Wellnitz Wins State FFA Junior Speaking Contest!

We're still waiting on a list of full results and pictures from the Nebraska State FFA Convention held in Lincoln this past week. This is Chadron High School's first year hosting an FFA Chapter in over 50 years. We excited to share some of the highlights from the State Convention.

The biggest highlight came during the Friday night banquet when it was announced that CHS sophomore, Kane Wellnitz was named the State Champion in the Junior Public Speaking contest!

Other highlights include:

Chadron Agriscience Team was awarded a blue ribbon.
Individual finishers:

• Clay Madsen
• Purple ribbon in Agriscience
• Purple ribbon in Natural Resources
• Lanie Riesen
• Purple ribbon in Livestock Evaluation: Senior Division
• Toni Doescher
• Blue ribbon in Agriscience
• White ribbon in Natural Resources
• Willy Cogdill
• Red ribbon in Livestock Evaluation: Senior Division
• Jerhett Cattin
• Red ribbon in Meat Evaluation
• Murphy Churchill
• White ribbon in Agriscience

CHS Personal Finance Team Qualifies For Regional Contest!

We received notice this past weekend that Chadron High School has qualified a team to compete at the Finance Challenge Regional Competition in Kearney on April 19th.

Mrs. Buldler entered teams of three from her Personal Finance class. The team consisting of: Jayden Garrett, Logan Gimeson, and Logan Lembke finished in the top five of all Western Nebraska teams earning the regional berth. This statewide contest is sponsored by the Nebraska Council on Economic Education.

There is big prize money up for grabs at the Regional Competitions!

Each regional competition will have 1^st, 2^nd, and 3^rd place winners.   The three 1st place regional winners will be ranked by their scores from the preliminary online round of competition to determine the State Champion team, and 2^nd and 3^rd overall in the state. 

• The regional winner with highest online score will be awarded 1st place and will be the state championship team moving on to the National competition in St. Louis on May 2.  All travel expenses will be paid for all team members and the teacher. Each team member will receive a $2000 Nebraska College Savings Plan.
• The regional winner awarded 2nd place will earn a $1000 Nebraska College Savings Plan for each team member.
• The regional winner awarded 3rd place will earn a $500 Nebraska College Savings Plan for each team member.

The second and third place winning teams in each region will also receive prize money. 

• 2nd place regional winning team members each will receive a $100 cash prize.
• 3rd place regional winning team members each will receive a $50 each cash prize.

Each team will be given a hypothetical family scenario.  They will have two hours to create a PowerPoint presentation on their financial recommendations for the family.  Each team will have 10 minutes to present their financial plan to our panel of expert judges.  Teams must bring their own laptop computer(s).  Each team will have a private study area for working.  Free wireless Internet access is available in the building.

FBLA Attends State Leadership Conference

The Chadron High Future Leaders of America attended the annual State Leadership Conference in Omaha on April 2­5. While at the conference, students participated in a bigbusiness tour of Werner Enterprises, listened to the keynote speaker, Laymon Hicks, and attended a variety of workshops.  But most importantly, Chadron students competed amongst all class levels in many different business competitions.  This conference was one of the biggest in years with over 2,400 students and advisors in attendance this year. Chadron was  also represented well by the local FBLA chapter as students took trips across the stage to receive their awards.  Caston Stack placed 3rd in both Computer Problem Solving and Computer Application events. Placing third at the state level gives him the honors to represent Nebraska at the 2014 National Conference in Nashville, TN in June. Caston also received honorable mention (which is the top 4%) in Personal Finance and Business Calculations. Bailea Kerr, Peyton Hinn and Michael Martin received 6th place for Website Design. Our Community Service project placed 7th and was completed by Kaylee Gaswick, Veronica Parish and Peyton Hinn.  Greta Welch also placed 7th in the Spelling event.  Honorable mentions were also given to Bailea Kerr for Business Law, and Corbin Johnson for Health Care Administration. Honors also went to Allie Johnson, Bailea Kerr, Peyton Hinn, Veronica Parish and Kaylee Gaswick for qualifying for the All­State Quality Member and Kaylee was Chadron’s representative for Who’s Who in Nebraska FBLA and received a plaque for that honor.  As a chapter, Chadron received the Sweepstakes Award also earning a plaque.  The following is a list of the awards and accomplishments among members in attendance:


● Computer Problem Solving – Caston Stack – 3rd Place (out of 146 students)

● Computer Applications  – Caston Stack – 3rd  Place (out of 70 students)

● Community Service – Kaylee Gaswick, Peyton Hinn and Veronica Parish – 7 place (out of 24 projects)

● Website Design – Bailea Kerr, Peyton Hinn and Michael Martin – 6th place (out of 20 teams)

● Business Calculations ­ Caston Stack ­ Honorable Mention (top 4% of 539 students)

● Personal Finance ­ Caston Stack ­ Honorable Mention (top 4% of 606 students)

● Business Law – Bailea Kerr  – Honorable Mention (top 4% of 290 students)

● Health Care Administration & Management – Corbin Johnson  – Honorable Mention  (top 4% of 324 students)

● All­State Quality Member Award – Veronica Parish, Allie Johnson, Peyton Hinn, Bailea Kerr and Kaylee Gaswick

● Chapter Sweepstakes Award

● Who’s Who in Nebaska FBLA Award – Kaylee Gaswick

Advanced Biology Dissects Turtles

Along with many hours of taking notes and studying, Mr. Bradley's Advanced Biology class opened up a world of hands-on learning activities. Not only has the class dissected crawfish, and frogs, but recently they were able to dissect a turtle.

The class learned many skills during this lab, listening and following directions on a paper, teamwork, and the slow and steady hands of a scientist dissecting its specimen. The class was divided up into groups of two, each group received their own materials and turtle to dissect. The process was difficult. The removal of the shell allowed the students to realize the importance of the turtle's protection, and how strong it really was.

Following each step, the groups carefully analyzed the organs inside the turtle, allowing them to see where these systems take place, broadening their understanding of how a turtle's internal organs work.

After tedious work sorting and identifying structures and organs students answered questions in the lab worksheet. All of the steps that they took improved their knowledge of the turtle and showed another efficient method of studying, hands-on. The students greatly enjoyed the lab and learning about the turtle.

Congratulations to CHS Scholastic Contest Winners!

Chadron High School competed in the 2014 CSC Scholastic Contest on Friday, April 4th. Chadron HS finished 4th out of 14 schools in Division III (1st - Wright HS, 2nd - St. Thomas More HS, 3rd - Bridgeport HS).  

Click here for a full list of results

Top 5 Finishes:

• Logan Lembke
• 1st - Advanced Mathematics
• 2nd - place in Business Law
• Aaron Gaswick
• 1st - American History
• Clay Madsen
• 1st - Wildlife Ecology and Management
• Alex Weserbuhr
• 2nd - Business Mathematics
• Liz Darnell
• 2nd - American Government
• Devon Mitchell
• 3rd - Veterinary Sciences
• 4th - Business Law
• Aly Crow
• 3rd - Business Management Decision Making
• Jennifer VanVleet
• 4th - Eagle Cook-Off
• Greg McCallum
• 5th - World History
• Miles Chasek
• 5th - Wildlife Ecology and Management

Film Crew Arrives!

We're very excited to host the Nebraska Loves Public Schools film crew today.  Several staff and student interviews are taking place as well as cameras filming footage in our halls and classrooms.

The film is focussed on individualized instruction of students. We'll anxiously await the final production which will air on The State of Education in Nebraska series on NET2 this June. Videos can also be found on nelovesps.org.

Ashtyn interviewing

Interview with Mrs. Hinrichs