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>> Hey, hey, hey. Black. Heat. Well, good morning everyone. Afternoon, noon. What time is it? It's 12:01. Okay, we're ready to start. I'm the principal responsible for virtual K12 Grad
Alliance magnet and STEM middle school. Thank you for joining us for the live stream event. I have the following staff with me today. I have Dr. Dan Patterson who is the director of assessment and I have Miss Fisel who is our team leader
at STEM Middle School. So, at STEM Middle School, we are so proud to be a high demand institution within our district known for rigorous academics and innovation. Because we receive far more applications each year than we have
available seats, we must utilize a lottery process to determine enrollment. I understand that the transition to middle school is a significant milestone, and I know many of you have questions about how these seats are filled. My goal today is to provide full
transparency [clears throat] and make sure that we all understand how this process is conducted. First, eligibility and criteria. Before a student enters the lottery, they must first meet our rigorous STEM
eligibility criteria to ensure that all students in the lottery pool are prepared for our accelerated curriculum. To qualify, students must have demonstrated the following standardized testing. First, we need I ready 80th
percentile for math and reading on either winter or spring testing, fifth grade. For fourth grade, we need MSTEP, either proficient or advanced in ELA and math. Also, every
name into the into the lottery today represents a student who has already proven they are academically ready for the challenges of our program. So now the lottery process, let's discuss how exactly how this election happens. To ensure absolute
fairness and a random outcome, we follow a a strict multi-step protocol. First of all, documentation. This entire process is being video recorded and will be stored on a secure district server for our records. Number two, number
assignment. Every eligible student has already been assigned a unique random number using a digital generator. Parents, you should have received your child's assigned number in advance of this broadcast. Number three, the shuffle. Using a
randomizing tool, these numbers will be shuffled and sorted. And number four, selection. The first 60 students on the resultant list will be offered admission for the upcoming school year. The weight list, any remaining students will be
placed on a weight list in the exact order determined by the random number generator. Finally, once the generator has finished the sort today with Dr. Dan Patterson. [clears throat]
We will begin the process of notifying our families. You can expect official STEM acceptance letters to be sent out later today or possibly Monday. We appreciate your interest in our school and your patience as we move through this process to ensure every student is
treated fairly. Without further ado, let's begin the lottery for the STEM middle school class of 2627. Dr. Patterson. >> All right. For our lottery today, we are going to be using uh random.org's list generator that you can see on the
screen. Uh so I have pasted in the numbers from 1 through 109. And as uh Mr. Bunit said, um all students eligible for STEM were given uh one of these numbers from 1 through 109. I'm just going to scroll through slowly so we can
see that all of those numbers have been pasted in. All right. So 1 through 109. And then I am going to hit the randomize button. It's going to show a screen where the numbers have been randomized. And the first 60 uh numbers will be
those students accepted into STEM. And as Mr. Bun mentioned uh the 61st will be the first on the weight list and so on in order after that. So I will hit randomize. I will zoom in and then I will slowly go through the
list. So uh as you can see the first on the list was 39. as I scroll through. So up through uh place value 60 that will be the of
those first 60 are those entered into the STEM uh program and then the 61st will be the first on our weight list. I will scroll through the rest of these. This list we will post on the STEM website. Uh we will save this and we'll
be notifying uh those students that were accepted uh later today. >> Later today or Monday if we run into any lectures then it's going to be Monday. But we we are hoping that later on today we get that letter out to you. Thank you so much for joining us. >> Thank you.