SAMI High School

From Ms. Sherwood “Bat Day at Sherman ES” Bat Box Microterm (photos from Ms. Sherwood )

From Ms. Le “SEAtizens of the Puget Sound spent the week of microterm cleaning up nearby beaches. We picked up garbages around Owen Beach, Point Defiance Park, Dash Point State Park and Titlow beach! ” SEAtizen Micro-term 2024

Ms. Skaggs shared “Photos from our Junior College Jumpstart microterm! We’ve been working on college research, Common Apps, personal essays, financial aid/scholarships, and touring local colleges (Puget Sound and TCC pictured here). For the folks intending to apply for 4-year colleges next year, now is a good time to begin the process. “

Hope you get a moment to read about the featured seniors in the latest newsletter. Grabbed some pictures of our seniors from .tacoma and our SAMi grad Emily. Thanks to .doyle.75 and the PIO office for putting this together and sharing stories of this 🎓 . So proud of them!

shared these pictures of the project in collaboration with Puget Sound Anglers (Gig Harbor) and our SAMi artists. Show here are students collaborating to paint this Micro-term project taught by Ms. Mann, Ms. Jost and Ms. McLaren brought to us by City of Tacoma Environmental Services team . A beautiful way to lead visitors to the CORE project salmon fry net pens past storm drains painted as a reminder to protect our fragile salmon culture

Mr. Beard’s class today “SAMi Microterm Beach Walk to count the animals and Kelp that have washed to shore.  35 Jelly Fish, 3 Sea Cucumbers”

Our Printmaking class taught by .nakagawa36 has been an incredible project ! Thanks to Ms. Nakagawa, the students relying on their plant identification and creativity to make beautiful linocuts and quilts of these plant transfers. Environmental artists taking class at a beach? This is school!

Such a beautiful prom .sami !

Looking at the structure of sheep brains with Jost’s class today .

Congrats to our future leaders ! Palmer Scholarship is changing our community for the better because our students get the financial support and leadership encouragement to excel. So grateful. Pictured here are our SAMi and Harrison Prep Palmer Scholars

Here hey SAMily, check your email for your Micro-term project. Please reach out to Mentor first with any questions or concerns. Mentors can help starting tomorrow at Lunch& Study since we discourage them from diving into emails on weekends.

From our community partners”Comunidad fosters youth leadership by integrating art culture and community organizing. Youth created a collage of the world as it is and as it should be to better understand how they can help change things in their communities for the better.” Shout out to Ingrid and Emely for leading this partnership with the Adams-Tres family whose impactful leadership have helped change policy across the region. Photo credits to Alejandra Tres.

SAMily? Favorite place on our Earth?

One of our favorite Life Science Parhway projects at , Microgreens exploring sustainable food security, led by our wonderful math teacher and farmer (yes, she owns a local farm) Ms. Vuylsteke. Our SAMi farmers share their bounty and it’s delicious!

We love Tacoma Fire Department. So helpful and gracious

Fantastic day to test hydrophones in the Sound! ☀️

Some Math&Physical Science Pathway builds tested today in the zoo.

The Outdoor Ed class braves the rain and hail to learn about the different environments of the animals in the Zoo.

Students in Maxx King’s art class take a walk through the Point Defiance Zoo to take reference photos of their favorite animals. Next week they will start drawing what they captured!

Learning with Lonsdale

“SAMi mentor grouped engaged with the community by supporting PDZA conservationists to protect local wildlife by applying UV reflecting stickers to make windows visible to birds. “ from Mr. Beard and his Mentor Group (photo credits)

More Mini-terms learning in our community; Food Science, Micro-Greens, Salmon Ambassadors shown here. Can’t wait to celebrate today and tomorrow as classes share final products.

Robots on the Community has been testing down at the Boathouse quite a bit as the projects get ready for final demos. Pictured here ; Controlling an ROV in a form of simulated 3d. And Using sonar to aid in ROV navigation . Thanks to Mr. Beard for the photos

Food Science Mini-term headed up to Pike Place Market for an adventure. From Ms. Le (photo credits, too) “SAMi food science miniterm interviewed local farmers about the importance of consuming local produces on human’s health and the environment.“

Our SAMi students and staff are simply incredible! Today at lunch Ms. Driscoll led students in a Restorative Practice called a problem solving circle. Our Chief Custodian Mr. Hoenow defined the problem - food messes, especially on Wednesdays. Students are walking away from their messes, one student said to Mr. Hoenow it was his job to clean up (?!) and female gender bathrooms have deliberate vandalism - all this feels disrespectful to custodial staff. Our students came up with great ideas to increase SAMi student accountability to themselves and each other. Time to get to work!

Thanks to our SAMi leaders for presenting about SAMi. Olivia led this project, developing pamphlets to welcome 8th graders to apply, Ephraim shared about his pathway in Physical Sciences and Eliyana shared her love of Life Sciences pathway. If you are interested in applying to one of our Partner Schools, the application closes next week!

Vessel Operation class at

Wow! shares about our Gabe Gallardo’s recent and major accomplishments recognized by . Thanks for the post Mr. Lonsdale and Gabe, we cannot be more proud! “SAMily and PDZA,

On Thursday night, Gabe Gallardo was awarded the Rising Tide Award from Communities for a Health Bay. The Rising Tide Award recognizes Pierce County youth dedicated to protecting the environment and stewarding our natural resources. Gabe earned this award though his work with Salmon Ambassadors, PDZA youth volunteer AND internship, as well as the 1000 other things he does at SAMi, PDZA, and beyond. Click here to see all the award winners and the blurb that was written about Gabe.

If you see him around the “halls” of SAMi, please congratulate him!

Seniors! Your mentor will have your passport to get into the College & Career Fair at the Pagoda tomorrow from noon -2pm. Complete the passport and enter the raffle for a $20 Visa gift card .