001approve the agenda for tonight. So, if I can have a motion to do that. I'll make an emo a motion to do that. Um, I make a motion to approve the agenda for this evening, June 3rd, 2025. Okay. Thank you. Is there a second to that motion? I'll second. Okay. Thank you. We have a motion and a second. Is there any discussion? Okay. Seeing none, I'll call for vote. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Okay, that motion passes unanimously. The next item on the agenda is the pledge of allegiance. And um we will have Superintendent Rick Robbins do that. Okay, thank you. So, um, the next item on our agenda is the Canyon Strong Recognitions and I will turn the time over to Jeff Haney, director, and Kristen Stewart, associate director of communications.
002Thank you, President Schill, for this time to recognize the collective achievements of those in Canyon School District. Just a few days ago, we said goodbye to another school year. Buses rolled away from schools for the last time, bells rang for the last time, and teachers closed their classroom doors for the last time. uh the 2425 academic year. At graduation ceremonies, we're we heard pomp and circumstance again and again and again for the final time until next year. And that will be when the seniors put on their mortar boards and their robes and their school colors and celebrate their achievements while they're in high school. Now, a few days before graduation and other exciting big uh winds to cap the school year, Hillrest graduates, who either attended Mid Valley Elementary School or have siblings who attend
003Mid Valley Elementary School, went to the home of the Junior Huskys. They made visits to classrooms where they answered questions from elementary kiddos about life in high school, like what do you get for lunch? who your who's your favorite teacher and what is PE all about in high school. Then the Mid Valley students and teachers lined the hallways and clapped out members of the class of 2025 who were there to visit. Those students also got to see former teachers. They got to uh walk the hallways of Mid Valley Elementary School and they also serve as examples for the little students who were working hard every single day to be ready for uh uh life after high school and to graduate just like those students did that came to visit them. Now, you can see that
004Dr. Robinson visit us on that day. And I can tell you that those students were treated like rock stars by the junior huskys who now have something to look forward to when they graduate. Someday soon, the current junior Huskys will be the ones in the caps and gowns walking through the hallways to be clapped out by the Mid Valley students. And it was a fantastic day. It would be nice to see a lot of other schools participate in this. Would love to see that. The Mid Valley students really did look up to the students who were there to tell them about what life is like in high school. But boy did our high schools end the year in a big way. Our first honores tonight are the Ala High Hawks, the boys soccer team. At
005the first of four state title competitions featuring Canyon's district schools, Ala beat the reigning champs Wasach in a 32 thriller to win the 5A title. It was truly an edgeofyour seat final. This was played at America First Field right down the street and it was coach McKenzie Hire's 101st win as the coach of Altahigh's team. She also solidified her place in the Utah history books. She is the only female head coach of a boys team to win a state championship and she's done it twice. So, congratulations to Coach Hire and the Hawks. Also, as a side note, uh on the day of the game, Canyons District employees lined 94th South and we cheered the team bus as it went to America First Field. What I didn't know when we were cheering the team on here
006at right by the district office is that just about five minutes before that when the team bus turned on to 110th that all of those sidewalks were lined by Kittyhawks from Altera Elementary School and they cheered the team bus as a road that passed their elementary school. It was truly a community celebration and cheering section for the Hawks. I'd like to think that maybe that was the spark that put them over the edge. So, congratulations to the Hawks, the 5A champions in boys soccer. Our next honores are the Brighton High Bengals, who repeated as the 5A state champions in boys lacrosse. The Bengals battled back from a three-point deficit to beat Park City 10-9 and claimed that title trophy for the second consecutive year. The Bengals fought hard in this matchup against Park City, a
007really tough team. But the Bengals did not give up. They did not back down. And in the end, they held the trophy high at Zans's Bank Stadium. Congratulations to Brighton High School. The cheering section, they roared when the clock ran out and their championship dreams were realized. So, congratulations to the Bengals. Our next honores are yet another Canyon's district team to bring home a state championship in the final days of the school year. Congratulations to the Corner Canyon Chargers. We can count them. One, two, three, four, five. It's the fifth straight win in boys lacrosse by the Corner Canyon Chargers. They extended that win streak at Zans's Bank Stadium. They beat Davis 9-7 and the win pushed the Chargers win loss records to 93 wins and six losses in the past five years. Congratulations to
