Caddo Magnet High School

Here are your campus events for the week of August 12.

We will be on activity period bell schedule on Monday, Thursday, and Friday of this week for class meetings: sophomores on Monday, juniors on Thursday, and seniors on Friday.

Monday at 5:30 in the library: PTSA meeting

Wednesday at 5:30 in the cafeteria: lacrosse parent and player meeting

Thursday: Cafe Boba on sale at lunch
Tennis interest meeting at 4:15 in E201

Parking permits will be sold at lunch. Club rush will be next week on August 22 and 23 from 8:00-8:40.

Show your support for our varsity and JV tennis teams! Visit the local level site to order t shirts, stickers, and more. Please see a tennis player or Coach Goebel for more information.

We hope you’ll join us for the first PTSA meeting of the school year! Today at 5:30 in Magnet’s library.

Please take a look at our carpool line expectations! When dropping off students, please pull all the way up the bus ramp and don’t stop at the cafeteria. Traffic flow on Viking should be northbound, and everyone should turn right onto Stoner.

Thank you to everyone for working with us to make carpool a pleasant experience! Drop off in the morning begins at 7:45am, and school ends at 4:00pm.

Cross country parents and runners, please attend a parent and runner meeting Wednesday, August 14 at 5pm in E205.

Support Caddo Magnet High School Tennis by becoming a sponsor for the 2024-2025 season!

https://www.locallevelevents.com/events/details/34238

Incoming freshmen are invited to a mixer on Sunday, August 4 from 5:30-7:30 at Hot Wheels of Wonder (5110 W Bert Kouns). Skate, eat pizza, and meet other members of the incoming class of 2028! This is a free, supervised event for incoming Magnet freshmen! Please RSVP to [email protected].

The senior class is organizing a senior sunrise on the first day of school! Contact a senior leader if you have questions. This is for the class of 2025 only!

Schedules are available in the front office for 10th-12th graders to pick up during our device checkout times (Wednesday July 31 and Friday August 2)! Remember to have your signed technology contract. Go to the library for chromebooks and the front office for schedules.

Incoming freshmen will receive their schedules at the Great Expectations event on Tuesday, August 6.

The first day of school is Thursday, August 8! If you don’t pick up your schedule in advance you can pick it up before school on the first day. We can’t wait to welcome everyone back to campus!

Students can begin checking out Chromebooks in the library next week for the 2024-2025 school year! Check out in the library on Wednesday, July 31 and Friday, August 2. Please bring or be prepared to sign the technology loan agreement (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CvpvuYQJ3WmD11PJp4fyHrNNfxGncqgbqaAZdq-fjcE/view).

Parents of the incoming freshman class of 2028 are invited to a meet and greet this Thursday, July 25 at 5:30pm at Centenary’s Meadows Museum of Art. Food and drink will be provided by Magnet’s amazing PTSA. Please RSVP and direct questions to [email protected]. Please note: this is an event for adults!

Congratulations to our Magnet students who competed at ISEF! This year, 6 of our students qualified to compete in Regeneron’s International Science and Engineering Fair, the world’s largest science and engineering fair. They traveled to Los Angeles to compete with more than 1,700 students from 67 countries.

Anika Alla, Lily Bodily, Sophie Chen, Arjun Desai, Esha Pingili, and Maya Trutschl all qualified for ISEF through their performance in regional and state competitions. This is the biggest Magnet cohort at ISEF in a decade!

Maya Trutschl won the 4th place grand award in her category of Embedded Systems, with a prize of $500. Anika Alla won the 3rd place grand award in her category of Translational Medicine with a prize of $1000.

We are so proud of our Magnet scientists! Way to go!

Please join us in congratulating our CMHS Quiz Bowl teams! Quiz Bowl took two teams to nationals last weekend in Atlanta, Georgia. The A team (Elliott Kerouac, Marshall O’Callaghan, Gil Pedrotty, Johnny Zheng) advanced to playoffs with a 7-3 record and finished 49th overall!

The B team (Parker Alleman, Lily Bodily, Elaine Lu, Graeme Neeley, Annelise Whited) went 5-5. This is the second year Magnet has qualified two teams for nationals!

This year 320 teams from 258 schools (over 1500 students!) competed at HSNCT.

Sophomore Johnny Zheng was honored as the 20th overall individual scorer at the tournament, out of over 1600 students.

