The Dirty Birds will be performing at the Stingrays game next Friday, March 21st for Magnet night! Tickets are $12 in advance, now through noon on Thursday, March 20th. Order tickets here:

http://www.groupaide.com/group?code=Dirty0321  Tickets are more expensive the day of the game, so order early for the discount. 

We can't wait to Celebrate Magnet

THIS SATURDAY

@ PIE's "Dream Big" Auction & Gala! 

See You All Saturday Night - 6:30 p.m.

Citadel Holliday House,

 69 Hagood Ave., Charleston  29409

It's GREAT!  See you there!

The Academic Magnet Foundation is a South Carolina non-profit corporation determined by the IRS as a Public Charity with 501c3 status.

Only at Academic Magnet is the date March 14th almost as famous as the 4th of July.  March 14th, or 3.14, represents the first three digits of the irrational number Pi, a number that we high school math students eventually learn to love.  For this 4th annual Pi Day celebration, the theme was "Live and Let Pi," a take on a classic James Bond movie.  During class changes, the loudspeakers played "pi-themed" music such as American Pie and Sir Paul McCartney's Live and Let Die. 

This year, the school broke up the festivities over several days to ensure participation and the presence of an audience at each event.  These events included a 3.14 mile long relay, basketball shootout, recitation of digits and artistic opportunities found in homemade posters, cards, and themed songs, videos, and poems.  Classes were shortened by a highly appreciated 5 whole minutes to give an hour-long lunch for a mile-long walk around the school, purchase of slices of pie, and a school-wide picnic in the courtyard serenaded by student musicians. 

Everyone enjoyed the annual festivity to break up several long weeks until spring break and looks forward to next year's celebration when the date will be March 14th, 2015, or, as the number Pi goes, 3.1415.

Jennie Schaaf, AMHS Junior

Please help support one of our own and the Muscular Dystrophy Association at the MDA Muscle Walk at the River Dogs stadium on Saturday, March 29th from 11am-2pm. 

Caleb Sizemore, an Academic Magnet junior, has organized a Muscle Walk team to help raise funds for MDA research for Duchennes Muscular Dystrophy (the disease which affects him) and to raise awareness of the impact of neuromuscular diseases (such as Duchennes and ALS, which is Lou Gehrig's disease) on so many individuals and families.  Please come join Caleb, friends, family, and dozens of other teams in the non-competitive walk around the stadium to support those with muscle diseases.    

MDA is a voluntary health agency that funds cutting-edge neuromuscular disease research; ensures that all Americans affected by these diseases receive treatment and critical care; and serves as a voice for families with neuromuscular diseases.  MDA has built the nation's only neuromuscular clinic network, with over 200 MDA clinics, which provides expert treatment for those with neuromuscular diseases.  MDA also provides free summer camps designed specifically for kids with muscle diseases.

Academic Magnet raised over $1,000 last year for MDA, through contributions to Caleb's Muscle Walk team and through MDA Shamrock sales.  Caleb and his family and friends have raised over $3,500 so far this year for his Muscle Walk team.  

You can join his team and can donate to his team at this link:  Caleb's Cure.  Sign-up and donation forms are also available in Mrs. Colon's, Ms. Novinger's, and Mrs. Kelly's room.

Please join us - and help us to Make a Muscle and Make a Difference.

 

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