008the Chargers once again, the state champions in boys lacrosse. Our next honores are the members of the class of 2025. It's why we're here. get kids across the graduation stage, ready for the rigors of college and careers. This year, about 2,750 seniors stepped up to receive their hard-earned diplomas. And when it comes to setting the bar high, future classes will have a hard time meeting or beating this year's achievements. In the graduating class, we had Sterling scholars, National Merit Scholars, not to mention champions in sports and award winners in the arts. During this school year, we won, and we're still counting these up, at least 40 Utah High School Activities Association team and individual titles. Now, the number jumps to beyond 40 if you count the two Shakespeare Festival Sweep State Championships won by Hillrest
009and Corner Canyon, Ala High School's percussion teams first place win the state marching band competition and the Ala Wintergard's first place win in their state competition. So, congratulations to all of our high school seniors. They have been awarded nearly $50 million in scholarship offers and will be attending more than 50 schools from Harvard, Giuliard, Boston University, and West Point, Stanford, Berkeley, the University of Utah, the Air Force Academy, and that's just to name a few. Canyons also has graduates that have joined every branch of the US Armed Forces include of including some of Jordan High's inaugural Naval Cadet program. They are advancing to the Naval Academy. Now, here are just a few snapshots of the big days for our graduating classes and the students who earned their certificates of completion. Now, first we note our
010most special students, those from Jordan Valley and Life Skills Academy, our programs in school for our students and adults with disabilities. We celebrated these students or ended their time with us. They worked hard to to learn the skills necessary to lead more independent lives. On Thursday, the Altahigh Hawks celebrated 520 graduates who earned about $10 million in scholarship offers and earned multiple state championships and big wins in robotics. The Bright and High Bengals were cheered by friends and family. They were at the Maverick Center to celebrate the graduates about 500 Bengals. You can see there that Ms. Dolly's daughter is right there, the Saludiatoran. Is that right? Yes. And I hear that her speech was fantastic. 60% of the about 500 graduates from Brighton received scholarships totaling about $12 million. Vice President Oaks's daughter Monae
011was among the 590 students at Corner Canyon who graduated at UVU, the UCU Center. Charger graduates earned about $16 million in scholarship offers. In that top tally are the scholarships won by three Chargers who are national merit scholars. And the school's first ever General Sterling scholar. And one of the graduates from Corner Canyon High School is also headed to the US Military Academy at West Point. Congratulations to the Chargers. Canyon's district's alternative high school, Diamond Ridge, celebrated its 10th graduating class. 10 years ago, there were four Raptors who graduated. This year, a record 72 graduates. Diamond Ridge graduates this year earned partial tuition scholarships at Utah Valley University, Weaver State University, and Utah State University. and they have earned admission to schools including the U Utah Tech University, Salt Lake Community College, and Mountainland Technical
012College. Congratulations to the Raptors. U board member Lewis gave his first commencement address as a board member and Hillrest ceremony. The Huskys had quite a year. They had international balora graduates who earned about $4 million in scholarships alone. National merit scholars and more than 7 million total by all the Huskys and the scholarship money that they were offered this year. They also won state titles in drill, girls tennis, boys wrestling, and girls wrestling. Congratulations to the Huskys. This year we say goodbye to our good friend, principal Dr. Bruce Echler. He's leaving for another opportunity, but he was able to celebrate commencement with students who were started at Jordan High School when he first became principal of the Beat Diggers four years ago. And joining Dr. Echler at the Maverick Center to applaud Jordan High's 373
013graduates were vice president Edel board members Karen Patterson, assistant superintendent Dr. Robinson. They had about 5.3 million in scholarship offers and they had state champion athletes and artists. There was no shortive shortage of achievements to cheer. 15 seniors are enlisting with the military to serve their country and that includes those who were involved in Jordan's Naval Defense Cadet Core program. Now, Canyon's district is a lighthouse district for many reasons, but our emphasis on college and career readiness is never more apparent than on graduation day. Students, in my opinion, are never more vibrant than on that day, wearing their robes and their mortar boards. These images show the hard work of the people who bring the board's vision to of life in uh to life in our schools, teachers, education support professionals, administrators, parents, and most
