The Weekly Update #4

What a week!! Here we are in the final regular week of school before final exams and we have so many great end of the year things going on. I love this time of year when we get to celebrate all of the accomplishments that our students have been able to complete this year. We have held our Senior Award, our PLTW White Coat Ceremony, and Ivy Tech Graduation all this week!. We also had our FFA Banquet and are set for Band Awards next week. We have incredible students and an amazing staff here at RCHS and it is an honor to sit in the seat that I sit in! Please take a moment to watch the Senior video that I have attached to the end of this week's update. One more time I get to say IT'S ALMOST MONDAY!!

Rushville Consolidated High School has earned charter status in the National Speech & Debate Association. Charter status is the highest honor for high schools in the NSDA. The award is based on team participation. We analyze your team's points earned via competition and service compared to your overall school enrollment and recognize the schools who have demonstrated a strong commitment to speech and debate activities. Congratulations Hannah Lemmons and our Speech and Debate Team.

Last Saturday we had several students walk across the stage at the Ivy Tech Graduation. We had 25 students this year graduate with the ICC and many others receiving a certification in Ag or from a program at WCC. It is amazing to watch our kids walk across as a college graduate before they even walk across our graduation stage. Congratulations to all of these students!!

Another AMAZING FFA banquet took place last weekend. Thank you for the excellent supper and the show was great as usual. Thank you to the officers who made this all happen and I would like to give a huge SHOUT OUT to Ms. DeLey and Ms. Yager. Two brand new advisors that have never stopped working for the kids. Rushville FFA is held in high regards in the state and in the country. I can tell you that it is in great hands with these two incredible leaders!!

This past week we hosted a home Unified Track Meet against Franklin County. What an incredible night watching our kids compete in these events. With the right guidance and the right leadership all kids can do anything they want!!

What an incredible day it was on Thursday. We were able to honor and celebrate so many students for their accomplishments over the past 4 years. It is always great to see how giving this community is and the amount of scholarships that are awarded to RCHS Graduates. Thank you to our Guidance Department for putting on this ceremony and thanks to Student Council, Amy Fox, and Sam Pavey for the roles you all played in this day.

We held the second annual White Coat Ceremony for our PLTW BioMed students. The students who have completed the BioMed pathway received their White Coats for all of the work they have put into this program. Kids also displayed their final projects and where able to talk to attendees about their projects. It is always fun to watch RCHS students have the opportunity to show off their successes.

Diane Personett - Shout out to everyone involved in the awards day program, it was smooooth as silk!!

Britney Corum - Shout out to all the volunteers, supporters, and community members that came out in support tonight for our Unified Track Home Meet. I am very grateful to all that turned out to make this Home meet special for all the participants for not just our team, but also for Franklin County as well. So again thank you all!!!!

Melissa Winkler - Shout out to the Guidance Department (Jan, Natalie & Carolyn). The Awards Program was nicely done!

Melissa Winkler - Shout out to Christin Nicholls and the Student Council for running the program so smoothly.

Melissa Winkler - Shout out to Amy Fox and her crew! The slide show and filming was a nice touch this year!

Melissa Winkler - Shout out to Memorial Gym crew (Curt, Haley and Karen) for setting up the gym for the awards program!

Melissa Winkler - Shout out to my spring coaches for their ability to get through this crazy scheduling!

Joni Fenimore - Shout out for all involved in setting up the awards program, as the program takes several weeks of collection and organization! A special shout out to Amy Fox for all of the work on getting the new screen presentation to compliment the student-led presentation. I have already heard several comments from the parent group and community members that it was easier to follow along. The video compilation of Seniors and their activities at the beginning was precious!

Anne Rosario - Shout out to everyone involved in making this year's Award Day a success! The video was excellent and could be seen from the front and back of the screen. The projected script and names were very good! The new place for the lectern allowed many more people to see well! Good job to everyone.

Nan Scanlan - Shout out to Megan Davis for working double duty between the Resource Room and Credit Recovery.

Nan Scanlan - Shout out to Megan Davis, Amber Long, Karen Schneider, and Caroline Allison for the work that you do.

Liz Meek - Shout out to Rachel Monk for helping set up the Swivel

Liz Meek - Shout out to Jan Thoman for helping with PLTW White coat Logos

Liz Meek - Shout out to Amy Fox, Sam Pavey, and Zach Hoeing for ensuring that the awards slideshow was completed and taped

Amy Fox - Shout out goes out to Sam Pavey for running the live stream for me during the awards ceremony.

