waycaster won
the TASC Member of the Year and Lucy
Drinnen won TASC Above and Beyond
Awards. Chloe Gibson and Reed
Freeman brought home the E-Scrapbook award for our chapter; and Jenny Liu took 3rd place in
the essay contest.
§ Our
Science Olympiad team took their state tournament by storm. Medal winners were: Josie Bresler & Isabelle
Toth – 1st place, Designer Genes; Devon McGinley & Raymond
Wysmierski – 1st place, Geologic Mapping; Charles Brush & Raymond
Wysmierski – 1st place, Wright Stuff; Charles Brush & Connor
Mcginley – 2nd place Boomilever.
Overall team placement still to be determined.
·
Heads up – this Friday, 4/12, we will
meet in Advisory classes to go over your testing schedules for the next 2
weeks. Don’t miss it!
·
April 8-12 Blind Date with a Book! As testing season
approaches, you'll need a good book to help you escape the stress. Gather
up your courage and drop by the L&N STEM Academy Library next week for a
chance encounter that could turn into the real thing!
Where have you been all my life? The books will be wrapped so you can't
judge them by their covers (it’s what’s inside that counts, right?) and
each one will have a classified ad on it describing its perfect reader. Could
you possibly be the one?
You'll never know unless you try! Check it out and go on a date. ...don't
worry, if the match doesn't work, you can always return the book and try again.
It shouldn't surprise you that sometimes it takes a couple tries to find that
special connection. It starts on Monday and will last all week!
·
Congratulations
to these students who were recognized at the 68th annual Southern
Appalachian Science and Engineering Fair at Thompson Boling Arena:
§ Ashley Butler
§ Kaylin Fleenor
§ Jenny Liu & Ashley Waycaster
§ Savannah Belz
§ Reid Napier
·
The Class
of 2019 will be hosting a Tournament/Game Night Monday, April 15th from 5-8pm with all
proceeds going to the senior gift. The event is free to attend but there will
be $5 Smash Bros tournaments and tournaments for spike-ball and foursquare,
where the winners will win prizes and participants will have the opportunity to
win. Attendees will be able to buy pizza, chips, drinks, and desserts. Plan to
attend if you want to have a great time and win some awesome prizes.
Community &
Guidance Ops:
·
A representative
from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD, will be at STEM on
Tuesday, April 16 at 7:00pm.
Parents, students, friends all are welcome.
·
All students, here is the last opportunity to visit nearby college
campuses as they host special open house events: (more detail can be found on
the School Counseling/Calendar website)
o Maryville College Saturday,
April 13
·
Seniors: continue watching the Scholarship Bulletin on the
School Counseling website. There still are scholarships to apply for,
though some with close deadlines.
Quote of the day from Mahatma
Gandhi:
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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 medalist
, Newsweek’s Top 500 American High Schools, TN Reward School, TN STEM
Designated School, AdvancED STEM Certified School
FILM FESTIVAL
RESULTS:
Outstanding Silent Film - Flora
+ Fauna (Maddie Hux, Rosie Jones, Davis Hammett, Bryson Coleman)
Outstanding Original Story - First
Crush (Chloe Gibson)
Outstanding Documentary - John
Lennon: A History (Bri Badillo, Rachel Sepaniak, Nick
Straight, Addison Taylor, and Madison Turner)
Outstanding Spotlight Film - Making
of Night Riders (Lucas Vaughn, Jaxon Black, Davey Niday,
Marianna Simmins, Anna Boney, Christian Fox, Amanda Knopps, Quinn Jazny, Mary
Grace Mader)
Outstanding 14 Day Shootout - Surfing
the Web (Isabelle Taylor, Anna Enkema, Haley Lester, Ingrid
Hernandez, Madeline Taylor)
14 Day Shootout Audience Favorite and
Outstanding Scoring/Audio - Tennessee Jones and the Ancient Relic
(Nathan Leeper, Mayci Proctor, Reagan Frye, Gracie Brady)
Outstanding Cinematography - The
Passage of Time (Travis Gardner, Ruby Wagley, Reese
Hudson, Juliana Carrera)
Outstanding Director- Emily Coile (On
Edge)
Outstanding Lead Actor- David
Niday (Making of Night Riders)
Outstanding Original Screenplay -
Montze Ortiz and Derrick Washington (Falling)
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