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This month, three career and technical education organizations at Summerland Public Schools have attended state conventions, giving students an opportunity to show knowledge gained in the classroom and compete in a variet of events. FFA The Summerland FFA Chapter attended its state convention, in Lincoln, April 3 to 5. Two students received gold medals, including Jenna Funk in cooperative speaking and Braelyn Bergman, discovery speaking. Two groups received silver awards. The Conduct of Chapter...
Carlee Livingston will represent the Summerland speech team at the 2024 NSAA Class C2 State Speech Championships, Thursday, March 21, at Kearney High School. Livingston advances after a third-place finish in persuasive speaking at Monday's Class C2-3 district meet in Hartington. Six other speech students qualified for finals. Alanna Doll finished fifth in informative speaking. Brandon Pruden placed fifth in oral interpretation of humorous prose. In oral interpretation of drama, Addisyn...
What a great time to be a Bobcat! Our students are shining in all activities. Backtrack to November when the volleyball team qualified for state competition and the football team played in two rounds of the playoff system. Nothing like starting the year off on the right foot. The marching band did well at competition in Wayne. Speech and drama students continue to earn awards. Next week, the speechsters compete in a tough C2 district, a trip to the state meet on the line. I have a feeling...
Summerland speech students have competed in three invites since Feb. 17 and several students have placed in finals. At the Battle Creek Invite, on Feb. 17, Alanna Doll placed fifth in informative speaking in the next-in finals and 11th in overall event standings. On Wednesday, Feb. 21, the team traveled to Stuart for the Niobrara Valley Conference meet. Three students received medals. Doll ended fifth in informative speaking. Brandon Pruden placed sixth in humorous prose. In persuasive...
Seven members of the Bobcat speech team competed Saturday at the West Holt Invitational. Summerland’s lone varsity medal winner was Yuliana Olivan who came in second in entertainment speaking. Also competing at the varsity level were oral interpretation of drama team members Brandon Pruden, Owen Jeffords, Olivan and Addisyn Fletcher, who came in one place out of the medal round. Pruden also competed in humorous prose. Carlee Livingston competed in persuasive speaking, while Raina Krebs competed in entertainment speaking. The team was eighth o...
Six members of the Summerland speech team competed at Hartington on Saturday. Award winners in varsity competition in the Honors Division included Carlee Livingston, fourth persuasive speaking and Yuliana Olivan, Addisyn Fletcher, Owen Jefford and Brandon Pruden, fourth, oral interpretation of drama. In the junior varsity division, Fletcher finished fourth in oral interpretation of poetry finals. Jadyn Hobbs received fourth place in informative public speaking. Also competing were Olivan in entertainment speaking; Pruden, oral interpretation...
District 4 Leadership Development Events were held Dec. 6 at Lutheran High Northeast. Summerland FFA advisor Jacob Goldfuss said the local chapter took took 20 members and they all did very well. "There are 20 schools in our district and each chapter can send two individuals or teams for every contest, so to get top three and make it to state is quite hard," Goldfuss said. In addition to the two teams in the photos, several individuals qualifed or will be an alternate for state. Jenna Funk got...
Faith King is no stranger to the award stage at Fonner Park in Grand Island. The Summerland SkillsUSA Chapter president landed there again Saturday, for the fourth time, when she was named winner in job skills demonstration A at the 2023 Nebraska SkillsUSA Convention. King, along with Carlee Livingston and Julie Olivan, struck gold in their respective categories. They will represent Nebraska, June 19 to 23, at the SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills Conference, in Atlanta, Georgia....
Summerland speech team members competing in last Thursday's Class C2 state championship in Kearney finished the season by earning superior ratings. Faith King finished ninth overall after preliminary rounds in informative speaking, with a presentation on nostalgia. King received a total of 143 speaking points out of a possible 150. Judges ranked her third, sixth and first in preliminary round competition. Olga Mendoza finished ninth overall after preliminary rounds in serious prose. She...
Faith King, Olga Mendoza and Adrienne Parker will be among the 1,153 competitors descending on Kearney, Wednesday through Friday, for the 2023 Nebraska School Activities Association State Speech Championships at Kearney High School. The three Bobcat speakers qualified for this week's Class C2 state competition last Wednesday, as 14 Summerland speech team members traveled to Plainview to compete in the C2-3 district speech competition. Seven students broke finals in 10 events. Following the...
A public performance, featuring members of the Bobcat speech team, will be held at Summerland School, Tuesday, March 7, at 7 p.m. Individuals and groups will present their district-competition pieces. Seniors, along with their parents, will also be recognized....
Summerland "speechsters" earned four medals at the Creighton Speech Invite, held Friday, Feb. 17. Champs finals medal winners included Faith King, third, informative speaking and poetry interpretation; Olga Mendoza, third, serious prose and Yuliana Olivan, fourth, entertainment speaking. Award winners in the next-in division included Brandon Pruden, fourth, humorous prose; Carlee Livingston, fourth, entertainment speaking and Adrienne Parker, Audrey Parker, Talya Nilson and Olivan, fourth, oral...
