Please make sure you log in your hours using the link above. Families who have reached the 40 hour commitment will be recognized in future editions of the newsletter and on this page of the PIVOT website.

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Summit Rainier YahooGroup

Diane Tom

We are happy to announce the launch of a Yahoo Group to facilitate communication between Summit Rainier parents/guardians. This group is set up to answer questions and build community. If you would like to join this listserve/email group, you can join in one of three ways:

1. Go to the group home page and click Join

2. Send a blank email to this address and respond to the confirmation

3. Email group moderator, Diane Tom and she will send you an invitation to the group

Labels for Education

We are now collecting Labels for Education to redeem for school and athletic supplies for Rainier students. A full list of participating products is here. Drop off your labels in the box in the Rainier office.

Amazon.com

null Do you shop at Amazon.com? Bookmark our new Amazon link today and Amazon will donate up to 10% of your purchases to Rainier! The donation comes out of Amazon's pockets not yours, so it is a painless way to donate. To take advantage of this program, simply visit Amazon.com from this link, shop and check out as you normally would and Amazon does the rest!

P.S. For all of our wonderful families who have been using eScrip's Amazon link: please switch to this new Amazon link while continuing to use eScrip for everything else. eScrip gives Rainier a maximum of 2.5% per Amazon purchase while using our new link brings in a minimum of 4%!

Cafecito

Todas las familias de habla hispana est�n cordialmente invitadas a una sesi�n de preguntas y respuestas con los Directores de Summit Rainier y Tahoma. Nos vemos para tomar una tazita de cafe el jueves, 10 de octubre de 3pm a 4 pm en el Starbucks localizado en la esquina de Story Road y White Road. Si tiene algo que te gustar�a agregar a la agenda para nuestro primer Cafecito por favor env�e sus preguntas, comentarios o sugerencias a la Sra. Lamcke.

Message from the Directors

Dear Rainier Families,

Every day our faculty is inspired to work toward our mission of preparing every student for success in college. We've had several opportunities lately to build our college-bound student culture with our school community. Students practiced what it would be like to take a college entrance examination like the ACT. Our 11th grade students and families attended the first College Night of the year, where Ms. Lamcke gave a presentation on how to best prepare for college in the junior year. (Documents online here.) Finally, in the Personalized Learning Plan (PLP) meetings, academic mentors have been meeting with each student and his or her family to set individual goals for college and plan for the grades, extracurricular involvement, and habits of success that will help achieve those goals.

We hope these opportunities at Summit are giving you the chance to continue the college conversation outside of school as well. If you would like more information and resources for college, please visit Summit's College Readiness website and talk to your student's academic mentor.

Respectfully,

Pamela Lamcke, Principal

Lia Pinelli, Assistant Director

Summit Public Schools: Rainier

ComedySportz Tickets Available NOW

Our Fall Fundraiser and Community Event will be a ComedySportz Show, an interactive improv experience - great fun for the entire family and friends!

What: ComedySportz Show

Where: Mt. Pleasant High School Theatre

1750 S. White Rd. San Jose, CA 95127

When: Saturday, October 12 at 6:00pm

Cost: $10 per ticket pre-purchase or $15 at the door

Concessions will be available for purchase that night - pizza, nachos, egg rolls, and drinks.

We need to sell 200 tickets at Rainier, matching the 200 being sold by Tahoma. Tickets will be available at the PIVOT meeting on October 3, in the office, or from parent volunteers. Please purchase your tickets in advance.

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Not comedy about sports, but comedy AS a sport! ComedySportz is the award winning interactive comedy show where two teams of "act-letes" compete for audience laughs and points while improvising scenes, games, operas and musicals based on audience suggestions. A referee governs the action, calling fouls and keeping the match moving at a blistering pace. The audience is always a part of the interactive show, and sometimes even winds up on stage! It's clean, fast and fun for all audiences. The Silicon Valley's longest-running show, they've been named Editor's Choice by the Wave Magazine and Best Local Theatre by the Metro's Best of the Silicon Valley.

