Dorado Family Updates 4.18.24

This week is the midway point for 4th quarter with the final Progress Report of the school year posting this Friday. The next grades to come out will be 4th quarter and 2nd semester cumulative grades in May. With just under 5 weeks of school left, it is more important than ever that you check in with your kiddos about their grades. We offer 3 mornings (T, W, Th) of "Tutorial" for students from 8:25 - 8:55, in addition to offering "travel" during Wednesday advisory periods.

Our next newsletter will focus on the end of the school year with our final exam schedule and grades.

Newsletter Topics Include:

• Important Calendar Dates
• What's Happening: Registration Information, IB Programme, Project Grad Needs Your Help, Testing, After-school Tutoring, Class of 2024 Info, CDO Scholars Night, Project Graduation, Yearbooks, Last Assembly of the Year/Spirit Week/Prom
• DID YOU KNOW: Skills USA State Championships, CDO Construction and Architecture, FCCLA State Competition, CDO Choir, Arizona Science Olympiad State Competition, Odyssey of the Mind, Computer Science, CDO Orchestra, Academic Decathlon, Art Show at Tucson Mall
• Athletics Updates

• April 19: Spring Assembly Day
• May 1: Senior Sunset
• May 3: Grad Walk
• May 6 - 10: National Teacher Appreciation Week
• May 8: Last Day of School for Class of 2024
• May 9: Scholars Night practice @ 10am - all senior grades calculated
• May 10: Scholars Night @ 6pm
• May 13: Grad Rehearsal #1 @ 10am
• May 14: Grad Rehearsal #2 (half day) @ 10am
• May 15: Final Exam Day (half day)
• May 16: Final Exam Day (half day) - last day for students

April 1 - 5 was National Assistant Principals Week and we wanted to make sure to take the time to recognize our amazing Assistant Principals. As with all educators and staff, one week for this just doesn’t cut it because they deserve to be appreciated every day. Needless to say, let’s all take a moment to thank our Assistant Principals! All of the “behind the scenes” work they do really keeps our campus running and from the entire Dorado community, we want to say that we appreciate Mr. Dominguez, Mr. Enright and Mr. Spencer for all of their hard work and contributions to the CDO Community!

• Existing/Returning Families Start Here

  Existing families who need to verify their student’s registration information or add an additional child will complete this process in the Parent Portal. If you have access to the Parent Portal, please click here.

  If you have not signed up for the Portal, please contact Hollyanna Mast' D'Bueno at hmastdbueno@amphi.com to get access. You must have access to the Parent Portal to complete registration.

Students, their parents, and guardians interested in meeting with Amy Bomke, our IB coordinator, can do so here: https://calendly.com/abomke/ib-advising

Reasons to meet might include:

• the goals and benefits of the International Baccalaureate Programme
• what makes a good candidate for IB classes and the IB Diploma Programme
• what courses are available to 11th and 12th grade students
• what classes should 9th and 10th grade students take to prepare for IB

Help us ensure every student attending Project Grad goes home with a prize! Choose anything on our list and it ships directly to the Project Grad Prize Committee, it's that easy!! Our 501(c)(3) tax number is 26-2470375. We thank you in advance. We can't do what we do without help from people like you.

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Project Grad: Tickets must be purchased by Friday, April 26th to receive souvenirs!

• cdo project grad (cdoprojectgraduation.com)
• Scholarship forms are available at the counseling office.
  

Last chance to pre-order this year’s yearbook. There is a Limited Supply and few will be available to purchase in May.

Stop by the bookstore to pre-order. You can check to see if you’ve already purchased a book by visiting TouchBase Signin (intouchreceipting.com)

Save the Date - April 22nd - May 10th

• MAP Testing - all Sophomores and Freshmen will be taking their final state tests with their Math and English classes.
• AP and IB Testing begins May 1st - May 17th. Testing dates and times are as follows.

AP World History and AP US History will be hosting mock/practice exams on Saturday, April 27th on campus.

• The Class of 2024 Resource page is now live! Senior parents, make sure to bookmark this page as we will be updating it with important information throughout the semester. CLICK HERE!
  

