Next Week
Tuesday, April 17
Charity Spirit Day-In exchange for $2, students, faculty and staff may wear jeans and Guerin Catholic spirit wear to school. The Tamarindo Foundation will be the beneficiaries of this month's proceeds.
Wednesday, April 18
Progress Report Night, 4:15-7 p.m.
Any parent who has concerns about a particular course or believes it would be beneficial to touch base with one or more of their child's teachers are invited to come and have those conversations.
Saturday, April 21
Junior/Senior Prom, 7-10:30 p.m. at the Ritz Charles
After Prom-11 p.m. - 1 a.m. - The Fieldhouse
Rocket Club Advances to National Finals In only it's first year of existence, Guerin Catholic's Rocket Club will compete in the TARC (Team America Rocketry Challenge) National Finals during an all-day flyoff at Great Meadow in The Plains, Va., on Saturday, May 12. Congratulations to Christopher Bluish, Lee Harris, Team Captain Jacob Staab, Keegan Kirkwood, and Nick Zerla. Guerin Catholic will represent one of only six Rocket Clubs from the state of Indiana. Only 100 teams nationwide advanced to the finals!! Way to go Golden Eagles!!!
Progress Report Night
Progress Report Night will be held on Wednesday, April 18 from
4:15-7 p.m. Any parent who has concerns about a particular course or believes it would be beneficial to touch base with one or more of their child's teachers are invited to come and have those conversations.
Prom
Prom is April 21, only two weeks away. Just a reminder that students bringing guests from schools other than Guerin Catholic, must have a permission slip filled out and turned in to the front desk of Guerin Catholic no later than April 20. Also, those outside guests must bring a form of photo identification to the prom on Saturday. Many thanks for your cooperation!
State Champions Spirit Wear
Be sure to order exclusive Guerin Catholic State Champion Spirit Wear!
Click here to download the order form and return it to the athletic department by April 20.
All-School Mass-April 27
At the next all-school Mass on April 27, at 9 a.m. in the gymnasium we will be asking all students and Guerin Catholic family members who have entered the Catholic church within the past 4 years to come forward for a special blessing. Please mark your calendars and plan on attending as Guerin Catholic welcomes her newest members to the Catholic faith!
Political Forum at SEAS on April 23 St.Elizabeth Ann Seton is hosting a Political Forum for Candidates for Indiana's 5th District Congressional.
Date: Monday, April 23rd at 7:00 pm
Location: St. Elizabeth Seton, Social Hall
This is a non-partisan forum and all candidates have been invited to participate. The forum will concentrate on Article 1 of the Constitution of the United States. Dr. Tim Story will be the moderating the forum.
Summer Courses Only a few days left to register for summer school courses! Kinesiology and Computer Applications (incoming freshmen) will be taught at Guerin Catholic during the month of June. Government (sophomores) and Theology (sophomores, juniors & seniors) will be taught online with one or more brief meetings at school. The deadline for registration is Monday, April 16. Please check the registration form for exact dates and expectations for each class. All summer school registration forms are on the Guerin Catholic website under "Academics" or click on the name of the course above to download the form directly from this page.
Last Chance to Pre-Order Yearbooks
Don't miss this opportunity to pre-order your yearbooks at a reduced rate! Click here to download the order form that is due April 30.Technology Notes from Mr. Sandstrom Over the past couple of weeks, I have received numerous phone calls and emails from parents concerned about the amount of time that CrashPlan Plus and Mozy Home are reporting for initial backups to complete.
First and foremost, this is completely normal behavior. The reason is simple math: Large amounts of data (which an initial full backup always is) uploaded over relatively small upload links equals a lot of time required for backups. All residential (Comcast, AT&T, BrightHouse, etc) internet service always sells their service as "Blazing fast downloads..." What they don't tell you is that 20Mb/s download speed normally translates to 4-5Mb/s of upload speed. Backups are uploaded to your backup provider (CrashPlan, Mozy, etc).
I have contacted both CrashPlan AND Mozy. While Mozy stated that their application will "self-adjust", CrashPlan offered these suggestions to speed things along:
Open CrashPlan application. Click on Settings. Next, click on the "Network" tab. There are four (4) fields with drop down's called "Limit sending rate". Change all four of them to 2Mbps.
Rest assured that we will not image student laptops until we know backups are complete and ready to go.
If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Director of Technology
