There will be no Souper Steller this Friday.  Make sure that your child has a lunch.  Thanks!

Please consider bringing a dish to celebrate Steller’s Expanding Your World FUNdraiser. We have some wonderful food from around the world being donated – Asian, French, Italian, Hispanic, South Asian, Indian, American and more.

Please consider adding your special culinary touch to our event’s dinner.

Please have your food to me(Lori Pickett, Parker’s Mom) in the kitchen no later than 5:45. Dinner starts at 6pm and we will be cleaning it up around 7ish. Please label any dishes and/or serving utensils that you want back with your name and a phone number and please if possible please pick them up that night. For more information please email, text or call Lori at 2loripickett@gmail.com or 907-440-0326

In the spring, each new student that is accepted to Steller through the lottery system meets with the staff member who will be their advisor during their years at Steller.  This is a very important time for the student, the parents and the advisor to try to determine if Steller is a proper fit for them.  The staff has a list of questions that they would like to pare down and make the orientation process more standardized between different advisors.  Please weigh in about which questions you think would be important to ask by taking our survey:  Student Orientation Questions

Thanks for helping us make this an excellent process!

If you are a member of our community, a student, staff or parent with a great concept that would benefit Steller, but costs a lot-like more than $500, then the Parent Group has created a fund to help address this need. A Grant committee has been formed, consisting of 2 parents, 2 students and 2 teachers. The fund currently has $10,000 available to spend for the remainder of this school year. This committee will be meeting on:

March 31^st, at 2:15 in Danielle/Ashley’s room

Everyone is invited! Come hear the proposals and learn what will make Steller an even better place to be.

Fund request forms are in the office. The Grant Committee will vote on the proposals after the meeting on the 31^st.

Any questions? Ask Jennifer in the library (a.m.) or email me at jhj@gci.net.

Please remember to bring your new or gently used items to the office.

Please consider asking businesses that you frequent regularly to contribute an item or a gift certificate.

Also don’t forget to check with your student about what items they need for their advisory group basket.

We are looking forward to a fun event and invite everyone to attend.  Thanks so much!

Dates: July 20-31, 2015

Who can attend? 9th-12th grade students (entering in the fall of 2015)

Cost: $700 for most modules

High School ASRA is an intensive, DAY ONLY two-week learning experience for students with an interest in science, technology, engineering and math. Students study one subject (module), work in small teams, and participate in project based learning in a college-like environment.  No housing is provided; however, some modules take students off campus for portions of the ASRA experience to engage in field work. 

Module sizes are small with an average of ten students and two instructors. Our instructors are faculty, graduate students and industry professionals. There are no grades, tests or homework. Modules are designed to be fun and engaging while offering challenging content. Past module subjects include Biomedicine, Veterinary Medicine, Field Geology, GIS, Remotely Operated Vehicles, Civil Engineering, and others. APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN, AND ARE DUE MARCH 31, 2015.

In its 14th year, admission to ASRA is competitive. Students who apply must complete an essay, provide references and show evidence of sincere interest in participation.

MORE INFO.

AG Announcements – 1/26/15

Unofficial Pi Day is this Friday, March 20^th. Any student who memorizes 10 decimal places of PI gets a free slice of pie! Want to skip to the front of the “pi” line Friday? Then wear your favorite (as I know you own several) nerdy math shirt and skip to the front of the line. Speaking of pies…

…we need pies donated for “PI” day. If you or your parents can help please drop off pies to Jen’s room or the Steller kitchen on Friday morning. Any kind of pies are welcome J

There will be a mandatory Junior class meeting tomorrow at noon in Bob’s room.

Attention talented Steller students!!  

The 2015 talent show is on the 27th 0f March.  So far two–count them–one; two acts have auditioned.  The talent show is an important fundraiser for sending students (and a couple of teachers) to the Coalition of Essential Schools conference in San Francisco Ca.  The more money we raise the more people we can send…

Rumor is the seniors are reviving their infamous skits!

Auditions are:

Tuesday March 17th (tomorrow) at lunch in Marla’s room.

Thursday March 19th after school in the MPR.

See Rosa or Marla to sign up.

Soccer tournament play-offs start this Wednesday at lunch. The first game is Team C and Team D followed by Team H and Team F. It will be the first game of a three game series. Please be there to support your team and or division.

Senior class meeting-Tuesday 12:00 in Leigh Anne’s room

Seniors – tomorrow night (March 17th) there will be a presentation about how to pick the best collage (you’ll be hearing back from them soon) at Steller, 6:30 – 7:30PM in the Computer Lab.

Reminder that Steller’s FUNraiser is Saturday, AG’s should be putting together their items for their baskets.

We hope that everyone is enjoying your spring break!

If you are out and about on vacation, consider picking up a nice item for the auction.

Doing spring cleaning?  Perhaps you found some nice and gently used items that would be appropriate for the auction.  (No clothing please.)

Don’t forget to ask your friends and families who are business owners to donate a gift certificate or item.

Remind your student to pick out an item for their advisory group baskets.  Basket themes are HERE.

Please help Parent Group make this a successful auction by bringing items to the office first thing next week and be sure to come to the FUNdraiser, March 21, 6pm.

See you all there!