Welcome to final Highro-Glyphics of the semester
Happy Holidays
Wishing everyone a wonderful holiday season. Whether staying in Egypt or traveling abroad, be safe and enjoy spending time with family and friends. School resumes on January 12th, 2020 with an assembly in the theater.
Report Cards Online
Semester report cards will be available on SKYWARD at 4:00pm on January 16th. SKYWARD access is closed during the coming weeks as grades are updated, and as we want students to enjoy a restful holiday break, rather than spending time looking at grade averages.
Registration, Second Semester Exams, and Graduation
Course Registration – Course registration for the 2020-2021 academic year will start in February.
Second semester exam dates are June 1-2 for seniors and June 3-8 for grades 9-11. Please keep in mind while you plan your summer travels that seniors are able to depart after graduation and underclassmen after their final examination.
Graduation – A memo will be circulated to all parents of seniors in early March outlining the events leading up to graduation. As we know that some extended family members plan to come to Cairo please note that this year’s Graduation Ceremony is on Friday, June 5.
Jerry Duggan Rachel McCall
HS Principal HS Assistant Principal
Counseling Department Announcements
Seniors:
Reminder- CAC is closed from Dec. 19th to January 11th. No document request forms will be processed during that time. The UCAS Deadline is January 15th, 2020.
Juniors:
ACT registration deadline: The upcoming deadline to register for the February ACT test held here on campus is January 17th.
The test date is Saturday, February 8th and the registration deadline is January 17th. The reason we are emailing you now is that since CAC is an “open” test center, in order to reserve your spot, you must register early. The test site may fill up with other students, and we can’t hold seats open for CAC students. The room has a capacity of 30 seats and registration is open now.
So, plan ahead if you will apply for university to a country system (like the US) that requires a standardized test. There will also be an ACT on April 4th and June 13th, plus an SAT on March 14th and May 2nd.
CAC’s ACT center code is 866070.
Our school code is 648-300.
See your counselor if you have questions.
Thanks,
Claudia Bean, Stephanie Barker, Cameron Simon
HS Counseling
General Announcements
We wish you merry reading!
The CAC Libraries wish you a vacation full of reading and books, wherever your travels take you.
Remember that we have ebooks and digital audiobooks available through the Sora app, which you can find on all the app stores. You will be asked for a “Follett account” when you first log in. That’s just your CAC single sign on. There are lots of great fiction and nonfiction titles available. Use the preferences menu to tailor the experience to your tastes and reading interests.
Thank you, Mervat!
We will bid farewell to Mervat Thabet, who has been a library assistant at CAC for 34 years. Ms. Thabet has been a backbone of our library program and is a font of knowledge about the technical aspects of our libraries. She will be sorely missed. Happily, we will be able to bring her back for special projects that require her expertise, so she’s still a part of our CAC community.
New MHS Library Hours
With Ms. Thabet’s retirement, we will have to adjust our openings hours. The MHS library will be open from 7:45 to 4 pm Sundays to Thursdays, starting on January 19. Saturday openings will remain the same, from 10 to 2, on most Saturdays, starting January 18.
Josianne Fitzgerald
MHS & Head Librarian
HS Play Auditions
Auditions for the HS play, The Curious Savage, will take place after school Jan. 13th and 15th with callbacks likely on the 16th. The auditions are open and encouraged for all HS students, no experience necessary. The play is a fun show that will require a true ensemble to do well. We will be looking for a team of actors and production crew that can work well together, support each other, and have fun. If you have any questions, please email Mr. Lazar at rlazar@cacegypt.org.
Rob Lazar
Performing Arts
Girls Get Strong
CAC will host its 5th Girls Get Strong conference on Saturday, February 15th. This year’s theme is Girls Get Strong: It’s Within You! Ms. Riddle and a group of student leaders are working hard to assemble an amazing group of community members to lead workshops and fitness activities, provide financial support, or to show their general support for our female students. If you are interested in supporting this year’s event, please contact Ms. Riddle at rriddle@cacegypt.org.
Rebecca Riddle
Physical Education
Winter Season Trips 2019-2020
Wrestling – February 5-9 AES- New Delhi
Varsity Boys Basketball – March 12-15 BSN- The Hague
Varsity Girls Basketball – March 12-15 ISB- Basel
Athens Cup Swimming – March 5-8 ACS- Athens
JV/Varsity Swimming – March 11-14 BSN- The Hague
Dance – March 12-15 Move It- London
CISSA Tournament Schedule Season 2 2019-2020
JV Girls Basketball, Feb. 14 @ MES
JV Boys Basketball , Feb. 14 @ AISE
Varsity Girls Basketball, Feb. 22 @ AISE
Varsity Boys Basketball, Feb. 22 @ CAC
Athletics Office
The Maadi Basketball Association (MBA) – Coaches Needed!
If you are interested in coaching a team in the MBA this year, we need you. The children on the teams range from 5 – 15 years of age. The season begins when school resumes after the winter holiday and goes until the Spring Break in March. This will entail coaching one practice and one game each week. If you are interested in coaching a team, please contact the MBA Coordinator, Monte Davis, at:
mdavis@cacegypt.org
Monte Davis
Moving on from CAC before the winter break?
To help us prepare your records in time for your departure, please use the link below to let us know if you are withdrawing from CAC this semester.
https://www.cacegypt.org/index.php/cac-withdrawal-request
A few days before your departure, a withdrawal form that includes several signatures must also be completed and turned in to the Admission/Registrar‘s Office to release records. Withdrawal forms can be picked up from the counseling offices or can be downloaded from the same website.
Please note that High School transcripts including this semester’s grades will not be available until January 27, 2020.
Registrar’s office
The CAC Annual Gala 
will delight you on
February 14, 2020
Come celebrate the Day of Love and our CAC community at the extraordinary Marriott Mena House with a delicious dinner, special musical performances, open bar, wonderful people – a Valentine’s Day dinner with a touch of Tango!
Marriott Mena House has blocked a limited number of rooms for our Valentine’s Gala. If you would like to spend the night after our fabulous event, please do so as soon as possible by following this link: https://www.marriott.com/event-reservations/reservation-link.mi?id=1569258982735&key=GRP&app=resvlink
Ticket price before December 20 is EGP 1,700; after that, the price is EGP 1,800 per ticket.
This event is organized by the CAC PTO. If you have any questions, please email Marcela Clavel at clavelmarcela@gmail.com.
PTO
CAC ID Card Offers
Great news for CAC ID card holders! If you are a current student, parent, faculty/staff member, or an alumni; you now have the opportunity to receive offers and discounts provided by our alumni and community organizations. The list of organizations extending offers will be continuously updated.
To view the list of organizations and their relative offers, please go to the Dashboard and click on “CAC News” on the left hand margin.
If you have an organization and it would like to extend an offer, please send an e-mail to Ms. Engy Rabie at erabie@cacegypt.org.
Office of Advancement