Dorado Family Updates 10.28.24

We hope that Fall Break proved to be a wonderful opportunity for some family time, and maybe a quick getaway! This semester is flying by with the holidays just around the corner.

We have some important updates and reminders for you to review.

Newsletter Topics Include:

• Semester Important Calendar Dates: Holidays, Wednesdays, Grades
• What's Happening:
• Halloween in High School
• Link Crew Haunted Mansion
• Oro Valley National Night Out
• CDO Musical: Sweeney Todd
• CDO PTO Update
• Testing
• Health Office
• Class of 2025
• Did You Know: Adopt-A-Float, CDO Green Machine, CDO Orchestra, High School Masonry Competition, IB Environmental Systems & Societies (CDO Environmental Club), Southern Arizona Constrcution Career Days, Academic Decathlon, 2025 KEYS Research Internship, Winter Formal
• Athletic Updates
• Club Updates
• CDO Counseling Team

Thank you for all that you do to support your Dorado this school year!

• November 11th: Veteran's Day - NO SCHOOL (1 DAY)
• November 27 - 29: Thanksgiving Break - NO SCHOOL (3 DAYS)
• December 18 & 19: Semester 1 Final Exams
• December 20: Grading Day - NO SCHOOL (1 DAY)
• December 23 - January 3, 2025: Winter Break - NO SCHOOL (10 DAYS)

PLEASE REMEMBER THAT ALL WEDNESDAYS ARE EARLY OUT WEDNESDAYS FOR THE ENTIRE SCHOOL YEAR!

Quarter 2 Progress Reports will be available on Friday, November 15th. As always, if you have questions about a particular grade, please contact the teacher via email.

Yes, we have many students who wear costumes to school on Halloween day and we encourage that kind of spirit in any kid! We just need them to remember a few things before they decide to put on their costumes:

• No masks of any kind. We need to be able to identify all of our students at any time to keep our campus safe.
• No inappropriate costumes that do not follow our Dress Code.
• No fake weapons of any kind.
• No costumes that make noises that will disrupt instruction.
• No blood and gore.

Again, school appropriate is what we need! Thank you for your help in communicating this to your kiddos.

The Oro Valley Police Department is excited to host National Night Out on Friday, October 25, 2024. This event will be combined with their annual Halloween Safe Treats celebration.

This year, they're putting a special emphasis on children and community safety. Join us from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the Walmart Supercenter, located at 2150 E. Tangerine Rd, Oro Valley, AZ 85755.

Attendees can look forward to prizes, candy, and a fun-filled evening. Costumes are encouraged for all ages!

Last year’s event saw outstanding participation, with around 5,000 people joining in, and they're aiming to make this year’s event even more successful!

• GIFTED TESTING will take place on October 29th and 30th. If you are interested in having your child tested, please contact Lisa DaDeppo at Ldadeppo@amphi.com for more information and to complete permission forms.

As we enter the cold/flu season the health office is in need of cough drops. They are also in need of more water.

Any freshman that is looking for tutoring, join us in T-23 every Thursday from 8:00am - 8:45am

Thanks to Teacher Robyn Yewell, CDO officially has adopted a float through the Global Ocean Biogeochemstry Array (GO-BGC) Organization! Educators can use these floats and the float data with students to learn more about our oceans, climate change, technology, engineering, mathematics and more. Our float is currently located off the coast of Indonesia.

The CDO Green Machine Marching Band's show is entitled "PREMONITION" and tells the story of two sisters separated at birth and is based upon the story of The Witch and The Saint. These kids are working hard to make a beautiful and meaningful performance for the competitive field, as well as their community audience. Please take a moment to come check them out along their season journey, dates and performances left:

• Saturday, November 2nd, U of A Band Day, Arizona Stadium, time TBD
• Saturday, November 9th, Hamilton High School and AzMBA Championships, time TBD
• Tuesday, November 12th, CDO Stadium, Parent Night and end of Season performance, time 7pm

The Green Machine took 1st place in their division at the Walden Grove High School Competition, receiving all 5 caption awards:

🎵Music, Visual, General Effect, Percussion, and Auxiliary🎵

CDO Orchestra performed at the ABODA Festival at Tucson High School on Wednesday, October 16th. The Symphonic Orchestra performed wonderfully and received the highest rating for the festival, Superior with Distinction. We performed Capriol Suite movement 1 and 6 by Peter Warlock and Hungarian Variations by Susan H. Day. Senior, Evan Lehner, was the soloist for the Hungarian Variations. He received numerous compliments from the audience and adjudicators at the festival.

