Spotlight Musical - 42nd Stret

Mark your calendar and set your date for the Southwest Spotlight Musical

42nd Street coming to the stage at SWHS

Don’t confuse our address (47th Street) with our Spring production (42nd Street)

March 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20 at 7pm

Matinee at 2 pm on March 21st

Ticket reservations at http://southwest.mpls.k12.mn.us/ticket_reservations.html

SW Baseball Fundraiser March 13

Southwest Baseball Fundraiser: March 13, 2010 7:00-9:00 PM at Minneapolis Officers Club

Please join us for 2 hours of wine tasting hosted by Brian and Anne Gandrud from Grand Pere Wines, Inc., a local importer and distributor of fine wine. Brian and Anne will be pouring some very special wines during the event, wines from France, Spain, and Italy.

Have you ever tried wine from Puligny-Montrachet? A 3rd growth Bordeaux from Margaux? A powerful Priorat from Spain? This is your chance! The wines tasted will range from affordable everyday wine to rare and almost impossible to find wine!

Who knew that supporting Southwest Baseball could be so enjoyable?!

TICKET INFORMATION: Request your ticket by e-mail ctjossem@comcast.net - $45/ticket; the tasting is limited to 75 people and tickets will not be available at the door so order yours today!

PLAN test information for 10th grade Parents

Parents of 10th Graders:On Thursday, March 11, at 7:00 pm in the Media Center, the counselors and Career & College Center Coordinator will be hosting a PLAN Information Night for parents.

At that time, parents will receive their students' PLAN test scores.

We will walk you through reading the test results and will also address additional PLAN information, PSEO registration, SAT II testing, and answer any questions you may have.

Please note that we will need to collect the PLAN booklets and score reports as we will be reviewing this information with students the following week.

Please contact me with questions.
Jean Sherwood
SW Counselor

Speech Honors at Centennial Speech Tournament

The Southwest Speech Team participated in the Centennial Invitational Speech Team this past weekend. With over 24 schools represented and over 800 speakers in competition, the tournament was a warm-up for sectionals and the state contests.

Three SW students moved to the awards part of the tournament.

Mikaela Kurpierz earned honorable mention in Humorous Interpretation
Aswar Rahman earned 4th place in finals Extemporaneous Speaking and
John Dahl won first placed in honors finals in Discussion

Congratulations to all who participated. Next week is Fridley invitational.

Chess Tournament Winners

· Southwest took first place in the Check It Out chess tournament. Individually Amanual Zewdie came in first and Xinkai Wang earned the second place trophy.

Twin Cities Science Fair Winner - Ulrich

Mark Ulrich won 5 awards at the Twin Cities Science Fair for his Mind Surfer helmet. He advances to the state competition being held at the end of March.

Southwest Math team Division Champions!

Southwest Math Team took home the division championship for the 4th straight year.

Matthew Kean and Christina Nelson finished tied for 3rd place. Rose Milavitz finished with 61 of a possible 70 points for second place honors. Jason Paller-Rzepka finished with 68 of 70 possible points and took first place. He also tied for the third highest point total in the entire state of Minnesota.

The American Mathematics Competition winners this past week. Michael Moore is the school winner for AMC 10 and Rose Milavitz is the school winner for the AMC 12.