We are so proud of Magnet quiz bowl! Rising 7th, 8th, and 9th graders who are interested in quiz bowl still have the opportunity to sign up for the middle school quiz bowl camp this summer. Learn from the top team in the state! Camp will be held July 1-3 from 8:30am-3:00pm. The cost is $100 without lunch or $125 with lunch, and you can sign up here: https://www.locallevelevents.com/events/details/32203

It’s the last week of school for the 2023-2024 school year!

This week we are on half day schedules for final exams. Each day, students will be dismissed starting at 12:30pm. Lunch will be served and buses will run at 1:00pm. On Thursday, students who pre-submitted a checkout note to the office last week may leave at 10:30am after their 7th hour exam.

We have AP testing this week. Students, please keep an eye on the AP schedule and make sure you arrive for your tests on time. For 8am tests, please be in your testing site by no later than 7:45am.

Students who will be taking makeup AP exams, please look for communication from Mrs Lanclos.

Please return all items to the library as soon as possible: books, Chromebooks, textbooks, and any other materials you have borrowed this year.

Here are your events for the week:

Monday, May 13: AP testing Precalculus and Calculus AB/BC
Final exams: 1st and 4th hour
Senior Breakfast

Tuesday, May 14: AP testing English Language and Physics
Final exams: 2nd and 5th hour
International Thespian Induction
Visual Arts Signing

Wednesday, May 15: AP testing World History, Computer Science Principles, Music Theory, and French
Final exams: 3rd and 6th hour

Thursday, May 16: AP testing Spanish and Biology
Students last day
Final exam: 7th hour
Students who submitted checkout notes may leave after the 7th hour exam at 10:30am. All other students will follow the posted bell schedule until 12:30pm.

Friday, May 17: No classes—teachers last day
AP testing German
Graduation: 3:30pm at the Shreveport Convention Center

Last week, Caddo Magnet’s chapter of Mu Alpha Theta inducted its new members. Mu Alpha Theta is a mathematics honor society for high school students. Students are eligible to join Mu Alpha Theta based on their performance in math classes.

The inductees were: Lily Bodily, Wesley Bryant, Adya Darsi (Treasurer), Micaela Gafford, Ndeye Gueye (Vice President, Molly Harrison, Tanmayee Iskapalli, Emma King, Ariv Kohli, Fanfei Kong, Jai Koticha, Diana Leskova, Vennela Malireddy (President), Kaitlyn Niestoeckel, Gabrielle O’Neal, Syden Pattillo, Esha Pingili, Max Shen, Rachana Suresh, Annika Switzer, Nathan Tatum, Wesley Wynn, Kevin Zhao (Secretary), Johnny Zheng.

Congratulations, all!

Please wish good luck to junior Mason Wood as he travels this week to Louisville, KY to compete in the Eastern National Archery Tournament. Only the top 10 archers in each state qualify for nationals, and we are proud of Mason for representing Caddo Magnet and Louisiana. Good luck, Mason!

Last week, our CMHS E-Sports teams competed in the state championships. This was the first in-person E-Sports LHSAA State Championship.

Congratulations to the Mario Kart team for winning first place in the state! The team members were Luke Colwick, Tyler Hays, Nathan Hendrix, Matthew Henry, and Kenneth Zeiner. The team is coached by Mr Hyde.

The team will continue on to compete in the national competition on May 30. They will be playing from campus and streaming so you can watch and support!

Congratulations to Magnet junior Divanny Arvizu, who was selected as one of only 15 students in the US to participate in the Caminos al Futuro program this summer!

Caminos al Futuro is a fully funded pre-college and residential summer program led by George Washington University’s Cisneros Hispanic Leadership Institute. Lodging, transportation, meals, and tuition are all covered.

Eligible students must be rising seniors at a US high school and demonstrate a high level of academic achievement as well as a commitment to leadership in the service of the Latino/Hispanic community.

Divanny and the other Caminos scholars will live on the George Washington University campus during a three-week intensive program as they examine the social, economic, and political transformations affecting the Hispanic/Latino community. Scholars will visit Congress, government agencies, and non-profit organizations while participating in university-style lectures, writing labs, and workshops to prepare them for the college application process.

Congratulations, Divanny!

Rising Juniors and Seniors: we have some potential new offerings in social studies! These course offerings are contingent upon registration numbers.

