Edison Middle School PTSA Announcements
306 West Green Street
Champaign, IL 61820-5099
Phone: (217) 351-3771 Fax: (217) 355-2564
Edison's Mission
It is our mission at Edison Middle School to work collaboratively to place the focus on the academic, social, and emotional needs of each individual student first and ensure that ALL students are prepared for post-secondary education.
Important Dates:
Early Dismissal: December 19–20
Winter Break: December 23–January 3 (NO SCHOOL)
Institute Days: January 6–7 (NO SCHOOL)
School Resumes January 8 (Beginning of 3rd Quarter)
December 6
Pajama Project Extended: Thanks to all of the families who have already donated to our pajama drive! We really appreciate your contributions. For those of you who haven't donated but still want to, our deadline has been extended to MONDAY! That gives us an extra weekend of shopping to pick up a pair or two of warm pjs. Students should bring donations to their social studies teacher. There is also a collection box outside of the main office.
Mini-Grants: Edison PTSA Mini-Grants are now available to teachers and staff! Mini –Grants are intended to support special projects that cannot be funded with allocated classroom budgets, and can be especially helpful when serving a large number of students. Ten grants of up to $150 each will be awarded. Applications will be accepted until December 13, 2014 and approved requestors will be notified by December 20. Contact Gretchen Pein at pein@illinois.edu if you have questions.
December 4
Band Concert: The Edison Middle School Band Winter Concert is this Thursday, December 5th, 2013 @ 7:00 pm in the Edison Middle School Auditorium. The concert will feature 6th, 7th, and 8th grade bands. Concert is free and all are welcome to attend.
December 2
Pajama Project: Help Edison help the community as part of the Pajama Project! Edison is having a pajama drive from now until Friday. All pajamas will be paired with a new book donated by Scholastic and given to local children and teens in need for the holidays. Our goal is to collect larger/teen sized pajamas. However, any size pajamas are being accepted. Students can bring donations of NEW pajamas to their social studies teachers. The Edison team that collects the most pajamas will be rewarded with a Pajama Pants Day. Please Ms. Rotramel (rotramel@champaignschools.org) if you have any questions.
Sign Up to Work Concessions at State Farm Center: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0945ABAA2FA13-state
There are two more dates of events to work in November and one event for December that was just added for the State Farm Center.
***The December event is NCAA Volleyball Tournament and this information could change depending on regionals and who goes on!!!***
Please sign-up for any event you are interested in working. Stand managers that have gone through training can sign-up for the stand manager slots. Anyone else that is at least 18 years of age or has graduated from high school can work on behalf of your Edison Band student.
I will be sending this out to the PTSA if there are those that would like to sign-up to help raise money for any other Edison organization or the 8th grade field trip.
If you sign-up to work an event please email me at hlf33@hotmail.com let me know your students first and last name or if you are working on behalf of another organization. Once it is close to the event I will send out information about your event. This will include parking pass information, dress code and any other details.
Society of Women Engineers: The University of Illinois Society of Women Engineers Outreach is offering your students the opportunity to explore engineering as a possible career. The SWE BELIEVE Newsletter provides the students with an insight into the professional engineering world and the life as an engineering student. We are hoping to introduce engineering as a career possibility to students that may never have considered it before. Below is a link to our monthly newsletter on the SWE website. Any student or parent can also subscribe to the newsletter through the website.
http://societyofwomenengineers.illinois.edu/outreach/
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