CDO rocked the annual high school masonry competition in Phoenix, Saturday, October 19th. Keegan Swinson, William Bennett, Maggie Comer, Owen Thome, Kate McEuen, Anthony Stanford and Morgan Carlson represented Mr. Ronstadt's Construction program with amazing skill and talent! With a total of 78 high school students from around the state, Owen Thome placed second and Kate McEuen place fourth. Congratulations to all!

IB Environmental Systems & Societies and CDO Environmental Club students got their feet wet with field studies in Tucson's Santa Crus River in October. As part of their water pollution unit learning, students traveled to a flowing section of the Santa Cruz River at Crossroads at Silverbell Park where they learned aquatic field work techniques used to assess water quality.

Their overall assessment of the water quality was fair, and their assessment of doing field work was that it was super fun!

Southern Arizona Construction Career Days Event, students are introduced to a multitude of construction trades as well as college and career opportunities. They Are able to try out welding, copper, soldering, and conduit bending (plumbing and electrical). As well as drive excavators, backhoes and get some mining simulators. Some of the host businesses consist of The Tucson Water district, TEP, KB Homes, DPR Construction, the AZ Masonry Council, Pima JTED, and many more. The students get to play games and have some hands-on experience while learning about the multitude of opportunities in the Construction Technologies field! Students had an amazing time at this annual event. They represented our school with gratitude and appreciation for the volunteers at the event. Thank you to the school, district and counselors for supporting our CTE programs. It is a truly amazing event!

Academic Decathlon just returned from a very rewarding trip to Texas. The team finished 3rd our of 27 teams and many students earned individual awards.

• Zoe Guymon and Henry Anicker earned awards for placing at the top of their division.
• Evan Lehner, Cian Kelly and Chad Butterbrodt all earned first place in Mathematics for a perfect score.
• Lily Weleck, Noah Spaeth, Austin Christian, Elijah Bartruff, Julia Smith, Ethan Hosack and Jameson Christian all earned individual awards.

Dear School and Community Partners,

We are entering our 19th year of the KEYS Research Internship! We are extremely proud of our 746 alumni and their significant contributions to scientific discovery. We hope to accept students from your school to be part of our next KEYS cohort!

The 2025 KEYS Research Internship will take place June 2 - July 18, 2025 and be conducted in-person on the U of A campus. In addition to traditional in-person bioscience internships on campus, we will also be offering a select amount of virtual internships for highly motivated students with interests and/or skills in computational biology and/or bioinformatics.

Our staff is excited to share about the innovative research projects your students can participate in both on-campus and online. We have attached our program flier to this email for you to share with your students. We have also included a link to our webpage below that provides a video overview of the 2025 KEYS program.

https://keys.arizona.edu/information/future-students

Applications for the 2025 program open on Friday, November 1st and close Friday, December 13th.

Applicants will be required to answer short essay questions within the application, upload their own unofficial transcript, and provide the contact information of two recommenders (who will be sent a recommendation form to complete once the applicant has submitted their application).

For additional information or questions about the program, please email us at keys@bio5.org.

Bear Down!

