January 11, 2019 Volume III, Issue X

Important Dates:

RISING 9th grade par-ent night: January 14

@6pm

Senior Parent Meeting:

January 17 @ 7pm

Staff/Student MLK holi-

day: January 21

Mill Creek Idol auditions:

January 23

Dual Enrollment Info Meeting: January 24 @

6pm

CURRENT 9th grade parent night: January 24

@ 7pm

Mill Creek Dance Audi-tions: January 30, 2:30-

4:00pm for current

MCHS students

2019-2020 Registration

for classes begins: January

30

Parenting in a digital

world: Feb 19 @ 6:30pm

In Memoriam

December brought our Mill Creek community tremendous grief with the loss of

two amazing women, both charter members of the MCHS faculty, Gigi Murphy and Ashley Taube. We mourn their loss but derive strength from the tremendous impact each made here at Mill Creek High School.

Gigi Murphy worked as a full time counselor in GCPS for thirty years, retired, but then returned part time to continue her passion of making a difference in the lives of young people. She was part of the Mill Creek coun-seling department when our doors opened in 2004 and is responsible for the creation of our iLead student men-tor program. She was counselor of the year for 1992-1993 and regional counselor of the year in 1993. Gigi was a calming spirit who had the ability to instantly put people at ease, a trait that helped make her such a well loved counselor and member of our Mill Creek family.

Ashley Taube started her teaching career in 2004 with the opening of Mill Creek. She made a tremendous impact on so many students both as a math teacher and a cheer coach. She made it her mission to make math less intimidating and to be an uplifting influence to every student she taught and coached. Ashley was named GCCA coach of the year and led our competition cheer squad to four state titles in the last eleven seasons, winning

the most recent in 2018. She fought a long, courageous battle against cancer but through it all she maintained a positive outlook and always demonstrated her mantra to “choose happy.”

We honor the memory of these beloved members of our Mill Creek family

by using what we learned from each of them to continue making a positive

impact in the lives of our students.

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Dual Enrollment

Are you interested in Dual Enrollment for the 2019-2020 school year? If so, plan to attend the final informational meeting on January 24, 2019 at 6:00 pm in the theater. The information shared will be the same information shared at meetings earlier this school year. Students planning to do Dual

Enrollment will need to take the SAT or ACT as soon as possible to meet deadlines at Mill Creek & college deadlines. Registration information for both admission exams can be found below.

Save The Date: In order to do Dual

Enrollment, students must complete all

requirements by March 28, 2019.

Dual Enrollment requirements and partici-pation information will be reviewed at the

January 24th meeting.

CURRENT 9th Grade Parent Night

The counseling department will be presenting graduation requirements and other information also

on the evening of January 24, 2019 at 7:00 for parents/guardians of current 9th grade students. We hope you can attend!

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Upcoming Auditions!

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Class of 2019 News

A message from senior sponsor Jody Gross:

Senior Parent meeting January 17th at 7:00pm in the theater.

Topics to be discussed: Graduation, Important dates, Volunteering, & Senior Activities.

Paying Senior Dues: Use the following link: https://shop.gabalfour.com/categories/packages This link will take you to the Balfour website where you pay your "Cap and Gown Dues." Please

note it is not on My Payments Plus Dues will increase on February1st to $140. Check out the

school website under senior news to see all the items that the dues cover. Also, Senior Dues have nothing to do with Junior Dues or Prom. I need your help to make senior week fabulous for your seniors. We ask that each parent send in a bag of individually wrapped candy and a $5 gift card (from fast food, QT, Department stores, etc.). We start collecting at this time, so by April we will have enough for every senior. During senior week, each senior will receive a goody bag full of candy and treats. If we get enough gift cards for every senior, then I will hand those out each day after school. Seniors love it! They are really surprised when they draw out a gift card. Let's keep this tradition going and send in your items today. Please put your items inside a bag with a slip of paper stating your name and your seniors' name. If we do not get enough gift cards, then senior names will be drawn as winners.

