2025 Seniors’ Photos for Project Graduation Slideshow

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Hi y’all! We need your photos for the Project Graduation slideshow!

A slideshow will be running in the background at Project Graduation. If you have any photos over the last four years of you and your LASA friends that you want to share for a slideshow, please add them. Remember to keep it clean and remember that everyone can see these. Looking for group photos, athletics, fine arts, friends, clubs, etc.

Check out the Blend Notification, Naviance or the 2025 Google Group for details on how to submit photos.

AP Test Volunteers Needed

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LASA will be administering over 4,000 AP tests from May 5th-May 16th, and many volunteers are needed to make this whole thing happen.
There are over 200 volunteer slots that need to be filled for those two weeks. We need volunteers to monitor exams and testing areas. We also need volunteers to help with breakfast and snack distribution (this is a great job if your time is limited).

Please read the Sign Up Genius carefully:
https://lasa.austinschools.org/school/signups

IMPORTANT: You may NOT MONITOR any exam your student is taking (even if the student will be in a different testing room). Hall monitors should not sign up for a shift when your student is taking any AP test. Breakfast/snack volunteers can sign up for any time, does not matter which test their student(s) are taking.

Coffeehouse 2025 – Tickets go on sale 5/1

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COFFEEHOUSE 2025 – The annual talent show that showcases the amazing skills of the LASA students and staff is set for May 16, 2025 at Life Austin at 1504 E 51st St. Two amazing stages to enjoy the performances. Coffeehouse is created, organized and executed by the students of the Songwriting Class with the guidance of Mr. Snyder. This event is for current LASA students and their families.

We will have a few food trucks this year! Please come hungry and early to support these vendors. Doors and food trucks open at 5:30pm. Showtime is from 7-10pm. Smoking and vaping is strictly prohibited, and food must be consumed outside. Parking available on site. Additional parking available at AISD Performing Arts Center at 1500 Barbara Jordan Blvd.

Tickets are $10 each and may be purchased online and at school. Buy your tickets early, this event historically sells out! NO TICKETS WILL BE SOLD AT THE DOOR.

  • Online sales: May 1-15
  • At school in-person sales: May 14-16, 7:30-8:15am and at lunch in the cafeteria foyer. $10 (Cash, Credit, Debit, Venmo, GooglePay, PayPal, Apple Pay)

Visit the Coffeehouse page for more details, updates, and online ticket sales.

Calling all Booster Banquet Parents – Important – Please Read!

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I need some help making sure the loan items from PFLASA are available to you for your end of year celebrations. PFLASA hasn’t had an inventory chair for (???) awhile. And the checkout form is broken. Last year we ran into a few problems with items not being returned by the time another group needed them. I’m not throwing shade or blame because this isn’t as unlikely as you think if one group has their banquet on Friday, there is no way to return items to the portable for a Saturday event. So to try and coordinate all of this, I’m asking you to email me at president@pflasa.org:

  1. The date of your banquet.
  2. The items you want to check out.
  3. Contact information for one or two volunteers responsible for these items (this is especially important because it will go out to other groups allowing coordination for the items).
  4. Expected check in date for items not handed off to another group.

I will be sending this information out to all the volunteers who submit it so that the groups can coordinate and work together. I have high hopes this will work better than last year! I would appreciate being in on those communications. And if you end up not taking something or grabbing a few other things please send an updated email.

Finally, there are three different sets up LASA letters! The lighted ones were donated to LASA this fall and you will need to coordinate with the office to check those out. We also have a newly painted set of wooden letters (along the hallway wall in the portable). The popular foam LASA letters are MISSING (and we think have been gone for awhile)!!! If you have them, please return them (and a heads up to me would be greatly appreciated) or if you know someone has them please encourage them to return them so that other groups can enjoy them. Feel free to email me with questions.

Thanks for your cooperation!
Ellen Stewart-Klein
PFLASA President

Tonight! Informal Introduction to Naviance

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Naviance: How do I get Started? with Geeta Suggs, former LASA webmaster and Alum parents at 6:30pm TONIGHT!