We are excited to revive our very successful AP World History class. The last group to take AP World had a 97.5% pass rate! You can read about the AP World History course on the College Board website: https://apstudents.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-world-history-modern

The class is designed mostly for seniors but 10th and 11th grade students who qualify and have room in their schedules will be considered. After you have read the course description and thought about your decision, you can fill out the Google Form here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdCuP_3rFOUfm1u2QzAY7uwwZnvrHuhAoT3nib8jRAGBfCqsw/viewform

Three years ago, we began offering Enriched African American Studies. This in-depth, project-based, creative course has been very successful! Enriched African American Studies is open to juniors and seniors, and satisfies the fourth social studies graduation requirement. You can take either Enriched or AP African American studies, but not both.

We are excited to offer for the first time Advanced Placement African American Studies. You can read about this AP course on the College Board website: https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-african-american-studies/about-the-course #:~:text=AP%20African%20American%20Studies%20is,achievements%20of%20the%20contemporary%20moment.

If you are interested in either Enriched or AP African American Studies, once you have read about the course, you can fill out the Google Form here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeNgV4iqUvLEWq2RGMRHJM8UCO_KXBO3LHL8mZjpH7aiqua0Q/viewform

If you have questions about these courses, ask your current social studies teacher or find Mrs Lanclos.

5 of our Magnet science students traveled to Albuquerque, New Mexico last week to compete in the National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium. Our students qualified to attend based on their performance at the state JSHS competition. The competitors were Lily Bodily, Claire Kevil, Aashni Shah, Rishi Sultana, and Maya Trutschl.

Please help us congratulate Rishi Sultana for placing 2nd in Life and Behavioral Sciences!

Great work, CMHS scientists! We are proud of you!

Congratulations to Varsity Tennis Player Jack Randall, who is our nominee this week for Shreveport Athlete of the Week. You can vote as many times as you want!
https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/sports/high-school/2024/05/05/shreveport-times-week-36-athlete-of-the-week-poll-features-14-athletes/73463271007/

Here are your events and activities for the week of May 6.

Reminder: AP exams are here! Morning testers, please be sure to arrive no later than 7:45am. Afternoon testers, eat on first lunch shift and quickly make your way to your testing sites. Students, be mindful of your volume during class changes and lunch around testing sites like the gym and computer labs.

Monday, May 6: AP testing: 8am US Gov; 12pm Art History and Chemistry

Voter registration on lunch shifts

PTSA meeting in the library at 5:30pm

Tuesday, May 7: AP testing: 8am Human Geography, 12pm Seminar and Statistics

Wednesday, May 8: AP testing: 8am English Literature, 12pm Computer Science A

Thursday, May 9: AP testing: 8am Environmental Science and Chinese, 12pm Psychology

Danceline Uniform Fittings, 4-6pm in A7

Friday, May 10: AP testing: 8am US History and European History, 12pm Macroeconomics

Underclassmen library materials due!

Next week will be underclassmen final exams. Monday through Thursday, May 13-16, will be half days. Students are dismissed starting at 12:30pm and buses will run after lunch at 1:00pm. On Thursday, May 16, students may check out after their 7th hour exams at 10:30am if they pre-submit a parent note to the office. There will be no classes held on Friday, May 17. Graduation will be Friday, May 17 at 3:30pm at the Shreveport Convention Center.

If you have a conflict next week between your final exam in a class and an AP exam, please talk to your classroom teacher to arrange an alternate time to take your final exam.

Congratulations to CMHS Quiz Bowlers Graeme Neeley, Gil Pedrotty, and Johnny Zheng!

Last weekend they competed in the National History Bowl and Bee in Arlington, VA.

Graeme, Gil, and Johnny’s team finished 3rd in the nation in JV at the History Bowl. JV and varsity in this competition are determined by the grade level of the players. They won 14 of their 15 matches, losing out in a close match to Thomas Jefferson High School.

Johnny and Gil both made semifinalist in the Bee, which is the individual version of the Bowl.

Gil received several awards in the individual subject exams. He finished 10th place in Ancient History, 5th place in European History, 4th place in Historical Geography, and 1st place in Military History.

Between 150-200 teams from all over the US competed in the National History Bowl and Bee, and our students finished 3rd in the nation! Congratulations, Quiz Bowl!

Our Quiz Bowl teams will be competing at the national Quiz Bowl tournament later this month in Atlanta, Georgia. If you would like to donate to help them with the costs of attending the tournament, you can do so here: https://www.locallevelevents.com/events/details/32673

This post has been edited! We apologize for leaving off Aashni Shah from the girls tennis list yesterday.

