Help the LASA archery team score and soar

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The LASA archery team’s annual Score and Soar fundraiser is underway! With the generous support of friends, families, and businesses, we are able to:

➡ offer financial assistance so any student can participate,
➡ buy and repair equipment like target faces, arrows, and bows,
➡ help cover the cost of tournament entry fees, and
➡ defray travel costs to State and Nationals.

Please consider a donation of any amount to support our 75+ LASA archers. You can make a one-time contribution or sponsor an archer and donate money based on their score at an upcoming tournament. No amount is too little — every dollar counts.

Your support is vital to maintenance and growth of our archery program; thank you!

Donate today!

Raising Healthy Raptors: Helping Your Child Learn to Manage Their Anxiety

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At the last PFLASA meeting, there was a discussion about student stress and anxiety, especially since returning from winter break. While anxiety is often not a pleasant emotion, it is most certainly a normal emotion which serves a purpose. Here are some resources that can help us support our teens to learn life skills to manage their anxiety. Remember, anxiety itself is normal and anxiety disorders are treatable.

1. Does Anxiety Serve a Purpose?

2. Tons of Free Resources for Executive Functioning Ideas

3. Managing the Anxiety Waves and Addressing Anxiety in Yourself and Your Student (both presentations)

4. Anxiety and Anxiety Disorders in Teens

LASA Students’ Blanket Drive A Smashing Success

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On January 23, 2026, Augustus McCormack and Ibrahim Abdulazeez successfully organized a blanket and emergency supply drive as part of their FBLA Community Service Project. The drive was aimed at supporting individuals experiencing homelessness in our local community, especially during colder weather. Through donations and community support, they raised $300, which was used to purchase blankets and essential emergency supplies that were distributed directly to those in need. This project shows the impact of student-led service initiatives and reflects LASA’s mission of leadership, service, and community involvement.

Mardi Gras Great Gathering Open to ALL CLASSES

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Do wait and miss your chance to dig out that costume and have fun at the upcoming Mardi Gras Great Gathering, open to all classes, on Friday, Feb 13th!! No bad luck there, just some good partying and mingling!

Grab your tickets today!

If you would like to submit a Great Gathering, there’s still plenty of time! You can submit it here: tinyurl.com/ggatherings
Great Gatherings is an amazing community builder – you will find the peeps you want by your side, especially during senior year!! Question? Email greatgatherings@pflasa.org.

2026 Project Graduation Call for Volunteers

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We hope you will consider volunteering at the 2026 Project Graduation all night lock-in at the East YMCA on June 1-2. We are asking for adult volunteers across all grade levels to help by volunteering for a shift (or all night) during the event. It is a fun event and the volunteers have a great time!

Location: East Communities YMCA
Starts: Monday, June 1, 2025 at 10pm
Ends: Tuesday, June 2, 2025 at 5:30am
Sign up now!

Feel free to reach out with any questions/comments at projectgraduation@pflasa.org.
We will set up a couple of Zoom calls closer to, to explain the flow of the night and our needs.

Thank you for your kind consideration!
Manue Reynolds and Maya Gamble
2026 Project Graduation Co-Chairs

How to Make the Most of Your Summer Planning

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Wednesday, February 4th
7-8pm

Colleges are very interested in what students are choosing to do outside of the classroom, and for LASA students, summer is the ideal time to dig into your serious activities. They are looking for meaningful work, which can show up in different ways (i.e. internships, pre-college academic programs, shadowing, etc.) Colleges are looking at community impact, intellectual curiosity, and what matters to a student (and how they are choosing to address that). We’ll talk about how to think creatively about where to look for opportunities, the timeline, potential application process, and how students can set themselves apart with their activities.

Purchase your ticket to join us!