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March 24, 2023

IMPORTANT UPCOMING DATES

March 24 - Panera Dine & Share for Maine East Cares 4 PM-8 PM

March 27-31 - Spring Break - NO SCHOOL

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April 7 - Non-Attendance Day - NO SCHOOL

April 12 & 13 - State Testing Dates

April 18 - College Planning Seminar 5:30 - 6:30

(Financial Aid)

DISTRICT 207'S BEST

March - Career Exploration

Sofia Milovanovic

Sofia may be a familiar face as she was recently featured in a “My Plan My Story” video. It is a joy to celebrate Sofia tonight as she is a prime example of our District’s aspiration to “get it right” for every student. Truthfully, Sofia has done an awful lot on her own to “get it right”. Like so many of our successful students, Sofia has a resume overflowing with activities and a transcript that proves she can do it all. What sets Sofia apart is her drive. She has a distinct awareness of how she is in control of her journey and how she intends for her hard work to pay off.

STUDENT ADVISORY

This week in Advisory:

Students were provided a follow-up resource from our assembly with Ernest Crimm on how to address hate speech and be an upstander, and then all Advisories participated in a community building activity doing a digital escape room about Maine East High School trivia.

Advisory for week of April 3rd:

Students will be given an overview of state testing taking place on April 12th and 13th, and all students will be completing the Panorama Survey which is a climate/culture survey that helps our school identify areas of strength and growth to best support our students.

NEWS FROM SOCIAL SCIENCE

Congratulations to all US History and AP US History students on a great History Fair. Thank you to all those who participated in the City Wide Finals. We are SO proud of your hard work!

In addition, we wanted to announce the EIGHT qualifiers for state from Maine East:

Ahmad Javed, Robert Kalun, Nicholas Kantar,

Lexia Lukose, Zoya Muzammil, John Abregana,

Maggie Barton, and Verda Unlu

If you see them around school please congratulate them. They will be going to Springfield for the competition on Saturday, April 22nd.

NEWS FROM ATHLETICS

BOYS TRACK: Congrats to our very own Boys Track team for winning FIRST PLACE at the Frosh/Soph CSL Indoor Conference Meet last Friday at Niles West.

Outstanding job Boys!!!

BADMINTON: Maine East badminton (pictured below) hosted their Shamrock Invite. The team placed third overall. Second place was awarded to our doubles team of Theresa Roy and Nayana Jayaprakash. Jessica De La Rosa and Giselle Soriano placed third in our singles matches. Great job to all of our girls!

GIRLS TRACK & FIELD: The Girls' Track & Field team (pictured below) helped to box 157 packages which had 33,912 meals in it today with the "Feeding My Starving Children" organization! Way to go girls!

MARCH IS NATIONAL ATHLETIC TRAINERS MONTH

Behind every athlete is an Athletic Trainer who has seen it all, and taped it all. March is National Athletic Trainers month and we wanted to send a huge shout out to our amazing trainers, Megan Luetje and Anthony Nguyen.

We all appreciate all you do for our athletes !!!! You are the BEST!

NEWS FROM FINE ARTS

Students in the Visual Arts were awarded prizes on Tuesday for The Great Frame Up Art Exhibition. Their work is on display this week at The Great Frame Up in Niles.

Congratulations to all who participated and to our category winners.

Painting - Mar Drozd

Drawing - Palak Shroff

Mixed Media - Jannette Avila

Photography - Blessin Biju

2D Design - Liam Potempa

Best in Show - Sabah Tariq

Congratulations to all of the students who participated in the ACT-SO Competition this past weekend. Maine East is proud to have two students selected to perform in the National Competition in July. Congratulations to Kaylee Wilson who was awarded a gold medal in Oratory and Gabi Miller who received gold in Photography.