Eagan High School Newsletter

No school in session on Monday, February 21st. This is a national holiday for all employees and

our students.

The Eagan High School Choral Program is making an intentional effort to promote inclusivity and representation of the BIPOC community in our classroom. Below is a list of what we have committed to and what will continue to be the beginning of our journey. It is our hope that students and our choral community as a whole celebrate and program music of BIPOC composers and look for ways to incorporate more representation into the classroom.

Steps taken in 2021-22:

1) Eagan Choir Directors, Amy Jo Cherner and Jim Cox, presented at the State Convention for the American Choral Directors Association of Minnesota to over 60 choral directors from around the state. The title of the session was “Promoting Diversity and Inclusion as a White Educator”.

2) Programming more pieces by BIPOC composers. Of the 36 pieces programmed for Eagan Choirs this year, about half are BIPOC composers or lyricists.

3) A display was created to highlight many of these composers and currently hangs in the main hallway outside the music area.

4) Bel Canto, Eagan’s 10th-12th grade select SSA choir had a Zoom rehearsal with Dr. Marquis Garrett, a BIPOC composer and educator teaching at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Bel Canto is currently singing a piece Garrett composed.

5) Time is taken to discuss the history of choral pieces, focusing on those by BIPOC composers. The study of the text, compositional style, and life of the composer is been a more intentional part of instruction.

6) For the Dakota Valley Choral Festival, a performance involving the Concert Choirs from all four ISD196 schools, we selected for the first time in it’s 46 year history, an African-American female conductor to be our guest clinician.

7) Dr. Merrin Guice Gill and Dr. Marcus Simmons, African-American professors from Bethel University, presented a lecture concert to over 100 EHS Choir students. The topic of the lecture concert was “Compositions of African-American Composers in Art Song and Choral Music”.

"Silent Sky" by Lauren Gunderson

Directed by Nancy Owzarek

Performances

Feb. 18, 25, 26 - 2022

7:00 PM

Student performance on Thursday, Feb. 24 at 3 PM

Masks are required for all in the audience.

Tickets on sale beginning February 7 HERE, or use QR Code below

General Admission

Seating - Chairs on the stage

Play Synopsis

Drama with Comedy

Register Now at- MyPaymentsPlus

(Athletes must have a current physical on file to register)

Baseball

Start Date - March 14 - Arm Care

March 21 Full Practice

Softball

Start Date - March 14

Golf Boys/Girls

Start Date - March 28

Lacrosse Boys/Girls

Start Date - April 4

Track Boys/Girls

Start Date - March 14

Tennis Boys

Start Date - March 28

Adapted Softball

Start Date - March 28

Eagan High School Unified Basketball team took first place at the Special Olympics State Unified Basketball Tournament at Target Center. Congratulations Wildcats!

Interact Club spent Valentines day at Feed My Starving Children. 43 volunteers packed enough meals to feed 43 kids for a year! (15,000 meals).

Congratulations on a season well done, capped off by the FTC Freight Frenzy Minnesota State Championships this past weekend! All five of our EHS FTC teams showed their strengths and performed well at the tournament.

7231 * The Purple Circuits made it to the Galaxy Division quarter-finals.

13623 * The Iron Tacos made it to the Nano Division quarter-finals and were finalists for the Control Award. Daniel Wochnick was a Dean's List semi-finalist.

14556 * The Tactical Tech Tomato Turtles made it to the Galaxy Division semi-finals and were finalists for the Think Award, Connect Award, and Promote Award. Natu Daniel, Caden DeGraw, Clare Dixon, Ben Fisher, Sam Fisher, Benjamin Kuncel were all Stratasys Award nominees, with Clare, Sam, and Ben each winning a scholarship. Sam Fisher and Benjamin Kuncel were both selected as Dean's List finalists.

17127 * The Electrobotics made it to the Nano Division semi-finals.

18535 * The Fellowship of the Spring made it into the Division quarter-finals and were also finalists for the Control Award.

We have the end of the Winter Trimester fast approaching. Students will return after President's Day to 11 more days of classes and then, March 9-10 will be the Finals Schedule used to complete the class work, take assessments and do graded presentations. Friday, March 11 is the Teacher Workshop Day between trimesters - students do not have school on March 11.

Monday, March 14 is the first day of Spring Trimester.

It is time to look into the Schoology class gradebooks and make sure missing assignments or assessments are addressed. Teachers are available for help both before and after school.

The Eagan Community Foundation would like to invite our District 196 family and friends to our Annual Fundraiser. Our mission is to invest in Eagan's future with community grants, scholarships, and community connections.

This is an essential evening celebrating our community with dinner, entertainment, live and silent auctions and community fellowship. Funds raised at this event will support our community grants and scholarship programs.

