The School of Arts and Sciences on Thomasville Road - SAST

From Julie Sear -
MS Science Teacher and MS Team Leader:

A special note to 8th grade students and families...

Yesterday, we witnessed an unprecedented level of emotion on the last day of school. Let's remember the journey...

6th grade... they never returned from spring break and started months of isolation

7th grade... they were tossed into a new version of school... some on campus, some learning at home over ZOOM, with teachers and parents working as a team (often stumbling😊) to keep our students educated, safe, and productive. Gosh...look what we did together!

8th grade... Yay, back on campus! But with some more stumbling as trying to "reinvent normal" was not as easy as we thought it would be.

Spring 2022...as we are just gaining real momentum, it is now time to go. This class missed a lot of traditions, but we fortunately squeaked in a few great things in at the end.

But this group will be ok, as flexibility and resilience is in their blood now. I have never seen a class "roll with it" like they do.

I send out big hugs of gratitude to these families. Thank you parents for your flexibility, patience, and continued support during these past 3 years. We are so fortunate.

And to our 8th graders... thank you for your motivation to stay scholars through this rocky ride, and thank you for taking such good care of each other. You have no idea how much we will miss you. Now go blaze a great path!

Cheers to the class of 2022!

SAST Families & SAS Alumni -
Join us in celebrating the retirement of Kathy Tripp.
Tuesday, May 24th is “Kat” Day for Ms. Kathy! Students and staff will be dressed like their favorite feline or in their favorite cat gear.
Families, and alumni are invited to visit with Ms. Kathy in the SAST Garden from 1:00 PM to 1:30 PM. You can also drop off wish-wells at the office.
Ms. Kathy has taught at SAS for 22 years, first on the 4/5 team and now as the K-8 Art Teacher and we are excited to celebrate her career as a Dragon.

Happy Friday! Register for and check out the 3rd Annual Be Kind To Your Mind (BKTYM) Mental Health and Wellness Fair on May 17

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May is Mental Health Awareness Month!

The Mental Health Council of the Big Bend (MHCBB) in collaboration with Leon County Government and the City of Tallahassee is hosting its 3rd Annual Be Kind To Your Mind (BKTYM) Mental Health and Wellness Fair. The BKTYM Fair is designed to address current and best practices around emotional, psychological and social well-being.

You & your family are invited to join us!

* Tuesday May 17, 2022
* Walker-Ford Community Center
* 2301 Pasco Street, Tallahassee FL
* 5:30pm (doors open)

Music by DJ DEMP, co-founder of DEMP HOUSE

The 2022 BKTYM Fair focuses on the "Eight Dimensions of Wellness”.
💛 Mental
❤️ Social
💗 Vocational
💚 Financial
🧡 Emotional
💜 Spiritual
💙 Physical
🤎 Environmental
 
▫️Register at tinyurl.com/5ecr272a
▫️FREE Giveaways
▫️FREE Dinner
▫️FREE Mental Health Resources

Register TODAY on Eventbrite! ✅

Families, we have a few more days of testing and an urgent need for more testing snacks! Please send in more snacks if you can. Sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0d45acad2ba6f9c34-testing1

A big thanks to Native Nurseries for the beautiful donated tomato plants!

The first round of the Kindergarten Lottery has begun, thank you for your patience. Names have been pulled and calls are being made this week. If there are still open spots a second round will be run to fill those vacancies.

The Lottery for students entering 1st through 8th has not yet begun. We anticipate zero openings in 4th through 8th grades.

The Dragon Dash begins today!
Check your student’s schedule here:

https://sastptsa.com/dragon-dash-2022/

iGrow - Whatever You Like

Happy Dragons! Today we feature leaders and organizations working to make Tallahassee a sustainable, healthy and affordable place to live.

Habitat for Humanity's Mr. Antoine Wright
https://youtu.be/5ciLJ-Xvl8I

Graceful Solutions LLC
https://www.wctv.tv/2022/04/06/graceful-solutions-non-profit-using-new-sustainable-materials-affordable-housing/

Tallahassee Food Network
https://www.tallahasseefoodnetwork.com/get-growing

iGrow Urban Agriculture
http://igrow-whateveryoulike.weebly.com/

iGrow - Whatever You Like iGrow Youth

Come visit the Tallahassee Earth Day Festival hosted by Earth's Garden. Join us for a fun-filled day of workshops and activities. Stop by the SAST table while you are there.

We need to restock our testing snacks in preparation for May Testing. Please use the link below to volunteer to send in snacks. Thank you!!

Families! We're still looking for donations of snacks for next week's testing. Please send in any snack donations before Tuesday, 4/5. We're hoping for granola bars, popcorn, oranges, applesauce pouches, crackers, water, etc. Thank you!

