Pioneer Community,

We had another great week at Pioneer! Culture Day was amazing! It was such an honor to embrace and showcase all of our diversity at Pioneer. The program was well organized by our DEI council. Great job Pio DEI council! We had two PHENOMENAL music concerts and a fun BSU dance on Friday! Also, thank you and congratulations to our English Learner Team for 100% completion of the WIDA testing! Thank you to everyone for all of your support last week at Pioneer.

This week will be another wonderful week at Pioneer. We are preparing for MME testing this week and will be posting all seating assignments after we return from spring break. ACTION @ Pioneer has started TUNESDAY. Every Tuesday they play a song on the PA after announcements and the winning classroom that can identify the song and artist gets a prize! We could use donations of candy or other fun prizes for the friendly competition, if interested please drop off at Main Office and label "TUNESDAY."

On Thursday, the Comedy Troupe has a show in the Little Theater starting at 7pm!

Have a great week Pioneer!

For Pioneer Public Events please CLICK HERE to register for the google calendar.

Pioneer Leadership Team

Ms. Britton, Dr. Hyliard, Ms. Claar, Mr. Hudson, Ms. Bullinger

Interim Principal - Ms. Britton - brittona@aaps.k12.mi.us

9th & 11th Grade - Dr. Hyliard - hyliardd@aaps.k12.mi.us

Athletic Director - Ms. Claar - claar@aaps.k12.mi.us

10th & 12th Grade - Mr. Hudson - hudsonk@aaps.k12.mi.us

9th Grade Dean - Ms. Bullinger - bullinge@aaps.k12.mi.us

3/22 - Club Day Schedule

3/23 - Comedy Troupe - Little Theater - 7pm

3/27 - 3/31 - Spring Break - No Newsletter

We have our first business sponsor for Bon Voyage! Thank you so much to Willow Pediatric Dentistry for helping to ensure a great event for our seniors! If your business or organization would like to be a sponsor of the party that keeps our seniors safe on graduation night, please contact Jenny Silva at jennysilva3@hotmail.com.

Follow the PTSO Facebook page and/or Instagram account to stay up-to-date on Bon Voyage and all things Pioneer.

The competition was held at Huntington Place in Detroit and the state champions will advance to compete at the International Career Development Conference in Orlando, Florida at the end of April.

Michigan DECA State Champions

Natalie Millman, Integrated Marketing Campaign – Event

Sienna Galban, Integrated Marketing Campaign – Event

Angie Liu, Food Marketing

Sorim Lee, Accounting Applications

Anvi Thakur, Marketing Communications

Lydia Chen, Career Development

Blake Paul-McDonald, Career Development

Bryan Hong, Franchise Business Plan

Jayden Song, Franchise Business Plan

Alysa Zhu, Financial Operations Research

Jack Bembenek, Sports Marketing

Lydia Bowman, Sports Marketing

State Champion Runners-Up

Gabe Sanborn, Start-Up Business Plan

Alain Zhou, Start-Up Business Plan

Ruby Shepherd, Ethics Team Event

Ava Selby, Ethics Team Event

Katie Ristich, Accounting Applications

Ellen Ruan, Accounting Applications

Even Burghardt, Marketing Management

Christian Rettig, Marketing Management

Reece Miller, Integrated Marketing Campaign - Product

Audrey Parker, Integrated Marketing Campaign - Product

Isabel Chapman, Integrated Marketing Campaign - Product

1st Place - Event Scenario

Jack Bembenek, Sports Marketing

Lydia Bowman, Sports Marketing

Sorim Lee, Accounting Applications

Angie Liu, Food Marketing

Anvi Thakur, Marketing Communications

1st Place - Occupational Exam

Natalie Millman, Integrated Marketing Campaign – Event

Ruby Shepherd, Ethics Team Event

Maggie Macrory, Leadership & Teamwork

Sorim Lee, Accounting Applications

Katie Ristich, Accounting Applications

Grace Otieno, Apparel & Accessories Marketing

Amanda Epperson, Professional Selling

Giovanna Paulino, Senior, was recognized as the Daughters of American Revolution (DAR) Sarah Caswell Angell 2022 chapter winner of Pioneer High School's Good Citizen Award as well as the regional chapter essay scholarship winner! Her essay is moving onto the state level for the DAR. Congratulations, Gigi!

