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Six middle school students attended the tournament of Champions State Contest in at redlands Community College in El reno on April 6, 2018.
to qualify for the State competition, students must place fi rst, second, or third on a curricular or scholas-tic test in language arts, humanities & fi ne arts, math, science, current events, reading or social studies.
Qualifi ers include: Haley Kagy, 8th grade language Arts and 8th grade Science; Chance lasiter, 8th grade Social Studies; Gage Miller, 7th grade Math, Science, language Arts, & Humanities; Serenity Jor-
dan, 6th grade Science; lucas lay-ton, 6th grade Science; and Cruz Gonzalez, 6th grade Current Events & 6th grade Social Studies.
Gage Miller also qualifi ed to take the tournament of Champi-ons Scholar test by qualifi ying in four subject areas. Th e 200 ques-tion test covered six subject areas.
Cruz Gonzalez placed 8th in So-cial Studies and Gage Miller placed 9th in Humanities, 8th in So-cial Studies, 4th in Science, 3rd in Math, and 3rd in the Scholar test.
Mrs. Seigel is their sponsor.
Middle School Students Attend Tournament of Champions
Th e Welch High School chapter of Business Professionals of America (BPA) attended the State leadership Conference March 12-14 in tulsa, oK.
Welch students competed in vari-ous competitions and attended leadership academy workshops on Monday, attended the general ses-sion & business meeting on tuesday and attended the awards ceremony on Wednesday. Jaci Clinton and Emily Piercefi eld served as voting delegates at the business meeting. Th eir role was to listen to cam-paign speeches from students run-ning for the state executive council and to vote on an amendment to the bylaws. Competitors and their results are as follows: Grace Small, 1st in Financial Math & Analysis; Addey Small, 1st in Fundamentals of Desktop Publishing and 2nd in Financial Math & Analysis; Aubrey layton, 2nd in Prepared Speech; Justin Haskell, top 8 fi nalist in Fun-damentals of Spreadsheets; Corin-thian Bowin, top 8 fi nalist in Ad-vanced Spreadsheets. Jaci Clinton also competed in Advanced Spread-sheets & intermediate Word Pro-cessing. Th eir sponsor is Gala Miller.
Welch BPA Attends State Leadership Conference
High school and middle School students from across northeaster n oklahoma descended on the rog-ers State University campus Th urs-day to test their engineering and drone-fl ying skills during the 6th annual Aero Games Powered by Google. Th is year’s annual aero games at rSU campus included over 150 students and 18 teams includ-ing Welch. Sponsored by Google, this year’s aero games provided a competition in which students had to make a successfully fl ying drone and fl y it through a complex ob-stacle course created specifi cally for
Welch High School Places 2nd in Google Drone Competition
the event. Th is is the sixth year that rSU has teamed up with Google to host the games. Googlers scored the fl ights with criteria such as time, speed, distance, and accuracy.
Welch had a team of six students that included Brady Chenoweth, tristan Davis, Korbin Booth, Halle rupert, Chloe Hitz, and Jessie Pitcher. Th is was Welch’s fi rst year to compete in the Aero Games and they did a fantastic job, placing second amongst all of the teams. Some of the students are already making plans to compete again next year.
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The March students of the month have been selected by a vote of the faculty. The Elementary students are Kyndall Dorsey and Gabe Boston, the Middle School Student is Jenna Burgess and the High School Students are Charlsie Gatewood and Madisen Horton.
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Kyndall Dorsey is in 2nd grade. She is the daughter of John and Christina Dorsey. Her favorite subject is recess because you get to play. Her heroes are the Wild Kratts characters. Kyn-dall’s favorite thing to do outside of school is play at her friends’ houses.When Kyndall grows up she wants to be a zookeeper.
Gabe Boston is in 5th grade. He is the son of Matt and Angie Bos-ton. His favorite subject is social studies because he gets to color. His hero is Felton, his neighbor. Gabe’s favorite thing to do out-side of school is play basketball. When Gabe grows up he would like to be a banker like his dad.
March Students Of The Month
(l-r): Madisen Horton, Charlcie Gatewood, Kyndall Dorsey, Gabe Boston, and Jenna Burgess
MiDDlE SCHool
Jenna Burgess is in 6th grade. She is the daughter of Heather and Shane Burgess. Her favorite subject is Math because it is easy for her to understand. Her extracurricular activities include showing, judging, and dancing. Jenna also plays softball, basketball and throws shot and disc. She is looking forward to taking Ag in high school. After she graduates, Jenna wants to play softball at oklahoma State.
