KAMSC Newsletter

It has a been a VERY busy week at KAMSC with a Challenge Success assembly to kick off the week. Spirit week and the HOSA penny wars lasting all week and all culminating with KAMSC Olympiad today and the Class Clash and the fall Dance tomorrow.

I had a great experience this week at the National Consortium for STEM Schools Conference this week. I explored various sessions on AI as KAMSC staff continue to study it and find it's space in our world of STEM education. I also attended sessions on pathways to medical school, the Entrepreneurial Edge in STEM and have been studying Anatomage tables and how a tool like that could enhance the KAMSC experience. Our staff is always learning and trying to keep KAMSC cutting-edge, engaging and rigorous for our students.

Heather Kortlandt

Director, KAMSC

On Monday our Challenge Success student team members put on a student-led assembly outlining our goals for KAMSC. The team did a fantastic job relaying the goals to students and finding ways to make it engaging as well! We are so proud of Lizzie Holmes, Rowan Harlow, Reggie Ferguson and Sam Miller for all of their planning and execution of the the event.

9th and 10th graders are put into competitive groups to rotate through three "Science Olympiad" type activities where they have problems to solve as a group. Groups report back to the presentation center at the end, and perform their group cheers. Finally, judges award winners prizes! This is a tradition at KAMSC and is so fun to watch kids work together to think through problems! Congratulations to the winner team Alpha, consisting of Zuhare Abdulhak, Samaira Agarwal, Taimur Alam, Kelly Alleman, Lola Brott and Piertro Hughes!

Parents of teens can help spread a cautionary word about the opioid-like product called "7-OH" or "kratom". This may be sold at convenience stores and marketed as an herbal energy supplement or "study drug." However, its potency and ingredients are unregulated, and it can be harmful and addictive. If you'd like to know more: Mayo Clinic Kratom Unsafe

Attention Seniors:

Presentation: room 434, on November 12 from 6:00 -7:00 PM

Please join Dr. Strong, alumni interviewer for Yale, to learn more about Yale and to hear tips for how to do well in admissions interviews for any college.

MSO has a wonderful field trip planned to to Detroit on November 22nd. Please click the button below to read all about it and find out how you can reserve your spot on the trip.

The KAMSC parent organization would like to invite you to keep abreast of their meeting agendas/minutes and dates so that you can be as involved as you like. It would be great to get more underclassmen parents involved so that you can help lead as some of our families "graduate" out. Click this link to review meeting minutes.

Mrs. Fisher, our outreach coordinator is looking for four parent volunteers to help out with our annual Girls Investigate Science and Math Opportunities (GISMO) Day at KAMSC for girls in grades 6 and 7. The shifts are less than two hours. Click here to sign up to volunteer.

I hope that you all have had a chance to review our KAMSC Handbook and sign the acceptance form through PowerSchool. Here is a direct link to it again. I would invite you to be sure that you have read through the MTSS support procedures. I will pull grades to review the 3.0 requirements and use that as a gauge to get more support for students. If your child is showing that need, Mrs. Allbee or I will email you and the child to set up support provided by KAMSC. This is required for a three week interval and then we pull grades again to review. Our hope is always that that three week interval is enough support but students will sometimes move in and out of support throughout a semester. Please know, that this is meant to be a supportive measure. We take our responsibility of helping your child achieve the high standards of KAMSC seriously.

If you are dropping off or picking up your student at KAMSC, please do so at the Vine Street entrance. Please find a safe place to pull over and then have you student proceed to the Vine street entrance. If students are driving themselves:

1. They need to acquire a parking pass from the KAMSC office - please fill this out

2. They need to park by the El Sol playground off of Dutton Street (but then walk to Vine street entrance)

3. They should be reminded to not keep anything valuable in their car and to keep their cars locked at all times.

4. The building will have a campus security officer at the Vine Street entrance during times of arrivals and dismissals.

Sat. Nov 8 - KAMSC Fall Dance and Class clash

Wed Nov 12 - 10th grade Mixer/Open Lab/Dr Strong talk 6-7:30

Thur Nov 13 - AMC testing 10/12 8am

Nov 26-28 - No Students Thanksgiving Break