Recruitment for Fall 2014

Lia Pinelli, Assistant Director

Summit Rainier and Tahoma are part of Summit Public Schools - an organization of public, tuition-free, charter high schools. Our schools strive to provide students with a small and personalized educational experience with guaranteed college preparation in a physically and emotionally safe environment. Hear our students, parents, and teachers describe why they choose Summit schools: http://vimeo.com/57639234

Recruitment Open Houses

There will be Summit San Jose Recruitment Open Houses on Tuesday, November 5 and December 3 at 6:30pm on the Rainier campus. Interested families can find out more about our school at these events. This is the first chance to get and submit an application for the 2014-2015 school year and to sign up for shadow events and tours. Be sure to tell your friends and family to get their applications in early to have the highest chance of acceptance. If you have current 8th grade students, they need to go through the application process. Siblings do have a preference in the Lottery, but the application is their ticket into the Lottery.

Recruitment Parties

We would also like to announce that Summit staff is available for attending Recruitment Parties. If you bring a group of five or more new uninformed families/students together, so that our staff can inform your guests about our school option, you can earn parent volunteer hours, student free dress pass and a $50 Visa gift card. This is a great way to share about Summit and help change our community one student and family at a time. There is a form in the office.

Flyers available

Please help us recruit our new class of Rainier Bulldogs. Please distribute and post these flyers in English and Spanish. If you can help post in your child's middle school newsletter (or other appropriate forum), or know of high school information nights at your child's middle school, we would greatly appreciate your help!

Current Openings

There are a limited number of immediate openings in our current classes. For more information or if you have questions, please contact Assistant Director Lia Pinelli or call (408) 831-3104.

Summit Rainier Clubs

Journalism

Rainier's Journalism club has just released its first edition of their online newspaper. See it online here.

VIBE (Vocals, Instruments, Beats and Everyone)

Rainier's music club meets Fridays after school in Ms. Lee's room. They are looking for musical instruments and support for their club. Please contact William Baker for more information.

Science Club

Rainer Science Club in conjunction with the Tahoma Science Club will be doing a Field Trip to the Tech Museum to see the Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination exhibit on Sunday, November 17. Discount tickets have already been purchased. Please attend Science Club meetings weekly on Tuesdays (except during Expeditions) at lunch in room 1213.

Book Club

Rainer's Book Club Members just built Clanker Machines and Darwinist Creations based on the book Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld. Book discussion will be on Wednesday, October 9 at lunch in room 1219.

Interact Club

This is a club just starting for students who want to participate in a volunteer service organization dedicated to "connecting with others in their school and bringing life to their community." You'll get to know people outside of your social circle, not just limited to your school but the entirely to Interact Area 6 (which includes Mt. Pleasant, Independence, Overfelt and James Lick). For more information contact John Gundayao.

More information on Rainier Clubs on the Journalism website.

College Corner

College Visits

Register to visit a UC or CSU campus that's tailored to students applying. More information on the College Readiness website.

RAZA Day at UC Berkeley

The 36th annual Raza Day at UC Berkeley will be held on Saturday, October 26, 2013. This is recognized as one of the largest college recruitment endeavors for Chican@/Latin@ students throughout the state. This event will explore various aspects of higher education including admissions policies, financial aid, student life, academic programs, support groups, community issues and current student perspectives. More information here.

D�a de La Raza

El Centro de Reclutamiento y Retenci�n de la Raza de la Universidad de California en Berkeley se dirige a usted para informarle de nuestro evento anual llamado D�a de La Raza. Este 26 de Octubre del 2012 celebraremos 35 a�os de su existencia. El prop�sito de este evento es el de traer estudiantes a la universidad y ofrecerles el apoyo y la informaci�n necesaria para continuar sus estudios universitarios.

El D�a de la Raza es un evento tradicional en esta universidad y es reconocido por el gobierno estatal por su �xito en la din�mica de reclutamiento. Es un evento en la cual los estudiantes tendr�n la oportunidad de familiarizarse con los recursos que ofrece la universidad. Por ejemplo informaci�n sobre ayuda financiera para continuar sus estudios, los requisitos de admisi�n, vivienda y aspectos generales de la vida estudiantil cotidiana. Hablaremos sobre temas para mejorar los h�bitos del estudio, y tambi�n se ofrecer�n talleres culturales. Proveeremos almuerzo y entretenimiento durante el evento.

Hispanic Heritage Foundation LOFT STEM Leadership Symposium

Students have the opportunity to network with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) professionals from Fortune 500 companies and learn about the diverse careers available. LOFT (Latinos on the Fast Track) is a leadership and workforce development program. The event will be Thursday, October 10, 5:30 - 8:30pm at San Jose State University. More information and registration information here.

