Welcome rising Panthers! The Academic Foundation has been supporting teachers, students and education at Plant High School for over 25 years. We hope you will join us in the fall and help to continue this proud tradition. Our members' and business partners' generosity allowed the foundation to put over $70,000 back into our classrooms last year. Please visit our website to learn more about these grants, read about membership and business partner opportunities, and see the enriching programming offered to the community at our monthly meetings. Feel free to email Brooke Melendi, incoming president, if you have any questions. We look forward to meeting you in August!

Join the Athletic Foundation today and support "The Team Behind the Teams!" All membership dollars raised go back to our teams, allowing our coaches to purchase the items they feel are necessary for their programs. Your support enriches the experience for our student athletes.  Please visit our website to review our membership levels and their benefits, as well as other information regarding the Athletic Foundation. If you have any questions regarding membership, please email membershipPAF@gmail.com.

The PAW is open with great merchandise for all Panther fans! Our products can be purchased on our website. We will also have our new fall items available at the Open House on August 20th.

All Plant High School students are required to read over the summer. Students should be prepared for an assessment, project, and/or discussion of the assigned literature during the first week of school. Links to all summer assignments may be accessed from the Plant website.

9th Grade English 1 Honors and English 1 Honors-Gifted students, read one of the following novels: 

• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher

Students will receive their fall schedules by mail in early August. Along with the schedule, you will find information about days and times to make necessary schedule corrections prior to the start of school. The changes made in August will be limited to academic necessity, because the master schedule will be finalized and classes will be filled.

You may begin earning community service hours this summer. Service hours are not required for graduation, but students need service hours to qualify for National Honor Society and Bright Futures scholarships. Community service guidelines, proposal forms, and service hour logs are available on the Guidance page of Plant's website. As long as the service projects meet the guidelines, students will not need to have proposals approved in advance.  Students can submit their completed paperwork to their counselors in the fall.

If you wish to take an online course this summer, please register at www.flvs.net. Once you have completed the registration steps and requested a course, a Plant staff member will verify your request.  Once your request has been verified, you must wait for Florida Virtual School to assign you to a class.  Just log in regularly and check your course status.  'CA' indicates that your class has been activated and that you will be hearing from your teacher soon. This process can take quite a while in the summer, depending on course availability.

Please direct all of your questions about the status of your course to FLVS by calling (407) 513-3587. Important note: If you registered for your FLVS class as an 8th grade student with your middle school as your designated school, you must update your profile. Change your grade to 9 and your school to Plant Senior High School. If you do not update your profile, we will not receive your completed grade and Plant will not award you credit for your online course.

Boys basketball tryouts will be held at Wilson Middle School on Monday, June 8th from 1:00 to 3:00 pm. All information on the boys basketball program will be discussed at that time. More information can be found at www.plantbasketball.com.

Registration for summer rowing and weightlifting camps have opened at www.PlantHighRowing.com. We offer camps for 6th through 12th grade students, and no experience is necessary. Plant High Rowing finished this year's season with multiple state titles and a boat earning a Silver Medal at the National Championship! We need eager freshmen interested in an exciting new sport to continue this success.  Come out this summer and see what rowing is all about!

All incoming 9th grade girls that are interested in running Cross Country in the fall are welcome to come out and train with the team this summer. We will start on June 8th and meet every Monday and Wednesday at 7:00 pm at Barcelona St. and Bayshore Blvd. (next to the Jewish Synagogue). We will also meet on Saturday mornings on Davis Island at 7:30 am (at the corner of Barbados and Channel Dr., next to the Little League fields). Click here for more information.

Interested in high school sailing? Davis Island Youth Sailing Foundation offers a Summer Learn-To-Sail Program with a series of week-long camps over the course of the summer. Information about the program can be found on the DIYC website. New sailors are highly encouraged to participate in at least one of the Summer Learn-To-Sail 420 camps. For more information about joining the Plant Sailing team, contact diysfdirector@diyouthsailing.org.