Treat your Valentine!

Yearbook preorders are due February 1! Don't miss the chance to get your 2019 yearbook. Order yours

ONLINE ONLY at WWW.MILLCREEKYEARBOOK.COM

Our DECA club will be selling 12 inch Great American Cookie Valentine’s cakes January 14-February 5. Cakes are $20 each and may be ordered on My Payments Plus. All proceeds go to helping DECA students attend their interna-tional convention in Orlando, Florida. Thanks in advance for your support!

Magic Moment will be on campus on THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21,

and TUESDAY MARCH 5 to take Cap & Gown portraits. Sign up

for your appointment on the bulletin board across from room C102 today! The photographer will provide the cap & gown for the sitting. Questions? Call them directly at 770-979-4203.

Cap & Gown Portraits

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AP Test Registration

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Welcome to Mill Creek Community School

Dr. Victoria Starr Director

Our office hours are

Monday - Thursday 1:00 PM to 9:00 PM Phone # 678-714-5855

Register online at www.MyPaymentsPlus.com.

Serving our Community

Mill Creek Community Driver’s Education Winter / Spring 2019

Dates Days Times Registration

1/28-2/08 Mon-Fri 2:30-5:30pm Open Dec. 8th

3/11-3/22 Mon-Fri 2:30-5:30pm Open Dec. 8th

4/15-4/26 Mon-Fri 2:30-5:30pm Open in March

5/6-5/17 Mon-Fri 2:30-5:30pm Open in March

The price of Driver’s Education Class is $345.00. Included are 30 hours of classroom instruction, 6 hours driving and 6 hours driving observation.

Driver’s Education contracts and a copy of learner’s permit are required before class begins. Driver’s Education contracts CANNOT be mailed, faxed or emailed. The Driver’s Education

Contract and a copy of learner’s ARE necessary to attend the class. PAYMENT ONLINE - Go to www.MyPaymentsPlus.com

PAYMENT IN PERSON - You can bring your check or cash to the front office

Mill Creek Community School Summer Health & PE 2019

(Dates could change due to school make-up dates)

May 28 – June 20 Mondays – Thursdays

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!

Update on our website construction, we are now able to enter all of our program information.

Thank you for your patience. please feel free to contact us.

To register, most of the Driver’s Education classes and all of the Summer PE/Health classes are on www.MyPaymentsPlus.com.

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EPIC Engineering

Check out Mill Creek EPIC on Social Media:

Instagram:

millcreek_epic

Click here and follow us!

Twitter:

@MillCreekEPIC

Click here and follow us!

The 10th-grade Engineers are starting back strong with genetic engineering, the perfect opportunity to get cross-curricular! Students used their engineering skills to help us make a scale model of the

human genome while learning about the human genome project. This revolutionary scientific discovery has allowed scientists to determine the locations of all the genes on the genome. Students first had to

determine where on the human genome their assigned gene was, then they placed those genes on the EPIC hallway to make a walkable human genome. This allowed them to then go on a gene scavenger hunt to discover the locations of specific genes. We are really diving into this unit with a bunch of hands-on activities and simulations. I look forward to seeing how Mr. Moore wraps it all up with a class discussion about all the different topics of genetic technology.

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EPIC Update

The 11th grade EPIC students opened up the semester in all of their classes by thinking about the con-cept of energy. As an introduction to this idea in Physics, Mr. Harper asked students to go on a walka-bout around campus in search of anything that uses power. While on their journeys, students had to explain how the devices they encountered were using power and whether they were solving a problem or creating one. From here students will delve into how energy is created, what its impacts are, and ways to reduce energy in order to improve the school. Check back soon to see if our EPIC Power Rangers have defeated the energy crisis!

HAWKS S.O.A.R. to Excellence

S.O.A.R.

Strive to Overachieve through

Accountability and

Respect.

Work hard in SILENCE

let SUCCESS

make the noise. -Unknown