Join us for a very informal Naviance class. This Zoom class is geared to parents and will not be recorded. This class if offered free of charge. Please sign up so we can correctly prepare our Zoom. Sign up can be found here: https://lasa.austinschools.org/sc

From Geeta:

As I’ve done in the past, I’m volunteering myself and what little I know to you about the college process (yes, I have a LASA 2020 and 2024 grad) but more specifically, Naviance and how to start there. I am no expert, but I can get you started and show you how to explore things. I have done this for junior parents for a few years now and it seemed helpful. Expect an hour max and I’ll point out some resources on the LASA website too.

Senior Salute Slide Show Submissions due 5/5

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Hello Class of 2025! Tomorrow is the day where you officially make your post-grad plans known. We want to celebrate you… BUT, we need your help! Please complete this Google form to share your post-graduation plans and a photo for the slide show that will play during Senior Salute (and in the school office after graduation.) The photo can be an informal photo of you wearing your college t-shirt, a formal portrait, or your CADY senior photo. If you do not submit a photo, the LASA seal will serve as your photo.

When loading the file, please use the following naming convention: Last Name, First Name.

If you have more than one graduate, please fill out a form for each.

PTSA Bylaws changes

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LASA PTSA has proposed to update our bylaws for next school year. The changes would be made to our dues structure to allow current LASA staff and current LASA students to pay a lower price for LASA PTSA Membership.

Updated Bylaws:
Section 2. Dues.
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B. Annual dues for each current LASA staff member or current LASA student shall be the sum of national dues plus state dues plus the local dues amount of $3.00.
C. Annual dues for each general member shall be the sum of national dues plus state dues plus the local dues amount of $8.00.

To replace current bylaws:
Section 2. Dues.
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B. Annual dues for each member shall be the sum of national dues plus state dues plus the local dues amount of $5.50.

Please email president@lasaptsa.org with any questions or concerns.

AP Snack Donations Requested

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We welcome your snack donations for students taking AP tests. Why are we requesting snack donations? Great question! Many students go to tests back to back, without time for a break College Board is RIGID on test start times, so grabbing a bite to eat is no excuse for being late. By providing breakfast and snacks, we hope to provide a little something for a nervous belly or a little oomph to fuel a kiddo through those last hours of testing. We greatly appreciate your support.

Click here for the signup/ suggested list of snacks.

TWO WAYS TO DONATE:

  1. AMAZON: Snacks are a click away! Select any variety of the dry-good items suggested (or whatever tickles your fancy) and have them delivered to LASA.
    • ATTN: PFLASA AP Snacks, 1012 Arthur Stiles Rd., Austin, TX 78721
    • Please arrange for a weekday delivery.
  2. SHOP LOCAL/DELIVER TO LASA: Add some extra items to your weekly grocery list and drop them in the LASA Office. There will be a cooler in the office for perishable items.

DEADLINES:

  • Items for Week 1: Bring to the main office on Friday, May 2 or by 7:15am Monday, May 5.
  • Items for Week 2: should be brought to the main office on Friday, May 9 or by 7:15am Monday, May 12.

Thank you to everyone who has signed up to donate! We still have nervous testing bellies to fill!

Raising Cane’s Sprit Night benefitting the LASA Raptor Band

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Raising Cane’s Sprit Night benefitting the LASA Raptor Band

    • When/Where: May 1st from 5pm-9pm at Raising Cane’s MLK location (415 W. MLK)
    • Mention the LASA Raptor band at the register OR skip the line and order online using code RCFUND96.

Come join us for dinner and support your LASA HS Raptor Band! We will see you there!!

Support our hardworking teachers, staff and admin — join the Hospitality Committee!

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Looking for an entry level committee to join to support our school? How about the Hospitality Committee? PFLASA pays for and organizes 4 meal events during the year to feed and give thanks to our hardworking teachers, staff, and administration. Our current hospitality chair is graduating, and we need 4-6 people who want to take these events on. With a committee that size, one person could be in charge or every event could be hosted by a different member—it will be up to the committee. Want to learn more? Email us at president@pflasa.org!