North Scott District Spelling Bee

Students from all 5 elementary schools and the junior high competed in North Scott's District Spelling Bee hosted by the Rock Island Argus/Moline Dispatch. Seven 4th grade students, eleven 5th grade students, eight 6th grade students, four 7th grade students, and one 8th grade students competed against each other in rounds. This year, the coordinator, Sandee Luster, explained some changes to the program. In addition to the 6 winners of the district bee, the school bee winners would also receive the opportunity to attend the regional bee to be held on March 2 at Augustana College.Winners from the regional bee were:
Brady Frank - Ed White 5th grade - overall district bee winner and school bee winner
Brittany Bullock - Neil Armstrong 5th grade - district finalist and school bee winner
Emma Horsfield - Virgil Grissom 5th grade - district finalist and school bee winner
Brenna Kendel - John Glenn 5th grade - district finalist and school bee winner
Allison Triplett - Neil Armstrong 6th grade - district finalist
Shane Scull - NSJH 8th grade - district finalist and school bee winner
Isabel Brimeyer - Alan Shepard 4th grade - school bee winner
Kendal Newman - Alan Shepard 5th grade - school bee winner 

Geography Bee

NSJH students competed in the 2010 Geography Bee. 18 students in 7th and 8th grade competed after school to find the overall school winner. These students represented the winners of their classroom bees. The first round eliminated to the top 8 winners, and those top 8 competed in a final round. The final round eliminated down to the top 2 contestants, and those 2 contestants competed in a championship round. The winner was Kyle Apple, a 7th grader. Kyle will complete a written examination, that will be submitted to the state Geography Bee in January. Wish him luck!

North Scott Nuclear Awareness Team

The members of NSNA got the opportunity to meet with Bill Stoermer, who is the Communications Director for Exelon Power Plant. He was able to share some information with them about the nuclear power plant and emergency preparedness. This information will help them with their project in progress. Next step - field trip to the power plant!

High School Mock Trial Team

Attention Students:

I am hoping to start up a high school mock trial team this school year, but I need your help! The team this year will meet from January until the competition in March. Practices will be held once a week during the school day and once a week after school to prepare for competition. The case this year will be a civil case. Please see me if you are interested in being on the team!!

North Scott Community Hunger Fighters

The North Scott Community Hunger Fighters are conducting a holiday pet food drive for the North Scott Food Pantry. They are collecting food pet and supplies to help people who utilize the pantry. Watch their video!

Thinker's Throwdown

NSHS team consisting of Brock Brade, Kayla Kaasa, Michael Hackbarth, TJ Reed and alternate Ashley Raleigh competed in the 2nd annual Thinker's Throwdown competition hosted by Victory Enterprises and Mediacom. The rounds will be broadcast on Mediacom On Demand in the next few weeks. Watch to see our students in action!

NSJH Spelling Bee

North Scott Junior High held its school level Spelling Bee on Wednesday, November 18. Over 60 students registered to compete at the after-school event. After 8 rounds, the five winners were announced: the top school winner Shane Scull, and runners-up Cate Cook, Melissa Maylum, Kristen Drinnon, and Rhedt Roelandt. These students will prepare for a North Scott District competition to be held at the JH on Tuesday, December 14 at 6:30 P.M.

Math Olympiad Team

The Junior High Math Olympiad team completed their first of 5 monthly competitions on Wednesday. The team is comprised of 8 members: Ryder Hubner, Michael Wedemeyer, Evan Hundley, Kirk Kreiter, Hope Yates, Katelynn Rheingans, Tanner Greve, and Jacob Willet. The team meets weekly to review math problems and strategies at an advanced level. Every month the team completes a timed test of 5 advanced math problems and those results are submitted online. The team competes at a national level against other middle school teams. Prizes are awarded for top scoring teams and individuals. For the month of November, both Michael Wedemeyer and Jacob Willet received perfect scores.

Iowa Junior High Mock Trial Competition

NSJH's 8th grade mock trial team competed on Saturday, Nov. 13 at the Iowa Junior High Mock Trial Competition held at the Scott County Courthouse. At 8:00AM team members presented their defense case against Camanche Middle School and at 11:00AM they presented their plaintiff case against Wood Middle School. They performed in an outstanding manner! Sydney Evitts was recognized as an outstanding witness and Rebekah Arana, Kelci Page, and Evan Hundley were recognized as outstanding attorneys. Although they did not make it to the state level competition, they represented North Scott extremely well. Go Lancers!

JH Mock Trial School Competition

The 7th Grade Plaintiff team faced off against the 8th Grade Defense team in last night's mock trial competition. Students presented an entire case of Bran Philsted vs. The DM Dinosaurs Baseball Club. Judges were attorney-coach Ryan Weber and former TAG teacher Cindee Schnekloth. After the case concluded, students had a pizza party to celebrate. The 8th grade team will head to Scott County Courthouse on Saturday, November 13 for both an 8:30AM round against Camanche and an 11:00AM round against Wood. Wish them luck as they represent North Scott!

