Our first Information Knight of this school year will take place on Wednesday, October 18th from 5:30-6:30 PM in the Tech Lab. This is an informational session for parents of K-8 graders to learn about academic offerings and financial aid options. Please see the Information Knight Bulletin for more information. For questions, you may contact Kris Thomas, Director of Admissions at 563-326-5313, ext. 230 or at kris.thomas@assumptionhigh.org.
Academics
FCA Mtg.- October 1st
All students are welcome to join us at Karlee Grenier’s home 3719 Lake View Court Bettendorf – on Sunday October 1st from 6:45- 8:30. We will have snacks, tons of fun and a special speaker. Mr. Steve Goldermann will share about how success and integrity can and should work together.
Questions: Call or text Brad Merritt 529-1820.
Art Club Meeting
Art Club will meet this Monday from 2:55-3:30. Come help us create masks for the Festival of Trees project. All are welcome!
Student Parking
PARKING PASSES: Parking stickers needs to be in the car window. If your student did not get one assigned to them during Registration, please have them stop in the Front Office to pick up a sticker. If your student could be driving more than one vehicle, please have them get an additional sticker. You can go to “Student Information Update” to register your vehicles. The sticker should be placed in the back window on the driver’s side, down low. If you have any questions, please contact Shelli Miller at shelli.miller@assumptionhigh.org or 563-326-5313, ext. 200.
New Faculty and Staff Join AHS Family
Assumption welcomes four new faculty members this year, including Spanish teachers Ms. Alyssa Theisen and Mrs. Mayra Amaya. New Science and Math teacher Mrs. Keri Walter is instructing courses in Physical Science, Pre-Algebra and Algebra 1, along with a Math Lab.
Father Jake Greiner, Pastor at Our Lady of Victory, has joined the Religion Department, where he is teaching Senior Religion.
AHS Academic Calendar 2017-2018
Please find the link below for the AHS Academic Calendar for 2017-2018.
Assumption Artists Spruce up Fejervary Park
Assumption Art students, both current and former, were hired by the nonprofit Quad-City Metro Arts Summer Youth Program to create a nursery rhyme-themed mural in Davenport’s Fejervary Park.
Under guidance from Davenport-based artist Sarah Robb, senior Marissa Shell, along with graduates Carolyn Pham ’16 and Tammy Truong ’17, helped paint an 85-foot mural that contains several panels adorned with scenes from nursery rhymes including “Hey Diddle Diddle” “Hickory Dickory Dock” and “Jack and Jill.” Students also painted large Adirondack chairs that will be placed at sites such as Vander Veer Botanical Park.
“This is my first job and it’s something I love to do,” Shell said. “And it’s one of the first times I get to see somewhat of what it might be like to do art in the future.” Read more
Father Hennen Talks Vocations with Student Body
Father Thom Hennen discussed his personal story of becoming a Catholic priest in the Diocese of Davenport with the Assumption student body. He also spoke about vocations in the church and how one becomes a member of the clergy.
To watch the video on YouTube click here.
Assumption Students Join the VR Revolution
“It’s making learning real.” This is how science teacher Wendy Martin describes AHS’s new STEM BEST partnership with VictoryVR, a Quad-City tech company. From a phlebotomist to a veterinarian and an industrial engineer to a science teacher, Virtual Reality (or VR) is changing the way students learn about STEM careers.
The program, “VR STEM Career Exploration,” uses phone-based virtual reality software to bring STEM careers from throughout the U.S. directly to students, giving them the opportunity to virtually “step into” the worlds of 20 different STEM careers (and growing). Each vignette physically places students in laboratories, green houses, observatories and more as these STEM employees explain the day-to-day duties of their job, their educational pathways and their passion for what they do.
The Iowa STEM Council provided a STEM BEST cost-matched award of $25,000 to Assumption last October based on its proposal to collaborate with a local business and develop a tool that would benefit students not only in Iowa but also across the nation. Come fall, Assumption will begin using the tool in all of its classrooms as well as for career guidance conversations between students and counselors.
The program is available to anyone, anywhere, with a smartphone and access to Google Cardboard or other affordable, VR headset gear. The free app is available now in the Google Play Store and a version for the iPhone will be available in the Apple Store soon.