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!!