CDO Scholars Night will take place on Friday, May 10th. The following CDO Awards & Accomplishments include an invitation to CDO Scholars Night:

• CDO Scholar with Distinction: Students who have taken at least 12 weighted classes and have an overall weighted GPA of 4.0 or higher
• CDO Scholar: Students who have taken at least 12 weighted classes and have an overall weighted GPA of 3.50-3.99
• Top 10%: Based on students' overall weighted GPA
• International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme Candidates click HERE for more information about the IB program
• Seal of Biliteracy | Arizona Department of Education - Click HERE for more information about this award
• Arizona State Seal of Arts Proficiency - Click HERE for more information about this award

The Skills USA State Championships are in the books. CDO's SkillsUSA Chapter received the Chapter of Excellence Silver level of Distinction. CDO's own Kate McCuen took home the Gold medal in masonry and Cameron Wall brought home the Silver medal in plumbing. And finally, Mr. Ronstadt was chosen as the SkillsUSA Advisor of the Year awardee.

This week students received some welding training from the professionals who visited our shop at CDO Construction. Thanks to JB Steel, the students learned how to weld with stick (Arc) and wire feed (MIG) welders and they loved it.

And the Architect students from CDO won the top 3 awards in the NAWIC (National Women in Construction) Design Drafting Competiton. Students from CDO and Sahuarita had to create sheets for a program, designing 5 levels of floor plans for an updated Row house.

Allison Clark placed 1st and Tanner Jones and Jaden McClelland placed 2nd and 3rd respectively.

• Madison Reynolds placed 2nd in the state for Mystery Basket
• Jace Parker placed 3rd in the state for Knife Skills
• Haley Terrazas received a silver medal for Cookie Display
• Hava Keefe received a bronze medal for Baking and Pastry

Congratulations to these talented vocalists!

• Amalia Matchett and Calem Tanner were rated in the top 200 high school singers in the state of Arizona and sang in the All-State Choir Festival April 11-13 at the University of Arizona.
• Jake Doyle was rated in the top 240 singers in the entire state.
• Kailey Gueths and Calem Tanner also completed their capstone project in the fine arts and will be awarded the Arizona State Seal of Excellence, an official recognition that they are ready to pursue a career in music. Congratulations on your hard work!

Students from Chemistry club competed in the Arizona Science Olympiad State competition at ASU on April 6th. They competed against 31 teams across the state.

• Logan Christian and Ben Lathrem Finished 2nd in Robot Tour (robotics)
• Riley Goodwin and Scarlett Bakken finished 9th in Experimental Design
• Ivy Tucker and Jackie Kinman finished 8th in Forensics
• Logan Christian Finished 4th in Detector Building.

The Odyssey of the Mind State Tournament wrapped up on March 30th. Three CDO teams competed. Technical placed first, Structure placed 2nd, and Performance placed 1st. They will all be attending World Finals at Iowa State University.

Selected Symphonic Orchestra members had the opportunity to perform at the following events.

• 4/6 Amphi Gala, 6pm – 7pm
• 4/11 Amphi Arts Opening Night at Catalyst at Tucson Mall from 5:30pm- 6pm.

CDO/Cross Orchestra’s Final Concert@CDO Auditorium

• 5/8@6pm for Cross MS
• 5/8@7pm for CDO

Ms. Beca's Art students will be displaying all levels of art work at the Tucson Mall, April 10th - April 24th. Stop by to check out some talented Dorados and support the creativity of our students!

Spring Sports are underway:

• Baseball and Softball are continuing to have strong seasons and should host one or two playoff games here at CDO in late April and early May.

• Track – is just starting to look at who and what event they will qualify for at State Tournament.

• Boys' Volleyball is doing well in the conference and could qualify for "play in" mode of the playoffs.

• Beach Volleyball is doing well and has a shot at making post season play next week!

Congratulations to all of our CDO student athletes on their amazing accomplishment and the privilege to continue in their sport at the college level.

CDO has over 60 clubs for students to join throughout the year. Take a look below at our latest list for the 2023-2024 school year. You can click the image for a better view.

Tara Bulleigh, Principal

Canyon del Oro High School

An International Baccalaureate World School

Office: (520) 696-5565

Email: tbulleigh@amphi.com
Website: https://www.amphi.com/CDO
Location: 25 West Calle Concordia, Tucson, AZ, USA
Phone: 5206965560
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CDOHighSchool
Twitter: @CdOHighSchool