Christin Nichols - Shout out to Amy Fox for the video, slides, and live stream of the awards program. It all added a great deal to the day.

Christin Nichols - Shout out to the guidance department for organizing the awards program. It went really well.

Christin Nichols - Congrats to Brooke Edwards and the PLTW class on the successful White Coat Ceremony.

Brad Lawler - HUGE SHOUT OUT TO OUR UNIFIED TRACK TEAM!!!! What an outstanding group of kids!!! Last night was AWESOME!!!

Rachel Monk - Shout to Shea! You constantly do what's best for our students and staff. I admire your determination!

Jennifer Cain - Shout out to the Unified Track team! They did great last night!

Jennifer Cain - Shout out to the Athletic Council members that helped at the Unified track meet last night, you did great and thank you for your help!

Amaranta Kemple - Shout out to Brooke Edwards for inspiring her students to be successful. The White Coat ceremony was amazing!

Amaranta Kemple - Shout out to Ms. Corum for all the love she pours out onto her students!

Amaranta Kemple - Shout out to all of the Spanish 2 and 3 students for dancing their hearts out during Zumba class! Huge thanks to Mrs. Tonya Campbell for working with us!

Warren Cook - Shout out to Nan Scanlan for all of the work she puts into the Food pantry. After what can seem like a long day she still works to benefit the community!!

Brad Lawler - Shout out to the Senior art students!!! Your displays are all amazing!!

Brittney Corum - Shout out to all the photographers in the audience during the Unified Track Meet, thank you for being there to catch those moments and memories that can be shared for a lifetime. Again I thank you.

I would like to give a special shout out to all of these individuals for improving the awards program this year. Thank you Christin for the set up and the script and always finding ways to make thinks better. Thank you Amy Fox for the work you put into the slide presentation that was a great addition for everyone involved. Thank you Sam Pavey for helping run the slide presentation with Mrs. Fox during the program. Thank you Zach Hoeing for working on the technology end to be sure we could run the video and slide presentation and also were able to livestream the program.

Mrs. Tague and Mrs. Tillison have had their English 10 students working on careers. They have learned so many things from this process and they all got the chance to present at a class career fair. It was remarkable to see these kids show off what they have learned!!

This week our Senior Art students have been displaying their work in display cases around school and on the Senior Circle. What a great display of talent by these kids!!

Mrs. Tillison had her students complete a Romeo and Juliet project at the end of this unit. A lot of the kids chose set design and the creativity was amazing!!

RCHS Alumni Spotlight for the week is local AFLAC insurance agent, Beverly Stull. She is a 1978 graduate and has made a HUGE impact on Rush County Schools Athletics. I would encourage you to read all of her accomplishments in the spotlight! She encourages students to explore all options and it is ok if you change your path from what you thought it would be.

MONDAY 5/19 - We will be on a RED day Schedule and here are the events planned.

LOCKER CLEAN OUT DAY DURING SRT

*SPORTS*

Golf @ New Castle 4:30 PM

Tennis @ Waldron 5:30 PM

Softball @ Shenandoah 5:30 PM

Baseball @ Franklin County 5:30 PM

TUESDAY 5/20 - We will be on a BLACK day Schedule and here are the events planned.

*SPORTS*

Girls Track Sectionals - TBD

Golf @ New Pal 4:30 PM

V/JV Baseball vs. Lawrenceburg 5:30 PM

Softball @ Waldron 5:30 PM

WEDNESDAY 5/21 - We will be on a RED day Schedule and here are the events planned.

*SPORTS*

Baseball vs. East Central 5:30 PM

Softball vs. Connersville 5:30 PM

THURSDAY 5/22 - We will be on a BLACK day Schedule and here are the events planned.

*SPORTS*

Boys Track Sectionals - TBD

Unified Track @ New Castle 5:30 PM

Baseball vs. Franklin County 5:30 PM

FRIDAY 5/23 - We will be on a RED day Schedule and here are the events planned.

*SPORTS*

JV Baseball vs. North Decatur 5:30 PM

Softball vs. Hagerstown 5:30 PM

Band Awards - 7:00 PM

SATURDAY 5/24 - here are the events planned.

*SPORTS*

Golf @ Connersville Invit. 9:00 AM

Baseball @ Oldenburg 10:00 AM

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