Lincoln-Way Central

Congratulations to the Lincoln-Way Rock Orchestra for another impressive concert June 14th. The 80-piece orchestra wowed the crowd at LWC with rock music spanning six decades. Great job!

Lincoln-Way Rock Orchestra will present its annual Summer Concert on Friday, June 14th at 7PM at Lincoln-Way Central's Charles R Stark Center for the Performing Arts. The 90-piece orchestra will perform rock music spanning five decades with an amazing light show and an all-teacher backup band. Tickets can be purchased through GoFan: https://gofan.co/event/1534133?schoolId=IL15559

In almost 70 years of LWC Track & Field history, our 2024 3200 meter relay team raced to history as they became the first 3200 relay team to earn All-State medals with their new school record of 7:44.51 5th place finish out of 42 State qualifying teams.  Our Knights broke the 1981 school record of 7:53.9 only two weeks ago at Sectionals to qualify to State, then broke it again in the prelims on Friday by four seconds to qualify to finals and then again today in the finals by five seconds for the new record and State medals!  Thanks for all your support! 

LWC Special Olympics Bowling team hosted their banquet this week. Congrats to our bowlers on a great season! 🎳

Congratulations to Mrs. Sara Davy on her retirement from the LWC English Department! We ❤️🖤you Mrs. Davy, and we will miss you! Thank you for all you have done and for all whom you inspired over the years!

Today in Mrs. Korczak’s English 1 Honors class, students held a trial for Antigone. The students did a wonderful job using text evidence and persuasive skills to convince the jury of Antigone’s innocence or guilt in defying the laws of Thebes.

Check out this month's district newsletter: https://lw210.edurooms.com/engage/lincoln-way-community-high-school-district-210/newsletters/lincoln-way-news-events-and-updates-for-may-17-2024

🚨LWC Life and Pathways classes honored SRO Maxwell this morning to celebrate "National Police Week!" Thank you for all that you do for LWC! 🚔

Congratulations to Vinny Gallegos and Ryan Valecek for being chosen as winners in the Warrior's Walk design contest. Vinny's design will be used on this year's event t-shirt, and Ryan's design will be used as the 2025 event flyer. Both students received $250 for their winning artwork. Event organizers, Ryan Brazel and Scott Meder, were in class to present the students with their awards.

Mrs. Nowicki's juniors debated who should feel responsible for a character's death in The Great Gatsby today. Special thanks to former juniors Tony Noto and Braden Meyer as well as Mr. Kutt and Mr. Gmazel for being our judges!

Juniors and Seniors: Who is ready for Social tomorrow night?! Get those costumes ready! Check out these examples from last year 👯🪩

LWC is bringing home the 🏆! What a fun day at the LW Special Games!

UPDATE! Special Games Spirit Week has been updated! 🌟

Check out this year's District 210 Art & Literary Magazine to see the creative talents of 128 of L-Way's students in the areas of art and writing. Click on the link below to view the magazine. https://5il.co/2kggp

Please join our Future Educators of America for family game night Thursday May 2nd.

Mr. Mroczek's Adaptive Music class enjoyed experimenting with world percussion instruments today!

Congratulations to all of the students that have artwork included in the LWC Spring Art Show. Many people came out Wednesday evening to celebrate the students and see their hard work and talents from this school year on display. A special congratulations to Blu Gutkowski for receiving the Purchase Award. Blu's marker drawing will be added to the permanent collection in the auditorium lobby.

Did you know that Paradise Falls in Pixar’s “Up” is based on the world’s tallest waterfall called Angel Falls in Canaima National Park, Venezuela 🇻🇪🎈? Today Spanish 2 students learned about this UNESCO world heritage site  as a part of their travel unit. Special thank you to Oriana for presenting about her experiences growing up in Venezuela with all of its natural wonders! ⛰️🏝️⚡️🏞️

To celebrate the release of Taylor Swift's Tortured Poets Department album release Friday, the English department put their twist on the album title, highlighting famous poets. 🤍📝

LWC LIFE Skills class took a trip to Lake Katherine to go on a nature walk and learn about different insects and animals! 🦋🌱🌸