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There is a lot going on in our Summer Programs and there is still time to enroll in our Summer Jam Camps. See details in the slides below or email Christina at cbowser@ftcpioneers.org.

Eight seniors in the state of Nebraska were given the honor of the Nebraska Coaches Association Country Inn & Suites Scholarship.  They held a banquet on Sunday July 24th in Lincoln at the Lincoln Station Great Hall.  Fort Calhoun’s Riley Grosse-Rhode was one of the recipients along with other seniors from Holdrege, Fillmore Central, Pierce, Chadron, Omaha Central, Lexington, and Bruning-Davenport. This is a great honor for Riley!  An excerpt from the program states “Riley Grosse-Rhode’s high school football coach credits him as being an uplifting leader that displays poise, intelligence, leadership and unselfishness.” The quarterback and senior captain participated in both football and baseball for each of his four high school years, earning 6 varsity letters and Academic All-State honors. He spent several hours helping younger Fort Calhoun baseball players with fielding and batting as a volunteer youth coach, and has earned numerous school achievement honors for his excellence in the classroom. The National Honor Society member is a 4.0 student and ranked at the top of his class. Riley plans to attend South Dakota State University, majoring in Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering.

Congratulations to Montana Cottle and Cole Bradburn for winning The 2016 Pinnacle Bank Outstanding High School Leaders Award. They were recognized at the Luncheon on Friday April 29th. Micah Yost, Vice President of Sightglass was the guest speaker for the event, who talked about the ability these leaders have to leave an impacting influence on the people around them. With this award, the students can get a $1,000 Scholarship if they decide to attend Midland University.

Driver’s Education registration will be open for resident students until may 16th, 2016. After that day, it will be open on a first -come-first-serve basis to other students. Registration booklets are in the high school office. Call the High School Office for more information at 402-468-5591.

Our embryology unit started April 18th and ended up with 8 chicks hatching on May 9th and 10th. The students learn about the different ways eggs are used. They learn about the different parts of the egg and how the chick develops. We candle the eggs and make sure we keep our incubator at 100 degrees and keep the humidity up. Jovi Greiner stated “my favorite part was getting to see the eggs hatch after all of our hard work in taking care of them.”

400m Relay-Jordan Schaefer, Hannah Warner, Hanna Lazure, and Skylar Wear, 2nd Place

Sixth grade wrapped up their Trout in the Classroom project through Nebraska Game and Parks with a field trip to the Aksarben Aquarium on May 12th. We fished, attended a presentation about Nebraska frogs, explored the education center, and hiked through the hills. The day ended with the release of over 40 rainbow trout fingerlings that we raised from the 160 eggs we received in January.

The first graders went to the Children’s Museum April 28th.  They enjoyed all the museum has to offer including face painting, the balls, the grocery store, kitchen, mazes, slides, and science experiments!  After the museum we headed to the Pedestrian Bridge.  We ate lunch there and then were able to walk across the bridge.  The kids loved seeing the views.  We even got to be in two places at once (Iowa and Nebraska) by straddling the state line on the bridge.  Even though it was a chilly day we still had a blast outside.