014importantly, our students. to show the world, not just on graduation day, but every day that we are Canyon strong. President Chill, thank you for this time to honor those in Canyon School District who have gone above and beyond in making sure the world knows that we are indeed Canyon strong. We turn the time back to you. Okay, thank you so much. We love to hear about our um students achieving. So now we will go on to um the next item is patron comments and I do not believe that we have any patrons that have signed up today. So we will just move on to the next um item on the agenda and that is the consent agenda. And I will now take a motion to approve that and please list all the items individually. I
015move to approve the cons consent agenda. Item A, approval of minutes for May 20, 2025. Item B, approval of hire and termination reports. Item C, approval of student overnight travel. And item D, approval of purchasing bids. Okay, thank you. We have a motion. Is there a second to that motion? I'll make a second. Okay, thank you. There's a motion and a second. Is there any discussion to that motion? Okay, seeing none, I'll call for a vote. All in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? Okay, that motion passes unanimously. The next item on the agenda is new business and um item A is the Canyons Innovation Center update and naming and branding discussion. This is a second reading and Superintendent Robbins and I believe Kirsten Stewart will lead us in this discussion. Thank you, President
016Schill, members of the board. So, I'm not going to rehearse a lot of these slides, but I wanted them to be there as part of the public record. Um, just to rehearse, we've had a lot of input and stakeholder involvement in this process. I hope I'm using the right button here. Um, right, you can see there the timeline, how far how long we've been working um on this process and the discussions that we've had with the board. This is our naming and branding team, right? This is the student work group that we had working on this. Um, you can see good representation from all of our high schools. I think I'd mentioned this last time, I'm going to mention it again because I think it's so cool the students that who have been involved. Some
017of them, most of them actually are graduating this year, but wanted to come back and be continue to be part of the process. So, we were pretty uh excited about the idea of the center and then just wanting to take part in something that I think that will outlast them and give back to their peers. Um these are sort of like part of the branding brief that we've created which is our way of sort of grounding the brand so that when we're working with different entities like gardener design right the the graphic design group that we're working with to bring the brand to life throughout the building and through visualization or a logo um the the branding brief kind of keeps us all on track. And so these are some of the key differentiators that
018we've identified as um what makes us tick what makes this center stand apart from others. and of course our target a target targeted audiences. Um so just to recap the what's new with this um presentation from the last time we discussed this in board meeting is we've sort of talked about this uh story framing for understanding um our approach to the branding but also kind of some of the design the interior design and external design of the building. This is not this is work from MHTN. Um but I really do it did resonate with a lot of us as sort of we discussed this including the steering committee members of the board who were on that steering committee. Um just this notion of you know you're you have visible light and what's invisible light right
019and with students right they're on this path of discovery to what's known to what's unknown. Um, and so kind of playing with these notions of intersections and connections and bumpable spaces as you see like these light waves intersect and connect. Um, also uh with the interior, I know that they were talking about kind of operating on the edges of the light spectrum when it comes to choosing a color palette, right? So just on the edge of what's not uh visible or visible. Um that's a one of the renderings that they shared with the steering committee. The one really cool thing about light too from a design standpoint that I'll just note is that um it actually makes it it's very flexible, right? Way to sort of brand and amplify a room. Um and so you
020you as you imagine that this building sort of like grows and changes over time because we've talked about it needing to be very flexible space that light makes it easy to do that. So this is where we landed last time u board meeting where we had these names kind of had risen to the top of the field of all the names that we've talked about um and sort of taking into consideration sort of this new framing or grounding we felt that synergy insight and nexus kind of led the field um that maybe some were you know a little bit harder to fit within this this theme and then um working with gardener design they came and brought a couple of new names uh for our consideration. Um this is sort of their story forming or
