Today is Friday, April 28, 2017.

The Tavares Astronomy Club Kennedy Space Center field trip is tomorrow (Saturday) for all members that paid their fees. We will boarding the bus in the student pick up/dropoff area located by the cafeteria starting at 7:15 am. We will be leaving school at 7:30 a.m. and will be back at school at 6:30 p.m. Bring money for food and gifts. Be ready for a fun day!!!

Any student wanting to run for a student government office next year needs to pick up the application in the guidance office this week. Deadline for turning in the application is this today.

GUIDANCE

Students, Skyward access to course selections for next week will remain open until 2 p.m. today. After that, you cannot make any changes to choices. Also, remember that there is a Course Override Form in Guidance that must be completed before any changes can be made to teacher recommendations for courses you were not recommended for. Course overrides must be approved by the teacher, department head and guidance before any changes are made.

College Tour June 5th-9th to 8 colleges including UF, FAMU, Spelman, UNF AND Bethune Cookman. Juniors and Seniors Are eligible. See Mrs. Paulling in Guidance for application information.

Central Florida Mechanical Joint Apprenticeship Training Program at Walt Disney World is looking for qualified applicants.

Applications are in Guidance for students who are 18 years of age and have a HS Diploma.

TAVARES HIGH SCHOOLDAILY BULLETIN

Senior checklists will go out on Monday in 1st period classes. If you are an off campus student, absent or tardy on that date please see Mrs. Paulling in Guidance. Students who are being recognized at the Award Night Ceremony on May 3rd will receive their invitation as well on Monday. Checklists must be given directly to Mrs. Paulling. Seniors who have been flagged to meet with Mrs. Croker concerning their graduation status can make an appointment to meet the week of the 8th. All checklists must be finalized and completed prior to May 12th. See Mrs. Croker for any questions.

Greetings from LSSC!

FAFSA Friday’s are back in full swing for the month of April! Our financial aid professionals will be on hand to help students and their families complete the FAFSA. This service will be available at the Leesburg and South Lake campus locations. Please direct students to the link below to sign up for a time slot (information also available on the LSSC homepage):https://lakesumterstatecollege.wufoo.com/forms/zer3zqd0i91dmf/

Any help you can provide in spreading the word would be greatly appreciated! Thanks and let me know if you have any questions!

Seniors interested in going through the Fire Academy after graduation need to get started now on the enrollment process. Class starts June 6, 2017. Deadline to apply is today.See Mrs. Paulling in Guidance for more information.

SCHOLARSHIPS

Eleanor McGinty Scholarship$2,000.00 scholarship renewable for 4 years.Students must be available for an interview .See Mrs. Paulling in Guidance. Deadline has been extended until today.

Seniors, a reminder that all applications are in the Guidance Office . Each application has instructions on how to complete the applications, where to send the application, deadlines and what type of recommendations you will need. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL THE DUE DATE TO REQUEST LETTERS, TRANSCRIPTS, ETC.

Scholarship resources:

www.careeronestop.org/toolkit/training/find-scholarshipshttp://baucemag.com/list-of-undergraduate-scholarships-for women-of-color

James Durden Diversity Scholarship$1,000.00 ScholarshipDeadline: today

Florida A&M University Alumni Association$500.00 scholarships for seniors planning to attend FAMUDeadline is Monday. See Mrs Paulling in Guidance

Coast to Coast College Tour is hosting an information session for students and parents on May 15th at 7 p.m. at the Renaissance Orlando at Sea World in Orlando. See Mrs Croker for more details.

The Village Angels Autism Support Group Scholarship.Criteria is for students with Autism or siblings of students with Autism.Deadline for this $1,000.00 Scholarship is Monday. See Mrs. Paulling In Guidance.

Southern Scholarship Foundation offers rent-free scholarship housing for eligible seniors attending FSU, FAMU, UF, FGCU, TCC, Flagler and Sante Fe College.Applications are in Guidance Office or visit http://www.southernscholarship.org

The Italian American Club of the Plantation at Leesburg Scholarship $1,000 scholarships for students of Italian-American Heritage.Deadline: Monday

Scholarships for students with Disabilities who plan to attend one of the 12 state universities.Application deadline is Monday.Website information is www.jsf.bz

• The Criterion Civic Club awards a $1000 scholarship to FIVE Lake County deserving minority students every year. Please see Team Guidance for details.

• Seniors, Please let Mrs. Croker know about your college acceptances and any scholarships you may have been awarded.

CLUBS

ATHLETICS

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

Seussvillle: Any student needing volunteer hoursMay 12, 5:30 -7 p.m. (Friday)Tavares Elementary needs volunteers to help out and assist.

