Lawton Chiles High School
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Lawton Chiles High School is public high school located on US 319
north of Tallahassee
.
. The first graduating class was the class of 2002. The school is named in honor of Lawton Chiles
, governor of Florida
from 1991 to 1998.
The school motto "Cognosco, Duco, Perficio" translates from Latin
to "I learn, I lead, I achieve."
U.S. Route 319
U.S. Highway 319 is a spur of U.S. Route 19. It runs for 318 miles from US 1 /State Route 4 in Wadley, Georgia to the John Gorrie Bridge at Apalachicola, Florida. The sections of US 319 in Medart, Florida and from just east of Carrabelle, Florida to its terminus in Apalachicola are jointly...
north of Tallahassee
Tallahassee, Florida
Tallahassee is the capital of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat and only incorporated municipality in Leon County, and is the 128th largest city in the United States. Tallahassee became the capital of Florida, then the Florida Territory, in 1824. In 2010, the population recorded by...
.
History
Lawton Chiles High School was established in 1999 and is the newest public high school in the Leon County school districtLeon County Schools
Leon County Schools is a school district serving Leon County, Florida and based in Tallahassee.As of the 2004 - 2005 school year, it has about 34,100 students, 2209 teachers and 2100 administrative and support personnel. The current superintendent of schools is Jackie Pons.-History:Education in...
. The first graduating class was the class of 2002. The school is named in honor of Lawton Chiles
Lawton Chiles
Lawton Mainor Chiles, Jr. was an American politician from the US state of Florida. In a career spanning four decades, Chiles, a Democrat who never lost an election, served in the Florida House of Representatives , the Florida State Senate , the United States Senate , and as the 41st Governor of...
, governor of Florida
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
from 1991 to 1998.
The school motto "Cognosco, Duco, Perficio" translates from Latin
Latin
Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...
to "I learn, I lead, I achieve."
Clubs
- Anchor Club
- CakeCakeCake is a form of bread or bread-like food. In its modern forms, it is typically a sweet and enriched baked dessert. In its oldest forms, cakes were normally fried breads or cheesecakes, and normally had a disk shape...
Club - Student Government Association
- Superior Rated Band
- Big Bad Wolves
- BookBookA book is a set or collection of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of hot lava, paper, parchment, or other materials, usually fastened together to hinge at one side. A single sheet within a book is called a leaf or leaflet, and each side of a leaf is called a page...
Club - Model UN
- Film Club
- ChessChessChess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
Club - Civinettes
- Mu Alpha ThetaMu Alpha ThetaMu Alpha Theta is a United States mathematics honor society for high schools and two-year colleges. It has over 89,000 student members in more than 1,800 schools worldwide. Its main goals are to inspire keen interest in mathematics, develop strong scholarship in the subject, and promote the...
- Fellowship of Christian AthletesFellowship of Christian AthletesThe Fellowship of Christian Athletes is a non-profit interdenominational Christian organization founded in 1954 and that has been based in Kansas City, Missouri since 1956. It falls within the tradition of Muscular Christianity. Although established by evangelical Protestants, the concept has...
- AnimeAnimeis the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....
Club - Yo-YoYo-yoThe yo-yo in its simplest form is an object consisting of an axle connected to two disks, and a length of twine looped around the axle, similar to a slender spool...
Club - Junior Classical League
- Key ClubKey ClubKey Club International is the oldest and largest service program for high school students. It is a student-led organization whose goal is to teach leadership through serving others. Key Club International is a part of the Kiwanis International family of service-leadership programs...
- Marine biologyMarine biologyMarine biology is the scientific study of organisms in the ocean or other marine or brackish bodies of water. Given that in biology many phyla, families and genera have some species that live in the sea and others that live on land, marine biology classifies species based on the environment rather...
Club - Mock Trial
- National Junior Classical LeagueNational Junior Classical LeagueThe National Junior Classical League is a youth organization of secondary school students sponsored by the American Classical League...
- Psychology Club
- SADD (Students Against Drunk Driving)
- S.T.A.N.D.
- Technology Student AssociationTechnology Student AssociationThe Technology Student Association is an international Career and Technical Student Organization made up of over 150,000 Middle School and High School Technology Education Students. TSA is the premier CTSO dedicated to STEM Standards: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics...
- Waffle Club
- National Art Honor Society
- National French Honor Society
- FCA
- National Honor Society
- National Latin Honor Society
- Spanish National Honor Society
Academic activities
Advanced Placement Program- Art History
- Biology
- Calculus AB
- Calculus BC
- Chemistry
- English Language and Composition
- English Literature and Composition
- Environmental Science
- European History
- French Language
- Government And Politics: United States
- Human Geography
- Latin: Vergil
- Macroeconomics
- Music Theory
- Physics B
- Physics C
- Psychology
- Spanish Language
- Statistics
- Studio Art: 2D Design
- Studio Art: 3D Design
- Studio Art: Drawing
- United States History
- World History
- History of David Giebeig
Co-curricular activities
- Band
- Chorus
- Corner Cafe
- DramaDramaDrama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...