Any 2024 Pioneer Seniors interested in the Good Citizen Award and scholarship please email Ms. Mikolajczyk mikolajczykharperl@aaps.k12.mi.us

The following MME exams will be given to ALL Pioneer Students in 9th - 11th Grades. All students are registered.

*SAT w/essay - 4/12/23 - Class of 2024

*ACT WorkKeys+ - 4/13/23 - Class of 2024

*M-STEP - 4/19/23 - A-L 8am-11am, M-Z 11:50pm-2:50pm

PSAT 10 - 4/12/23 - Class of 2025

PSAT 9 - 4/13/23 - Class of 2026

*Graduation Requirement

Questions? Email Dr. Hyliard - hyliardd@aaps.k12.mi.us

The Ann Arbor Pioneer Athletic Booster Club is excited to announce our 2023 fundraiser to support Pioneer athletics. In addition to our virtual option, for the first time in three years we are also able to host our in-person Booster Bash, a fun evening to celebrate Pioneer athletics and raise money to support our club and varsity sports teams. Please join us in celebrating and supporting our athletic teams at Pioneer!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ann-arbor-pioneer-booster-club-fundraiser-bash-2023-tickets-559676506497

Reminders: Where to find resources for students and families

1. Community Resources webpage: a2schools.org/communityresources. We update this page regularly with new resources. Feel free to share with families!
2. Community Resources email: dst_community_resources@aaps.k12.mi.us. Any staff person can use this email if you have a question about where to find a resource for a student or family in the community.

Social Service and Partner Resources

• Have a family or student in need of food? Check Food Gatherers!
• Food Gatherers is the hub for food resources. Families and staff can call their office for help with food needs. FG can help connect families to food pantries and/or provide emergency food kits. foodgatherers.org/foodresources/ “FIND FOOD”
• Does a student need medical or mental health services? Try RAHS
• The RAHS Clinics, located at Pioneer, Pathways and Scarlett, are open and available to ANY student, not just those who attend those schools.
• RAHS can help families and students who are under insured or have no insurance.
• Some services RAHS offers: Nutrition Services, Vision/Dental, Confidential Mental Health Services and Psychotherapy.
• See flyers for details: Pathways, Pioneer, Scarlett.
• Questions about RAHS? Staff can reach out to AAPS Health and Wellbeing Coordinator Elyse Bairley: bairley@aaps.k12.mi.us
• Have a family who needs help completing online applications for SNAP, medical benefits or other assistance?
• You can send them to the U-M Public Benefits Advocacy Project.
• Flyer here.
• Have a Grandparent or other relative raising a Grandchild?
• Please share this information with them: Grandparents Raising Grandchildren.

The ACTION Leadership group at Pioneer is open to all club leaders or students that want to positively impact the Pioneer community. ACTION stands for All Connecting To Improve Our Neighborhoods. If you have a neighborhood event that needs student support please contact Dr. Hyliard - hyliardd@aaps.k12.mi.us.

Upperclassmen Leadership Meeting is every Tuesday during early lunch in C311.

Do you have puzzles you have completed and no longer need? The Pioneer Library would love to have them. We are looking for puzzle donations in the 500-1000 piece range (we won't turn down sets of 300 or 1500 either). We started making these available this fall during open periods and lunch for students to work on and they have been popular!

There is a box outside the front office (inside the front clock tower entrance) for puzzle donations drop off.

COUNSELING WEBPAGE - CLICK HERE


*Please report to the Counseling Office if you have a gap in your schedule, you have a class that you have already had, or you have a class scheduled twice.

*Please DO NOT report to the Counseling Office during the week of 8/29/22 for course requests. Counselors are handling all changes via the electronic form linked above.

Please see Pioneer Contact lists for the upcoming school year. Teams are still looking for athletes, please reach out to the coach of your interest.