Summer Opportunity for High School Girls
Inspiring Girls* Expeditions: Applications for summer 2025 Now Open
Inspiring Girls* Expeditions offers tuition-free multi-day expeditions for high school girls in the US, Canada and Europe that interweave science, art, and back-country travel. The expeditions are led by professional women scientists, artists, and wilderness guides—no experience needed. Visit the Inspiring Girls* Expeditions webpage to learn about the criteria and apply. If the link above doesn't work, the link below does. https://www.inspiringgirls.org/about-apply
Phyte Club Update
It was a great week in the garden this week! Even though it was snowy, and Phyte Club didn’t meet, Linworth students still made this garden week count. We practiced winter sowing—a technique for successfully germinating native seeds and then we took our knowledge to the Worthington Farmers Market on Saturday where we helped members of the community start more than 2 dozen gardens. In addition, several students helped the Worthington Green Team collect a 26 foot truck full of Styrofoam for recycling. Next week we will make spring plans, learn some new systems to upgrade our management, finish bending conduit and maybe more. Leadership transitions will happen at this meeting for any positions that seniors held. Phyte Club meets from 3:15- 4:15 every Monday. We gather in the Big Room and everyone is welcome. Join Us!
Upcoming: We will be at the Worthington Science Day on Jan. 25 continuing our winter sowing and native plant outreach.
For more information on Linworth School Community Garden and Phyte Club activities, check out our website: linworthschoolcommunitygarden.org.
Linworth Community Impact Program
Thanks to everyone who joined us for the Linworth Community Impact Program Info meeting this week. We had a great turnout and it was awesome to see so many of you excited about the opportunity to make a difference in our community. We will kick off this new program after the holidays with our first meeting after school on Tuesday, January 14th. Even if you missed the informational meeting, it's never too late to come join us and be a part of an initiative that really gives you all an opportunity to create change in the way that YOU feel is most meaningful (and have a lot of fun doing it)!
The program vision:
Identify issues important to you
Engage in meaningful dialog & create a strategy for impact
Implement your plan & interact with your Impact Community
Year-end event to increase your community awareness and engagement to increase your community awareness and engagement
Free SAT-PSAT Virtual Crash Course
Free SAT-PSAT Virtual Crash Course: Fri, Jan 17, 6p-8p
Click here for details and register by this Wednesday, 1/15!
Science Day
On Saturday, January 25th, Worthington will once again hold its annual Science Day. Open to students from Kindergarten through 12th grade, Science Day consists of four different events for students.Registration will close for Science Day on January 19th, 2025. Registration for the Design Challenge will close when the event capacity is met or on January 19th, 2025, which ever comes first.
For more information, explore the links below.
Need a Bowling Coach and Student Volunteers
Our bowling season is set to start mid January. To ensure adequate supervision, we are in need of an additional Assistant Coach. Practices are held at Bowlero, 4825 Sawmill Road, from 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM. Our season starts on January 18th and will run through Summer State Games, the weekend of June 13th - 15th.
This person would encourage and cheer on all our bowlers, as well as, assist with our wheelchair athletes, specifically in wheeling them up to the lane, adjusting the movable ramp, and retrieving and setting the ball on the ramp for the athlete to push off.
In addition, we are also looking for students who can assist where needed. This is a great opportunity to receive needed volunteer credit for college applications.
Do these opportunities interest you? If so, please reply to this email.
Happy New Year!
Jennifer Truby
Worthington Special Olympics
Co-Coordinator
From the Department of Technology
Worthington Families
Starting Jan 3, 2025, the old www.worthington-portal.org site will no longer be accessible. The vendor who owns and supports the system our portal site is built on is no longer supporting it.
The items from the old portal are now available from your Infinite Campus portal in the “More” section in “Parent Access Links”. Here is a guide to help you navigate this change: Parent Access Link.
We also recommend updating any browser bookmarks you may have.
State-funded SAT for Juniors
Worthington Schools will register all juniors for the state-funded Digital SAT. This will be administered during the school day on March 11, 2025. Students have the opportunity to prepare for the assessment at any time using the resources listed in the informational flyer linked here. If you have any questions, please contact your school counselor.
Linworth AP Town Calendar
Sophomore Mason has created Apple and Google calendars that include the color of each school day through the 1st quarter, as well as events and the Town Meeting schedule.
Simply follow this link: Add Linworth AP Town Calendar
FAFSA Reminder for Seniors and Guardian:
A friendly reminder for seniors planning to attend college are encouraged to complete this free financial aid application with your guardian:
Free Application for Federal Student Aid
A helpful resource for completing the FAFSA: Financial Aid Process, '24-'25
College Credit Plus
College Credit Plus provides Worthington high school students the opportunity to earn college and high school credit at the same time and at no cost to your family. This includes courses offered at the main campus high school, online through the college, at the college campus, during summer, autumn, and/or spring terms, etc. Students are eligible to participate in this program with a minimum of 3.0 cumulative GPA or through placement testing. Plan to attend the district wide meeting for interested students and adults, which will take place at Worthington Kilbourne High School on Wednesday, January 22, at 7pm.
Military Exploration Opportunities
There are valuable educational and service options through the Military, including the Army, Marines, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, and Coast Guard. Worthington City Schools partner with a representative within each of these branches who can offer tremendous detail to families. You are invited to contact our military recruiters: Military Contacts
The Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery is offered one time each year after winter break at each of the main campus high schools. The ASVAB is an assessment that measures abilities and helps predict future academic and occupational success in the military and is a valuable career exploration tool. Please let Laura know if you are a 10th, 11th, or 12 grader interested in registering for the ASVAB. The ASVAB will take place at the main campus high schools on the following days:
- WKHS: Friday, January 17, 2025
- TWHS: Friday, January 24, 2025
Teacher Email Addresses
If you have any questions for Linworth teachers, please don’t hesitate to reach out to them.
Jamie Mackin jmackin@wscloud.org
Jen Kubina jkubina@wscloud.org
Lilly Yap lyap@wscloud.org
Ian Sample isample@wscloud.org
Rosanne Nagel rnagel@wscloud.org
Mark Shannon mshannon@wscloud.org
Amy Bowman abowman@wscloud.org
Josh Stegman jstegman@wscloud.org
Emily Valdez evaldez@wscloud.org
Laura Zelch lzelch@wscloud.org
Amy Kargiotis akargiotis@wscloud.org
Chris Hasebrook chasebrook@wscloud.org
Tim Hetrick thetrick@wscloud.org
Jocelyn Trout jtrout@wscloud.org
Linworth Experiential Program
If there is an emergency and you need to see or talk to someone right away, please:
- Talk to your parents or another trusted adult.
- Call Nationwide Children's Hospital Crisis Hotline (17 & younger) at 614-722-1800
- Call Netcare Crisis Hotline (18 and older) at 614-276-2273
- Call the Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255 or
- Text the Crisis Text line by sending a text message to 741741. (If you text “4hope” you should automatically be connected to someone in Ohio, but you can text anything - even just hello to get the conversation started.)
- If you are having an immediate emergency, please call 911.
All of these options are available 24/7/365.
Website: http://www.linworth.org/ or https://linworth.worthington.k12.oh.us/
Location: 2075 West Dublin Granville Road, Worthington, Ohio 43085, USA
Phone: (614) 450-6900
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LinworthAP?fref=ts
Twitter: @LinworthAPNewts