Bear Tracks Weekly 02-19-2018

BEAR TRACKS WEEKLY NEWS & UPDATES

Monday, February 19, 2018

UPCOMING EVENTS

Tuesday, Feb 20th	LWSD PTSA Special Needs Group Meeting 7:00 - 8:30pm LWSD Resource Center
Wednesday, Feb 21st	Coffee with Principal Jon 12:30 - 1:00pm
Thursday, Feb 22nd	B rownbag- How to Navigate Disability Services in LWSD 1:00 - 2:00pm LWSD Resource Center

To see all school events, see the online Tandem Calendar

FROM THE SCHOOL

International Night

The following countries have enrolled to celebrate their countries on International Night: Argentina-Australia-Canada-China-Columbia-Finland-Israel-India-Iceland-Japan- Korea-Mexico-Philippines-Puerto Rico-Russian-South Africa-Taiwan-Ukraine & Wales

If you want to celebrate your country on International Night, you can do it two ways:

Fill in the flyers that were sent with your child last week and place them in the International Night Box which is in the office.

Or you can click on this Signup Genius link to reserve a spot which is on a first come first serve basis by February 23rd 2018.

If you have any questions, please contact Ommama Hassan.

Translation Help Needed!

We are looking for families who can help us translate the International Night flyer into the following languages:

Thai
Japanese

We need the help immediately so that we can send these flyers out before the submission deadline of Feb 23rd.

If you can help us, please contact Ommama Hassan.

Learn About the New LWSD Portal for Students and Families

LWSD has combined the student and parent information into one new page called "For Students & Families". Come to this free session to learn how to check your students grades, attendance and other valuable information. This event will take place at Redmond Regional library on Sunday, March 4th from 2:00 - 3:30pm.

Click here for more information. RMS PTSA volunteers will provide instruction in English and Spanish.

PTSA NEWS

RMS PTSA Nominating Committee Opening

Our wonderful PTSA has an opening on the nominating committee that puts together the slate of officers for 2018-2019. If you are interested in this volunteer opportunity (most tasks are performed remotely) please contact president@rmsptsa.org . A new committee member needs to be appointed at the February 13th board meeting.

CELEBRATING RMS

Results from Invitational Science Olympiad

Four RMS Science teams participated at Invitational Science Olympiad at Chinook Middle school on Feb 10, 2018 where a total of 26 teams participated. RMS teams performed very well and Team rank, top medalists and ranks are mentioned below.

Team Name	Rank
RMS Blue	2nd
RMS Green	4th
RMS White	17th
RMS Orange	15th

Medals/ Ranks	Winning student names	Event Name	RMS team
1st	Sayan Bhatia & Aaryan Jain	Optics	RMS Blue
1st	Prithivi Srinivasan & Sayan Bhatia	Potions & Poisons	RMS Blue
1st	Srikrishna Gurumurthy, Vihaan Dalvi	Towers	RMS White
1st	Manav Balakrishnan & Divij Aswinkumar	Roller Coaster	RMS Green
1st	Divij Aswinkumar & Sripad Guntur	Fast Facts	RMS Green
1st	Deblina Pal & Rayna Bhattacharyya	Dynamic Planet	RMS Green
1st	Eesha Kunisetty & Mandira Ganti	Meteorology-	RMS Green
1s	Nimeesh Mahajan & Manav Balakrishnan	Solar System	RMS Green
2nd	Sohil Bhatia & Eshan Rathi	Dynamic Planet	RMS Blue
2nd	Eshan Rathi & Prithivi Srinivasan	LEAF	RMS Blue
2nd	Sohil Bhatia & Nikhil Vankamamidi	Disease Detectives	RMS Blue
2nd	Aarav Khanna & Shivas Kumar	Rollercoaster	RMS Blue
2nd	Aakash Banerji & Rohan Rammanohar	Microbe Mission	RMS Blue
2nd	Kriti Sharma & Isha Mehta	Ecology	RMS Blue
2nd	Isha Mehta & Kriti Sharma	Battery Buggy	RMS Blue
2nd	Adyant Manchanda, Shiv Vinodshankar, Aparna Iyer	Experimental Design	RMS White
3rd	Aaryan Jain & Sayan Bhatia	Anatomy & Physiology	RMS Blue
3rd	Sayan Bhatia & Aaryan Jain	Thermodynamics	RMS Blue
3rd	Nisha Shastry & Rohan Rammanohar	Hovercraft	RMS Blue
3rd	Ethan Le & Adrian Le	Solar System	RMS Orange
3rd	Aarna Chowdhary & Pranavi Rohit	Disease Detectives	RMS Green
3rd	Deblina Pal & Dilini Nissanka	Rocks and Minerals	RMS Green
3rd	Nimeesh Mahajan & Deblina Pal	Crime Busters	RMS Green
3rd	Nihaar Movva & Evan Kim (Thank you Nimeesh)	Optics	RMS Green
3rd	Divij Aswinkumar, Rishi Lakshminarayanan & Manav Balakrishnan	Experimental Design	RMS Green
3rd	Krithi Iyer, Shruthi Badrish	Ecology	RMS White
3rd	Shruthi Badrish, Krithi Iyer	Wright Stuff	RMS White
4th	Neha Venkatesh & Tanvi Kamat	Fast Facts	RMS Blue
4th	Nisha Shastry & Eshan Rathi	Rocks & Minerals	RMS Blue
4th	Pranavi Rohit & Vrinda Satyavolu (Thank you Aarna)	Microbe Mission	RMS Green
4th	Pranavi Rohit & Vrinda Satyavolu	Battery Buggy	RMS Green

COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

Redmond High School PTSA 2018-19 Executive Board Openings

Are you interested in being "in-the-know" at the high school?

Redmond High School PTSA supports the staff and students at RHS with financial and volunteer support. The Nominating Committee is looking to fill slots on the 2018-2019 Executive Board. The Executive Board consists of Co-Presidents, VP of Communications, VP of Programs, VP of Services, Secretary, and Treasurer. We are specifically looking to fill vacancies for Co-President, VP of Communications, and Secretary. The commitment includes monthly evening meetings that where you will hear information presented by one of the RHS principals. Aside from these meetings, the majority of the work can be done from home.

If you are interested in being more involved in your student's high school experience by volunteering for the PTSA, please contact one of the members of the Nominating Committee: Joy Arnquist, Lisa Seeley or Deb Zimmerman

STAY UP-TO-DATE WITH RMS NEWS!

Bear Tracks Weekly is RMS PTSA's electronic newsletter, sent each Monday to RMS families and staff via e-mail. You DO NOT need to be a PTSA member to subscribe to Bear Tracks, it is FREE to all families and staff in the Redmond Middle School community.

Submissions from the school and community should be sent to weekly@rmsptsa.org by 5pm on Thursday for publication the following Monday. Bear Tracks weekly newsletter is edited by Sara Buckley and Karen Brooks.

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