Community Service

Boys & Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley

The local branches of the Boys & Girls Clubs are looking for volunteers to assist with their after school programs. There are many volunteer and internship opportunities at the nearby Alum Rock and Smythe Clubhouses. Please take a look at their website for a complete list of opportunities. Contact Sophia Quinones, volunteer coordinator for more information.

Internship Partners Needed

This year during Expeditions we are offering a career class for Summit San Jose students and are working toward placing students in off-campus internships this year and over the summer. We are eagerly seeking partners - businesses and organizations of all kinds - that would be willing to host high school interns. Here is more information about the Internship Program. If you have a lead, please contact Expeditions Teacher-Leader Kathryn Hopkins or by phone at 415-609-5127.

Athletics

Coach J Bumagat, Athletic Director

Winter Sports Meeting

There will be a mandatory parent and athlete meeting for all Winter sports (Basketball and Wrestling) on October 10 at 6pm in the Tahoma campus auditorium.

More information about our sports teams is available on our website: www.rainierbulldogs.com

Uniforms

Ana Martinez

We have a limited supply of the following uniform polos in the office for sale. Polos are $15 each.

Small - Black, Gray, Purple, Light Pink, Banana

Medium - White, Light Pink

Large - Black, Purple

X Large - White, Black, Gray, Purple, Light Pink, Banana, Lime

2X Large - Banana, Lime

As a reminder, all students need to be in uniform. Ms. Pinelli is keeping track of how many students from each grade are not in uniform, and if enough are in uniform during the week that grade can earn free dress days on Fridays. See our uniform policy.

Volunteers Needed

Janet Amaro, Communications Committee Chair

These are some of the volunteer jobs that we need filled.

Office help - Can you come in on a regular basis to help in the office? We especially need help covering the phones during the lunch hour so that Ms. Martinez can do lunch duty. Please contact Ms. Martinez in the office (408) 831-3104 ext 5001 if you are interested in helping.

Lunch help - We need one volunteer per day to come help Ms. Margie distribute lunches to our hungry students. On regular weeks, we need someone from 1-1:30pm, during Expeditions help is needed 11:45am-12:15pm. If you can volunteer even one day a week, that would be a great help. Please contact Ms. Pinelli.

Mentor Group Parents - Each student is assigned a mentor group, each group needs at least two parent leads to serve as the first branch of a phone/email tree between the mentor teacher and the other parents in the group. Ideally, one of the leads should be fluent in Spanish, but don't hesitate to volunteer if you are monolingual. If you are interested in this volunteer opportunity, please contact Lupe Trujillo.

Traffic Monitors - Volunteers are needed to direct traffic at the curb on Marten Ave in front of the Rainier gate during morning drop-off (8:30-9am) and afternoon pick-up (3:50-4:20pm). Please sign up for your choice of day and shift here (scroll down to On-campus).

Upcoming Dates and Deadlines

Thursday, October 3 - PIVOT meeting, notes from the last meeting on the PIVOT website, 6:30pm

Note: meeting will be on the Tahoma campus but we will have discussion on Rainier related items

Monday, October 7 - Picture Day, uniform required, photo order form.
Monday, October 7 - Fall Sports Team pictures, Tahoma auditorium. Order form.

5:00pm Rainier Cross Country
5:15pm Rainier Volleyball

Cafecito con los Directores - 10 de octubre 10, 3-4pm
Thursday, October 10 - Mandatory meeting for athletes and parents participating in Winter Sports, Tahoma auditorium, 6pm
Saturday, October 12 - ComedySportz Fundraiser, 6pm
Week of October 14 and Week of October 21 - Expeditions for all students - dismissal at 3pm.
Saturday, October 19 - PSAT (Optional) at Summit Redwood City, Pre-registration date passed.
Thursday, October 24 - College Night for 10th graders and parents, at Tahoma, 6:30pm.

Rainier's School Year Calendar Color / Black & White

School Events Calendar on the PIVOT website.

Newsletter Submissions

Is there something you would like to have included in a future edition? Rainier's newsletter comes out weekly on Wednesdays. The deadline for submissions is Monday at noon. Please email articles to the Rainier Newsletter Editor. Early submissions are welcome and appreciated.