AMS Principal News

Taking the time to create a special thank you to families in advance of Thanksgiving!

• We are Grateful for our Families!
• We are Grateful for Your Children!
• We are Grateful for our AMS Staff!
• We are Grateful for our Volunteers!

Thank you to all our students and staff for purchasing socks during Socktober. AMS raised $1,012 for Shinning Stars.

FIRST Lego League Challenge Regional Qualifier

Lightning Strikes Twice:

- 1st place in the Robot Game (out of 40 teams)

- 1st place Champions (that is overall for the whole competition)

- Invitation to States on December 7th in Denver

- Team Members: Nicco DiMaria, Tamir Finesliver, Sam Gilmore, Ember LaPenna, Loreili

LaPenna, and Hailey Ward

Steep 'n Deep:

- 4th place in the Robot Game (out of 40 teams)

- Judges Award recognizing their hard work, core values, and talent as a 1st year team

- Team Members: Isla Gilmore, Beck Dorr, Felix Garfield, Evelyn Van Arsdale

Poached Gears:

- 2nd Place Core Value Award

- Team Members: Teodora Milinovic, Sunny Guthrie, Liam Daniels, Annabella Maupin, Finn

Zubrod, Marcel Miracle, Macsen Hembury

About FIRST Lego League Challenge:

Friendly competition is at the heart of FIRST Lego League Challenge, as teams of students grades 4 - 8 engage in research, problem-solving, coding, and engineering - building and programming a LEGO robot that navigates the missions of a robot game. They also participate in a research project to identify and solve a relevant real-world problem utilizing the design cycle.

Exchanges will take place when students are in 8th grade to Chamonix, France; Shimukappu, Japan; and Bariloche, Argentina (we host the Bariloche group in April of 7th grade).

Please join virtually on Tuesday, November 19th from 7:30pm – 8:30pm

Google Meet link: https://meet.google.com/zwp-vhyu-rzw

Applications will be due on Friday, December 13th. You can find more information on the AMS Sister Cities page and the Aspen Sister Cities website as well. You are encouraged to attend before applying, but it is not mandatory.

Students will celebrate with a school dance on December 6th.

• 2:15pm - 3:20pm: 5th and 6th Grade Dance in AMS Gym
• 6:00pm - 7:00pm: 7th and 8th Grade School Dance in AHS Blackbox

• Please consider donating a baked good and/or a healthy treat for the snack tables. Food donations can be dropped off in the AMS front office.
• Students are invited to bring a non-perishible food item to the dance in exchange for a ticket to the snack table.

The AMS Library and Pitkin County Library have been working closely together this year to create some really fun events and opportunities for our students.

On November 21st and 22nd, we will be hosting a Library Card Sign Up Event! Both the Pitkin County Library and Basalt Regional Library will be participating. Youth Librarians will come to visit all grade levels and give presentations about all of the things you can do with a library card or at your local library besides just checking out books.

Some other great things students will have access to with a library card include:

- Reserve books through the library's catalog- if your local library does not have the book your student is looking for, they are able to borrow it from almost any other library in the state and have it brought directly to your local library for pick up.

- Download digital media

- Access to more databases for research/projects

- Use library computers

- Rent a librarian! - reserve time with a librarian to learn research techniques to help on their projects/papers

The libraries also regularly hold amazing free events after school for teens like movie nights, decorating events, community teen classes (recent examples include Bookbinding for Beginners, Girls Who Code, and Paint Like Bob Ross) and book clubs (snacks provided!). Overall, they provide a safe and caring landing spot for students to be outside of school.

November 21st: 5th and 6th grades

November 22nd: 7th and 8th grades

Parent permission slips to sign up for library cards may have already started making their way home with your students. Please help your student fill out an application to your local library. They can either return a paper copy to Kassandra in the AMS Library or you can send it via email to ksandev@aspenk12.net. Once applications are processed, we plan to hand out your student's new Library Card after Thanksgiving Break.

December 2nd - 6th please bring non-perishable food items.

• Monday, November 18th - 7th / 8th Grade Boys Basketball vs Carbondale 4:30pm / 8th at Carbondale

• Tuesday, November 19th - 7th Grade Aspen Sister Cities Student Exchange Informational Meeting 7:30pm Google Meet

• Wednesday, November 20th ~ AMS Early Release 1:55pm

• Wednesday, November 20th - 7th / 8th Grade Boys Basketball vs Grand Valley 4:30pm / 7th at Grand Valley (Parachute)

• Wednesday, November 20th ~ 6th Grade Parent ODE Meeting 5:00pm - 6th Grade Core

• Monday, November 25th - 29th ~ Thanksgiving Break - NO SCHOOL FOR STAFF & STUDENTS

• Tuesday, December 3rd - 7th / 8th Grade Boys Basketball vs Glenwood Springs 4:30pm / 8th at Glenwood Springs

• Wednesday, December 4th ~ AMS Early Release 1:55pm

• Saturday, December 7th ~ 7th Grade Boys Basketball Black Team Tournament

• Monday, December 9th - 7th / 8th Grade Boys Basketball vs Basalt 4:30pm / 7th at Basalt

• Wednesday, December 11th ~ AMS Early Release 1:55pm

• Wednesday, December 11th ~ 7th / 8th Winter Band Concert 6:00pm

• Saturday, December 14th ~ 8th Grade Boys Basketball PEG League Tournament @ AHS Gym

• Wednesday, December 18th ~ AMS Early Release 1:55pm

• Wednesday, December 18th ~ Winter Choir Performance 6:30pm

• Monday, December 23rd - January 5th ~ Winter Break - NO SCHOOL FOR STAFF & STUDENTS

AMS LUNCH VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

Please sign up for a volunteer shift HERE!

LOST & FOUND

Our lost & found at AMS is OVERFLOWING with items that belong to our students. If you're missing anything please have your child look in the lost & found down by the entry doors to the blacktop.