The Academic Decathlon is a ten subject competition testing not only your abilities to retain vast amounts of knowledge, but also your abilites to work as a team to accomplish common goals.

USAD exams are focused on "higher-level" thinking which includes:
* Analytical Thinking Skills
* Organizational Thinking Skills
* Critical Thinking Skills
* Creative Thinking Skills

If you are you interested in joining the Poteet AcDec team, ask yourself these questions to find out if you have what it takes:
* Do you like to compete?
* Do you want to build studying skills that will be essential in college?
* Do you want to earn medals for well deserved achievement and represent Poteet's finest academic team?

If you would like to be a part of the Poteet AcDec team, contact Joyce Wascom or Stacey Sprague.

Learn more about ACDEC by visiting www.usad.org.

Cultural Arts is a National Annual Art program in which students in which students are encouraged to create artwork that illustrates a given theme.

This years theme is: tba

Submissions are made in photography, literature, music composition, and several divisions of visual art: Mixed Media, Drawing, Painting, and Print.

Submissions are judged on a variety of levels, school, city (or school district), district (area), state, and national with only 1st place entries advancing beyond the school level. (1st 2nd & 3rd advance at school level).

An Association of Marketing Students

DECA chapters operate in over 4,500 high schools across the U.S., Puerto Rico, Guam and territories, Mexico, Germany, and Canada. With over 180,000 members (mostly juniors and seniors), DECA's high school division is recognized and endorsed by all 50 state departments of education and the U.S. Department of Education.

Membership in the high school division is restricted to students with a career interest in hospitality, finance, sales and service, business administration and/or entrepreneurship. DECA programs are co-curricular, meaning programs complement nationally recognized curriculum standards in the classroom and then go further to incorporate realistic, educational experiences not available through classroom instruction alone.

DECA provides specific programs for the classroom teacher to use in student development and achievement. These programs can be organized in to four (4) categories; Leadership development, Community Service, Skill Assessment and Academic Skill Development.

We are an international association of high school and college students studying marketing, management and entrepreneuership in business, finance, hospitality and marketing sales and service.

Anyone in a marketing course 1st semester can join.

We meet monthly/bi-monthly @ 8 A.M. in Room 111.

Sponsor: Katie Koshkin

Important Dates: District Competition: Jan 22 2011 State Competition: Feb 24-26 National Competition:  Apr 30- May 3 2011

DECA Officer Team:   Joseph Kelley Fadi Hamdan Courtney Davis Ashley Vasquez Nick Perez Lorena Rizzo Constance Dawn Sarah Sutton Shay Thomas Katy Hoffpauir

 

 

 

 

 

 

DECA advances to state

The following DECA members advanced to the State Competition in February:

Constance Dawn - Apparel and Accessories Marketing
Fadi Hamdan - Retail Marketing
Lorena Rizzo - Sports and Entertainment Marketing
Brittany Kirkpatrick - Sports and Entertainment Team Decision Making
Ashley Vasquez - Sports and Entertainment Team Decision Making
Sarah Sutton - Financial Lieteracy Promotion Project
Courtney Davis - Financial Literacy Promotion Project
Brittany Parker - Fashion Marketing Promotion Plan
Erin Jarvis - Fashion Marketing Promotion Plan
Nichelle Littles - Fashion Marketing Promotion Plan
Steven Flores - Quick Serve Restaurant Management
Issam Khatib - Principles of Marketing
Angela Whitfield - Community Service Project
Shay Thomas - Community Service Project

 

Poteet Varsity Belles

Belles Director: Mrs. Allison Fields

Keri Cooper, Captain
Lindsey Cantu, Senior Lieutenant
Jasmine Cruzado, Senior Lieutenant
Katie Kramer, Senior Lieutenant
Natalie Ronscavage, Senior Lieutenant
Mariana Gonzalez, Junior Lieutenant

Amanda Bui, Senior Line Leader
Rachel Chin, Senior Line Leader
Brooke Miller, Junior Line Leader

Christina Nguyen, Senior Social Committee
Bailey Watkins, Junior Social Committee

Seniors Samantha Callender Melody Kaprinay Brinton Munoz Jordan Wright

Juniors Azeezat Ashiru Michelle Gonnet Chanisse Graves Gemma Lopez Natalie Meza Celeste Quintero Amy Sellers Brooke Slade Aaliyah Smith Jomey Varghese Ashayla Wilbon

Sophomores Christina Bui Brenda Cervantes Mollie Farooqi Deneasha Hall Courtney Printers Taylor Reeves Jennifer Romero Alexis Soria

 

Escorts: Karim Cousin, Daniel Jaramillo, Corbin Lopes, Charles Ojeda-Romero, Sami Sayej, Trent Wisdom

 

 

 

 

Meetings are every Thursday morning at 7:30 am in the Little Theater.

Sponsors are Marli Smith and Sara McKinney.

FCCLA stands for Family Community Career Leaders of America.

We stand just for that! We want our members to become an ACTIVE part of our community. This is why most of our activities take place right here in Mesquite. As good citizens of this community, we volunteer locally. We strive to have one event per month. We meet most Tuesdays in Mrs. Taylor's portable.

View more information in FCCLA.

HOPE Club stands for Helping Our Planet Earth. As a member, you will help recycle the paper around our classrooms, participate in Community Service, and practice keeping our campus clean! We meet every Wednesday after school in Room 105.