Summerland Public School hosted the Niobrara Valley Conference speech tournament, Wednesday, Feb. 15. The Bobcat "speechsters" placed sixth as a team behind Pope John, Stuart, West Holt, Elgin and St. Mary's. Medal winners from Summerland included: Olga Mendoza, third, serious prose interpretation and poetry interpretation; Yuliana Olivan, third, entertainment speaking; Faith King, fourth, poetry; Adrienne Parker, sixth, persuasive; and Talya Nilson and Irelyn Bearinger, sixth, duet...
Fourteen members of the Summerland speech team competed at the West Holt Invitational on Saturday, coming in seventh of 18 teams. Earning top honors in entertainment speaking was Yulianna (Julie) Olivan, who earned a first-place rating from both judges in preliminary rounds and also from both judges in the final round. She earned 197 of a possible 200 rating points. Other medal winners were as follows: Faith King, fourth, poetry interpretation; Olga Mendoza, fourth, serious prose and sixth,...
Ten members of the Summerland speech team competed at the Practice Makes "Perfekt" Invitational at Wisner-Pilger High School, Jan. 14. The Bobcats earned sixth place as a team behind Twin River, Wisner-Pilger, Homer, Laurel-Concord-Coleridge and Archbishop Bergan. Scribner-Snyder was seventh, followed by West Point-Beemer, North Bend, Stanton, Pender, South Sioux City, Wakefield and Allen Consolidated. Senior speaker Olga Mendoza took top honors in serious prose while Yulianna Olivan and Alanna...
Members of the Summerland speech team compete and judge, Saturday, at the Stuart Novice Speech Tournament. The novice oral interpretation of drama team participated in the meet. Varsity speakers Adrienne Parker and Olga Mendoza judged events. Attending were Sydni McConnell, Parker, Irelyn Bearinger, Mendoza, Emma King and Brandon Pruden....
Summerland speech team competed in the District C2-3 competition at Hartington-Newcastle, March 1. Four speakers earned medals and one will advance to the NSAA State Speech Championships in Kearney. Jacob Behnk qualified for the state contest after earning the silver medal in extemporaneous speaking. Also breaking into the final round were Adrienne Parker, fifth, persuasive speaking; Julie Olivan, sixth in entertainment speaking and Faith King, fifth, informative speaking. Behnk will compete...
The expansion of an agriculture education program has boosted membership in Summerland's FFA chapter. Advisor Jacob Goldfuss said 46 students, grades seven through 12, participate in the organization which combines classroom learning, field experience and community service. It's the largest group since the Summerland chapter originated last year. Goldfuss' credits his enthusiasm for ag education and FFA to his high school career, at O'Neill Public Schools. "The organization and classes help...
Due to illness and other commitments, a small number of Summerland speakers traveled to Burwell, Feb. 11 and Wausa, Feb. 12, to compete in their respective invitationals. Varsity medal winners at Burwell included Julie Olivan, fourth, and Jacob Behnk, eighth, in entertainment speaking and Carlee Livingston, sixth, in informative speaking. At Wausa, junior varsity medal winners were Julie Olivan, third, entertainment; Yazlin Zermeno third and Raina Krebs, sixth, in oral interpretation of...
Bobcat speech team members have found success early this season, including two public speakers who have made their way to the top of the medalist stand. At the Jan. 15 Practice Makes Perfekt meet, at Wisner-Pilger, junior Faith King won informative speaking. Julie Olivan and Alanna Doll placed fourth in duet acting. On Jan. 22, the Bobcats hosted the Summerland Speech Invitational and finished in fourth place, with 150 points. Stuart scored 330 points to win the team title, edging runner- up...
Four novice Summerland speakers traveled to Stuart, Saturday, for Stuart's inaugural novice speech meet. Schools in attendance were Pope John, Stuart, Summerland and West Holt. Coach Julie Harley said the event helped the young competitors learn what to expect as they enter the world of competitive speech. No medals were awarded and team sweepstakes points were not recorded, but the results are as follows: Julie Olivan and Alanna Doll, first, duet acting; Carlee Jo Livingston, fourth, public...
It was a day for the record books. After pushing back the official start date for the 2021-2022 school year, Summerland kindergarten through 12th-grade students reported to class Monday under one roof, 16 months after construction began, and nearly three and one-half months ahead of the original completion date, at the cornfield school located at the intersection of 513 Avenue and Summerland Road. School buses, shuttles and cars led a steady of procession, delivering students to the unloading...
Three Summerland School students competed in the virtual SkillsUSA national competition earlier this summer. SkillsUSA prepares students for careers in technical, skilled and trade occupations. According to the organization's website, more than 372,655 students and instructors participate annually. The program helps students investigate 79 potential career paths in 16 career clusters. Summerland students competed in state competition, virtually, in April and winners advanced to the national...
Summerland students will start the 2021-2022 school year under one roof. The decision to set Monday, Aug. 30 as the first day of classes for kindergarten through 12th grade students was announced July 12 at the board of education meeting, in Ewing. Preschool students will attend classes beginning Aug. 31. After a building update from John Wieser, of Hausmann Construction, Superintendent Kyle Finke presented an amended school calendar. "I would like to have us all in the same building at the...
