Please see the flyer for all details! We encourage you to spread the word! Employers enjoy having students attend and are looking to hire them, especially for summer jobs!
Fairbury Job Fair
Nehemiah Cervantes Selected for 2018 Nebraska Choral Directors Association Middle Level Honor Choir
Congratulations to 8th grader Nehemiah Cervantes on being 1 of 70 students selected statewide for the 2018 Nebraska Choral Directors Association Middle Level Honor Choir. The honor choir will take place at the annual NCDA Summer Conference at Doane University, July 8-11. NCDA holds an annual conference every July at the beautiful campus of Doane University in Crete, Nebraska. During these three to four days, music teachers and choral directors from all over the state gather to share ideas, attend concerts and interest sessions, and renew their passion for choral music with friendship and fellowship. The conference also houses a Middle Level Honor Choir, an All-State Vocal Jazz Ensemble, and the newly initiated All-State Show Choir. The Middle Level Honor Choir will be directed by Dr. Andrew Last, a Husker alum and current director of the acclaimed Nordic Choir at Luther College in Decorah, IA. Please congratulate Nehemiah on this outstanding accomplishment!
TeamMates Attend Spring Game
15 TeamMates in Fairbury helped set the school’s the spring game attendance record on Saturday, April 21st. A total of 86,818 people gathered to watch the Red and White game, making Nebraska number one nationally in attendance for spring games this year. Before the game, they honored seniors in TeamMates at a special ceremony at Haymarket Park, where graduating seniors and their mentors walked across home plate together.
Top, Left to Right: Mark Schoenrock, Deb Ebke, Dannie Gasper, Natalie Julin-McCleary, Alex, and Lexi.
Bottom, Left to Right: Jordan, Aidan, Makena, Megan, Sophie, Shelby, and Jayleigh. Not Pictured: Chad Sprunk & Tiffany Ebke
Students Attend State FBLA Leadership Conference
17 members attended the FBLA State Leadership Conference on April 5-7 in Omaha. The Fairbury FBLA represented FHS very well and had 5 people place Honorable Mention in their events and 2 place in the top 8 of their respective events.
It’s extremely difficult to make it on stage during the State Leadership Conference, with the whole state participating on the same level. With that being said, it’s a huge honor to make it on stage and takes hard work. Congratulations to all FBLA members on an outstanding year!
Jacob Johnson, Macy Ohlde, Isaac Robertson- 6th Place American Enterprise
Macy Ohlde- 7th Place Health Care Administration
Jacob Johnson- Honorable Mention Sports Entertainment and Management
Josh Robertson- Honorable Mention Intro to Financial Math & Middle Level Bus. Math
Isaac Robertson- Honorable Mention Community Service Project
Mikasa Lierman- Honorable Mention Journalism
Kacy Starck- Honorable Mention Middle Level Career Exploration
Jayson Klaumann Honorable Mention Business Communications
Fairbury FFA Members Compete for the District Gold
The Fairbury FFA Chapter had 35 members compete at the 2018 District 5 Career Development Events (CDE) Contest on Tuesday, March 6th at Southeast Community College in Beatrice. These 35 members represented Fairbury FFA well by competing in a variety of contests but came up against some stiff competition in the district. Fairbury FFA did have some individual success as Sara Huss placed 1st in Ag Biotechnology, Ashlee Griffee placed 3rd in Agronomy and Jared Engelman received a 3rd place medal in Nursery and Landscape. Below is a complete list of all the team and individual results for the Fairbury FFA Chapter members that competed in the District 5 CDE contests.
The welding contest consists of a team of three members where one member has to Oxygen-Acetylene (O/A) weld, one member has to Shielded Metal Arc Weld (SMAW), and one member has to Gas Metal Arc Weld (GMAW). Fairbury had two welding teams compete in the district contest with team one consisting of Brock Barton who received a purple ribbon in the O/A division, Jacob Maschmann who received a red ribbon in the GMAW division, and Jesse Graves who received a purple ribbon in the SMAW division. The second team consisted of Trevin Arnold who received a red ribbon in the O/A division, Dalton Peterson who received a red ribbon in the SMAW division and John Kerwood received a purple ribbon in the GMAW division. The Fairbury welding team placed 4th overall in the district 5 welding competition. John Kerwood, Jesse Graves and Brock Barton will represent Fairbury FFA at the 2018 Nebraska State FFA Convention.
The Agronomy team placed 2nd overall and consisted of Ashlee Griffee who recieved a Purple ribbon, Micheala Buchli who received a purple ribbon, Delaney Miller who received a red ribbon, and Tori Likens who received a blue ribbon. They will represent Fairbury at the state FFA convention.
The Agriscience team two consisted of Harlie Blas and Cashe Kroll who received a blue ribbon and Sarah Engelman who received a red ribbon. The Agriscience one team consisted of Riley Wood, Taylor Gustafson, Konnor Hasselbring, and Brooklen Bear who all received a red ribbon.
The Ag Sales team placed 4th and qualified for the state FFA convention. The team consisted of John Kerwood and Devin Wanamaker who received blue ribbons and Kennedy DeBoer and Dalton Peterson who received red ribbons.
Fairbury FFA was represented by one Meats team that consisted of Taylor Runge receiving a Blue Ribbon and Kane Hasselbring, Jared Engelman, and Colton Starck receiving a red ribbon.
