What a Week!
September 22, 2024
Dear Fellow Bronx Science Parents and Guardians,
What a week! It was a thrill to welcome so many of you back to school for our first PA meeting of the year. We were pleased to introduce our leadership team this year, and we sincerely hope you enjoyed our grade-level presentations. We received positive feedback from parents/guardians, and we would like to extend a very warm thank you to AP Andrew Nasser, and guidance counselors Miranda Ram, Jacole Mills and Monique Maylor for sharing their time and expertise with our parent community. We were delighted that many of you could join us, and we hope to see that trend grow.
Today, several of you are joining us to serve food to our alumni and sell merchandise as they meet with and coach our seniors for the Bronx Science Foundation’s Project Accepted. We’ll share photos and thank all of our volunteers by name next week, but for now, many thanks to Hospitality Co-Chair Fotini Marcopulos and team member Luisa LaFleur for doing all the advance hospitality work on this event and to Merchandise Co-Chairs Jenny He and Sai Swarup for organizing our merchandise sale.
Events such as Project Accepted, and the involvement of the Bronx Science Foundation are part of what makes Bronx Science special. We extend our heartfelt thanks to Foundation President Eleanor Coufos, ’99, the Foundation, and all the alumni who have come out to help our seniors fine tune their statements and present their best selves to colleges. Our support at events like this matter makes our entire community, from current students to faculty, staff, and alumni, feel welcomed, supported, and appreciated.
On October 22, at 8:30 AM, the school will be holding the annual Safety Town Hall as part of the Coffee with the Principal morning series.
Please see the post below for more details.
As we announced at the first PA meeting, our fall elections will be held online only via Zoom on October 17, 2024, at 7 PM. 9th grade and incoming 10th grade parents and guardians are eligible to run for three Member-at-Large seats, and 9th grade parents are also eligible to run for a seat on the School Leadership Team. This is a great opportunity to contribute in a meaningful way to our community. If you are nominating someone else, that nomination is due by 11:59 PM on Tuesday, September 24, and self-nominations are due on Wednesday, September 25, by 11:59 PM. Please see the post below for more details.
Then, on October 15, we are pleased to support the school for the Fall Open House. We are in need of MANY volunteers for this event, which is always a really joyous celebration of our school. Watch next week’s newsletter for a sign-up link, and please save the date!
Before you go, be sure to check out the committee contact list below so that you can sign up to be a committee volunteer. We are still seeking core committee members in several areas, including Korean, Bengali and Spanish interpreters.
Best wishes to those celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month and to those who celebrated the mid-Autumn/Moon Festival this week!
Sincerely,
Xia (Lisa) Li, Jennifer Allen-Cheng and Arthur Wong
PA Presidents
president@bxsciencepa.org
