Students from the South & West Washtenaw Consortium attended the annual Skills USA Michigan State Leadership and Technical Skills Competitions held in April in Lansing.  The following South & West Washtenaw Consortium students placed in the top slots in the following state level contests:

Automotive Service Technology^- 1st Place  – Tommy Michaluk - Saline

Graphic Communication – 1st Place - Ben Ellsworth - Saline

                                               2^nd Place – Emily Gillis - Dexter

                                               3^rd Place – Rachel Hackenbruch - Saline

Food & Beverage Service– 2^nd Place - Kyler Jacobs  - Saline

Commercial Baking – 3^rd Place – Julie Soisson - Saline

Cosmetology Mannequin  – 2^nd Place –Emma Golding – Manchester

                                                3^rd Place – Alexis Romelhardt - Chelsea

Oxy Welding– 1st Place – Luke McCarren – Saline

Welding Fabrication Team- 3^rd Place Team – Chase Perry, Nate Wing, Brandon Otto - Dexter

Contestants that placed first will be attending the National level Skills USA contests hosted in Kansas City, Missouri at the end of June.  

Undergraduate Recognition Program:

The annual Saline High School Recognition Program for undergraduates will be held Friday, May 18 in the Ellen Ewing Performing Arts Center.  Students will be receiving recognition for student council, class leadership, honor roll awards and department awards.  Invitations will be mailed approximately a week before the program and only to those students who will be recognized at the program.  The schedule for each class program follows:   Freshmen at 8:00 a.m.;  Sophomores at 9:10 a.m.;  Juniors at 10:25 a.m.    Parents are invited to attend and should park and enter the building at the east entrance (Auditorium).  Students absent the day of the program may pick up their awards in the Guidance Office beginning Monday, May 21.  Please email dawsond@saline.k12.mi.us with any questions regarding the program. 

Please note:  Tickets are not needed for Commencement.   All who want to attend will be permitted.

The 2012 Saline High School Commencement will be held at Saline High School's Hornet Stadium located at 1300 Campus Parkway, Saline, MI on Sunday, June 3 at 6:00 PM.

Gates to the field will open at 5:00 PM. The line for commencement entrance will begin at the gate entrance adjacent to the south parking lot.  Please note:  there is to be no saving of seats with blankets, rope/cord, tape, etc.  Seating is first-come, first-serve.

There will be a section in the stadium set aside for those who have made prior arrangements with Mrs. Michelle Monahan (429-8039) for special needs seating. Guests in wheelchairs will be able to sit with one other family member in the designated area.

A reminder to all graduating seniors:  You are to report to Hornet Field by 12 Noon on Sunday, June 3, for Commencement Practice. All seniors should plan to attend.

INCLEMENT WEATHER:   If Commencement must be postponed on Sunday, June 3, 2012, due to inclement weather, such as thunder / lightning storms / and/or tornadoes, the ceremony will be moved to Monday, June 4, 2012, at 6:00 PM at Hornet Stadium.  Graduation practice would take place at 12 Noon that Monday.       *** Please note: inclement weather does NOT include rain showers***

Information will be posted on the SAS District website June 2, 2012, and will also be on the district hotline at 429-8000 after 10:00 AM on June 2, 2012.

Click here for information on purchasing a DVD of commencement.

Congratulations to the Saline High School Science Olympiad team for their solid performance at the Science Olympiad State Tournament held at Michigan State University on April 29th, 2012. The SHS team placed 6^th overall.  This is the fourth consecutive top 10 finish by Saline High School at States.  About 230 high school high teams competed at the Science Olympiad Regional competitions during February and March.  Forty-eight high school teams advanced to the State Tournament.  The tournament consisted of 23 events with two or three team members participating in each event.  Medals were awarded to top six teams and each team was ranked based on their combined performance on all events.  SHS team received 5 medals and placed in top 25% (12 out 48 teams) in 13 events. SHS competed in Green Generation trial event and placed 10th.

The events and team members who won medals:  Fermi Questions (Noel Bhattacharyya & Karl Winsor) – 1^st place, Gravity Vehicle (Jessica Lipa & Eric Winsor) - 2^ndplace,  Forensics (Andrea Blankenship & Mehul Kulkarni) – 3^rd place, Dynamic Planet (Andrew Chen & Jacob Tanner) - 4^th place, and Optics (Sushrut Athavale & Karl Winsor) – 4^th place.  The team also included Vishal Subramanian, Ian Kaferle, Jay  Banet, Nirvan Bhattacharyya, Victor Chen, and Michael Torssell.  Andrew Abdallah and Kyle Fitzpatrick represented Saline High School in the Green Generation event.  The team is coached by Mr. Shounak Athavale.

 In the photo:   1st Row (L to R): Sushrut Athavale, Eric Winsor, Victor Chen, Andrew Abdallah, Kyle Fitzpatrick, and Jessica Lipa; 2nd/3rd Row (L to R):  Shounak Athavale, Karl Winsor, Noel Bhattacharyya, Vishal Subramanian, Mehul Kulkarni, Jay Banet, Michael Torssell, Jacob Tanner, Andrew Chen, Ian Kaferle, Nirvan Bhattacharyya, and Andrea Blankenship. 

Eleven Saline High School students were honored for their video productions skills at the Michigan Interscholastic Press Association (MIPA) spring competition held in Lansing, Michigan on April 17.   Seniors Jill Borowski and John Alex Pearsall and junior Ryan Marcus served as the highlight of the day’s competition, an annual event that honors students from across the state for their excellence in print, yearbook and broadcast journalism. The team placed first in the On-Site Video Competition, topping 11 other teams that were challenged to produce a news story about “technology dependency” in less than four hours.   “I found (the On-Site video contest) to be a very challenging and rewarding experience,” Pearsall said. “We thought we might have a chance at winning, but we were still really surprised when we saw the results". 

While Saline students faired well in the On-Site contest—Saline also took the second spot behind the work of junior Alex Cyburt, and seniors Jacob Farah, and Taybor Pepper—they also were successful in the categories that required submissions from the school year.  Pepper and junior, Lexie Dawson, placed second in the Sports Story and Field Reporter categories, respectively. Dawson, along with seniors Samar Niazi and Evan Beardsley, took third place for their News Story/News Package entry. In addition, Niazi nabbed another third place finish with her partner senior Rae Woody for their production of a commercial. Finally, senior Marissa Hall-Burkhart won two honorable mentions in the Feature Story competition.

All told, the SHS students took home 19 awards in six categories, not bad considering this was the first time the Video News Production class entered videos to the competition for judging. According to teacher Nate Bush, students entered a total of 10 videos and won awards for nine of them.  “I’m incredibly proud of my students,” Bush said. “They’ve done an outstanding job all year. It’s nice to see them get some recognition for their work".  To see episodes and examples of the Video News Production classes’ work, go to www.vimeo.com/shsvideo. 

SHS salutes the 318 students who received all A's for the Winter Trimester.  The following are photos of those students, by class, who attended the reception honoring them on April 11, 2012.  

Freshman Class                                                                             Sophomore Class

Junior Class                                                                                     Senior Class