KEYS Staff

KEYS Research Internship

BIO5 Institute

THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA

Thomas W. Keating

Bioresearch Building

1657 E. Helen Street Tucson AZ 85721

520-626-8124

keys@bio5.org

Saturday, December 14th at the Tucson Convention Center

StuGo will be announcing the theme soon! Here is the information you need to know:

• Winter Formal is for all grade levels of current CDO students.
• 900 tickets will be sold for the dance.
• Tickets will be sold before school and during both lunches only.
• Tickets will cost $50.00 for CDO students, and $60.00 for non CDO guests who are invited by a CDO student.
• Tickets will go on sale for CDO students on Monday, November 18th - Thursday, December 12th or until we sell out of tickets.
• Tickets will go on sale for guests of CDO students on Monday, November 25th - December 12th or until we sell out of tickets.
• Non CDO students wishing to attend Winter Formal as a guest of a CDO student will need fill out a guest form. Guest forms can be picked up in the front office and must be filled out prior to purchasing a ticket.
• Light snacks/desserts and water will be served at the dance.
• Students will need to bring their ticket and their student ID (not a picture of it) to enter the dance.
• No refunds.

The Fall season is nearing a close with play-offs looming for many of our programs! Please visit our Athletics website for updates and information about the current season. Fall Sports include:

• Swim
• Football
• Golf
• Cross Country
• Girls' Volleyball
• Cheer/Pomline

Winter Season begins November 4th with tryouts.

• Boys Soccer
• November 4th, 5th, 6th & 7th at 6:45pm - 8:00pm
• Regular season practice times will be at 6:45pm - 8:30pm
• Girls Basketball
• Tryouts will be November 4th, 5th & 6th in the Main Gym from 4:30pm - 6:30pm
• Boys Basketball
• Tryouts - Juniors & Seniors - 6am-8am in the Main Gym
• Tryouts - Freshman & Sophomores - 4:30pm in the Small Gym
• Girls Soccer
• Tryouts, November 4th - 8th from 4:30pm - 5:45pm on practice field.
• Friday, November 8th - TEAM parent meeting at 5:30pm in the MPR
• Wrestling Boys/Girls
• November 4th - 8th - from 4:05pm - 6:30pm in the Wrestling Room.

Please make sure your student Athlete is cleared in order to be able to participate in tryouts the first day, all information must be uploaded onto the Register my Athlete: https://www.registermyathlete.com/ .

Below is some important information to help you get ready for the season.

• Physical forms must be uploaded and corrected onto the Register My Athlete site by Monday November 4, 2024 at 12:00pm. A new physical must be uploaded every school year. If your student is currently in a sport and plans to participate in the winter make sure you have added that sport to their profile.
• Brain book and Opioid certificate must be uploaded onto each designated section. New athletes will need to complete both courses. Returning athletes please log onto the https://academy.azpreps365.com/ site and download your certificate they do not need to complete it again.
• Sports Fee- $100 must be paid by November 10, 2024 if your student has been informed, they have made the team. This must be paid for at the bookstore and receipt must be submitted to Ms. Elsa in the Athletics office, if you pay online, please email a copy of the receipt to ealvarado@amphi.com
• District Mandatory Athletics Meeting is required in order to complete the registration process for your student athlete. We need at least one parent to attend the meeting. If this is not complete the student will not be able to participate in games or travel with the team. The Meeting dates are October 29, at 5:00pm and Thursday October 31 at 7:00am in the MPR. If you have attended a parent meeting this school year, you do not have to attend again.
  

Any other questions please do not hesitate to contact the Athletic Department at 520-696-5573.

Thank you have a great season!!!

The Clay Club meets every Friday after school in K907.

Mud Club meets every Wednesdays at 8:15 am in the library.

CDO has over 60 clubs for students to join throughout the year. Take a look below at our latest list for the 2024 - 2025 school year. You can click the image for a better view.

Check back here for previous newsletters throughout the school year. The first few newsletters were sent out through ParentSquare and can be pulled up on the ParentSquare feed. :)

Tara Bulleigh, Principal

Canyon del Oro High School

An International Baccalaureate World School

Office: (520) 696-5565

Email: tbulleigh@amphi.com
Website: https://www.amphi.com/CDO
Location: 25 West Calle Concordia, Tucson, AZ, USA
Phone: 5206965560
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Twitter: @CdOHighSchool