What is happening in and around Saline Area Schools
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 29th, 2010
The following Saline High School students took top honors in Washtenaw Community College 22nd Annual Welding Contest Invitational hosted on Friday, January 29, 2010 From left: Brent Clink – 3rd place, Advanced OxyAcetylene Welding Ryan Mickevicius – 2nd place, Advanced Gas Tungsten Arc Welding Josh Newell – 1st place, Beginning OxyAcetylene Welding Evan Pazkowski – [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 29th, 2010
Recently, the Physical Education Department at Saline High School had some unusual and interesting activities for all PE classes. The Michigan National Guard brought their challenge course to SHS, along with their instructors and helped coordinate competitive activities to enrich the PE classes’ educational experiences. Students competed in relay races, tug-o-war, and ran through the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 28th, 2010
Senora Washington’s 8th grade Spanish classes have just begun using the collaborative productivity tools offered to us through the Google Suite of products. Using Google Presentation and working in small groups, students are collaborating on a series of video postcard slides from 10 different destinations throughout the Spanish-speaking world. Students from the group are able [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 28th, 2010
Showcase your musical talent on February 27th at “Band” Together, a musical talent show to raise money for a SMART BoardTM that will be given to the Saline Area Schools. “BAND” Together will be held on February 27th, 6:30 – 8:30 pm at the Saline High School Auditorium. You must apply by February 5th. Applications [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 28th, 2010
Saline High School is holding its second annual Poetry Out Loud competition on Thursday, February 4 from 7:00-9:00 p.m. in the high school performing arts center. Around 25 Saline High School students will recite a published poem by memory for prize money, and one individual will advance to the state Poetry Out Loud competition in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 27th, 2010
The Saline Downtown Merchants Association (SDMA) is coordinating with the 212 Arts Center to bring “Fairy February” to downtown. Twelve of the fine artists at 212 recently completed an art challenge in which they created fairy doors. The fairy doors will soon be secreted in our downtown businesses for the whole month of February (1-28), [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 27th, 2010
On January 26th, our Quizbusters team and families traveled to WKAR-TV, East Lansing to compete in the 2nd round of the Quizbusters Tournament against Hartland. The Saline team composed of Senior Captain Hema Karunakaram, Junior Isaac Hochrein, Junior Sabine Bickford and Freshman Marc Barbret beat Hartland 440-270. Quizbuster host Matt Ottinger told the squad that [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 26th, 2010
On Saturday, January 16th, over 140 student instrumental musicians from Saline High School participated in the District 12 MSBOA Solo and Ensemble Festival at Livonia Franklin High School. 116 solos and ensembles performed at the festival, the highest participation ever for Saline High School. 75% of the Saline events received First Division or Superior ratings, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 24th, 2010
On January 27, the 251 Saline High School students who earned five A’s in the fall trimester will be recognized in the school’s first All A Academic Award Ceremony. “I’m proud to have 251 out of our 1,848 students achieving this all A mark,” says SHS Principal Ben Williams. “We always do an end-of-the-year [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 21st, 2010
Saline DECA took home the district IV conference trophy for the third time in four years and 110 medals at the District Conference January 7, 2010 @ Eastern Michigan University The Saline DECA chapter had an unforgettable performance during their District Competition at Eastern Michigan University’s Student Center. Saline DECA members took home 110 medals, [...]