HiGH SCHool
Charlcie Gatewood is in 9th grade. She is the daughter of tobie and ryan Gatewood. Her favorite subject is Math because it comes easy to her. Her extracurricular
activities include FFA and rodeo. Her biggest inspiration is Hailey Kinsel. Charlcie’s future goals are to attend Sam Houston State University on a rodeo scholarship and become a veterinarian.
Madisen Horton is a senior. She is the daughter of Jeanie and russell Horton. Her favorite subject is Art because she loves being creative and making stuff. Madisen’s extracurricular activities include NHS, FCA, FFA, BPA, yearbook, Art Club, and Student Council. Her biggest inspiration is her mom. Her future goals are to go to Southwestern Christian University to play softball, get a good education to enable her to have a career that she will enjoy.
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The April students of the month have been selected by a vote of the faculty. The Elementary students are Natashia Biddle and Grady Gatewood, middle school student is Avery Brannon, and the high school students are Brady Chenoweth and levi Street.
Elementary
Natashia Biddle is in 1st Grade. She is the daughter of Billy and Amber Biddle. Her favorite subject is Math because you get to learn about numbers. Her hero is her dad. Natashia’s favorite thing to do outside of school is play outside with her chickens. When Natashia grows up, she wants to be a farmer.
Grady Gatewood is in 4th grade. He is the son of ryan and tobie Gatewood. His favorite subject is reading because he likes learning about new things. His heroes are Marty yates and Coleman Proctor. His favorite thing to do outside of school is rodeo. When Grady grows up he would like to be a rancher and world champion calf roper.
April Students Of The Month
(l-r): Levi Street, Brady Chenoweth, Natashia Biddle, Grady Gatewood, Avery Brannon
Middle School
Avery Brannon is in 8th grade. She is the daughter of Matt and Andra Brannon. Her favorite subject is Math because she likes figuring out problems. in her spare time, she likes to mess around with her dog, Minnie, hang out with friends, and play softball. Her extracurricular activities include church, FCA, 4-H, gymnastics, Gt, and youth Group. Avery plays travel and school softball, basketball, cheer, gymnastics, and track. Her biggest inspirations are her mom and dad.
High SchoolBrady Chenoweth is in 9th grade. He is the son of Eric and Krystal Chenoweth. His favorite subject is StEM because they do a lot of hands-on work. His extracurricular
activities include archery, tSA, and FCA. He plays baseball and basketball. Brady’s biggest inspiration is Salvador Perez. His future goals are to play baseball at oSU while studying engineering.
levi Street is in 12th Grade. He likes all the subjects equally because they’re the same for every class--there’s good days and bad days. He played on the football team and his biggest inspiration is his father. levi’s future goal is to graduate from oSUit as a lineman.
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Mrs. Biggs’ 1st Grade
All A’sHalle Brenton
Jocelyn ChannelHadley ChenowethBraxtyn Endelmann
Grady GleavesCaidence GomesAdalyn McCordBraxton Rider
Angelica SenglaubBrody Walker
All A’s and B’sNatashia BiddleJessie BowmanDanielle CraneRhett Griswold
Ben HitzMaddison Kagy
Evelyn KelleyUlises Villa
Brandy WaggonerAbigail WebsterJae’Lee Wilbur
Mrs. Thomason’s 2nd Grade
All A’sKynall Dorsey
Max EtzelWhitley Goodwin
Zoey WalkerMajen Wiegand
All A’s and B’sBreklynn Bauersfeld
Justice BushersWyatt Cook
Gracelynn DarbyWill FullbrightLandon Hart
Miranda MayfieldRyder Riddle
Kynlee ShafferAnna Villa
Mason WebsterBriana Wilson
Mrs. Headlee’s 3rd Grade
All A’sElijah Alaniz
Joseph ClintonDevin Massey
Lilliana Rodriguez
All A’s and B’sThomas Ashworth
Landon BeatyJenna Channel
Rhett HoweIssac Johnston
Leon LeeBreely Mills
Rosalinda MoralesColton Moss
