Students who have yet to invite the counselor (Marianne) and a teacher recommender: Please complete the FERPA agreement and send an invitation as soon as possible to ensure that we have time to complete letters of recommendations and academic information. All students using the Common App have to invite Marianne as a counselor to provide colleges with school and academic information and get their transcript uploaded. Transcripts are uploaded three times a year as required by the colleges, fall, mid-year, and at the end of the school year. I am available to read essays before you finalize them. I recommend that you have one of the English teachers read the essay before you give it to me. Teachers and counselors often look for different things in the college essays. Print the application and proof read it before you hit the submit button. This is very important, as it is easier to detect errors when you read it on print. Also, sometimes part of the essay is cut off, which is an important error to catch. Make sure you spell the recommenders’ name and email addresses correctly. Check correct spelling on the ASD Steller website. I recommend that you verify that I received an invitation. If you want me to look over your application, please come to the computer lab or my office on Wednesdays after school.

Hello Steller Community!
The Halloween Dance will be Thursday, October 27th at 7pm! This year will have new activities, including a cake walk! If you would like to help provide a cake, pie, tray of cupcakes, or any other dessert please bring them to Steller either during the day of the 27th, or before the dance around 6:30. We are also looking for chaperones to help the night of the dance. We would love the help! There will be a ticket system to enter the cake walk. Tickets to enter will cost 50 cents for one ticket and $4 for 10 tickets.
There will be the traditional costume contest at the dance as well. The themes are Funniest, Cutest, Scariest, Most Creative, and Best Group Costume. The overall winner of the night will receive a cake, a $10 gift card to TOB, or a Homework Pass for a math class.
Tickets for entry will cost $3 with a costume, and $5 dollars without.
If you have any questions about the dance, please email Rachel Curtiss (curtiss.racheld@gmail.com)

Two community service advisory competitions are happening during parent conferences this week.  Bring in school supplies and change for the penny drive in order to donate to One World School in Uganda and the Polar Plunge for Special Olympics.  See you soon!

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Celebrate the JFK Centennial by entering the 2017 Profile in Courage Contest. For this year only: the first-place prize will be doubled from $10,000 to $20,000 and cash prizes will be awarded to the top 25 students. Learn more about the special contest topic which pays tribute to the 100th anniversary of JFK’s birth.

The contest is open to United States high school students in grades nine through twelve attending public, private, parochial, or home schools; US students under the age of twenty enrolled in a high school correspondence/GED program; and US citizens attending schools overseas.

JFK Centennial Awards: First-place winner receives $20,000. Second-place winner receives$1,000. Five finalists receive $500 each. Eighteen essayists receive awards of $100.

https://www.jfklibrary.org/Education/Profile-in-Courage-Essay-Contest.aspx

If you have any prescription medications that have expired in your cabinets, please take advantage of this weekend event to safely dispose of them. It is not recommended to flush or throw away any prescription drugs down the drain or trash.

Saturday, October 22nd is this fall’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. The event starts at 10:00 A.M. and ends at 2:00 P.M.
Locations in the Municipality of Anchorage and the central Mat-Su Valley include the following Fred Meyer stores:

Anchorage (two locations): 2300 Abbott Road and 7701 DeBarr Road.

Eagle River: 13401 Old Glenn Highway.

Palmer: 650 South Cobb Street.

Wasilla: 1501 East Parks Highway.

For further information on this event, prescription medication disposal information and to check if more locations are added, visit the DEA Office of Diversion Control’s website at: https://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/drug_disposal/takeback/index.html

Thank you,

Annette Johansen, M.Ed., BSN, RN, NCSN
Steller Secondary School Nurse

Fall Conferences will take place on Wednesday, October 26th and Thursday, October 27th. These are student-led conferences that include the student, parents, and advisor.  Students will have the opportunity to discuss how their
classes are going, to identify areas of challenge and success, and to identify goals for the rest of the school year.

Conferences will be scheduled in 30-minute increments.

Conferences can be scheduled on the district’s online scheduler by following the steps below:
1.Go to http://www.asdk12.org/ConferenceScheduling/StudentScheduleStartExt.aspx
This can also be reached by going to the district web page, clicking on Parent conferences on the left, and then on the Middle School conference scheduler.
2.Choose Steller as the school
3. Choose 7th grade!  In order to work the system, all conferences are scheduled as 7th graders.
4. For Team Name, choose your student’s primary advisor (Conferences will be with the advisor, if you want
to meet with classroom teachers, you will need to schedule a meeting outside of the conference dates.)
5. Choose the date you wish to come in.
6. Choose your time and continue through the process. You can sign up to receive a reminder email.  If you need to cancel your appointment time, please email your advisor.

Individual guidance in Career Exploration and College Planning and Application offered by Marianne on Wednesdays after school in the Orange Lab. This is a great opportunity for juniors to start planning for after high school and for seniors to work on the college application. Students in other grades are welcome as well.

Stop by Marianne’s office or email her at pedersen_marianne@asdk12.org for more information

Hello Steller Students and Parents!  This year Steller is holding our Olympics on Tuesday, October25th. This is a fun day focused on Advisory bonding. Each Advisory hosts competitions and everyone competes to help their team win. Teams also dress up and we hold a picnic lunch. Each student should bring something to contribute, so please check below to see what your advisory has been assigned to bring. Also we do need a couple of parents from 10:00-12:00 to help with lunch set up and clean up. Please email Leigh Anne at bonney_leigh@asdk12.org, if you can volunteer.

Food assignments:

Sandwiches for three people – Troy’s, Sventana’s, Rosa’s, Danielle/Ashley’s, Jean’s, Ken’s, Marla’s, and Simone’s

Chips – Philip’s, Bob’s, and Mike’s

Fruit for 3 – Leigh Anne’s, Jason’s, Becky’s, and Brian’s

Also, here is the schedule for the next couple of weeks.

October 21: No School – Inservice

October 25: Steller Olympics

October 26 and 27: Half Days – Student-Led Conferences (School Day ends at 11:35)

October 27: Halloween dance at 7PM

October 28: No School-Inservice

Sign-up / log-in to Fred Meyer at this link https://www.fredmeyer.com/topic/community-rewards-4