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2022-23 YEAR END REPORT FROM THE PTSA BOARD
President’s Report (Srini & Mark)
As we sign off the school year 2022-23, we want to take this moment to reflect. On behalf of the 2022-23 ICS PTSA Board members, we want to extend our gratitude to the ICS community for the privilege to serve.
This year marked the return to the new normal after the pandemic with several in person events and activities including all school camp, focus week, art day, international food night and several familiar events. Hats off to all the committee chairs and volunteers for their dedication. Thank you to the Focus week committee for their community engagement and feedback. We are grateful to the ICS families for their generous contributions of volunteer hours and donations and matching funds from their employers which allowed us to fund and support so many programs to enrich the students in the school, and out in the community to soar.
Yes, we have had many challenges and we have been able to come together as a community to overcome those and we will continue to endeavor to further heights in the years to come.
We want to acknowledge our great partnership over many years with the school administration and staff – special thanks to Margaret Kinney and Michael O’Donnell. We want to take this opportunity to convey our best wishes to Margaret Kinney on her next endeavor.
Signing off this amazing school year on behalf of the ICS PTSA Board
Srini & Mark
Treasurer Corner (Janet, Han and Shirley – Member at Large)
This year, ICS PTSA donations came from: 291 members, 109 non-members.
Total Funds raised: $97,362.03
- $52,127.60 (donations)
- $44,772.72 (matching)
- $461.71 (passive fund raising and interest income)
Key areas of support:
- Teacher aid support: $14,000
- Grant-based curriculum enrichment - ~$20,000
- Camp Phoenix: $50,000
- 7 senior scholarships: $10,500
- Art day: ~$8,000
- Seniors: ~$8000
Secretary Reports (Tom & Nilam)
- Officially and legally recorded 11 PTSA Board meeting minutes with 6 actions. 1 at-large member nomination recorded. 4 motions passed to update the current year budget.1 motion passed to approve interim budget proposal to members for next year.
- Officially and legally recorded 8 PTSA member meeting minutes with 10 motions recorded as approved. Motions included approval of standing rules and the interim budget, election committee nominated, and new board elected. More than 60 people signed up for every meeting including our first in-person meeting since March.
For all board and members (parents) meetings, the following requirements were met.
- Appropriate notice was sent in time.
- Quorum was present for all meetings before any PTSA business was discussed.
- Previous meetings minutes were approved as distributed with opportunity for discussion.
- All meetings adjourned within 1 hour and 40 minutes.
Two baskets were prepared and donated to the Lake Washington PTSA Council Scholarship Basket Auction - International food Fiesta (Snacks /sweets from different countries) & Escape (Conundrum Indoor escape room fun)
Community & Facilities Happenings (Sanjeevini)
With about ~$13,000 budget for the year, this committee oversaw several subcommittees this school year. From Registration Day in August to Staff Appreciation every month to the International Food Night in May, this team did it all.
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Class Liaison program – This program was borne out due to constraints of the pandemic a few years ago. But it has grown to become the signature program to engage parents at a grade-level. This year we spent nearly $3500 on this program.
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Staff Appreciation – With approx. $3500 in budget, the PTSA volunteers appreciated the staff and teachers every month with a yummy lunch and snacks. This group of volunteers opted for a themed lunch for each day of the Staff Appreciation week in May.
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DEI – On a beautiful May evening, the community of students, parents and teachers celebrated the diverse community of ICS with an amazing selection of food made by the parents. The DEI team continued their mission to celebrate the diverse community through their cookbook initiative.
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Emergency prep – With nearly $800 in budget, this Committee partnered closely with the school staff and teachers to ensure every class was stocked well to be prepared for unforeseen emergency. This included replacing any expired materials, water etc. The dedication of the team is clearly visible as they have a plan of action for the next school year as well.
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Site Maintenance – With approx. $1700 in budget, this committee of dedicated volunteers ran multiple cleaning and beautification initiatives. They arrived at the school after hours or weekends with brooms and trash bags to leave the school and classrooms looking neat and tidy.
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School Spirit – At the onset of the school year, a group of parent volunteers coordinated with staff to order and distribute logowear to show the school spirit in full vigor.
- This year, we also planned a Parents’ talent show for the first time. We supported students by providing snacks and water to the health room, and cookies for the Art Day.