Lake Sumter State College has an excellent opportunity for students who need Community Service Hours. Volunteer at KIDS COLLEGE’17 this summer. There are two sessions on the Leesburg and Clermont Campus.Contact DeAnna at 352-323-3610 or the Guidance Office for more information.

Word of the Day

besottedOld Fool's Word of the Day:There are two ways of being besotted — with infatuation or with drink, and both are probably best avoided, since the common element of meaning is "look foolish." Besotted is a participle of the now obsolete verb besot, which made its appearance in the 16th century on the basis of a truly ancient English word: sot, a fool, first attested around the year 1000.

On This Day in History

0357 - Constantius II visited Rome for the first time.

1282 - Villagers in Palermo led a revolt against French rule in Sicily.

1635 - Virginia Governor John Harvey was accused of treason and removed from office.

1686 - The first volume of Isaac Newton's "Principia Mathamatic" was published.

1788 - Maryland became the seventh state to ratify the U.S. constitution.

1789 - A mutiny on the British ship Bounty took place when a rebel crew took the ship and set sail to Pitcairn Island. The mutineers left Captain W. Bligh and 18 sailors adrift.

1818 - U.S. President James Monroe proclaimed naval disarmament on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain.

1896 - The Addressograph was patented by J.S. Duncan.

1902 - A revolution broke out in the Dominican Republic.

1910 - First night air flight was performed by Claude Grahame-White in England.

1914 - W.H. Carrier patented the design of his air conditioner.

1916 - The British declared martial law throughout Ireland.

1919 - The League of Nations was founded.

1920 - Azerbaijan joined the USSR.

1923 - The British Empire Exhibition Stadium (or Empire Stadium) opened to the public.

1930 - The first organized night baseball game was played in Independence, Kansas.

1932 - The yellow fever vaccine for humans was announced.

1937 - The first animated-cartoon electric sign was displayed on a building on Broadway in New York City. It was created by Douglas Leight.

1945 - Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci were executed by Italian partisans as they attempted to flee the country.

1946 - The Allies indicted Tojo with 55 counts of war crimes.

1947 - Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl and five others set out in a balsa wood craft known as Kon Tiki to prove that Peruvian Indians could have settled in Polynesia. The trip began in Peru and took 101 days to complete the crossing of the Pacific Ocean.

1952 - The U.S. occupation of Japan officially ended when a treaty with the U.S. and 47 other countries went into effect.

1953 - French troops evacuated northern Laos.

1957 - Mike Wallace was seen on TV for the first time. He was the host of "Mike Wallace Interviews."

1959 - Arthur Godfrey was seen for the last time in the final broadcast of "Arthur Godfrey and His Friends" on CBS-TV.

1962 - In the Sahara Desert of Algeria, a team led by Red Adair used explosives to put out the well fire known as the Devil's Cigarette Lighter. The fire was caused by a pipe rupture on November 6, 1961.

1965 - The U.S. Army and Marines invaded the Dominican Republic to evacuate Americans.

1967 - Muhammad Ali refused induction into the U.S. Army and was stripped of boxing title. He cited religious grounds for his refusal.

1969 - Charles de Gaulle resigned as president of France.

1969 - In Santa Rosa, CA, Charles M. Schulz's Redwood Empire Ice Arena opened.

1977 - Christopher Boyce was convicted of selling U.S. secrets.

1985 - The largest sand castle in the world was completed near St. Petersburg, FL. It was four stories tall.

1988 - In Maui, HI, one flight attendant was killed when the fuselage of a Boeing 737 ripped open in mid-flight.

1989 - Mobil announced that they were divesting from South Africa because congressional restrictions were too costly.

1992 - The U.S. Agriculture Department unveiled a pyramid-shaped recommended-diet chart.

1994 - Former CIA official Aldrich Ames, who had given U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and then Russia, pled guilty to espionage and tax evasion. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

1996 - U.S. President Clinton gave a 4 1/2 hour videotaped testimony as a defense witness in the criminal trial of his former Whitewater business partners.

1997 - A worldwide treaty to ban chemical weapons took effect. Russia and other countries such as Iraq and North Korea did not sign.

1999 - The U.S. House of Representatives rejected (on a tie vote of 213-213) a measure expressing support for NATO's five-week-old air campaign in Yugoslavia. The House also voted to limit the president's authority to use ground forces in Yugoslavia.

2000 - Jay Leno received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

2001 - A Russian rocket launched from Central Asia with the first space tourist aboard. The crew consisted of California businessman Dennis Tito and two cosmonauts. The destination was the international space station.

2008 - India set a world record when it sent 10 satellites into orbit from a single launch.