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March 21, 2024
Did You Know?
Did you know that Akron School has had three Daniels Scholarship winners in our history? The Daniels scholars are selected because they embody the criteria Bill Daniels defined for the program:
strength of character, leadership potential, commitment to serving their communities, academic performance or promise, well-rounded personality, and emotional maturity and stability.In additional to those traits, the applicants must also earn a minimum GPA of 3.0 in high school, earn high scores on the SAT or ACT test, and meet financial eligibility requirements.
The three Akron graduates that were awarded this prestigious scholarship are:
Tyler Wylie in 2018
Kacyn Kessinger in 2021
Kyla Pachner in 2022
State Knowledge Bowl
Great job, Rams!
Honor Jazz Band
On Monday, March 18 four of our jazz band students and Ms. Lowry attended Honor Jazz Band in Sterling at NJC. The students had a full day of practicing and then put on an amazing concert for the public in the evening.
New Playground Equipment
MS/HS Wellness Class
The preschool and MS/HS Wellness Class started a new weekly routine this week. Once a week the preschool and MS/HS Wellness Class get together and do a fun activity. This week they met each other, read together, and talked about spring break.
FCCLA Visits Blue Arena on Field Trip
Middle School & High School NJC Math/Science Contest
Fourteen middle school students attended the math/science contest on Tuesday, March 19th. The students took tests to challenge their knowledge in math and science. Of the fourteen, six of the students placed in the top three in the following categories:
Molly O'Neil- 1st in Science
Elijah Ewell- 1st in Math and Critical Thinking
Micah Ardrey- 2nd in Math
Trigg Weis- 3rd in Math
Macklin O'Neil- 3rd Critical Thinking
Levi Ardrey- 2nd Math
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------March 21, 2024, AHS took 18 high school students to compete at the 48th Annual NJC Math and Science Competition. Each student completed 2 tests from various categories of math and science. On competition day, the NJC Math and Science Department recognizes the top 3 places in each test. Students did an amazing job representing our school and making us proud to be RAMs!
Today’s placers were Merek Charney, 1st Place in Calculus
Freshman Brigid Ardrey, 1st place in 9th Grade Science
Senior Addicyn Kessinger, 2nd place in Senior Math
NJC recognizes the top 10, as well as honorable mentions for being near the cutoff. These results are usually released a week or two later, and we expect to see many more students placed in the top 10! Good job to all those who participated, and thank you for doing a wonderful job representing our school!
Ram Baseball
The Rams had a good start to their season picking up two wins last Saturday against the Sedgwick County Cougars. Our JV sluggers also defeated the Cougars.
On Tuesday, the JV baseball team traveled to Brush to take on the Beetdiggers. The boys split in this competition.
The Rams will host Wray on Friday, March 22 at 2 pm.
All Conference Basketball Honors 2024
LPAA All Conference honors were announced at the conclusion of the basketball season. Akron had two girls and three boys earn this honor.
Kinsey Grauer and Addicyn Kessinger were selected girls LPAA All Conference and
Anderson Filla, Ryan McCaffrey, and Caleb Poss were selected boys LPAA All Conference.
Congratulations to these players and their coaches!
What's Happening -
Monday, March 25th
Book Fair
9 am HS Track @ Wiggins Leave 7 am
12:15 pm 8th grade – 11th grade Football Meeting
5:15 pm HS Girls Golf Parents Meeting
6:30 pm HS Baseball Parents meeting in Cafeteria
Tuesday, March 26th
Book Fair
10 am HS Girls Golf @ Holyoke Leave 730
3 pm HS Baseball @ Otis V & JV Leave 1:15 pm
Wednesday, March 27th
Book Fair
8 am PK – 8th grade Class Pictures
8 am FFA District CDE – NJC
12:15 pm FBLA Meeting
6 pm HS Winter Sports Athletic Banquet
Thursday, March 28th
Book Fair
3 pm HS Baseball vs Stratton V & JV
Friday, March 29th
11 MS Warm Up Track meet @ Akron
Saturday, March 30th
9 am HS Track @ Kiowa Classic (Elbert HS) Leave 5:50
11 am HS Baseball @ Holyoke Varsity DH Leave 8am
