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As a means to advocate for breast cancer awareness, students and staff purchased t-shirts from FBLA during the month of October. The club raised $400 from the t-shirt orders, which will be donated to the Kamie K. Preston Hereditary Cancer Foundation and will be able to cover one single site genetic test. October 27th was designated as a Pink Out day at school and pink was worn at the last home football and volleyball games in October as well.

Congratulations to Tessa Stevens who is a semifinalist in the National Merit Scholarship Program.
About 1.5 million juniors in more than 22,000 high schools entered the 2016 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2014 Preliminary sat/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (psat/nmsqt®), which served as an initial screen of program entrants. The nationwide pool of Semifinalists, representing less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, includes the highest- scoring entrants in each state. A Semifinalist must have an outstanding academic record through-out high school, be endorsed and recommended by a high school official, write an essay, and earn sat® scores that confirm the student’s earlier performance on the qualifying test.
Tessa is a stellar student who loves to learn.  She is taking courses at UNO this year as part of her school day during her senior year.  She is an amazing leader – active in a number of organizations here at the FORT including our band, cross country, speech team, quiz bowl, POPP, and National Honor Society. Good Luck in the final round Tessa.

The Fort Calhoun Elementary School has a program called Reading Buddies. Once a week, the upper grades pair up with the lower grades and read for 15 to 20 minutes. Our students enjoy the program and the older students do a great job asking the younger ones questions to get them engaged. This is a fun time for all of the kids.

To commemorate the Anniversary of the “Star Spangled Banner,” Students at Fort Calhoun Jr/Sr High School gathered around the flagpole on Monday September 14th to sing the National Anthem. It was written 201 years ago on September 14th 1814.

Fort Calhoun student, Killian Roehr, is a member of the UNMC High School Alliance this year. He joins other students from high schools around Omaha to take college-level classes to prepare for health careers. He had to apply and go through an interview process to be admitted and he is the first Pioneer to be accepted into this competitive program. Killian wants to get an M.D. and become a surgeon or a researcher. He was featured in a UNMC Newsroom article. Great job Killian. Follow this link to read the article. http://www.unmc.edu/news.cfm?match=17497&pk_campaign=email&pk_kwd=The_Alliance_in_Focus_Killian_Roehr

Fort Calhoun Students had a fun Homecoming week which ended with a parade, pep rally and football game. It was a beautiful day with our students and many community members coming out to support our school. Friday evening was a big success with the Skills USA Hog Roast and Football game. Our team played very well with a  41-12 win over Loiusville. Congratulations to our Homecoming Royalty. Queen and King Delaney Bruening, Zane Fickbohm and Prince and Princess Nolyn Appel and Hanna Nieto.

Congratulations to the Fort Calhoun Cross Country team who ran well at the Arlington meet on Tuesday, Sept. 8th. They had a first place runner is each of the 4 races. Ethan Scott won the JV boy’s race, Colton Folkers won the Varsity boy’s race, Montana Cottle won the JV girl’s race and Taya Skelton won the Varsity girl’s race. This is the first time in recent history that Fort Calhoun had a first place runner in all 4 races. Come out and support the team at our Home meet on September 24th at Fort Atkinson at 4:30 p.m.

The Fort Calhoun Girls set up a bake sale during the Corporate Cycling Challenge on Sunday August 16th. The cyclists were traveling 42 miles round trip, the Fort Calhoun City Park was their half way mark. We offered them a variety of goods from muffins, homemade granola bars, cookies and fruit. They came hungry and helped us triple our sales from last year! We also had several members of the community stop by for a Sunday morning treat.