We sincerely appreciate your consideration to attend this evening on Thursday, February 24th at the NEW Omni Viking Lakes Hotel.

You can learn more about the event here or head straight to our ticket site if you’re ready to join. Masks will be required for this event except while eating or drinking.

Thank you kindly for supporting the Eagan Community Foundation!

P.S. ALSO, we are always looking for great volunteers; see link here if you are interested!

Open the link to go to the information page and start the application for consideration for one of many Eagan Foundation Scholarships! Only one application for MANY scholarships.

https://www.eaganfoundation.org/apply-for-a-scholarship

Online application and payment for the EHS Spring Trimester 2022 Parking Permit begins on Monday, February 21, 2022 at 5 PM for seniors only.

Application and payment for juniors begins on Monday, February 28, 2022 at 5 PM.

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Parents and guardians can pay the Parking Tag fee ($80) from the convenience of your computer, via MyPaymentsPlus. The link for MyPaymentsPlus can be found on the EHS website under Families tab at the top of the webpage.

Parking permits for Spring Trimester 2022 will be distributed on Monday, March 7th and Tuesday, March 8th before school in the lower east entrance of EHS as well as during all lunches in Spirit Hall.

Parking permits are awarded on a first come first serve basis.

Sophomores are not eligible for parking permits.

Congratulations to two of our Gymnastics athletes headed to the MSHSL State Tournament

They will compete at Roy Wilkins Saturday, Feb. 19 at 11:00 am

https://www.mshsl.org/sites/default/files/2022-02/2022%20GYM%20Schedule%20for%20Website.pdf

Hannah Maccarone State Qualifier

Section Champion in All -Around,

Section Champion in Vault

Section Champion (tied) in Beam

Section Champions - Bars

State Qualifier in Floor

Gwen Paolello

State tournament Qualifier in Beam

State tournament Qualifier in Floor

Head Coach Shelly Eklund, Assistants, Wayne Kranz, Kaitlin Graff, Claire Johnson, and Krissy Boyd

You can find the brackets, tickets schedule, online program and live streaming site at this link

https://www.mshsl.org/sports-and-activities/gymnastics-girls

Section Wrestling- Good Luck to Wrestling as they begin their Section Tournament Season

Team Wrestling is Tomorrow Friday, Feb. 18 at Woodbury starting at 4:00

Team Tournament

Friday, February 18, 2022 at Woodbury High School

3:00PM Skin Checks and Weigh-ins

4:00PM Quarterfinals on 4 mats

5:30PM or 15 minutes after previous round Semifinals on 2 mats

7:00PM or 15 minutes after previous round Finals on 1 mat

Individual wrestling will happen on Saturday, Feb. 26 at Two Rivers HS

Individual Tournament

Saturday, February 26, 2022 at Two Rivers High School

10:00AM Quarterfinals (3 mats)

11:15AM (or 5 min after round) Round 1 of Wrestlebacks (3 mats)

11:45AM (or 5 min after round) Semifinals (2 mats)

1:15PM (or 5 min after round) Consolation Semifinals (3 mats)

2:00PM (or 5 min after round) 5th Place Matches (2 mats)

3:30PM Finals and 3rd Place Matches (2 mats)

True second matches to follow Heavyweight Match

Please remind students that all of us at school must be masked, and wearing them across our nose and mouths, at Eagan High School. We remind students often, but also need your support to keep all of us safe and at school. We are providing masks as needed to all students every day. Thanks!

Specific COVID-19 information, including data of student positive cases, school-specific cases, county cases and vaccination rate, is updated weekly on our COVID-19 Dashboard available on all school websites. (Be sure to scroll down the site until you can click on High Schools). School COVID-19 teams will no longer send case notifications to families. Families must maintain personal mitigation efforts, with or without a notification , and direct their attention to monitoring symptoms, keeping students home when sick and frequent screening as necessary.

We need all community members to care for each other and their community by practicing universal precautions:

• Monitor for symptoms every day
• Stay home when sick and test
• Get vaccinated and boosted as soon as you are eligible
• Test frequently for COVID-19
• Wear a well-fitting mask

These mitigation strategies are repeated frequently to members of our learning community, but remain the most effective strategy. We recommend parents to check the COVID-19 dashboard regularly for updates, as well as using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s daily county case rate tracker.

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Eagan High School is committed to engaging students in activities that foster the knowledge, skills and habits of mind necessary to be active learners, purposeful thinkers and responsible citizens.

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Email: EHSNews@district196.org
Website: https://ehs.district196.org/
Location: 4185 Braddock Trail, Eagan, MN, USA
Phone: 651-683-6900