021what they call brandestos a way of describing you know what it is that we want these names to convey right this capturing a spirit of a place where students be you know move beyond what's visible and known toward what is yet to be discovered. Um so these are some of the names um that they brought forward. Amplas right like draws up upon the Latin word large and abundant. um also kind of like touches on amplification, right? Um light waves, sound waves, you can think of talks about it sort of is the notion that you're uh taking diverse ideas and magnifying them by coming together that what's the work that we're doing at the center is like it's greater than the sum of its parts. Synergix is sort of another play on what we have discussed,
022right? Synergy. Um it's just a another twist on that. Maybe a little bit of a more modern twist with the thinking being that maybe synergy is a common word and maybe too common spectra and spectr um associations with light and the spectrum of light, right? So we know that Newton discovered that white light is comprised of the full spectrum of color of light and that you can actually like reverse collapse the whole spectrum as well to recombine to create white light. Prisma sort of another hint at sort of Newton's discovery. Um this notion that like we're going to be revealing truth or finding um information and discovery that's beyond the surface really pushing students to sort of reach past uh themselves to explore question. Lumis is a term that um speaks to illumination and insight.
023Um talks about it sort of like references pretty head-on this notion of light waves kind of a connection to intellect right because of the illumination the illumination that reshapes the world illumination that comes to mind when you have a big idea. So these are some of the names that we have discussed in addition to those that we've brought forward um from pre in previous meetings. Um the goal I guess we we talked a little bit about brand modifiers. Um and how you know those can that architecture of the brand can help support like um maybe a perceived weakness that you see in any of these names or if you you know if you feel like the forge for example was um maybe not futuristic enough, right? You could use another modifier to kind of prop
024it up and make it sound a little bit more futuristic. So, we can talk, I guess, as we move forward. Our goal, I mean, at the end of the day, we want to find the right name, right? So, we don't want to rush this project, but we're kind of working toward a goal of doing some kind of a groundbreaking ceremony in October, and it would be really cool if we could do an unveiling of the name, an announcement of the name. Um, but again, we're not tied to that. Um, so, you know, we'd hope to maybe bring some final options to the board on June 17th for consideration and just love to hear if um, anyone has thoughts on that or what you would like us to bring back to kind of further the discussion.
025Like maybe we could bring back some of the top contenders and kind of build those up with some modifiers and other brand architecture to kind of see what's possible with the names. Okay. So, um for I'm gonna kind of summarize our earlier discussion. So, we just had board round table and we did discuss these names for quite a while and we kind of narrowed it down to um Synergy or Synergex Nexus and then Confluence. Um there's been some other names thrown out. We could like we could throw out a few more names right now. We did come down to those three and we would as a board like um like you to bring back maybe the name with some other modifiers, some options for us to discuss because maybe that would help us make a
026decision. Um but if someone has other ideas, we can talk about it now. Mrs. So, I had an idea on the way over here and I I shared it with everyone up here individually, but I the thought came to me because as we were looking at those vision boards and the idea of what we're trying to to um communicate um waves have a lot to do with this vision, right? whether it's light waves, sound waves, um, and and just the like and you know, one of the things we talked about was we want to have a name that communicates some sort of energy and movement to it, right? And coming together and creating something bigger than this sum of its parts. So on the way over, I just thought, what if we named it the
027wave? And so there and part of why I'm thinking that um and Katie was helpful a wave kind of portrays potential energy and potential energy is a fundamental concept in understanding wave phenomena and waves involve the transfer of energy. Right? So, in my mind, I know most people might think of an ocean wave, but I'm thinking of the waves that were portrayed kind of if you could go back a couple slides um to the vision board of what we were discussing. Yes. So, like these waves and I'm just thinking it would be really easy to come up I think with a visual logo of some type. And it while it's a very simple name, it also communicates energy and movement to it. I don't know. It's a thought. I don't know if you guys would
