ROSEMOUNT HIGH SCHOOL Daily Announcements January 20, 2015 GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS Receive RHS Announcements through email by clicking the “Email Lists” button on the RHS Homepage RHS Site Council Donations RHS Site Council will be taking donations of food and winter clothing for the RHS Counseling Office Food Shelf and the 360 Communities organization at Parent Teacher Conferences on Thursday and Friday, January 22nd and 23rd. Desirable food donations are kid-friendly, non-perishable, and require little preparation (such as cans of soup, canned meat, tuna, cheese-n-crackers, granola bars, trail mix, nuts, peanut butter, beans, and bottled water/non-refrigerated juice. Winter clothing (including coats), personal hygiene items (including hotel and travel size toiletries), school supplies, boxes of Kleenex, and hand sanitizer will also be accepted at the Site Council table which will be located near the main office of the school at Conferences. The RHS Counseling Office operates a school Food Shelf for students in need. The food shelf is designed to make meals available to students who may not have access to foods outside the school day, i.e. evenings and weekends. Donations are packaged by RHS students and housed at various locations throughout the school. They are available to any student and inquiries are confidential. (3) Recycling Heroes Kudos to the following classrooms for being recognized by their night custodian as excellent recyclers: Ms. Ringuist, Mr. Heebl, Mr, Fendrich, Entire third floor Science Dept. (2) Dakota Electric Association 2015 Youth Tour – Washington, DC DEA is offering area students a chance to win an All-Expense Paid trip to Washington, D.C. from June 13-18! Students who are enrolled as a junior or senior and their electricity is supplied by Dakota Electric are eligible to apply. DEA sends 5 students on this amazing and educational Youth Tour! Applications are available in the Career Center or on the DEA Website: http://www.dakotaelectric.com and are due 2/20/15. (7) Class of 2015 - Senior Students Josten’s graduation packets were handed out to all seniors during homeroom. Please stop in the main office if you were absent from this assembly. VERY IMPORTANT: All seniors must log on to http://www.jostens.com/apps/store/customer/1062194/Rosemount-High-School/ and order their cap, gown & tassel (no charge). Deadline for ordering cap, gown & tassel along with graduation accessories is Thursday, January 29, 2015. (7) Yearbook Baby Ads Parents of Seniors: Would you like to include a special message and baby picture of your child in this year's yearbook? Look for the Senior Flashbacks information in your child's grad information or on the yearbook website at http://www.district196.org/rhs/facultyadd.cfm?id=343 (12) Attention 10th and 11th Grade Parents Do you have a strong academic student? Is college in their future? Do they need help finding college majors or careers that would be a good fit for them? The Mentor Program can help AND can improve their college resume by providing professional internship opportunities. Check out our video and website for more information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbZqEiVdEZs www.district196.org/rhs/mentorprogram/ Have your child see Mr. Macho in Room 124 for an application. (4) 2015 Senior Class Party Senior Poster info meeting on Tuesday, 1/20 at 5:30 in the IMC. Reps from Cornerstone Copy as well as examples of posters from previous graduates will be on display. Stay for the parent meeting at 7pm. 1 Teacher/Staff Conference Pre Meal – Volunteers Needed Thank you to all the parents who have volunteered to supply food for the Teacher/Staff Pre-Conference Meal which is being held this Thursday, January 22, 2015. We are still in need of a few more volunteers to sign up for soup/chili/hot dishes. Please follow the instructions below to register for VolunteerSpot and to sign up for your meal choice. If you have any questions, please contact Heidi Kraemer at [email protected] 1. Click this link to see our Sign-Up on VolunteerSpot: http://vols.pt/yTvAVw 2. Review the options listed and choose the option(s) you like. 3. Sign up! It's Easy - you will NOT need to register an account or keep a password on VolunteerSpot. COLLEGE AND SCHOLARSHIP INFORMATION A list of current scholarship opportunities can be found on Family Connections. Once you log in to Family Connections, go to the "Colleges" tab, scroll down and click on the "scholarship list" link to view the list of scholarships and/or download scholarship applications. Scholarships The Dakota County Regional Chamber of Commerce Scholarship application is available on Family Connections. DCR Chamber Charitable Foundation will be awarding a post-secondary education scholarship to graduating high school females within each of our four school districts (four total) as part of our premier Women’s Conference. Must be a student in District 191/192/196/197. Application is due February 2nd and recipients will be notified no later than February 13th (6) College Fair College Visits Student reminder: Family Connections has a current list of upcoming College Visits so that you can plan accordingly should you want to attend! U.S. Army – Tuesday, January 20 – 10:00am National Guard – Wednesday, January 21 – 9:30am ATHLETICS ARTS, ACTIVITIES AND CLUBS DECA Congratulations Congratulations to over 60 RHS students who earned the right to compete at the MN State DECA Competition to be held March 8, 9, and 10th. Jack Alberts Asya Anderson Gabriel Cobos Quentin Engdahl Hannah Garrett Samuel Ivanecky Nyah Kasprzyk Alexa Mack Kurt McKenzie Natalie Narloch Eric Paget Sam Rhody Jake Smith Lindsey VerMurlen Tom Wheeler Brett Anderson John Birkholz Courtney Cook Maria Fendrich Dustin Gunderson Lizzie Johnson Marty Kelly Tanner Manske Amanda McNeill Jack Narloch Caleb Pavelka Justin Schaubroeck Varsha Tallapaka Katie Villella Anna Wise Michael Anderson Travis Boyum Courtney DeBettignies Mitch Foster Amanda Halvorson Ryan Kalinowski Danielle Kemnic Monica McDonald Ellie Meisinger Abby Nelson Lea Payette Joey Schuh Madi Van Sickle Andrew Weiler Alex Wood Grace Anderson Chris Chunh Denise Delgado Karly Freels Rachel Igoe Katie Kalinowski William Lai Daniel McElroy Holden Mitchell Rachael Nielsen Anna Peterson Cody Schultz Nathan VanHandel Tanner Wenzel Paige Zemke Lobby Day at the Capital Join the Green Team and the Steger Foundation on Mon, Feb. 2 for Lobby Day at the MN Capitol. Help raise the Renewable Energy Standard. See Mrs. Kanitz in N22 by Jan. 22. Training and transportation provided. (2) Green Team January Meetings All grades welcome! Help promote our new recycling program. Design, build wind turbine blades for April competition and learn about renewable energy. Wed, Jan 21 at 2:30pm in Rm N22 (1) 2