FHS Staff took part in supporting Red Ribbon Week by dressing up in their Halloween costumes as m&ms for the day! Thanks to all the students and faculty who participated in the dress up days this week!
Drug Free is the Way to Be!
The Blazer Receives Top Honors
By: Paul Lawrence
Fairbury High School’s school newspaper The Blazer received top honors for its 2014-15 volume. The National High School Press Association (NHSPA) awarded the staff a Cornhusker Award after judging the publication along with other publications from across the state. According to the NHSPA, a Cornhusker is “awarded for journalism excellence in high school publications.” It is the equivalent to winning a state title.
The Fairbury High School Blazer for 2014-
Cole Bauer, Editor-in-Chief
Paul Lawrence, Assistant Editor
Jace Harris and Bryce Schouboe, Sports Editors
Halle Knigge and Brooke Eisenhauer, Page Editors
Gabby Weatherl and Madison Schlake, Columnists
Reporters: Avery Joe, Anna Schouboe, Mercadeze Engleman-Meyers, Paige Patton, Josey Zabokrtsky, Kellsie Specht, Michaela Bartels, and Stephen Engleman
Jed Martin, Adviser
Energizers Poster Contest Winner
In coordination with Red Ribbon Week, Energizers club sponsored a drug-free poster contest for local elementary students. Energizers members voted on a winning design and through grant-funding had the design made into t-shirts for the entire class of the winning student. On Thursday Oct. 22nd,
Energizers members presented the winning class of with their t-shirts, the yellow Minion shirts, designed by Lauren Wanamaker, say “Drugs are Despicable”. We received many amazing designs, and used the poster submissions to decorate the high school halls for Red Ribbon Week. Thanks to all who submitted their own depiction of a drug free message and hope we can keep inspire students to stay active in their school and community activities.
Future Veterinarians?
Agriculture Science and Technology students were introduced on how to properly administer vaccinations during their animal health unit. Oranges were used as the test subject.
Are we all professionals now? Is everyone ready to be veterinarian for a day and give some injections? Maybe we’re not quite professionals, but we have to start somewhere!
Students Move to Learn Coordinates
Students in Mr. Lenhart’s Mathematics class are learning to become fluent with plotting points on the coordinate plane. A large grid was created on the ground. Each student was given an ordered pair and they had to stand at “their point.”
Their learning objectives were to:
- understand the concept of a grid
- know that the first number in an ordered pair tells how many units to go to the right or left and the second number tells how many units to go up or down
- name the ordered pair for a point.
- plot positions named by ordered pairs.
Building Polyhedrons
Geometry students built their vocabulary words today. Polyhedrons are constructed with faces, edges and vertices. Our clay and toothpicks were a little messy, but a lot creative. In the pictures you can see tetrahedrons, pentahedrons, hexahedrons, heptahedrons and octahedrons. Most examples include two models of each polyhedron.
Inductive reasoning allows us to look at the data, find a pattern and make a generalization about that pattern. Students put their heads together to discover Euler’s Formula: V + F – E = 2. That is read “vertices plus faces minus edges equals 2”.
Once again, learning can get loud!
By the way, here is our riddle for the day: What did the bird do when he got scared? Poly he’d run! (Get it? Polyhedron!)
2015 Girls Golf
The 2015 girls golf season was full of adjustments that led to big improvements.
The girls team was made up of a junior, four sophomores, and a freshman. They are very young but are building a foundation for future years.
“This year the team bonded, and really got to know each other,” Evie Schwab ‘19 said.
The first invite of the year was held in Beatrice where the team finished sixth. The Seward invite was the largest and toughest meet of the year, and the girls finished ninth. At our home Fairbury invite the girls finished fifth.
“I took a lot of steps forward this year. At our home Invite I was 15 strokes better than what I had been doing, and our team made a lot of improvements by conference,” Madi Black ‘17 said.
The Crete Invite was another tough meet, and the team came in eighth place. After Crete, the Jeff traveled to the Pius Invite, Conference and Districts wound up their season, where they came in seventh place as a team.
Freshman, Sara Mitchel was close to medalling at the Seward invite, and also improved through the season. “I think the team’s technique made a lot of changes that were for the better and that will hopefully carry into next year’s season.”
How tall is the light pole?
Geometry students calculated the height of the giant light pole on the east side of the football field. Cooperative groups of four students each fulfilled their responsibility to measure three segments and solve for a missing value. Using similar triangles theorems, Angle-Angle-Similarity allowed students to set up a proportion. The result was 83 feet.
FAIRBURY JUNIORS AND SENIORS ATTEND SCC BEATRICE COLLEGE FAIR
On October 20th, Fairbury Jr-Sr High School juniors and seniors attended a college fair at SCC-Beatrice. Colleges from around the region had tables set up where students could briefly talk with each admissions representative as well as gather materials from those respective colleges. This information will provide an opportunity for students to make an informed decision about which college is best for them.