Thinker's Throwdown Elimination Round

The Thinker's Throwdown team competed Monday night at Blackhawk College in an elimination round. The team, comprised of seniors TJ Reed and Kayla Kaasa, juniors Brock Brade(absent) and Ashley Raleigh, and sophomore Michael Hackbarth, had to answer a series of 50 multiple choice questions. Their next competition is scheduled for Thursday, November 18 at Victory Enterprises in Davenport. Way to represent North Scott!!

Thinker's Throwdown

On Monday, November 8, a team of 5 North Scott High School students will be competing against area high schools at Blackhawk College for a Thinker's Throwdown elimination round. The 5 students are: Kayla Kaasa, TJ Reed, Brock Brade, Ashley Raleigh, and Michael Hackbarth. They will represent North Scott at an elimination round to be held at 6:30 p.m. If they do well, they will move on to competition on November 18 at the Victory Store in Davenport for the top scoring 16 area teams. All of these rounds will be televised and aired on Mediacom throughout the month of December. Wish them luck!!

NSNA

The 8th grade Community Problem Solving team is made up of Nick Jamison, Alex Bare, Dan Stutting, and Kirk Kreiter. They are called North Scott Nuclear Awareness (NSNA) and have a goal of educating the public about nuclear awareness. Today they conducted some research at 2 schools within the 10 mile radius of the Cordova power plant. NSNA visited Virgil Grissom and Alan Shepard and conducted a survey with 5th and 6th grade students about nuclear awareness. Next steps - compile the data and come up with an underlying problem.

NSJH Spelling Bee

What: NSJH Spelling Bee
When: Wednesday, November 17th at 3:00 p.m.
Where: Media Center
Who: All 7-8 JH students who want to participate

*Sign up sheets are posted on L.A. teachers' doors. Information about the bee and the word study list are available from the L.A. teachers.

*If you have any questions, please ask me! I will be more than happy to answer your questions!

Junior High Conferences

Junior High parents, please feel free to come and visit with me during conferences Thursday, October 21 and Tuesday, October 26. I will be located in Mrs. Green's room from 3:30 to 7:30. I would love to visit with you!

Scenario Writing

By now, any student interested in completing scenario writing for this fall should have scheduled their first meeting with Ms. Redmond. Please bring your up-to-date work with you for review. Reminder that you must meet with Ms. Redmond twice before October 29 to satisfy the speaking requirements for your October Honors English component.

Mock Trial

We are now 3 weeks away from our school competition - 7th grade vs. 8th grade. It will be held after school on November 10 from 3 to 5. The teams will compete against each other and be judged and we will conclude with a pizza party. It is very important that team members attend every team session possible between now and then. Here is the schedule of upcoming practices:

Wednesday, October 20 - 1st period 7th grade, 3rd period 8th grade, 3-5 PM everyone

Monday, October 25 - 2nd period 7th grade, 4th period 8th grade, 3-5 PM everyone

Wednesday, October 27 - 3-5 PM everyone

Thursday, October 28 - Field trip to Scott County Courthouse 8:00 - 1:30 (will need $ for lunch)

Monday, November 1 - 1st period 7th grade, 3rd period 8th grade, 3-5 PM everyone

Wednesday, November 3 - 3rd period 7th grade, 4th period 8th grade

Friday, November 5 - 1st period 8th grade, 4th period 7th grade

Monday, November 8 - 1st period 7th grade, 2nd period 8th grade, 3-5 PM everyone

Wednesday, November 10 - 3-5 PM School Competition/Pizza Party (will need to bring $5)

Friday, November 12 - 3rd period 8th grade

Saturday, November 13 - Regional Competition Scott County Courthouse 8 - 3? (will need $10 for lunch)

ITAG Conference

I attended an ITAG conference in Des Moines with 2 other TAG teachers on Monday and Tuesday. There were 400 TAG educators at the conference and we were fortunate enough to hear many talented speakers and attend 7 different learning sessions. It was a very inspiring conference. I learned about things like Mock Trial, Invent Iowa, Future City 4000, and Academic Decathlon.  We are already implementing Mock Trial at both the Junior High and the High School and Invent Iowa at the Junior High, but I learned more information about the programs and how to be more effective. I am looking forward to implementing Future City 4000 at the Junior High in the school year of 2011-2012 and hopefully Academic Decathlon at the High School in the near future. If you are a 7th grade student, and you think you might be interested in Future City 4000 next year, please stop and visit with me. It involves using Sim City software to design a futuristic city and then building a complex, scale model of a city 150 years in the future. Exciting!