- Externship
- Fine artFine artFine art or the fine arts encompass art forms developed primarily for aesthetics and/or concept rather than practical application. Art is often a synonym for fine art, as employed in the term "art gallery"....
- Orchestra
- Newspaper
- Web Design
- WolfCenter Studios
- Yearbook
Athletics
Although the school prides itself more on academic and other achievements, much school support has been given to Chiles High School athletics, offering the following sports:- BaseballBaseballBaseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
- BasketballBasketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
(Boys and Girls) - CheerleadingCheerleadingCheerleading is a physical activity, sometimes a competitive sport, based on organized routines, usually ranging from one to three minutes, which contain the components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and stunting to direct spectators of events to cheer on sports teams at games or to participate...
- placed 105th at the American Open National Championships. - CrewCrewA crew is a body or a class of people who work at a common activity, generally in a structured or hierarchical organization. A location in which a crew works is called a crewyard or a workyard...
- Cross CountryCross country runningCross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...
- Division 3A state champions for the years 2003, 2005, and 2006,2nd at State 2007,13th at State in 2008,15th at state in 2009, and 7th at state in 2010. - Girls Cross Country - Three-Peat Division 3A state champions for 2008, 2009, and 2010.
- DanceDanceDance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting....
- Flag footballFlag footballFlag football is a version of Canadian football or American football that is popular worldwide. The basic rules of the game are similar to those of the mainstream game , but instead of tackling players to the ground, the defensive team must remove a flag or flag belt from the ball carrier to end...
- FootballAmerican footballAmerican football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
- GolfGolfGolf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
(Boys and Girls) - LacrosseLacrosseLacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick, mainly played in the United States and Canada. It is a contact sport which requires padding. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh...
(Boys) - Soccer (Boys and Girls)
- SoftballSoftballSoftball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...
- Special OlympicsSpecial OlympicsSpecial Olympics is the world's largest sports organization for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, providing year-round training and competitions to more than 3.1 million athletes in 175 countries....
- through the ESE program, Chiles offers Basketball for students with physical or mental disabilities. - SwimmingSwimming (sport)Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
- Girls Swimming Team 2010 State Champions. - TennisTennisTennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
- Track and FieldTrack and fieldTrack and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...
- Division 3A state champions for the year 2003 - VolleyballVolleyballVolleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
- Weightlifting (Boys and Girls)
- WrestlingScholastic wrestlingScholastic wrestling, sometimes known in the United States as Folkstyle wrestling, is a style of amateur wrestling practised at the high school and middle school levels in the United States. This wrestling style is essentially Collegiate wrestling with some slight modifications. It is currently...
Chiles Band
The Lawton Chiles High School Band is under the direction of Mr. Mike German. It currently contains 65 members including auxiliary. In the 2007-2008 school year, the Chiles Marching Band earned superior ratings at the District Marching Assessment,, one of only three in the district. In the 2010-2011 school year, the Chiles Wind Symphony earned the Otto J. Kraushaar award for straight superior ratings at district marching, district concert, and state concert assessments in the same year. This was the first time the band earned this award in the history of the program. The Chiles band program also includes two concert bands (Wind Symphony, and Symphonic Band.)Chiles Orchestras
The Lawton Chiles High School Orchestra is conducted by Mr. Chris Miller. The Chamber Orchestra received first place at Nationals in 2009, and took home the Gold Award at the Disney World national competition in spring of 2010. The Chiles Orchestra was awarded the Bronze in the same competition. Both orchestras received superior ratings.Chiles Mu Alpha Theta
The Lawton Chiles Mu Alpha Theta team is very competitive, achieving 3rd place in the state of Florida at the 2009 FAMAT State Convention, as well as being ranked 5th place in the entire nation at the 2009 National Mu Alpha Theta Convention. As well as participating in Mu Alpha Theta, the team members also participate in such competitions as the American Mathematics Competition and the American Invitational Mathematics Examination. Many of the team's most successful students also participate in the American Regions Mathematics League and other competitions. The Mu Alpha Theta team is notable nationwide for their distinctive heleconia-colored T-shirts.External links
- Lawton Chiles High School Website
- Lawton Chiles HIgh Information Resource Center
- Chiles Student Government
- Leon County Schools Website
- Official Timberwolves Volleyball Website
- Official Timberwolves Lacrosse Website
- Chiles Mu Alpha Theta
- Chiles Junior Classical League
- Chiles Chorus Website
- Wolfpac Performing Arts Boosters and Performing Arts Productions Online Ticket Sales
- Lawton Chiles High WolfCenter Studios Website
- Chiles TSA