The Floriculture team placed 3rd overall and qualified for the state FFA convention. Team members include Jordan Ruhnke and Shavara Kroeker who received a purple ribbons and Brooklen Bear and Paige Livingston who received a blue ribbon.
The Livestock Management team one finished with a red ribbon. Team one consisted of Delaney Miller, Tori Likens, Trevin Arnold, Sarah McCown, Kane Hasselbring . Team two also received a red ribbon and consisted of Taylor Runge, Josie Junker, Colton Starck, Zach Holes, and Logan Slater.
Fairbury was represented by a Vet Science team that placed 5th overall with the team consisting of Paige Livingston who received a purple ribbon, Miranda Heidemann and Sarah McCown receiving a blue ribbon and Jordan Ruhnke receiving a red ribbon.
Fairbury FFA had one Natural Resource team. This team consisted of Trevin Arnold who placed who received a purple ribbon, Jesse Graves and Jacob Maschmann who received a blue ribbon, and Brock Barton who received a red ribbon.
Fairbury FFA was represented by one Nursery and Landscape team who placed 3rd overall. The team consisted of Jared Engelman who received a purple ribbon and Riley Wood, Harlie Blas and Autumn Branson who received a blue ribbon.
The Fairbury FFA was represented by one Ag Biotech team that placed 3rd overall. The team consisted of Sara Huss placing 1st and receiving a purple ribbon, Autumn Branson and Devin Wanamaker receiving blue ribbons, and Bret Cole receiving a red ribbon.
It was a great day for the Fairbury FFA Chapter and all members had a great experience in developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth, and career success.
Road Trip
Fairbury High School juniors in Mrs. Julie Petersen’s Standards Math class are planning a road trip! Project Based Learning is defined as “A teaching method in which students gain knowledge and skills by working for an extended period of time to investigate and respond to an authentic, engaging and complex question, problem, or challenge.” The big idea question is “Where do I want to go on my road trip after school is dismissed for the summer?” This group of students get to spend $2000 on a road trip to three landmarks. They are expected to not only budget their money for landmark entrance fees, souvenirs, car rental, hotels, and food, but also calculate mileage using MapQuest, miles per gallon for their chosen rental car, and the total cost of gasoline using the national average per gallon. Writing across the curriculum is also a requirement for this project as students reflect on their research and write a paragraph for each destination.
Mrs. Karen Dux, Fairbury Public School’s technology integration specialist, visited classes to teach how to tell a story on a user friendly app called Tour Builder. Jessa said, “It’s actually really easy to create a story about my road trip.” Mrs. Petersen is pleased with how students can show what they know from this PBL. Brandon is engaged in class work time stating, “I really like this project. And I want to plan a road trip for this summer.”
This PBL is helping math students improve their proficiency at the following Nebraska Standards and apply these lessons to life: 12.1.3d, 12.2.5b, 12.2.5d.
Student presentations will be on Tuesday, April 17th if parents would like to attend. View the student presentations by clicking on the link below:
Kane
https://tourbuilder.withgoogle
Alexia
https://tourbuilder.withgoogle
Josh
https://tourbuilder.withgoogle
Destanie
https://tourbuilder.withgoogle
Tristin
https://tourbuilder.withgoogle
Jessa
https://tourbuilder.
Brandon
https://tourbuilder.
Olivia
https://tourbuilder.
Freshmen Attend Hastings College
The Freshmen Class was able to visit Hastings College yesterday as part of the EducationQuest College Access Grant that Fairbury High School was awarded a year ago. Students were able to tour the campus facilities, dorms, classrooms, and even eat lunch in the cafeteria. The visit allows students to see what different types of college campuses have to offer.
Indirect Measurement of Height
Geometry students calculated the height of the classroom ceiling and the hallway. Cooperative groups of four students each fulfilled their responsibility to measure three segments and solve for a missing value. Using similar triangles theorem Angle-Angle-Similarity allowed students to set up a proportion. This is an indirect measurement of height since we didn’t actually get a ladder and measure the wall.
Students appreciate the hands-on application of lessons to life. We do many story problems, but today students also had to read the tape measure!
Reading Classics Division II State Champions and Division I Runner Up!
CONGRATULATIONS to the “B Awesome” team of Aldo Ramos, Natalie Heidemann, Heidi Ramos, Toby Julin-McCleary & Adeline Blatny on winning the Division II State Reading Classic Competition! After many hours and many books these students were put to the challenge Saturday March 24 at the State Reading Classics Competition at Tri-County School. Placing 1st in the semi-final round against 6 other schools they headed into the buzzer round facing Stoddard Elementary from Beatrice. They triumphantly won 5 to 2 in a very intense round of oral questions. We are very proud of their accomplishment. Continue to “B Awesome” & keep reading!
On Saturday, March 24th, the Division I Reading Classics Team traveled to Tri County for State Competition. After the written competition, Fairbury & Seward were announced as the top two teams. In the final buzzer round, Fairbury fell to Seward with a score of 5-7. Fairbury students were awarded a State Runner-Up medal and a trophy!! We are so proud of our excellent readers!! They have been very motivated throughout the year to read all 78 books! We would like to thank all of the volunteers who make this event possible!
Reading Classic Division I State Runner-Up Champions are Nic Smith, Abby Hynek, Dominic Joe, Micah Friesen, and Iaunna Lucking.