Mrs. Sharp’s 4th Grade
All A’sJaylee CastleGracie CookSeth Higgins
Trapper JohnsonAlexus Lasiter
Esmeralda MoralesHayden Smith
All A’s and B’sKade Burgess
Madolyn CampidilliMaverick Campidilli
Naomi CollinsDale Frost
Grady GatewoodJake Haraughty
Eric PitcherKaitlyn Senglaub
Kaden SmithDouglas StevensJamee WatsonKaitlin Wright
Mrs. Haraughty’s 5th Grade
All A’sCamryn Etzel
All A’s and B’sGabe Boston
Gage BuchananMason Clinton
Nicole FeltynowskiBryson JohnstonAndrew Massey
Sage McLainBrody Mills
Lulu MooneyEaston Schaefer
Cash TuckerCheyenne Vaughn
Tyler Webster
Welch Elementary 3rd Nine Weeks Honor Roll
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Welch High School 3rd Nine Weeks Honor RollSuperintendent’s Honor Roll
Chenoweth, BradyGatewood, Charlcie
Hitz, ChloeWindle, DanielJohnson, Lily
Perkins, BrennaeChenoweth, Addison
Haskell, HaileySchaper, Maddison
Small, AddeyLayton, Aubrey
Earp, TyTucker, RandiSmall, GraceArnold, Alex
Arnold, HayleeJohns, CheyenneJorgenson, JaeliWelch, AmandaWood, Aspen
Principal’s Honor RollBooth, Korbin
Hayward, SaylerLayton, Landry
Rife, RachelRupert, HallePitcher, Jessie
Bradbury, EmoreeClinton, Jaci
Beaty, NathanHayward, SethLee, Micheal
Jordan, ColemanHorton, MadisenJohnson, MarySeigel, Trenton
Chenoweth, OliviaAtwood, JayciClark, Ethan
Morgan, AshleeJohnson, GunnerGilman, MadisonWestbrook, Jerry
Honorable Mention Honor Roll
Foust, RobbyLauchner, ShylyHaskell, Justin
Piercefield, EmilyBooth, JakobFoust, TaylorPitcher, Olivia
Wiegand, KaseLester, Clayton
Baker, JoshArmstrong, Colton
Street, LeviDry, Chandler
Welch Middle School 3rd Nine Weeks Honor RollSuperintendent’s
Honor RollBurgess, Jenna
Haraughty, NolanJordan, SerenityMaple, EmmaTucker, Dalani
Tucker, TyWelch, Kaylee
Hall, KaileyMiller, Gage
Perryman, BooneSmith, Lexi
Brannon, AveryEtzel, ReaganSchaper, SethSmall, RoseTucker, Kelli
Principal’s Honor RollAshworth, Olivia
Layton, LucasHaws, Tea
Cook, MayceeMills, Tarynne
Morgan, AbbeyBiggs, Bryndl
Bradbury, AllieEarp, Taryn
Jordan, JaggerKagy, Haley
Mcguire, OliviaTucker, Kevi
Lester, Aubrie
Honorable Mention Honor Roll
Gonzalez, CruzMorgan, ChadeSenglaub, MariaWiegand, Mason
Howe, AlidaleBlalock, Myka
Johnson, JulianaBray, Madison
Johnson, AdaannLinthicum, JadenArmstrong, LydiaWright, KristinaHaskell, AustinJohnson, Dylan
Smith, EthanFonseca, MarcosCook, Madison
Lee, FaithDotson, AutumnCosterisan, EthanLasiter, Chance
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5th Graders Dissecting Owl Pellets
5th Graders Working On Science Projects
How Well Do You Know Our Staff?1 - Sierra Sherrick 4 - Winston McKeon2 - Clark McKeon 5 - Krystal Chenoweth3 - Trish Perkins 6 - Shawn Goodwin
tSA Competes at State
There were over 1,200 participants at the State tSA Competition this year. it was held at the Embassy Suites in Norman, oK on April 11-13. The 2018 State tSA Competition brought teams from all reaches of oklaho-ma to compete, including Welch.
Welch won five trophies in all. Jaden linthicum and Austin Haskell won 1st place for Middle School Struc-tural Engineering, Chloe Hitz won 1st place for High School Flight Endurance, Brady Chenoweth won 2nd place for High School Flight Endurance, Avery Brannon won 1st place for Middle School Flight, and reagan Etzel won 3rd place for Mid-dle School Flight. terrific job, tSA!
NEo tSA Contest
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How Well Do You Know Our Staff?7 - Sam Schaper 10 - Mona Stines8 - Billy Willard 11 - Ryan Gleeves9 - Janie Cook 12 - JJ Seigel
With the end of the school year quickly drawing near, FFA contests are in full swing! This season, Welch FFA has had students competing in public speaking, agriculture communications, livestock judging, food science, and horse judging. Though the state contest has not been held yet, we have already had several students represent Welch FFA very well at local contests.
