Leopard Pride News

We had a wonderful time celebrating our incredible volunteers at our 3rd annual Volunteer Appreciation luncheon!

Congratulations to Jana Traymany for being awarded the 23-24 GISD Volunteer of the Year!

Campus Volunteers of the Year:

Head Start: Equita McElvain

Edison: Amberlee Murphree

Chalmers: Laurie Tjosvold

Intermediate: Rachel Brewer

Gainesville Junior High: Jana Traymany

Gainesville High School: Caleb Martin & Mackenzie Sicking

Their giving spirit and selfless generosity does not go unnoticed and we are honored to be able to celebrate their positive energy and commitment to our students, teachers, staff, & schools! Our schools would not be the same without you!

We also want to thank Gainesville ISD's child nutrition program, Chartwells K12, for providing a delicious lunch for our volunteers.

On Thursday, the final Superintendent Advisory Council meeting of the year was held. For this meeting, the group was invited over to the admin building for a catered lunch. Board members Corey Hardin and Laura Otts were guests at the lunch and shared their personal experiences with GISD with the group. Thank you to our seniors (Cadence, Daniel, and Jesse) who have served on the committee for four years!

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We have some exciting news! The Gainesville athletics department is launching a new website to better meet the needs of our coaching staff and community. As the year is winding down, we wanted to make a soft launch as we continue to make adjustments and add content to the site.

The new website is https://www.gainesvilleleopards.org/ Please be patient as we work through some of the features of the new site. All schedules, game results, and athletics information for both high school and junior high will be on this site.

A couple of notable features of the new site:

• It comes with a mobile app! Download the app today by scanning the QR code below or search Gainesville Leopards Athletics in the app store of your choice.
• The livestream for events will be easily accessible from our new YouTube channel and can be found straight from the website and mobile app.
• Just as with our previous site, all home game ticketing will be available from this site. We will continue using Hometown Ticketing for our online ticketing.

The new site also offers great sponsorship opportunities for our local businesses! We would like to extend our appreciation to the first sponsors for our new site: Grand Avenue Dental, Brass Bunny Unique Boutiques, North Central Texas College, Physical Therapy Center.

Congratulations to Amira Khan and Celeste Buenos Aires for finishing in the top 10 at the State HOSA Contest in Galveston last week! Amira made top 15 in the first round in Medical Spelling and finished 6th overall! Celeste competed in Home Health Aide. What an incredible job by these ladies representing GHS on such a big stage!

GHS was again represented at a state competition this weekend! Melanie Jaramillo, Brandi Lopez-Ortiz and Joseph Fisher finished in the top ten in their category at the FCCLA State in Dallas! They took the State Family and Consumer Science Culinary exam and all scored a Gold Award. Melanie and Brandi also competed in STAR Events with their Sports Nutrition- Level 3 project and placed top 10, as well (They learn their final place when the official scores come out this week). Joseph also served as the Gainesville Voting Delegate at the meet.

Coach of the Year: Danny Franco
District Co-MVP: Levi Castellanos
Goalkeeper of the Year: Daniel Pinar
Midfielder of the Year: Diego Valdez
Newcomer of the Year: Romeo Cancino

First Team: Andres Coronado, AJ Fernandez, Cesar De La Rosa, Josue Gutierrez, Ethan Torres
Second Team: Oscar Martinez, Eleazar Huerta, Matteo Guerreiro, Erick Ramirez, Xavier Gonzalez
Honorable Mention: Juan Gutierrez, Juve Castillo, Diego Rodriguez

Zack Rigsby - 1600m run; Mathias White - 300mh, 110mh; Jesse Luna - 400m; Chloe Tatum - 100m, 200m; Cade Searcy - 4x100m, 100m; Yonas Franklin - 4x100m, 100m; Jamal Davis - 4x100m; Ladanian White - TJ; Riley Barnes - 4x100m; Tristen Masias - Discus

The High School Math Department has been doing numerous projects during the 5th six weeks of school and into the beginning of the 6th six weeks. Mr. Phelps’ Honors Geometry made mock ups of skyscrapers that Mr. Phelps commissioned them to design. They had to create a skyscraper using a minimum of two 3-D shapes. They were told that the outside of the skyscraper was going to be covered in glass. The students had to use their geometry knowledge to find the surface area of the structure to figure out how much glass would be needed for their building. They also had to find the volume of the skyscraper to find out how much air would need to be cooled during a normal work day.

All Pre-Cal classes celebrated Pi day before spring break. They investigated digits of Pi and made a 6 class wide banner of the first 100 digits of pi. It is on display outside of Ms. Nault's room.

Ms. Nault's Honors Pre-Cal did a deep dive into the Unit circle. They then made posters featuring art that had circles, displayed their take on the unit circle, and then practiced their use of the unit circle and found various trigonometric values.

There were 14 GJH Art students who competed at the Jr. VASE art competition. All of the students earned medals after receiving the highest rating of a 4 in their divisions. Olivia Perez, 8th grade student, was Top 10% in her division and received a Platinum Medal! Congratulations to all!

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