GRYPHON MISSION BRIEFING
For Monday, April
8, 2019 – M-day
EARLY RELEASE SCHEDULE
School Mission – Boundless
STEM: Learning & Leading
L&N Student Mission –
#Own it!
School Ops:
· What a weekend
to be a Gryphon – here’s a rundown of all the activities and recognitions earned
just this weekend!
o
L&N NAHS won 1st place award in the Dogwood Arts Festival
Chalkwalk high school collaborative category.
Special thanks to Ayesha Ahmed
for the work that inspired the project!
This same group also won the same award at the Oak Ridge Street Painting
Festival, as well as the People’s Choice Award earlier this year.
o
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!
o
Our Climbing club finished their season by wiping out all the other
novice teams at the final meet of 2019.
o
NHS
members volunteered at Beardsley Farm community gardens.
o
SGA
members who stayed in town participated in an effort to clean up
Second Creek along with the City of Knoxville water quality workers.
o
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.
o
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:
o Ashley Butler – project “Effect of Education on Human Empathy” – Jewelry TV “Brilliance”
Award, SASEF Certificate of Excellence, SASEF 5th place Senior
Division award
o Kaylin Fleenor – project “To Burn or Not to Burn” – Strata-G Award, SASEF Honorable Mention, SASEF
Certificate of Excellence
o Jenny Liu & Ashley
Waycaster – project “Silt Saver”
– Superintendent’s Award, National Genius Award, State Stockholm Prize, SASEF
Certificate of Excellence, SASEF 5th place Senior Division Award
o Savannah Belz – project “Water Quality Parameters of Second Creek Watershed Over Time” –
State Stockholm prize, SASEF Certificate of Excellence
o Reid Napier – project “ArtiFISHal Reef” – Ricoh Award for Sustainability, SASEF
Certificate of Excellence
·
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.
·
New overseas
trip being planned for fall break 2020 to Italy and Greece! Come find out more on April 11 at 6:00 in the Commons with Mr. Blythe and the Global
Gryphons! Spots ae limited so don’t miss out!
·
Are you a Marvel fan? Are you excited for Avengers:
Endgame? If so, all Gryphons are invited to come out to Movie Night!! In advance of the highly anticipated release
of Avengers: Endgame, the junior class will be playing Avengers: Infinity War! It will be April
10 from 6:00-8:45 in the Commons. You do
not need to pay to come. It is completely free!! We will have popcorn and
drinks available (which are also free!). We hope you can come and watch
with us!!
· Interested in discount
coupons for tuxedo rentals? Stop by the office to pick one
up for Regal Tuxedo, located in Windsor Square and Knoxville
Center. Thank you, Mrs. Brown!
·
This
week REDUCE your junk at home by donating
old wash rags and no-longer-used cellphones! REUSING rags to bathe kittens
at Young Williams animal shelter and RECYCLING cell phone parts to spare animal
habitats in Africa is a great way to kick off spring cleaning! Look for
donation boxes at front desk, or bring your donations to Mrs. Elliott.
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 are some opportunities to visit nearby college
campuses as they host special open house events: (more detail can be found on
the School Counseling/Calendar website)
o Carson Newman Tuesday,
April 9
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 Ayn Rand:
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by
the desire to beat others.
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
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