The Marching Band recently returned from their trip to Washington DC with a first place trophy for their performance in the Fairfax, VA parade on July 4th in the marching band contest. The competition was tough so this award was a big accomplishment. Besides the parade, the students and chaparones had fun touring the Washington DC, Philadelphia and St. Louis areas.
Registrations for youth football camp are available on the football webpage at the following link https://www.fortcalhounschools.org/pioneer-pride/athletics/football/camps/. Camp starts on July 24th! Hope to see lots of boys there!!! You can also find more information and the registration for here 2017-FC-Youth-Camp
It was a great day in Fort Calhoun, programming drones to fly through hoops. “Only thing that would have made it cooler is if the hoops were on fire!!” That was a quote from our end of the year tech day at Fort Calhoun schools. It was talking about one of the five sessions that over 200 students participated in on Monday, May 15, 2017. Over 100 3rd and 4th grade students partnered up with over 100 7th and 8th grade students to run through and experience technology and in plethora of ways!
Along with navigating drones through a obstacle course, the students also became engineers by designing objects that would hover in a wind tunnel, program Sphere SPRK+ Robots through a maze, design rockets that were aerodynamic out of 2 L bottles to see who’s would fly the furthest, and program their own unique song with tools on an iPad.
The day was a huge success with an educational experience unmatched. Fun was had by one and all!
A big thank you to all of the staff members that helped at Fort Calhoun Schools that without their help this would not have been able to take place.
Also, a huge shout out to ESU #3 for helping support this day! You three were just incredible! Thank you Jeff Ingraham, Greg Schwanke, and Dawn Peterson Ferreyra.
Click this link for enrollment forms. www.fortcalhounschools.org/school/summer-programs/handbook-and-forms/
Dilara Onigkeit – 2nd, 2nd, 3rd
Avery McKennan – 1st, 1st, 2nd, 3rd
Nicole Swanson – 3rd
Kaleah Keeler – 1st, 1st, 3rd
Kloey Appel – 1st, 1st, 1st, 2nd, 3rd
Hunter Thomas – 2nd, 2nd
Caitlin Weeks – 1st, 2nd, 2nd, 3rd
Jessica Gravert – 1st, 1st
Taylor Marshall – 1st, 1st, 2nd, 2nd, 2nd, 3rd, 3rd
Ian Edie – 1st, 1st, and Student’s Choice Award
Clayton Pratt – 3rd, 3rd
Skylar Wear – 1st, 1st, 1st, 1st, 2nd, 3rd
On April 28th, a group of FBLA students attended a Career
Skills Workshop at Mammel Hall on the campus of UNO.
Students attended interactive workshops where they were able to
learn about how to create effective resumes, interviewing skills
and also learn about the importance of internships and lunch and
work etiquette. Those attending the workshop were: Jordan
Wear, Taya Skelton, Ashlyn Dippel, Morgan McNew, Katie
Hurt, Lizzy Namuth, Piper Hagar, and Rachel Hagar.
Mae Clausen’s kindergartners and Marti Leishman’s 3rd graders were champions of the March Madness reading program for the 3rd year in a row. They celebrated their win with a pizza lunch from Goldies, and they were joined by Creighton basketball players. Zach Hanson, Isaiah Zierden, and Martin Krampelj. Following lunch, the players signed autographs and played ball with the kids.
Photos and article by Sheri Homolka
Honors Night is a special evening held to honor students who have done well academically and also recognize students who are in clubs and organizations throughout the school year.
Please join us in honoring your student at this event on Tuesday, May 2nd at 6:30 p.m.
Here are the submissions for this year’s Vans Custom Culture shoe design competition. Fort Calhoun is one of 3,000 schools from all across the country participating in this year’s event. The photos were taken by junior art student Anna Polesky. The video was created by senior art student Jessica Gravert. The schools making it into the next round will be notified by April 21st. Congratulations to all contributing art students.
