In only its second year at our school, Prep's DECA Club will be sending four teams to compete at this year's national competition. Following high placements at the state competition last week, Grace Canfield '25, Jackson Friedland '25, Steck Harwood '26, Crystal Hong '25, Lilliana Putnam '25, Cassiana Serna '24, Weston Stump '25, and Gordon Zang '25 all earned the opportunity to travel to Anaheim, CA in April! Additionally, Cassiana and Crystal received medals for their high scores on the qualifying exam. Congratulations to all of our competing DECA members and to club sponsor Bruce Sachs!

This spring, Middle School Head Heather Robinson and the MS Digital Media Club have teamed with Michael McNeill and the Advancement office to help encourage parent participation in the school’s annual fund. What better way to promote an investment in our school than by hearing about the results of your generosity from our students themselves!  

Each year, the annual fund makes up the difference between tuition and the actual cost of running Prep. We are currently about halfway to reaching our goal of 100% parent participation, with a deadline of June 30. Thank you so much to everyone who has already made a gift! If you have not yet done so, please consider making a tax-deductible gift of ANY amount to our school. At the end of the school year, the class with the highest parent participation will win a pizza party! Congratulations to 10th grade parents, currently in the lead at 55%.

In the meantime, we hope you'll enjoy this student-made video series about their love of our school and the importance of your investment! You can watch Part 1 and Part 2 now, with more to come. Thank you for supporting Prep!

On February 19, 20 Prep students from 7th to 11th grades competed in the championship round of the Northern Schools Chess League tournament. To qualify for the championship round, Prep's team competed in three tournaments throughout the year and played nearly 180 games of competitive chess! At this final tournament, our Middle School A Team took 3rd place while our High School A Team — Ethan Quintana de Andres '25, Matthew Rider '28, Nathan Santiagillo '26, and Wyatt Yadzinski '27 — won first place in the high school division. Congratulations to all of our chess players! For more information about chess at Prep, please email Joey Reich.

As the winter sports season wraps up and the spring season kicks off, there's tons of excitement when it comes to the Blue Griffins!

↳ Our boys varsity basketball team earned a #7 seed in the state tournament and hosted the #10 seed Ruidoso Warriors in the first round last Saturday, winning the game 60-38! The Blue Griffins will play #2 seeded Navajo Prep in the quarterfinal round tomorrow, Wednesday, March 13. The game will tip off at 1:15pm at the Rio Rancho Events Center; tickets can be purchased via GoFan here!

↳ Girls lacrosse hosted the Santa Fe Prep Jamboree to open their season this past weekend. The team continued their undefeated streak from last season, beating Pueblo West and Montrose, both Colorado teams. Their next games will take place following spring break, dates and times TBA.

↳ The Grants Invite on March 11 marked the first golf tournament of the season. On the girls side, Jazmin Leardsakulphasuk '24 took 1st place!

↳ Our tennis and track teams also kicked off their seasons this week. Following wins against St. Michael's in their first meet, our boys and girls tennis teams will next travel to the Bosque School this Thursday, March 14, while track travels to Rio Rancho on Friday, March 15 for the Cleveland High Invite.

Stay up to date with all upcoming athletic events by checking the Prep athletic calendar.

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Rummage Sale

The Rummage Committee is seeking volunteers! Opportunities to volunteer including placing signs around town, helping to move rummage to the gym floor, sorting and pricing items, offering customer support on the day of the sale, and more! Please sign up to volunteer here and contact co-chairs Leza Lowitz or Anna Hastings with any questions.

Monthly Meetings

The next regular PA meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, April 17, at 9am in the Library Classroom. All parents and guardians are invited to attend!

Join the College Counseling Department for these upcoming events.

↳ Wednesday, March 13; 5:30pm

Spring Break Travel Pre-Departure Meeting (Zoom)

Families are invited to this Zoom presentation to learn tips and tricks for how to make the most of college visits during Spring Break.

↳ Tuesday, April 2; 5:30pm

The Transition to College with Eric Hartman (Founders' Room)
Guest speaker Eric Hartman from the University of Denver will join us to talk about the transition to college life. This is a paired event for parents and guardians of juniors and seniors that will follow a mandatory 12th-grade session during Student Life.

↳ Thursday, April 11; 2:30-4:30pm

Case Studies with College Admission Representatives (Library)

Read and review mock applications and see how colleges make tough decisions. We will follow the workshop with a college fair. Each year, 15-20 colleges attend.

On Saturday, April 20, La Cueva High School in Albuquerque will host the annual Youth Celebrate Diversity conference. Hundreds of students and teachers from schools across the state will gather for discussions and workshops on such topics as social justice, student activism, and inclusion. If you are interested in attending, please fill out this interest form.

This year, the Watershed TAP has been working closely with the Santa Fe Watershed Association to help preserve the Santa Fe River. In working with the Association, the group has also learned about invasive species, proper care of vegetation, and how to test water quality. Santa Fe Prep is the official steward of two stretches of the Santa Fe River: Patrick Smith Park on East Alameda and Alto Park on West Alameda. Thank you for your work, Watershedders!

In Jocelyne Comstock's Physics 2 class, students are currently studying candle optics. Pictured above, Alex Wohlberg '24 and Abby Furlanetto '24 use a lens to observe a candle image, measuring the distance of the object to the lens and the lens to the image in order to determine the focal length of the lens itself. Note that the image produced of the candle is upside down — this indicates the lens is converging, or convex!

Through the end of March, you can see Prep's very own Breshaun Joyner in performance at Santa Fe Playhouse! Breshaun stars as 16th-century English writer Aphra Behn in Liz Duffy Adams's play Or, — a one-act "what if" account of one night of Aphra Behn's life, in which all of her identities (spy, poet, playwright, and libertine) collide. The play is a Restoration comedy — think British accents, period clothes, bawdy humor, slamming doors, and actors performing multiple roles — and is playing in rep with Born With Teeth, another one-act by Adams. For more information, performance dates, and to purchase tickets, please visit the Santa Fe Playhouse website. Break a leg, Breshaun!