Please sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0D45ACAD2BA6F9C34-testing

April 3-9 marked Food Waste Prevention Week. Did you know that nearly 40% of all food in the U.S. is wasted? “That equates to 130 billion meals and more than $408 billion in food thrown away each year.” https://www.feedingamerica.org

What can we do? In the SAST garden we harvest healthy snacks, savor the fresh flavors, and discuss the benefits of composting leftover vegetable scraps to continue enriching our garden soil. Our SAST gardeners are learning that leftover veggie scraps breakdown and become new soil for future snacks. School composting is one small step to help young learners see the impact their actions can have.

SAST students and staff returned to school Monday morning delighted by the sprucing, weeding, and work of dedicated volunteers over the weekend. We are grateful for our dragon families. Thanks for making garden workday a success!

Supreme Court Nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson | The White House

Happy Feature Friday! We close out and begin to spotlight contributions of pioneers and organizations in . We start off with

The youngest female and African American judge in the Second Judicial Circuit, Judge Tiffany Baker-Carper
https://2ndcircuit.leoncountyfl.gov/baker.php

Tallahassee’s First African American Deputy Chief, Deputy Chief Tonja B. Smith
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=324069056420696&id=100064528127065&sfnsn=mo

The first female African American Supreme Court Justice Nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown-Jackson
https://www.whitehouse.gov/kbj/

Supreme Court Nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson | The White House On February 25, 2022, President Joe Biden nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to become the 116th Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

Florida State Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Announces Addition of Lisa Garcia to Board of Trustees - Sachs Media

Happy Feature Friday! Today we feature Tallahassee based women in Media

WXTL Tallahassee Newscasters, Angela Green and Ava Van Valen
https://www.wtxl.com/angela-green
https://www.wtxl.com/ava-van-valen

“Conversations with Nicole” Host, Nicole Everett
http://www.cwnmoments.com/

Florida State Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Trustee, Lisa Garcia
https://sachsmedia.com/fshcc-announces-addition-of-lisa-garcia-to-board-of-trustees/?fbclid=IwAR2PnztH8ZQXVQB8Jbb3ZoWE1V_QdUnT43CaDYIOzS_F2ML2QqvTkOGQ9Ms

Florida State Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Announces Addition of Lisa Garcia to Board of Trustees - Sachs Media The Florida State Hispanic Chamber of Commerce today announced the appointment of Emmy award-winning public relations veteran Lisa Garcia to its Board of

Notice!! The workday for Eagle Scout Candidtafe, Isabella Augustine’s campus landscaping project has been rescheduled!

Due to the forecasted weather, the project is moving to all day Sunday.
There will be two shifts: 8am-Noon and 1pm-5pm. Eight to noon is the excavation and tear away and the afternoon shift will be for planting and beautifying.
Pizza and lemonade will be provided for all volunteers.

Hope Spring Break is going well! For this Feature Friday, we spotlight Eagle Scout candidate Isabella Augustine and her stormwater remediation project on SAST
campus. You can view Isabella's presentation @ www.sastptsa.com

If you have a few free hours and a heart for service, Isabella is breaking ground on her landscaping project at SAST this Saturday and could use a few great volunteers! Please help her earn this prestigious award while beautifying our campus.
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0845a4aa229-eagle

During last night’s PTSA meeting, we heard from Isabella Augustine, an Eagle Scout Candidate, about her impressive plan to help remediate stormwater runoff on the SAST campus. Please consider donating to help this project come to fruition!

Venmo: @Brady-Augustine (code 6368)
Zelle: (850)443-6368
Checks: made payable to BSA Troop 16. If they’re sent to campus, please mark: “Attn: Ms. Jenny”

Thank you for any donations and thank you to Ms. Augustine for choosing SAST as your project location!

Seminole Tribe of Florida member's artwork to be displayed in new FSU Student Union - Florida State University News

It’s Feature Friday before Spring Break and we spotlight:

The women of Tallahassee Community College Cheryl Hall African American History 2022 Calendar
https://www.wctv.tv/2022/02/01/tcc-announces-cherry-hall-alexander-african-american-history-calendar-honorees/

Winner of the Target HBCU Design Challenge, FAMU Student Ms. Kah’Milah Ledgester
https://www.wctv.tv/2022/02/07/famu-students-design-featured-target-stores-nationwide/
https://vimeo.com/643345731

Seminole Tribe of Florida Member and Artist Erica Deitz
https://news.fsu.edu/news/students-campus-life/2022/03/07/seminole-tribe-of-florida-members-artwork-to-be-displayed-in-the-new-fsu-student-union/

Seminole Tribe of Florida member's artwork to be displayed in new FSU Student Union - Florida State University News After an extensive open search for artists, the Florida State Universit­y Division of Student Affairs has selected a member of the Seminole Tribe of Florida to create artwork that will be prominently displayed in the new FSU Student Union. Later this summer, an acrylic painting by accomplished arti...

