THE TAIL NEWSLETTER

• Mon, May 12 - School Board Meeting, FISD Admin, 6:30 PM, Agenda
• Tue, May 13 - FHS Band Spring Concert, Auditorium, 7 PM
• Thurs, May 15 - Yearbook Distribution, Library
• Mon, May 19 - Aloha Pep Rally, Senior Day Festivities/Graduation Practice
• Wed, May 21 - Last Day of School (1 PM Release); FHS Graduation, Ford Center, 5:30 PM

• Seniors: 5/12, 5/13 in English classes
• 9th, 10th, 11th Graders: If you are returning to a Frisco ISD school in August, keep your Chromebook and charger. If you are withdrawing from Frisco ISD, return your Chromebook and charger to the FHS Library by Friday, May 16th.

Yearbooks will be distributed in the library on Thursday, May 15th, from 11 AM - 3:45 PM. If you purchased one, you should have received an email from Ms. Romero on 05/06. Students will be released from class beginning at their designated time.

Class of 2025: 11 AM

Class of 2026: 12 PM

Class of 2027: 1 PM

Class of 2028: 2 PM

There are no extra copies. If you were on the waitlist, we apologize for the inconvenience, but we did not receive any overrun copies from the printer. We encourage you to preorder in the future to avoid this disappointment! *If students miss their pickup time in the library on May 15 they will need to arrange a different time to pick up their book. Books not picked up by noon on May 20 will be in the front office for pick up in the summer.

• Jacob Montoya was selected as 1 of 8 artists to represent Frisco ISD at the TASB exhibition this September!

• Gaayathri Jaganathan's Blocked Spirit artwork was accepted into the 2025 JPII DFW Art Competition (4/25-5/4) - congratulations!

Congratulations to our Frisco High Science Fair participants and prize winners! Students presented their independent research projects this spring at the Dallas Regional Science & Engineering Fair, and we are incredibly proud of their accomplishments! Not only did we have several students take 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place at DRSEF, but two of our students advanced to the state-level Texas Regional Science and Engineering Fair, where they presented their research to a panel of judges at Texas A&M University and took home 2nd and 3rd place in their divisions.

Jahnavi Sharma (11th grade):

• 1st prize at Dallas Regional Science & Engineering Fair for “SARCOMA-Net:Personalized Sarcoma Therapies through Spatial-Transcriptomic Biomarker Analysis and Variational Autoencoder Drug Generation” in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

• 3rd prize at Texas Science and Engineering Fair (state level)

• Grand Prize Judging Qualifier

• 2025 Regeneron Biomedical Science Award

• Selected for Summer 2025 Governor’s Science and Technology Champions’ Academy at SMU

• 3rd prize at Dallas Regional Science & Engineering Fair for “Cost-Effective, Mobile Rover-AI System Engineered to Evaluate Impacts of Microclimatic Parameters on Pediatric Asthma” in Earth and Environmental Science

• 2nd prize at Texas Science and Engineering Fair State (state level)
• Selected for Summer 2025 Governor’s Science and Technology Champions’ Academy at SMU

• 3rd Place Special Award at Dallas Regional Science & Engineering Gair from Mu Alpha Theta for “Observing the Patterns of Prime Numbers Powers” in Mathematics

For students interested in participating in Science Fair next year, please check out our website at https://sites.google.com/k12.friscoisd.org/fhssciencefair/home or reach out to oue club sponsor, Ms. Wudeck for more information!

The Speech & Debate Team officially wrapped up their season last week:

• Our policy debate duo, Evan McCoy and Mohammed Khaleel, earned an impressive 42 points on the National Circuit, qualifying them for National district-level competition.
• Our school team has been awarded a Degree of Excellence, marking a total of three team degrees earned this year—a significant achievement that reflects our students’ dedication and growth.
• Looking ahead, our students are already committed to developing their skills in preparation for advancement in UIL competition and on the Texas Forensics Association’s circuit next year!

AP students will receive an email with their AP exam room location and other testing details at least two school days prior to each exam. Students should check their school email regularly. Students with a morning exam must arrive on campus by 7:25 AM. Bus transportation will not be provided for AM exams. Students with an afternoon exam must bring a lunch from home as the cafeteria will not be open prior to the afternoon exam start time. Please email Lisa Natali with questions - NataliL@friscoisd.org

• All parents/guardians picking up their student will need to have a valid driver’s license to show at the camera for their student to be released outside of the building.
• If your student driver needs to leave for an appointment, please email our attendance clerk in advance at FHS_Attendance@friscoisd.org. As a general attendance reminder - all absences, excused and unexcused, count toward the state’s compulsory attendance law. When a student's attendance rate drops below 90%, the student may earn credit for the class or a final grade by completing a plan approved by the principal. All absences can be submitted in the form at the top of our campus website. Learn more about the attendance policy.
• Frisco High School does not accept deliveries/drop-offs to the campus for pickup by students so please plan accordingly prior to the start of the school day. Thank you.