Pizza Day Volunteers Needed

Several volunteers are needed to help with ICS Pizza Day on Wednesday, September 17th. This is a fall tradition at ICS. Please contact Chris Lazoritz if you are able to help out around lunchtime on Wednesday. 

International Partnerships

We have an urgent need for two families to host incoming exchange students from Kobe, Japan. We will have 1 male student, a female student and their teacher (also female). The students are sophomores and speak excellent English. They arrive on November 8th and depart on November 22nd. If interested, please contact Dr. Moncada.

Chess Club

Registration is open for chess classes with Orlov Chess Academy. If you are interested, please sign up! 

You can find the registration form here.

Robotics Club

Meets: Fridays 2:15pm - 4:30pm in Room # TBD beginning mid-September, 2014

Chair: Takeyoshi Nakamura; Advisor: TBD; Fees: $100

ICS PTSA Robotics Club will meet once a week after school. The club will concentrate on robotics skills (planning, building, programming, analyzing), teamwork and leadership skills. Students will work with the VEX system. At least two parent volunteers are needed at each weekly session. Parents with either hardware or software experience, or anyone that is good at working with their hands and building things are ideal. Our club will participate in two local and regional VEX competitions.

We are also looking for any parent volunteers to run the club such as co-chair or supervising the club hours. You do not have to have deep robotics skill or experience although it is nice to have them. 

Contact: Takeyoshi Nakamura

Possibility of discrepancies in collected funds during ICS Registration

The board manages the collection of funds on behalf of LWSD, ICS and the PTSA during registration. Please understand it has been determined that the value of supplies collected for ICS at registration may have been incorrect due to challenges resulting in multiple versions of the form being available on the website. The situation does not negatively impact any school activities. We are reconciling the amounts received per grade against the value of funds per student the PTSA membership voted to approve for this year's budget. We are anticipating the shortfall to be $25 per student and slightly more for Seniors depending on electives. Your patience is appreciated as we remediate the error.

Running Club

Chair: Position Open! Volunteer needed. 

Last year this group met once or twice a week after school for non-competitive running near ICS.  This is an easy way to earn your volunteer hours while doing something fun!  Please contact Namita Paul  for more information or to sign up.  If more than one person is interested, this can be a team position.                                     

Ultimate Frisbee

Looking for parent volunteers to restart this hugely popular activity. If interested, please contact Namita Paul.                                      

Graduation 2015 Committee

Two co chairs required from the current junior and senior parent pool. If interested, please contact Namita Paul.                                    

Math clubs open for registration and volunteers needed

Please email your student's name and gender and parent's name to Roxana Drake for 6th/7th/8th grade students and to Mingtian Ni for 9th/10th grade students. The start date for the clubs is tentatively set to the week of 9/22. The clubs meet once a week for one to two hours. Meeting time and room will be decided and announced after we collect enough information.

Also, volunteer math coaches are needed for 7th, 8th, and 9th grade clubs. Please send emails to Roxana Drake or Mingtian Ni if you are interested.                                       

Looking for a parent to chair the fabulous Lunchroom team.  Position involves scheduling and coordinating the parents who volunteer weekly; the chair also liaisons with lunchroom and custodial staff to ensure smooth operations.

Each fall, WSPTSA members provide feedback on our legislative platform through a survey. In the survey, members review proposed legislative issues (drafted & submitted by our membership) then select a Top 5 platform from those. Members are also asked to provide feedback on proposed changes to our existing platform.

Your responses will help inform our discussions and voting at Legislative Assembly. The 2015 legislative session will focus primarily on education; that means this survey is your chance to tell WSPTA what education issues are most important to you.

Here's the survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LEG2014.  Please take 10 minutes to tell us what you think. The survey closes on September 30.

Survey Tip: Because there are multiple proposed issues, we suggest reading all of them before ranking your Top 5. Questions? Contact Beth Sigall, VP, Advocacy, Lake Wash PTSA Council. Thank you!