Eagan High School Newsletter

2022-2023 Online Registration takes place Jan. 12-Jan. 25 for all returning or entering EHS next school year.

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Are you going to sign a National Letter of Intent to play a Division 1 or Division 11 sport in exchange for financial aid? This would also mean the college or university has been in contact with you about the signing the paperwork. (D-3, JUCO and NAIA is not on this date)

February 2, 2022 is the second of three signing time periods for prospective senior student-athletes, who have played at Eagan HS, to sign their National Letters of Intent.

If you will be signing to play college athletics during this time period please contact Eagan’s Athletics Director, Sandra.setter@district196.org

Eagan Debate qualified a number of students to the State Debate Tournament held January 14 and 15. Juniors Eric Li and Archan Sen won the state title for Policy Debate. They were the Section 3 Champions and held the #1 seed heading into the final rounds at the tournament. Their topic this year was Resolved: The federal government should substantially increase the protection of water resources in the United States.

Aerin Engelstead and Daniel Wochnick of Eagan Debate advanced to the final rounds in Lincoln-Douglas Debate and lost in quarterfinals. They debated this year's resolution "Resolved: The appropriation of outer space by private entities is unjust."

In Congressional Debate Abiha Kasif of Eagan finished seventh and Olivia Noll of Eagan advanced to the finals but did not place.

This was the 121st MSHSL State Debate Tournament, the longest running MSHSL event.

The Science Olympiad team was victorious against 11 other teams to bring home the championship.

Here are the students who medaled in their individual events Saturday.

Disease Detectives

1st Place Brady Williams & Harshita Nandyala

3rd place - Alysha Onwuneme & Kira Erickson

Experimental Design

1st place - Brady Williams, Hannah Sherman, & John Stokesbary

3rd place - Grace Matuszewski, Pete Schmitt, & Nikhil Talatam

Wright Stuff

3rd place - Mike Pipkorn & Neo Manavalan

Remote Sensing

1st place - Lindsay Siu & Mihika Survase

2nd place - Grace Matuszewski & Anushka Aravindan

Detector Building

1st place - Sam Fisher & Aaliyah Lund

WiFi Lab

2nd place - Ethan Kurian & Pete Schmitt

Ornithology

2nd place - Brady Williams & Yen Ly

3rd place - Grace Matuszewski & Pete Schmitt

The EHS Interact Club recently completed a Diaper Drive. Thanks to the EHS Community and The EHS Staff, we were able to collect 6003 Diapers. The Open Door Pantry in Eagan appreciated the diapers tremendously. This was a wonderful Community Effort. Thank you everyone!

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). After this week, school COVID-19 teams will no longer send case notifications to families. Families must maintain personal mitigation efforts, with or without a notification letter, 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.

Effective immediately, students and employees who test positive are eligible for the shortened isolation period of five days. Isolation may end after five full days if students arefever-free for 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medication and their other symptoms have improved. The five-day isolation period starts with day zero being the first day of symptoms OR the day the positive test was taken. If the above requirements are met, the student can return on day six. (i.e. A student testing positive on a Wednesday could return the following Tuesday.)

This is effective beginning Tuesday, January 18th for our students.

Everyone, regardless of vaccination status, is recommended to test regularly, especially if they are participating in in-person learning and co-curricular activities. On-site testing is available for all symptomatic district students and employees at the District Service Center during the week. An appointment is required and can be made by contacting the office at your child’s school. More information is available on the district’s COVID-19 Dashboard.

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!

The Eagan FIRST Robotics teams are collecting donations for The Open Door food shelf and Gratitude Baskets for front line workers from January 20 - 23 at the east entrance of EHS.

As we are all aware, many families have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. To help provide relief for these families, we will be collecting donations for a food drive. All items will be donated to The Open Door, a local organization providing support for families. Top 5 suggested items for donation include:

• canned beans (kidney, pinto, chili)
• sugar
• mayonnaise or BBQ sauce
• toilet paper
• toothpaste

They will also collect dry goods, personal care and household items. The Open Door food shelf also accepts monetary donations (checks preferred payable to Open Door).

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a tough time for all of us, but there are some people who are putting their life on the line to help us stay in our best condition: frontline workers. To express our gratitude, we will be assembling gift baskets for local healthcare workers. We are accepting donations for any of the items listed below for the gratitude baskets. Any donation, either material or financial, would be greatly appreciated! Suggested donations include:

• large baskets and ribbon
• candy or chocolate
• individually packaged single serving snacks
• cans of soda/sparkling water
• bottled water
• tea bags
• hot chocolate mix
• lip balm
• breath mints
• hand lotion - travel size

With your help we can help bring relief to many families and frontline workers!

Eagan HS FIRST Robotics

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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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Phone: 651-683-6900