GRYPHON MISSION BRIEFING
For Tuesday, April
9, 2019 – L-day
School Mission – Boundless STEM: Learning & Leading
L&N Student Mission – #Own it!
School Ops:
·
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.
·
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!!
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 Mark
Twain:
Do not go around saying the world owes you a
living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
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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