028want to consider it and add it to the list. I think it's fun. I like too the notion that it sort of it also kind of cross there's this cross-section with peaks too in a way, right? Because it's the crest, right? A wave of the crest anyway. Well, and it actually communicates the concept of amplify, which I really loved that word, but it's like when waves come together and they crash together and become something larger than they would have otherwise. It it actually has a lot of meaning attached to it. I know that there is a hiking spot in southern Utah called the Wave, which is way cool. I've never had a chance to hike there, but to that point, it is uniquely Uton, you know. So anyway, don't know if anyone has any thoughts
029on that. Okay. Thank you, Mrs. Oaks. Anyone else want to bring something up? Uh, superintendent. So, I I'm going to just be the traditionalist in going back to the point. Um, I think it, you know, point brings people together and it it it really h however we use it maybe with the combination, but um I think it gets out in front of actual development that's going to go in. So using that word, I mean what I was driving back to I was thinking about Canyons Point or Canyon Point. Um that might be something to think about. I wave I was just looking up that resonates with me too. Uh, Pepperdine is the Waves, Pepperdine Wave, and that's I mean they've always been that that's I mean that's a great iconic name with Pepperdine and that
030and Pepperdine's a you know they're a awesome academic education institution. So anyway, yeah, we at one point had talked about Center Point, right, too, as an option that kind of resonates with Nexus or Hub. Okay, thank you. Any other thoughts, board? U Mrs. um Dolly, thank you. The one uh thought I have about the point is because the whole new place is called The Point. I I feel like that's going to cause some confusion with those two things. I really do like this idea of the wave. I think a lot of the ideas we talked about about people coming together becoming more than than each of them as their you know individual and the eyes ideas that are going to come together this collaboration. I think this idea of wave really ties to it. It
031is cool that we also talked about combining a lot of natural elements even in with this innovative design. And so it is cool that we have this cool outdoor natural area called the wave too. So, I think there's some really cool things that it is a way to to talk about the all the concepts we wanted to try to include in more of a visual representation. Okay. Any other thoughts? Um, should we add the wave? Oh, Mrs. [Laughter] Mrs. better. Um, I just thought to go along with wave, we could have the wave collaborative at canyons. I mean, sometimes the word itself doesn't tell you enough, but if you have wave, I don't know about an exchange because then you're giving it back and forth. I like better the or the wave collective. Um, I
032don't want institute wave institute though. Um, subtitle in a modifier. Yeah. Yeah. But I was just saying the wave is much simpler than what we've been discussing and it is definitely more organic. So I I kind of like adding that to the list. Anyone else? So are we okay adding the the wave in there? Looks like everyone is kind of saying yes. So I'm just looking at this is kind of interesting. So Pepperdine uses Wave in relation to a lot of their um mascot and their their theme development is around Poseidon and a Greek mythology with the trident and power and it's pretty I mean it's pretty cool stuff actually right no but wave yeah that I mean it you think about the power of the wave And what that like you were saying I
033mean the energy that brings that there's a lot to that. Well yeah the wave can't even exist unless there is energy right. It has and it it's constantly moving. I don't know for me the idea of light waves like ever since they presented that to us in our committee meeting. I've just I've been buzzing around with it in my head. I think it's awesome. I mean just learning more about light. how little of light is actually visual and how much of it is unseen and how much that impacts us. I mean, when we're talking about some of the industries or areas that kids are going to be studying, whether it's energy at at the point or you know, even like what we're talking about with having the the media arts and um I mean all
034all of it is related to some sort of energy that invol involves light waves, right? So, anyway, it's kind of cool. Okay. Well, we're to four names now. Yeah, you never know where geniuses will strike. I love it. So, yeah, we'll we'll get to That's okay, though. We like narrowed it down. We had what, like 10 or more, and so we we have definitely narrowed it down. So, I like where we're going with this. So, okay. Thank you Kirsten for your presentation. And now um I will dismiss us to go back into a round table and we'll just go in the room behind where we can talk at the um conference table that is easier to have a discussion. So, thank you everyone for joining us.