Thank you to our teachers - Teacher Appreciation Week is May 8th - 12th 2023
* Click on the signup to help us raise funds and donations of items to show our IAE Teachers how much they mean to us and our students who benefit from their teaching and support every day!
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F044EAFAD2DA1F94-may812
Join one of our 4 key committees to help immediately.
Fill out the form to be included as a Volunteer member and let us know you want to help!
https://tinyurl.com/4ywz9mu9
Or even faster, Email us at ptiaeast.sec@gmail.com and let us know you would like to help by using subject heading "Volunteer" in your email and include your cell number, a committee leader will be in touch to get you connected. Thank you in advance for your time and support.
PAST EVENTS
Some of our past community events -- Restaurant Nights with the IAE community. We held our first one in October and are planning another one on 12/15 Details to follow, at California Pizza Kitchen in Somerset Mall in Troy.
Some of our past community events -- Restaurant Nights with the IAE community. We held our first one in October and are planning another one on 12/15 Details to follow, at California Pizza Kitchen in Somerset Mall in Troy.

Parents Get Involved
Volunteer With PTIA or Join Us At Our Fundraisers/Community Events
THANK YOU TO THE OVER 80 Parents who helped volunteer/chaperone, bring in snacks, beverages, supplies or helped with monetary donations for Pizza. The dance was a HUGE success with all of your generosity.
More events to be posted soon including Teacher Conference Night Taco Bar Dinner needs and desserts for Teachers to support them as they do all of their sessions with parents!
More events to be posted soon including Teacher Conference Night Taco Bar Dinner needs and desserts for Teachers to support them as they do all of their sessions with parents!
Volunteer Opportunities
SEND AN EMAIL TO PTIAEAST.SEC@GMAIL.COM to volunteer, meet other parents and support your school
PTIA Committee Groups – Leadership Openings
Get Involved (Click for PDF Version)
Join a Committee and Volunteer.
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Communications Committee
Savita B., Chair
* OPEN (1 co-chair or more, plus members)
Manage social media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, other). Develop and develop a new parent newsletter and help with content for website. Help develop Alumni outreach plans
- Decor Committee
- Display Case & School
- Newsletter
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Senior Activities Committee
* Mini Shekar Co-Chair
OPEN - Co-chair plus several members
- Senior All Night Party Planning, Senior Blankets Program, Scholarships for Seniors
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Other Student Programs (need committee chair)
Plan and lead student social activities, dances, brain break etc
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Teacher Appreciation / Outreach Committee
* Harj D (PTIA Co-President) Chair
Open - 2 Co-Chairs or more and several members
Help execute teacher programs, appreciation events (lunches, gift cards, dinners etc), various refreshments, desserts, international potluck etc.
- Giving Tree - Holiday Wish List
- Teacher Appreciation Week
- Teacher Grants Committee
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Fundraising and Community Building Committee
Parents to help organize with the PTIA Board, future restaurant nights, a Euchere Fundraiser, Other Community Events
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Career Explorations / Mentoring Program Initiative
Kaushika Patel Chair
Shankar Madhavan Co-Chair / Additional Co-chair open
* Open 2 or more co-chairs to develop school year plans
Parent volunteers to brainstorm and plan or serve as speakers, mentors to help on future career programming and creating connections for our students for mentoring, internships, career guidance and exploration etc. Kick-off Event was in May 2022.
2nd event is scheduled for 11/29 at 7-8:30pm via virtual zoom or google meet.
Next Steps?
Send us an email via ptiaeast.sec@gmail.com Subject heading: “Volunteer”
Please indicate committee interest area and we will connect with you.
If you would like to lead as a Co-Chair a sub-committee organizer, we would love your help. Any other ideas? Share them via email or in a PTIA meeting.

Parents, did you know?
* IA students participate in a wide variety of after-school activities.
* It takes many long hours to support all the clubs, events and programs our students enjoy.
* Without parental help, many programs cannot exist.
* We need YOU to make these programs successful.
* In order to enhance the IA student experience, each parent is being asked to
volunteer 10 hours to the school each year.
Parents, we're asking each of you to "Give Us 10", by...
* donating your time - 10 hours
* working from home - 10 hours
* chaperoning - 10 hours
Don't have time to donate 10 hours? Then, participate by...
* donating $10 or more worth of supplies
* donating 10 items to an upcoming event
* or simply register for Kroger Community Rewards and shop with Amazon Smile and support PTIA-East as your charity in the Amazon App. See instructions here
Thank you for "Giving Us 10!"
"No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you." ~~Althea Gibson
* IA students participate in a wide variety of after-school activities.
* It takes many long hours to support all the clubs, events and programs our students enjoy.
* Without parental help, many programs cannot exist.
* We need YOU to make these programs successful.
* In order to enhance the IA student experience, each parent is being asked to
volunteer 10 hours to the school each year.
Parents, we're asking each of you to "Give Us 10", by...
* donating your time - 10 hours
* working from home - 10 hours
* chaperoning - 10 hours
Don't have time to donate 10 hours? Then, participate by...
* donating $10 or more worth of supplies
* donating 10 items to an upcoming event
* or simply register for Kroger Community Rewards and shop with Amazon Smile and support PTIA-East as your charity in the Amazon App. See instructions here
Thank you for "Giving Us 10!"
"No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you." ~~Althea Gibson