The food science (ty Earp, Justin Haskell, Clayton lester), ag communications (Aubrey layton, landry layton, Grace Small, Addey Small, Charlcie Gatewood), livestock judging (Keylon Stogsdill, tristan Davis, Aubrie lester, olivia McGuire, Ethan Costerisan, Maddie Cook, Autumn Dotson, Faith lee) and horse judging (Grace Small, Charlcie Gatewood, olivia McGuire) teams were all new to their contests this year. At the NEo Aggie Days, the ag communications team placed 8th; the food science team also attended. The ag communications team com-peted at Connors State College interscholastics - Aubrey layton was 1st place High Point individual; the team was 3rd overall. At redlands interscholastics in El reno, the team placed 8th. The food science team competed at NEo interscholastics, Ft. Scott Aggie Days, and redlands interscholastics. The livestock judging teams competed at Connors State College and Ft. Scott Aggie Days. The horse judging team attended the Will rogers Classic in Claremore, and, in the words of Grace Small, “hey, we weren’t terrible!”.
Several FFA members also wrote, memorized, and presented speeches in the public speaking contest. Keylon Stogsdill also competed in the extemporaneous speech division. At the Vinita FFA Speech Contest, landry lay-ton placed 3rd in the 9th Grade FFA opportunities division. At the Dewey FFA Speech Contest, landry placed 3rd. Aubrey layton also placed 4th in the Ag Policy division. At the oolagah FFA Speech Contest, landry placed 4th; Grace Small placed 3rd in the Animal Science division. At the NEo Aggie Days contest, landry was 5th, Aubrey was 4th, and Grace was 4th. At Ft. Scott Aggie Days, Aubrey was 1st, landry was 2nd, and Charlcie was 3rd. At the Jenks FFA Speech Contest, Aubrey was 3rd and landry was 3rd. At the Pi Speech Contest, Aubrey was 1st and landry was 2nd - Aubrey and landry will compete at District Speech for a spot in the state contest on tuesday, April 24.
Welch FFA Spring Contestsby Aubrey layton
5th Grade Field Trip to Brown Museum
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How well do you know our staff?by Korbin Booth
Birthplace: Springfield, MissouriWhat schools have you taught at? Welch, OKWhere did you go to college? NEO, and Missouri State Uni-versityWhat made you want to become a teacher? Helping tutor elementary students when I was in HS. What is your favorite thing about Welch? The community supportWhat is your favorite color? Turquoise What is your favorite food? Hmmm... Filet cooked Medium Rare and a baked potato. What is your pet peeve? When people don’t do what they say they are going to. Do you like cats or dogs? dogsIf you could go anywhere, where would you go? Greece
Birthplace: Bartlesville, OKWhat schools have you taught at? Enid High School, Ft. Supply, WelchWhere did you go to college? OSU, The University of TulsaWhat made you want to become a teacher? The importance of learning and knowledge to our societyWhat is your favorite thing about Welch? That we are here for the studentsWhat is your favorite color? blueWhat is your favorite food? Rib eye steakWhat is your pet peeve? The hipocracy of people who judge others and not themselvesDo you like cats or dogs? dogsIf you could go anywhere, where would you go? The top of Mt. Everest
The Desktop Publishing Class
sent out a Google form to try and get to know our faculty and staff
better. See if you can guess who is who by reading the biographies on these four
pages.
Clark McKeonSuperintendent
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Shawn GoodwinElem PE/Coach
Birthplace: VinitaWhat schools have you taught at? Dewey, BluejacketWhere did you go to college? NEO, Northeastern StateWhat made you want to become a teacher? My interest in wanting to be a coachWhat is your favorite thing about Welch? The students and faculty, family atmosphereWhat is your favorite color? blueWhat is your favorite food? Mexi-canWhat is your pet peeve? SmackingDo you like cats or dogs? BothIf you could go anywhere, where would you go? Grand Lake
Krystal Chenoweth9th-12th Science
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Birthplace: Bartlesville, OKWhat schools have you taught at? Welch, (this is my first school and hopefully my last)Where did you go to college? University of Arkansas, South-western College, and Oklahoma WesleyanWhat made you want to become a teacher? Public school educators made it OK for me to be in school. The other sub-jects did not call my name. Being a member of the Band made it possible for me to stay in school.What is your favorite thing about Welch? Bringing music into someone else’s life.What is your favorite color? blueWhat is your favorite food? CheeseburgersWhat is your pet peeve? People who don’t take responsibility for themselves.Do you like cats or dogs? DogsIf you could go anywhere, where would you go? Go around the country visiting zoos and National Parks.
