This week during Purgolder Time students and staff viewed this school year's second Tower TV episode, created by East students. This episode includes a costume contest, geography contest, Girls Swim Team feature, classroom tours, the Dungeons and Dragons Club, and a spotlight on East's first black student.

Love Baking? Love Science? Join us for the Great Biology Bake Off! East students will learn about cell and molecular biology by having meetings with graduate students from University of Wisconsin-Madison and creating biology-themed culinary art projects. Participants will form a team (3-5 people per team) and will develop a project with their graduate student mentor over the course of several weeks. The graduate student mentors will help the participants come up with a project design that tells a story of discovery or illustrates a concept. Each team will submit their project proposal by December 9th and work on baking their model in the days leading up to the showcase on December 16th. The baking projects will be done in the Culinary Room at East High School. During the showcase, each team will present their project with their final baking model. The work will be judged by a panel of professors, graduate students, and/or local professional bakers and the winning teams will be awarded with prizes. Space is limited, so sign up now if you're interested! Contact East Culinary Teacher, Emily Sonneman, in rm 142 for details or if you have questions.

New entryway graphics have been installed at Door #4, the entrance off the big staff parking lot by the Tennis Courts off Fourth Street!

Check out these slides with next week's new scholarships, jobs, events, and college visits.

Parents of students interested in studying abroad with CIEE can learn more at the guardian Zoom Info Session on Monday, November 7th from 5:30-6:30pm. Contact East World Language Teacher, Kimberly Craig, with questions.

Join us on Saturday, November 5th for our East Día de los Muertos event, a celebration of life, the lives of our passed loved ones, and a day of honoring our ancestors. Performances will take place in the Theater and there will be a food sale, craft sale, face painting in the Cafeteria.

Funds raised at this annual event (that had to take a break for two years due to COVID) are split between the Ballet Folklórico de María Díaz and East's Raza United Student Association. The Ballet uses funds raised to help dancers pay for dresses, accessories and regalia that normally cost between $150-300 each outfit. Dancers, who are school age students from around Madison, are very dedicated to what they do in the ballet and being in the ballet has made a huge difference in many of their lives, from learning about la cultura to giving them a huge boost in self esteem. Raza United uses funds to pay for transportation to museums in Chicago, leadership conferences, Raza graduation stoles, end of the year field trip, and if enough funds are donated, to scholarships for our graduating seniors planning on higher education.