Announcements-Wednesday, March 11th-A Day

CONGRATULATIONS

Congratulations to the following students who placed 8th at the State Math Counts competition yesterday at DMACC out of 45 schools.

Nikolay Silkin, Shreyas Shrestha, Jonah Rowland (placed 14th individually), James Anderson

These students have worked really hard since last fall. Great job to all!!

FROM THE LIBRARY

Thank you to everyone that voted for the Iowa Children’s Choice and Teen Choice contest!  Summit’s winners are listed below.  We should have the state results by the end of the school year!

Children’s Choice Winners:  Restart (1st place), Space Case (2nd place), and Wishtree (3rd place)

Teen Choice Winners:  One of Us is Lying (1st place), Ugly (2nd place) and Refugee (3rd place).

Book Madness Update:

We have almost completed the first round of match ups!  Be sure to stop in the library to vote everyday.  Final book match up to determine our winner will be March 27th.

SUMMIT SOCIAL – Thursday, March 12

2:50 p.m. To 4:30 p.m.

$3 per ticket

Will the POOL be open? YES! Open Gym, Dance/DJ, and Board Games? You bet!

Tickets can be purchased during lunch on Tuesday, March 10th; Wednesday, March 11th; and Thursday, March 12th … $3 per ticket. Buy your tickets during your lunch hour as we will not be selling tickets at the door.

Activities include: pool, dance/DJ, free throw & knock out contest, board games, & open gym for basketball. Concession stand will be open for purchase of food & drinks.Don’t miss the Summit Social! Funds raised will support our Meals from the Heartland school meal packaging event.

NO SCHOOL MARCH 16 – 20  SPRING BREAK

PTO COMMUNITY SERVICE MONTH

  • Thursday, March 12 PTO Social—students will enjoy food and activities from 3 – 4:30 PM at Summit to fundraise for Meals from the Heartland
  • Friday, March 27 Meals from the Heartland.  All students will package food in the gym.

NATIONAL HISTORY DAY

All students participating in National History Day need to be registered by Friday February 28.  The $13.00 entrance fee may be paid on the day of the event, or submitted to Dr. Kevin Gannon at Grandview University; see notes on this after you complete registration.   Any Checks must be made out to Grand View University with “History Day” in the memo.

Remaining practices will be the following:

  • Thurs 3/12 – rough draft review  / prep for practice presentations following SB
  • FRIDAY 3/13 – PAPERS DUE AT GRANDVIEW UNIVERSITY BY 4:00PM / WEBSITES LOCK AT 10:00 PM
  • SPRING BREAK
  • MONDAY 3/23 – PRACTICE PRESENTATIONS – use feedback to make changes
  • THURSDAY 3/26 – PRACTICE PRESENTATIONS –use feedback to make changes
  • SATURDAY 3/28 – MERLE HAY REGIONALS AT GRANDVIEW UNIVERSITY, STARTING AT 7:30 AM.

See Ms. Ites with questions.

A Day tomorrow