Birthplace: Farmington, MOWhat schools have you taught at? Welch and MiamiWhere did you go to college? Missouri Southern State Univer-sityWhat made you want to be-come a teacher? I love work-ing with kids and helping them succeedWhat is your favorite thing about Welch? my students:)What is your favorite color? purpleWhat is your favorite food? MexicanWhat is your pet peeve? When people don’t do what they say they’re going to doDo you like cats or dogs? dogsIf you could go anywhere, where would you go? Fiji or Ireland
Birthplace: Bethany, OklahomaWhat schools have you taught at? Wyandotte, WelchWhere did you go to college? Miami University, Oxford OHWhat made you want to become a teacher? I love to learn and teach, what better job?What is your favorite thing about Welch? Small class sizes, easy to know your students.What is your favorite color? TurquoiseWhat is your favorite food? MexicanWhat is your pet peeve? MediocrityDo you like cats or dogs? BothIf you could go anywhere, where would you go? Italy
Winston McKeonPK-12 Music
Trisha Perkins9th-12th English
Sierra Sherrick9th-12th Spe-cial Education
We couldn’t do it without you!
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Birthplace: Claremore, OkWhat schools have you taught at? Miami Kinder-garten Center, Miami-Washington Elementary, Welch Elementary & Welch Middle SchoolWhere did you go to college? NEO A & M & NSU-TahlequahWhat made you want to become a teacher? My roommate was going into to teaching, so I thought I would too!What is your favorite thing about Welch? The students! They are so fun to interact with!What is your favorite color? bluesWhat is your favorite food? MexicanWhat is your pet peeve? People who throw their trash out on the road.Do you like cats or dogs? “dogs”If you could go anywhere, where would you go? Italy
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Birthplace: Coffeyville, KsWhat schools have you taught at? South Coffeyville, Caney Valley, West Columbia Tx, Nowata, Commerce, WelchWhere did you go to college? Inde-pendence CC/Oklahoma WesleyanWhat made you want to become a teacher? My head HS Baseball CoachWhat is your favorite thing about Welch? The kidsWhat is your favorite color? black What is your favorite food? any-thing with cheeseWhat is your pet peeve? lack of ef-fortDo you like cats or dogs? catsIf you could go anywhere, where would you go? Cooperstown
Sam SchaperHS Sciences
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Ryan GleevesMS Social Studies
Birthplace: Tulsa, OklahomaWhat schools have you taught at? Perry and WelchWhere did you go to college? Northeastern State UniversityWhat made you want to become a teacher? My 8th Grade Math Teacher Coach HadleyWhat is your favorite thing about Welch? Working with great teachers and studentsWhat is your favorite color? blackWhat is your favorite food? freeWhat is your pet peeve? people who lieDo you like cats or dogs? dogsIf you could go anywhere, where would you go? A World Series Game 7
Janie CookDistrict Treasurer/HS Secretary
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The 7th & 8th grade quiz bowl team had a very successful year!They began the season by winning Districts at Peggs and continued on to win regionals in Brushy, which qualified them for State. They entered the state tour-nament ranked #3. They finished off the season at state on the oklahoma University campus and placed 5th out of 20 teams. The team practices and stud-ies outside of school to prepare for these events. The 2017-2018 quiz bowl team consists of Kacee Stoner, tarynne Mills, Seth Schaper and Gage Miller-Captain.
7th & 8th Grade Quiz Bowl
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Birthplace: Oakland, CaliforniaWhat schools have you worked at? WelchWhere did you go to college? NEO A&MWhat made you want to work at Welch? Father was a Superintendent/Math Teacher/Basketball CoachWhat is your favorite thing about Welch? Everyone has the opportunity to learn something new every dayWhat is your favorite color? TurquoiseWhat is your favorite food? cheeseburgersWhat is your pet peeve? Untied shoelacesDo you like cats or dogs? dogsIf you could go anywhere, where would you go? Cul-creuch Castle, Fintry, Scotland - Ancestral Home of my Grandmother’s clan
Birthplace: GroveWhat schools have you worked at? WelchWhere did you go to college? NEO A&MWhat made you want to work at Welch? The great schedule and being able to be with my kids.What is your favorite thing about Welch? The people I work with.What is your favorite color? pinkWhat is your favorite food? Butter...Is butter a food??? What is your pet peeve? Lazi-nessDo you like cats or dogs? nei-therIf you could go anywhere, where would you go? Aruba or Hawaii
Birthplace: MiamiWhat schools have you taught at? WelchWhere did you go to college? Pittsburg State UniversityWhat made you want to become a teacher? Influences in my lifeWhat is your favorite thing about Welch? We have good, respectful kids...sometimes ornery.What is your favorite color? blueWhat is your favorite food? I’m not too picky.What is your pet peeve? Not putting effort into things. (Max effort)Do you like cats or dogs? dogsIf you could go anywhere, where would you go? Florida
JJ Seigel6th, 7th & 8th Reading/English
Mona StinesEncumbrance Clerk
Billy Willard6th, 7th, and 8th Grade Math
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