Campus Clean-Ups

We will have a campus clean-up every six weeks throughout the year. Campus clean-ups will take place on a Saturday. This is our opportunity to take part in keeping Pride in our campus.

Earth Day Picnic

Every Spring we invite our feeder elementary and middle schools to participate in a picnic at out school to celebrate Earth Day. We play games and hand out prizes. Only the BEST and most RELIABLE HOPE Club members will be chosen for this event (and you get out of class). If this is something you want to do, then PARTICPATE and be RESPECTFUL!!! 10 students will be chosen.

Club Sponsers: Mrs. Williams and Mr. Rimler

 

Mission of JROTC:
Motivate young people to become better citizens

The mission of the JROTC is to motivate young people to become better citizens by teaching discipline, leadership, teamwork, map reading, American and military history, and basic rifle marksmanship and safety skills while remaining involved in the school and the community.

Battalion Leadership (Colonel Jochum's Perspective)

Battalion Commander: Jared Blankenship
Deputy Commander: Taschida Lopez
Battalion Command Sergeant Major: David Romine
Battalion Executive Officer: Marlaina Joslin

S1 - Alex Moreno
S2 - Jesus Martinez
S3 - Melissa Yates
S4 - Colton Woods
S5 - Bryan Aguilar
S6 - Jeremy Vaden

Male Varsity Color Guard 2011	Female Varsity Color Guard 2011	MLK Day Parade 2011

 

Mrs. Bennett is holding a math workshop on March 30th for 100 or so 10th grade PHS students. The student link for the work shop is https://elearn.mesquiteisd.org/course/view.php?id=721

We are now acceptions NHS applications for our Spring 2012 Induction. If you would like more information, please stop by either Mrs. Reese's room (225) or Ms. Reed's room (105) and pick up an application packet.

Officers for the 2011 - 2012 school year: President: Haley Partin Vice-President: Jesse Moore Secretary: Brad Alexander Treasurer: Dominic Joseph Sponsors: Juniors - Leslie Williams (room 105); Seniors - Deanna Reese (room 225)

NHS Forms and Information: NHS Requirements Community Service Guidelines Fall/Spring Community Service Hours Record Next Meeting: Tuesday, October 11th 8:00 am Little Theater and 3:50 pm Room 105 * Members must attend either the am or pm meeting. Print the meeting schedule for the year!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Newspaper's mission is to cover the PHS school community and its activities and events for the present year to the best of our ability.

Students on the newspaper staff are responsible for the development of the school newspaper, including, but not limited to conducting interviews, taking pictures of events,

 

Students can earn P.A.T.H. community service hours for volunteering in the community. Please see Angie Wynn in the counseling center for more information.

PATH service hours form (.pdf file) - Download, print and complete. Turn in form to Mrs. Wynn in the counsling center.

Peer Helpers consist of Juniors and Seniors who have been accepted through an application process. Our Peer Helpers go off campus to the elementary feeder schools (Austin, Beasley, Cannaday, Kimball, and Porter) and Kimbrough. There they tutor children from various grade levels and have one on one time with them.

Sponsor: Sara McKinney

P.I.T. Camp 2010 - View the Photo Gallery

Official Spanish Club Website: www.phsspanishclub.weebly.com

Officers:
President: Vanessa Benitez
Vice President: Gerardo Viera
Secretary: Mariana Gonzalez-Berrocal
Treasurer: Danya Rangel

Private passions grow into powerful voices. Student Council promotes leadership, dedication and school spirit through developing a community awareness of student government. The purpose of student council is to plan and organize activities that will foster the social growth and civic dvelopment of the student body. The Pirate Student Council has started to grow into one of the most predominate clubs on campus. Seven committees preside over a large organization, work with the principal periodically to exchange views, and plan out the Student Council calendar. Some events that Student Council has sponsored includes Homecoming festivities, Red Ribbon Week, Teacher Appreciation, Carter Blood Drive, Men of PHS, Habitat for Humanity and Children's Cancer Fund. Membership is open to all students.

Sponsors: Rhoda Hokanson & Jeff Blackwell

Meetings: 2nd Thursday of the month
8:00 - room 202
3:55 - Little Theatre

2011 - 2012 Student Council Officers
 
President -   Dominic Joseph
Vice President -  Whitney Seifert
Secretary – Brad Alexander
                    Nissi Thomas
Historian – Annie Thampan
Membership and Special Projects – Lindsey Schwartz

Texas Association of Future Educators

TAFE is sponsored by principals throughout the state of Texas. Our club strives help in community service activities, reward teachers throughout the school year, and assist at elementary schools. Our big event is the TAFE Convention which is held each year in San Antonio.

TAFE’s purpose is to provide information to students who wish to enter the field of education, to show appreciation for our teachers, and to contribute to our community.

We meet the 1st Thursday of every month before or after school, and everyone is welcome to join!

Texas Future Music Educators

Texas Future Music Educators is a group of high school students who are interested in pursuing a career in music education. These students meet on the first Monday of every month after school in the choir room. Student learn about music theory, music teaching, conducting, sightreading, and much more. Dues-paying members who exhibit regular attendance also have the opportunity to attend the Texas Music Educators Association convention in San Antonio, TX in February. Ashley Westgate, the sponsor, may be reached atawestgate@mesquiteisd.org

The website for ordering yearbooks is live at www.smart-pay.com. The books are all color and $60 each.

Yearbook sponsor is Donna Morris.