Scientific Prizes And Competitions

Quail named essay contest winner (01/16/10)
Spencer High School sophomore Chayton Quail, the son of Joe and Anne Quail of Spencer, has been named the first-place winner in a Martin Luther King Jr. essay contest. The contest, which was sponsored by the Iowa Department of Human Rights, the Iowa Department of Civil Rights, the Iowa Commission on Volunteer Service and the Division on the Status of African Americans, challenged Iowa students to get involved and make a difference in their communities...

Dance teams gearing up for big December (12/01/09)
Fifteen Spencer Middle School girls have come together to form the Dance Force (above), while 20 young ladies from the high school, comprising "The Strutters" are preparing for their Iowa State competition on Friday at Veteran's Auditorium in Des Moines. ...

Hogs, heart and help (09/18/09)
Three years ago, when Jerry Faulkner, grandfather of Shayla Kaye Rohrbaugh, was working to establish a special fund to assist working class families with medical needs in his late grandchild's honor, he said, "...I hope it to be a legacy instead of just a one- or two-year thing."...

Dance joins list of SHS offerings (08/08/09)
As camps wrap up for the summer, one will still be logging 16 hours over the course of the next two days. No, it's not football, they wrapped up their week of daily two-hour sessions on Friday. No, these campers are working through three, eight-hour days to perfect their craft, battling through sore muscles and nagging injuries just like the participants in Spencer High School's more traditional athletic camps...

Spencer students compete at NASA (04/25/09)
With funding from the Spencer Schools Foundation, eight Spencer High School students and two teachers traveled to NASA in Houston, Texas. Abby Bedore, Aaron Brockshus, Craig Cunningham, Sara Dillard, Tyler Kramer, Mary Krull, Nick Lewis and Andrew Upah, chaperoned by teachers Dave Munson and Elli Wiemers, joined approximately 180 other students and chaperones from 24 northwest Iowa schools on a five-day trip to the Space Settlement Design Contest at Johnson Space Center in Houston...

Spencer Sixth Grade Math Bee Team headed to state (03/27/09)
On Saturday, March 21, the Prairie Lakes Area Education Agency 8 held a Sixth Grade Math Bee in Pochantas. Twelve teams participated in the Math Bee. Participants in the bee completed 5 individual tests and one team test. The Spencer team, made up of Jordan Hansen, Adam Johnson, Cameron Geyer, and Jesse Woock, tied for first place with Algona Seton. ...

SHS students qualify for All-State festival for 34th consecutive year (02/11/09)
Drama students from Spencer High School competed against 92 other schools and an estimated 2,000 students at the Northwest Iowa State Large Group Speech Contest at Spencer High School on Saturday, Feb. 7. Spencer entered 15 different groups in the areas of one-act play, choral reading, readers' theatre, musical theatre, ensemble acting, group mime, solo mime, and group improvisation. ...

Area AEA professional finds new technologies exciting (01/13/09)
Appleton honored with Herb Braselman Award The Herb Braselman Award, named for the late first president of the National Association of Media and Technology Centers (NAMTC) organization, is presented in recognition of exemplary service and leadership for regional media centers and for outstanding contributions to the field of educational media and technology...

For Sylvia Schoer, the time has come (01/02/09)
These days, Sylvia Schoer would like to go down to Des Moines for a state tournament basketball game instead of a committee meeting on mental health. The proud grandparent thinks about the five players on the court more than the five people in a board room or the five terms she spent as a member of the Clay County Board of Supervisors. It was time, she decided, to swap out the meeting agendas for the high school sports schedules...

Sacred Heart staff honored for 'excellence in education' (11/26/08)
Sacred Heart Catholic School in Spencer has one of the highest number of teachers in the Sioux City diocese to have received the Bishop's Excellence in Education Award, which was established to recognize teachers who are dedicated educators in diocesan Catholic schools...

SHS Drama Department recognized for set design (09/18/08)
Spencer's Drama Department is the recipient of a fourth place honorable mention award in the National Set Builders Contest, sponsored by Sceno-Graphics Set Design Co. of New Wilmington, Pa. From the hundreds of entries in the contest, Spencer's entry was among the top 16 schools in the nation...

Spencer instrumental music department completes three days of performances (05/09/08)
Students of the Spencer Community Schools Instrumental Music Department recently completed three days of performances and contests, which they capped off with Division I ratings. The series of concerts, tours and contests involved over 300 band students ranging grades from five through 12...

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