What's New!
After you’ve tossed your cap at graduation and taken all your pictures, come celebrate one last night with your friends and classmates at the MIHS Class 2022 Senior Party! Immediately following graduation on Thursday, June 9th, members of the MIHS Class of 2022 will travel to a secret destination for a night filled with fun and food! Admission includes entertainment, activities, food, games, and transportation. Students will depart on buses straight from graduation and return to MIHS as the sun comes up. All MIHS Class of 2022 graduates are encouraged to attend and Scholarship assistance is available upon request. For more Information, visit the Senior Party page.
Purchase by May 20th and receive a commemorative Senior Party T-Shirt! Final Deadline to purchase Senior Party Admission is June 8th. Purchase Senior Party Admission in the MIHS PTSA Store.
The Hawaiian symbol of love, honor, friendship and celebration, lei are traditionally presented by MIHS friends & family to graduating seniors to wear during their graduation ceremony. For more information visit MIHS Graduation Lei.
Order Deadline: Friday, May 27, 2022. Order via our MIHS PTSA Store.
Tuesday, May 24th | 7-9 pm | Library Presentation Room
Calling all Junior families (Sophomore and Freshman families are also welcome)! Want to know more about what’s in store for next year? If so, please join our PTSA for a panel discussion! This is a very popular Q & A style meeting that covers everything you want to know about Senior year and beyond. Bring your questions!
If you are unable to attend this year’s seminar, below are some presentations and a webinar recording from a previous year.
Graduate Grams
It’s time to order your graduating Senior a Grad Gram, Mercer Island’s 30 year community tradition! Each Grad Gram is printed on parchment paper, personalized with your congratulatory message and mailed on your behalf direct to the graduate’s home. Grad Grams sell for $6 each.
Order your Grad Grams for graduating Seniors by May 20th to guarantee delivery by MIHS graduation date. Students love receiving these special tributes from friends and family! Sale ends June 15th.
MIHS Legacy Bricks
Buy a personalized brick that will become a permanent part of Mercer Island High School at the amphitheater entrance to the commons. The cost is $50 for a message of up to 18 characters per line (including spaces & punctuation) with two lines maximum.
Limited Edition Mercer Island Glassy Baby
Celebrate graduates with custom, limited GlassyBaby that features Mercer Island. Brought to you by Mercer Trade Inc.- the company run by MIHS’ International Entrepreneurship class.
Click here for more ideas and ordering information.
Senior Party Chaperones needed. Get to help the Senior Class celebrate graduation on June 9! Directly following the graduation ceremony, we need volunteers to chaperone Senior Party. You can stay the entire night until 6AM or volunteer for half of the night, the first or second shift. Yes, you can be as physically distant from your child as they’d like! Thank you for considering. Please contact Jody Kris at jodymkris@aol.com if you’re interested.
Click here to read the current and past President’s letters.
This week’s schedule will be the Regular daily schedule
Read Principal Walter Kelly’s May 6, 2022 letter.
Click here to read the April 2022 Newsletter.
Donate to the purchase of necessities for family shelters and women experiencing poverty. We are currently collecting to support Jubilee Women’s Center in Seattle. Teens Helping is an organization created and run by three Mercer Island High School Juniors committed to helping other girls and women in the King County area. Click here to donate.
After viewing the recent issues in Ukraine the UNICEF Club at MIHS were deeply affected and could not sit and do nothing. We have recently started a fundraiser, run through the UNICEF Organization to raise money for children and families in Ukraine. All proceeds go directly to UNICEF to create emergency relief packages and send fresh sanitary supplies to those in need. Click here to donate.
The History and Politics club is joining forces with Amnesty International Club and Philosophy Club to raise money for Ukrainian Refugees! The three clubs are organizing an all-island yard sale and need your help! They are accepting almost anything that you have laying around your house that you may not need anymore! Pick up will be Saturday and Sunday every weekend from now until the End of April or bins will be available to drop off items at Mercerdale Park or the South End QFC. Date of garage sale TBD. All proceeds are going to The International Rescue Committee and Yearning to Breathe Free! For more information contact Jason Zhao 206 886-8995 jason.zhao@ytbf.org ytbf.org/ukraine
We are selling custom sticker packs, designed for any college/university that is requested! All the proceeds are going to UNICEF to help Ukranian Refugees. Do you have a graduating senior? Or a love for your alma mater? These college sticker packs are handmade with tons of care, and made special for your favorite school/team for only $10 per pack! fill out this order form to indicate your customization!
MIHS teachers, Curtis Johnston and David Willecke, are offering the 14th annual Writing for College workshops beginning June 21. Craft your admissions essay in a positive workshop atmosphere with on-demand one-on-one guidance from people who have spent years mastering the personal essay. We will help you write to your audience, maintain authentic voice, avoid the common pitfalls that can lead to automatic denial, and more.
Back by popular demand: Two separate series of workshops, June 21 to June 30, or August 8 to August 18, with online editing and application support available for 5 weeks after the end of actual sessions. Click herefor more information, including how to register.
All workshops will be held in person at Mercer Island High School this summer. Students will need a device on which to write their essays and to create their Common App and Coalition App accounts. Email questions to misummerwriters@gmail.com
Ergon Student Exchange – Host Family Needed!
Host an Italian student, enjoy a true cultural exchange. Your child will be invited to Italy!
Luca, Giada, Vittorio are looking forward to their dream coming true of attending Mercer Island High School and living with an American family next fall semester. Read their bio’s here.
For more information click HERE
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Free admission is a benefit of PTA Membership! We sponsor speakers and discussions across a variety of parenting and child development topics that are timely, thought-provoking and practical. For events dates and more details go to MI Parent Edge.