Congratulations to the Varsity Tennis Team at the 2024 LHSAA Division II State Championships at Heard Stadium in Monroe! The Boys team finished fourth with semi finalist Jai Koticha in Boys Singles and doubles winners Co-Captain Alston Zhang and Logan Tais.
The state qualifying team included Captain Marshall O’Callaghan and Alexander Walker in doubles and Armaan Jyoti in Singles.

Playing for the girls team was quarter finalist Natalie Sin in Girls Singles. The state qualifying team included Captain Melody Zamani, Co-Captain Soren Cate, Phoebe Voumard, Vivian Vekovius, Caya Cate, Kate Myers, and Aashni Shah.

Thank you so much to all the parents and family members who always come out to support our team! We could not do this without our whole community. Special thanks to Assistant Coaches Soo Sin and Kecia Vekovius who were with us every step of the way!

To make a tax-deductible donation to Magnet Tennis, please go to https://siap.ps/2a27bc

Congratulations to Magnet teacher Mrs Karen Soileau, who received the Liberty Bell Award this week from the Shreveport Bar Association. The description of the award states “The purpose of the Liberty Bell Award is to recognize community service, particularly among non-lawyers, which strengthens the effectiveness of the American system of freedom under law.”

Mrs Soileau was awarded this honor in recognition of her 30 years of service as leader of Caddo Magnet’s Mock Trial Team. Former Magnet principal, Ms Mary Rounds, now serves as the confidential secretary for mayor Tom Arceneaux and was in attendance to celebrate Mrs Soileau.

Congratulations, Mrs Soileau, and thank you for your service!

AP testing starts next week! Testing will run from May 6 through May 17.

It is very important that students arrive early for their tests. Testing times are set by the College Board. For 8am tests, students need to be in their testing sites no later than 7:45am. For 12pm tests, students should eat on first lunch shift and quickly make their way to their testing sites.

Testers, please get a good night of sleep before your test and make sure to eat something for breakfast. Leave your belongings and electronics with your AP teacher or in your car—don’t bring them to test site!

Bring a snack and a drink to have during the test.

You should also bring 2 number 2 pencils (not mechanical!) and 2 blue or black pens for most tests. You cannot have pencil pouches, books, extra pens/pencils, erasers, sharpeners, good-luck charms, or anything else on your desk during the tests.

Please show up on time ready to do your best! Your AP teachers have your room assignments.

Please help us congratulate CMHS junior Marcus Alonzo! Marcus’s film, Baking Bread, won the Festival Audience Choice Award at Film Prize Junior this year.

“Baking Bread” was selected for the Audience Choice Award by the in-person audience who watched films and voted during the Film Prize Junior Film Festival held in April.

The winning film was awarded a $1,500 film equipment grant for the school, a $500 award to the sponsor teacher, and $250 for the student filmmakers.

If you haven’t streamed Marcus’s film yet, you can do so at filmprizejr.com! You can also watch the other films submitted by Caddo Magnet students, “Portrait”, “Pursuit”, and “Brothers”.

Our on-campus sponsor for Film Prize Jr is Mr John Allen, who teaches film production and videojournalism.

Congratulations!

Congratulations to the Varsity Tennis Team at the 2024 LHSAA Division II State Championships at Heard Stadium in Monroe! The Boys team finished fourth with semi finalist Jai Koticha in Boys Singles and doubles winners Co-Captain Alston Zhang and Logan Tais.
The state qualifying team included Captain Marshall O’Callaghan and Alexander Walker in doubles and Armaan Jyoti in Singles.

Playing for the girls team was quarter finalist Natalie Sin in Girls Singles. The state qualifying team included Captain Melody Zamani, Co-Captain Soren Cate, Phoebe Voumard, Vivian Vekovius, Caya Cate, and Kate Myers.

Thank you so much to all the parents and family members who always come out to support our team! We could not do this without our whole community. Special thanks to Assistant Coaches Soo Sin and Kecia Vekovius who were with us every step of the way!

To make a tax-deductible donation to Magnet Tennis, please go to https://www.locallevelevents.com/events/details/33472

Please enjoy the March/April edition of the Utopia, Magnet’s digital student life magazine. https://online.fliphtml5.com/sesym/fewa/

You can see old issues and more at the newspaper website: http://www.magnetutopia.weebly.com/