On Thursday, March 15th, 2018, over 180 student-athletes attended the 6th Annual Waukesha West Athletics Leadership Conference. Head coaches were asked to nominate two athletes per grade level to experience a full day of leadership training and development. Students heard from guest speaker, Rob Vite, who is a cancer survivor and current West football assistant coach. Coach Vite's message of "What's Your Why?" was powerful and launched the group into gender breakout sessions examining their roles in bringing positive change to West HS. For the afternoon, student-led breakouts were offered to reinforce the conference theme of "Good Today, Better Tomorrow". Topics included Practice & Preparation, Leading Without a Title, Overcoming Adversity, Creating Connections, Sportsmanship, and Ambassadors Off of the Field. Teams then reunited to discuss their learning from the breakouts with the intent of crafting action plans ready to deliver to head coaches. To bring the conference to a close, every grade level was recognized by the conference's student-leaders during our Pass the Torch Ceremony, encouraging all attendees to lead in a manner worthy of being followed!
"Shrek" The Musical - What an amazing performance by our students! The music and dancing were spectacular to go along with the acting and singing! The amount of hard work and hours of preparation showed in the final product. Congrats to a successful run of this entertaining musical! Families, staff, students and community members were delighted, including my family and specifically my son (pictured below)!
Senior Vs. Staff Basketball Game - The game is this Thursday, March 29th. Will the Seniors finally win this year? The faculty keeps getting older but our Senior students are the same age, yet year after year we seem to be unbeatable! I have a strong feeling staff will conquer once again! Please see a recent picture of me in training as I have been working hard all year to be ready for this competition... the picture does not show me clearly, but I am 99% sure that may be me playing for the Waukesha Jazz local team this winter on a 9-foot hoop...
Model UN - Job well done for all students who participated in the Model UN Conference! Please see the email and pictures from Mrs. Jill Andersen below:
On Thursday and Friday last week I traveled to UW-Milwaukee with 34 students, freshmen through senior, to the Model United Nations Conference. Every student had to submit a one-page researched position paper on the topic of their subcommittee. We represented the countries of France, Poland and Sweden.
Our students were fantastic! Their leadership and communication skills were on full display.
We also won some awards:
Laken Schmitt won for "Outstanding Research of Regulation of Private Military Contractors" from the perspective of Sweden.
Riyana Chawla won for "Outstanding Research of Peacekeeping in the Democratic Republic of the Congo" from the perspective of France.
Chloe Watson and Aiesha Anchan won for "Best Research and Portrayal" of a country (France) in the Council of the European Union.
Madeline Schultz and Taylor Kozlowski won for "Best Research and Portrayal" of a country (France) on the Security Council.
Advanced Placement District Policy Change - Please see the memo below sent out by our school district which has implications for AP courses:
Principal Advisory Council - Below are the names of the individuals on the Principal Advisory Council. We met most recently on Wednesday, March 21st. Please access the minutes for more information and be sure to contact your representatives with questions/comments for our April meeting. The meeting minutes are linked here:
Amy Holzinger
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aholzinger@sbcglobal.net
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Ann Pascavis
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mapascavis@hotmail.com
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Cathy Frantz
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cathyk21@gmail.com
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James Boling
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jmbjrboling@gmail.com
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Jennifer Engel
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j_rengel@sbcglobal.net
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Jim Karpowitz
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karpman@aol.com
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Mark McGinnis
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wxmarkmc@gmail.com
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Mercedes Rawson
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Rawson96@wi.rr.com
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Sarah Bristol
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north_physics@yahoo.com
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Wendy Hamilton
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wendyhamilton4@gmail.com
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Betsy Peters
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bpeters1247@gmail.com
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Michelle Werner
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michelle@hatchstaff.com
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Homelessness - Homelessness is continuing to affect more students an families in the School District of Waukesha. The effect of homelessness on students is vast and we want to ensure families can define their situation against criteria and receive support if needed.... please see the flyers below:
Archived Announcements (Link) Please access this link to find all of the information in our daily announcements from previous weeks.
Preview of this week: Please check the calendars by clicking on these two links to preview what is happening at West High School this week:
The next blog post will be Monday April 16th!
