March Madness was set up as a double elimination competition with classes going head-to-head against one another to see who could read the most at home. The Clausen Wolverines (kindergarten) and Leishman Zappers (3rd grade) competed for the championship, with the Wolverines coming out on top. Both classes shared a lunch of Godfather’s pizza and a visit from Creighton basketball players Austin Chatman, Isaiah Zierden and Will Artino.
Students submitted designs based on the four shoe themes: Art, Local Flavor, Action Sports, and Music. Designs by Vince Hartline, Taylar King, and Killian Roehr were chosen as the winners. Designs were tweaked and four art students were chosen to transfer them to the shoes. Vince, Destinie Bradberry, Heather Remm, and Zane Fickbohm worked extremely hard designing, creating, and applying the art to the physical pairs of shoes.
Jim Shields was kind enough to lend us his photography expertise to take photos of the shoes. Please view the attached images, which were submitted for the competition. In addition to the photos, we made a 1-2 minute video, thanks to Jake Polesky and Hannah Nieto. When you see these students, please congratulate them on their hard work and dedication.
On April 24th we will find out if we made it into the top 10 schools in our region. Wish us luck.
The shoes are on display across from the high school office in our glass display case.
2015 Audubon Society of Omaha Art Contest
Congratulations to the following students for earning prizes and recognition at this year’s Audubon Society of Omaha Art Show.
-Maddie Rheinheimer earned an excellence award for realism, as well as Best of Show.
-Jessica Gravert earned an excellence award for graphic design, as well as a merit award for realism.
-Clayton Pratt earned a merit award for realism.
-Zane Fickbohm earned two excellence awards for realism.
-Brooke Sutherland earned a merit award for realism.
-Killian Roehr earned a merit award for cartooning.
-Heather Remm earned two excellence awards for realism, as well as Best of Show.
Not Pictured is Christopher Lopez, who earned an excellence award for graphic design, as well as Best of Show.
Students at Fort Calhoun Elementary had the opportunity, on Monday March 23rd, to plant a few flower seeds including Crimson Sunflower, Poppy seeds, and Coreopsis with Judy Siever on March 23rd. They learned a few facts about seed germination while helping to beautify our school. Thank you Judy for helping our students with this fun project.
On Wednesday, March 18th, upper level art students attended a field trip to Hot Shops Art Center and the Omaha Public School Teacher Administrative Center building.
Hot Shops Art Center is located in the NODO area of Omaha. Hot Shops is an old Serta mattress factory that was converted to artist studios and galleries in 1999. Manager Tim Barry gave students a tour of the facility, and they had an opportunity to see demonstrations in both ceramics and glass blowing. They saw inside a few art studios, many professional works on display in hallways, and pieces done by local high school students, which were on display in one of the large galleries.
Twice a year, Hot Shops holds an open house where anyone is invited to tour the facility, see demonstrations, and purchase works or pay for services provided by some of Omaha’s amazingly talented artists. Each year the open house events are held the first weekends of December and May.
The students also viewed artwork on display at the OPS TAC building. The works on display are winners in this year’s Scholastic Art Competition. Fort Calhoun has one student, Senior Heather Remm, whose work is on display. Remm received honorable mention for her portfolio submission. The works are on display through March 31, 2015.
Congratulations to our 2015 Prom Royalty
L-R: Princess Hailey Hansen, Prince Sam Winter, King Kyle Warthen, Queen Destinie Bradberry
3rd Easton Fritz – What lubricant is best?
2nd John Wiese – How does PH effect plant growth?
1st Julie Klemm and Taya Skelton – What’s Cracking?
High School
3rd Hannah Warner and Abi Nelson – How does color affect heating by absorption of light?
2nd Kloey Appel and Lizzy Namuth – Eyes vs. Ears
1st McKenzie Cottle and Bailey Bannister – Meltdown
Overall Winner Nicole Swanson and Morgan McNew – Does calcium affect the strength of egg shells?
Fort Calhoun Elementary had a blast celebrating Dr. Seuss’ birthday this week. They had many different dress up themes, contests and story times. Some favorites were decorate your hair day and dress like your favorite Dr. Seuss character. Students also earned Cat Cash for every Dr. Seuss book they read. The students made a Seuss Soup Snack to enjoy during their time reading Dr. Seuss books throughout the week. Families joined into the fun by decorating a Dr. Seuss themed sock with their student. The week wrapped up with an assembly to announce contest winners. A highlight of the week was watching the students who earned the most Cat Cash, dump water on the Principal, Mr. Wagner’s, head.
His teacher, Sara Wellman-HighHorse, will also be recognized in the upcoming NETA newsletter for her efforts in using the application website in class. She will also receive a free membership to this years NETA Conference held in Omaha. Mrs. Wellman-HighHorse commented saying, “I had originally learned about this creation-based website at least year’s NETA conference. I decided to utilize it in my classroom, as it aligns with my philosophy of more project-based assessments. In addition, knowing about this contest fueled my ambition to use it even more.”
Mrs. Shields took 2 teams to the TSA TEAMS (Technology Student Association Test for Engineering Aptitude in Math and Science) Competition on Tuesday, February 17 at UNO. The teams placed 1st and 2nd in their respective division. The students participating were James Borsch, Sarah Determan, Kyle Owen, Tessa Stevens, Alex Tietz, Daniel Crump, Zane Fickbohm, Riley Grosse-Rhode, Bret Klabunde, Erin Schulz.