The Oasis Center Will Honor The Community's Female Trailblazers On March 8, International Women's Day

Happy International Women’s Day! Let’s celebrate the women in our lives and community! Here are some events to check out this week:
https://www.tallahasseearts.org/event/international-womens-day/

https://www.tallahassee.com/story/life/communities/2022/03/01/goodwood-museum-celebrates-womens-day-art-and-poetry/9330712002/

https://news.wfsu.org/wfsu-local-news/2022-02-25/the-oasis-center-will-honor-the-communitys-female-trailblazers-on-march-8-international-womens-day

https://www.tcc.fl.edu/about/community-initiatives/womens-history-month/

https://cms.leoncountyfl.gov/Library/Calendars/Calendar/EventId/726/e/virtual-pop-up-book-club-12-mar-2022

The Oasis Center Will Honor The Community's Female Trailblazers On March 8, International Women's Day So many ticket requests have come in that the luncheon has been moved from St. John's Church Hall to the Donald L. Tucker Civic Center

Althemese Pemberton Barnes

It's and we will feature local women trailblazers, women led organizations and their achievements every Friday this month.

Today we feature Ms. Althemese Pemberton Barnes, Founder and Executive Director of the John G. Riley House Museum
https://www.imls.gov/about-us/national-museum-and-library-services-board/althemese-pemberton-barnes
https://www.rileymuseum.org/

Althemese Pemberton Barnes Florida Althemese Pemberton Barnes founded the John G. Riley Museum in 1996, serving as the executive director; in 1997 she established the Florida African American Heritage Preservation Network, a statewide professional museum association. She had a career of 30 years with Florida’s Departments o...

We are in our last day of but we can celebrate Black history, successes and contributions everyday.
If you missed any postings you can find them on our SAST and PTSA pages or here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rtddVFtV4mPgd2_hiB5wD28-hWsLkwse?usp=sharing
We hope you enjoyed our series! 🥰🤩

“Black history is American history”
- Morgan Freeman

Get your eat on at these Black owned restaurants! (YUM)

Where to Learn About Florida's Black History | VISIT FLORIDA

Happy Monday! Here are some local places to visit to learn more about :
http://andersonbricklergallery.com/
https://visittallahassee.com/heritagetrails_downtown/
https://visittallahassee.com/african-american-history-is-a-vital-part-of-the-tallahassee-story/
https://jackhadleyblackhistorymuseum.com/
https://www.visitflorida.com/travel-ideas/articles/african-american-historic-sites-in-florida/
“My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.” – Desmond Tutu

Where to Learn About Florida's Black History | VISIT FLORIDA African-Americans have played a large part in the development of modern-day Florida. Here are some opportunities to learn more about cultural heritage and African-American history in Florida.

Get up to Cascades this weekend for the Harambee Festival!

🎉 We are one week away from welcoming the Florida A&M University Harambee Festival back to Cascades Park! Will we see you on Feb. 26? Get event details at https://bit.ly/3JifTMd 🎉

'Invisible History' comes to life with movie night in Cascades Park

Free movie night @ Cascasdes Park tonight

'Invisible History' comes to life with movie night in Cascades Park "Invisible History" is an Emmy-winning, locally produced documentary that explores the history of plantations and the enslaved in North Florida.

Afro-Fusion - Food, Clothing, Spices | Halisi Africa

We made it to the last Friday of !
Today we spotlight Managing Real Estate Broker of Kingdom First Realty Inc., Past President of the Tallahassee-Leon County Council of Neighborhood Associations and community advocate Mrs. Christic Henry
https://wfsu.org/radio/voices-that-inspire/christic-henry

and

Mother and Son duo, Dr. Vanessa Byrd and Mr. Bryant Shaw, Owners of Halisi Africa, an Afro-Fusion Boutique and Café in Railroad Square
https://www.halisiafrica.com/
https://anchor.fm/jim-russell-art/episodes/Artist-to-Artist-Meet-Bryant-Shaw-and-Vanessa-Byrd-of-Halisi-Africa-eloos0/a-a3n17a1

Afro-Fusion - Food, Clothing, Spices | Halisi Africa

Check out this awesome Period Table Capital Preparatory

We would LOVE for our community to stop by the lobby of our school and scan our Black History Month Periodic Table. Our students had to organize Black Historical Figures into a periodic table and create QR codes that lead to informational pages. COME CHECK OUT THEIR HARD WORK - 2811 Individual Plaza Dr (32301) - Main entrance is in the back parking lot.

Anytime Fitness - Gym in Tallahassee (Mahan Dr), FL 32308

We feature Owner of Anytime Fitness Gym on Mahan Dr. and Independent Financial Consultant Mr. Herschel Holloway
https://www.anytimefitness.com/gyms/2371/Tallahassee-FL-32308/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=local&utm_campaign=localmaps&utm_content=2371

And

Owner of Arnold’s Roofing and SAST Parent, Mr. Terry Arnold
http://tallyroofs.com/

Anytime Fitness - Gym in Tallahassee (Mahan Dr), FL 32308 Welcome to your neighborhood 24 hour gym in Tallahassee! Whether you're a beginner or a fitness regular, we'll help you get to a healthier place.