Curriculum Perspectives (Lei Kou)
Grants- PTSA supported a total of 14 grants and awarded $20,000
- ICS Library collection, Pyra magazine, Theater, Replace aging science equipment
- Zen Den, Stamp Mural, Printing Newspaper, Music Department, Books for Staff
- National Arts Honor Society, FBLA regionals/state, Garden beautification
Scholarship – This year the team took this program to a new level with more rigor around the selection criteria. All scholarship applications were reviewed by 3 external judges and awarded 7 scholarships worth $1,500 each to graduating seniors who show exceptional dedication to community work, volunteer efforts, extracurricular activities, and determination for self-improvement. Congratulations to winners - Shivani Jayaprakasam, Ann Li, Clio Erignac, Nitya Somini Addanki, Anna Paulsell, Santoshi Pisupati, Millie Mi
Reflection Art - Seven students are Reflection council winners. Congratulations - Ayne Kim, Margot Kleinpeter, Santoshi Pisupati, Himadyuthi Gowda, Lucien Yoong, Sarah Yi
Community Education – Over 120 people attended the round table to hear guidance from College Counselors on College Admissions process. With a large community of parents that did not go to college in the US, this program continues to get a lot of good feedback and engagement.
SAT Prep –10 SAT Prep sessions were held for students preparing for college admissions process.
Activities and Clubs Updates (Himani Gupta)
Math club participated in several Math competitions this year
AMC 8, 10A, 10B, 12A, and 12B - 30 students participated in various AMC competitions this year.
- 9th Gr - Daniel Zhang, came in top 5% nationwide, and advanced to AIME II
- 7th Gr - Lucas Lin, Matthew Li, came in top 5% nationwide (awarded Honor Roll in AMC 8)
MATHCOUNTS - 12 ICS students advanced to Chapter Round (City Round) this year
- Lucas Lin, winner of Chapter Round, advanced to State Round.
MATH IS COOL –
- ICS team - Ziwen Gong, Xinran Gu, Lucas Lin, Jiayi Zhu were awarded first place in Division I
- Xinran Gu, was awarded 9th place in Algebra group.
- Lucas Lin, was awarded 8th place in Geometry group.
Science Olympiad Season 23: ICS wins 7th Place in WA State Science Olympiad
Two Science Olympiad Teams with 30 students & parent coaches concluded a winning season-
- ICS won top school trophy in Raisbeck Aviation HS Invitational competition.
- One of the ICS teams qualified for the State competition.
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In the state competition, ICS ranked 7th place overall in Washington State Science Olympiad with several medal Placements –
- Green Generation - 1st : Nikita Hulkund and Sabeha Shaikot
- Road Scholar - 1st: Vidhur Prabhu & Vihaan Ramakrishnan
- Roller Coaster -2nd : Sia Gupta & Aman Mittal
- Disease Detective-2nd : Pragyan Singh & Sachintan Mohanty
- Flight- 3rd Place: Aadi Saraf & Nidhi Dodiya
- Sounds of Music- 5th : Emma Shi & Grace Yu
- Crave the Wave - 5th: Emma Shi & Grace Yu
- Bio Process Lab- 6th: Emma Shi & Grace Yu
- Write It Do It - 6th: Pragyan Singh & Sachintan Mohanty
- Solar System- 6th : Aadi Saraf & Nidhi Dodiya
- Storm the Castle- 8th: Pragyan Singh & Sachintan Mohanty
- Dynamic Planet - 7th : Vihaan Ramakrishnan & Vidhur Prabhu
Art Day 2023 - 19 classes were conducted as part of Art Day. With over 400 students participating in the whole event, it was a big success. This year, we included seniors as well. The parents and volunteers showed up big at the event, with over 100 volunteers and 150 Lunch Boxes provided by parents. The PTSA spent $8550 budget for this event alone.
Ski Club: Successful Revival Post Covid –The Ski Club returned this year after the pandemic. It was a huge success with over 35 students signed up for all 6 sessions. A few students attended on subset of the days. Parents have requested to continue next year as well. The PTSA was able to cover snacks for the bus and the remaining budget to cover a small part of the cost of ski lessons for the participants. However, transportation was not covered, it presented some logistical challenges around utilizing the budget.
Information Support Accounts (Tao & Siva)
The newsletter team were steady as rock delivering the newsletter each week consistently rich with news, articles and key dates.
Volunteer Committee was inspiring this year – over 8000 hours of parent volunteer hours this year – we are truly grateful to this great community.
The webmasters stayed busy this year!
- Web site users: handled 132 user registration requests in 2022-2023.
- Web site page update:
- Update the website weekly by adding newsletter links
- Update other pages on demand, such as Front Home page, Volunteer Requirement, Clubs pages for Math Club, DEI committee etc.
- Generating reports on demand.
- Website backup before major changes.
- Website availability (desktop and mobile): Monitor the site on daily basis and contact the host company if there are issues.
- Office 365
- - Floating licenses update based on student directory - We have revoked about 40 licenses and assigned some of them to new PTSA email accounts.
- Create/Update user or group accounts on demand
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