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Students from Fairbury High School competed at the SkillsUSA State Leadership Conference March 30-April 1st. There were many students from all over the state of Nebraska competing.  This year was the first year that the state leadership conference was held in Grand Island, Nebraska at Fonner Park.

SkillsUSA is a national organization for students in career and technical education.  The goal of SkillsUSA is to replenish the workforce in America with skilled laborers and to help companies find quality people to fill the ever growing demand for industrial technical jobs.

Students that competed were Blake Bauer, Tanner Novotny, Dalton Buxton, Devon Trimm, Reed Williams, Zachary Holes, Jessa Eden, Madison Gregory, and Tayler Shellhase.

The Fairbury Speech team had a great 2017 season! The speech team ended up with 43 medals total, which was 12 more than last year. The following participated in speech this year.

We look forward to continuing the success we had this year, and look to add more Fairbury Jeffs to the team! I want to thank all the parents, administration, and kids for participating in this great activity.

Geometry students in Mrs. Julie Petersen’s class built 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”.  Building was fun!  Thinking was hard.  It’s easier to Google a formula, but today they were responsible for their own discovery.  Add these experiences together and long-term memory is the winner!

Here is our riddle for the day:  “What did the bird do when he got scared?  Poly he’d run!”  (Get it?  Polyhedron!)

Congratulations to Isaac Robertson who was selected to participate in the Nebraska Ambassadors of Music Tour to Europe this June! He will be visiting seven different countries, as well as taking an extended tour of Greece. Students from schools all across Nebraska are nominated for this tour. Isaac will take part in the band playing the trumpet, as well as singing in the choir. Students will be performing in each country and singing in various European cathedrals. This will be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that will provide a great educational experience for Isaac! Isaac is raising money to support his trip to Europe this summer in June selling Heritage Falls candles! If you are interested in supporting his trip, please contact Isaac or send me an email and we can get you more details. I’m so proud of Isaac for representing Fairbury in this awesome opportunity!

FHS students in Mrs. Julie Petersen’s Standards Math class calculate the probability of events.  First they determined the theoretical probability and then completed trials for an experimental probability.  Flip a coin, roll the dice and draw a card.  Upon completion of the lab, a student was overheard saying, “This class goes fast while we are busy experiencing math.”  Another student was surprised to learn how rare some probabilities are, such as drawing a four out of a deck of cards compared to spinning a coin to land heads up.

On March 20th, the Nebraska State Patrol visited Mr. Scott’s Driver’s Education class.  Officer Charlie Cook and Officer Tim Pickering spoke to the class about the importance of wearing seat belts, not being distracted by cell phones and by saying no to drinking and driving.    Students got to experience what a head on collision would be like at say 3-5 mph by sitting is a crash simulator while buckled up.  The students also got to test the drunk goggles to simulate what it would be like to drive while under the influence.  The purpose of the entire evening was to help students to be safe drivers.  Officers also showed the class some videos and crash pictures to make students more aware of how the choices they make can impact them for the rest of their lives.  Thank you to the Nebraska State Patrol for putting on a great demonstration.