What an amazing week!!!! It takes the whole family to do everything we do at RCHS and do it on a high level!! Thank you to all of our staff for working together to get the SAT testing completed. Thank you Mrs. Meek for the hard work that you put into that day. We started the week finding out Lanea Adams won the District speech meet and qualified for Nationals in Iowa this summer!! We ended our week by hosting the I-Star dinner and ceremony. I will have all the coverage of that in next week's review. Have a great weekend and IT'S ALMOST MONDAY!!!!

Did you know that RCHS has two work-based learning programs for seniors? The ICE program is designed for students to attend classes at RCHS half day and the other half is spent at a paying job that will help prepare them for their career. Our work-based learning coordinator, Mrs. Julie Wainwright, will assist in placing students in jobs in various career fields of interest.

Our Internship program is similar to our ICE program in many ways, but the position the student is placed in is non-paid. This program is used to gain experience and exposure to careers in which students may not be able to get a paid position due to age or experience. Some examples of career fields for internships are:

Veterinary medicine, human resources, banking, and engineering.

Senate Bill 8 is currently passing through legislation that states that high schools need to offer the Indiana College Core by 2024-25 school year. RCHS is proud to say that we are ALREADY doing this and at $0 cost for our students! All of our ICC classes are given in person with no additional charges for the student. We have qualified dual credit certified teachers that are teaching these courses. RCHS is ahead of the curve and we are extremely lucky to have resources like Chris Bottomly and our guidance staff to help our students achieve this!

T.R. and Heather Campbell are absolutely AMAZING at what they do. They are considered the dynamic duo of RCHS!! They put in countless hours into the music department and love every second of it. When they took over the band program at RCHS there were around 30 members. This year they had 71 members in band and the concerts they put on are incredible. Congratulations to both T.R. and Heather on this well deserved honor!!

This month was very special to us at RCHS. We were able to honor four amazing Junior students that decided to take something on that was much bigger then themselves. Dana Durbin and Izzy Pavey were the creators of the bench project to honor Tanner Harrison and Valerie Tindall who's lives were tragically cut short. This project that seemed to develop a lot of momentum is far from over and they quickly brought Carter Barnes and Adrian Apodaca on board. They are now cleaning and separating 1700 pounds of plastic caps and then have to deliver them to Evansville and pick up the benches. Many other aspects of this project will still need completed. Individually these four Juniors are incredible humans. Put them together and they are an unstoppable force!! Congratulations to all of you and thank you for teaching our school and community what four juniors from RCHS can accomplish!!

Dr. Doyle took on a new role during SAT testing. Deputy of the RCHS Hallways!! Not one kid got by without being questioned. This was by far the safest our hallways have been all year!!!!

Rachel Monk - Shout to Lindsay Tillison and the Rushlite staff! Thank you for all of your hard work to create these publications. Everyone can keep updated on the wonderful things happening at RCHS. You rock!

Misty Brindley - Shout out once again to my girls here in the cafeteria, for stepping up and getting things done during my absence. Tina Huffman and Misty Fields stepped right up and made sure everything still flowed smoothly, and kids were fed.

Bryan Hummel - Shout out to Hannah Lemmons and Amaranta Kemple for leading the speech team to success.

Bryan Hummel - Shout out to Lindsay Tillison for her work in bringing back a paper version of The Rushlite.

Jill Carmony - Shout out to Lynne Smith for being the best substitute teacher. We appreciate you!

Keith Perin - Shout out to Liz Meek for organizing test day Thursday!

Diana Shook - Shout outs to Maddison and Macayla Griffin and Taylor Shook.They were a big help with our fundraiser at Dairy Queen.

Natalie Hornsby - Shout out to Liz Meek for all of her hard work in preparing and organizing SAT testing day at RCHS. I know that process entails a ton of work!

Jennifer Teague - Major shout out to Liz Meek for planning and facilitating such a smooth SAT session!

Warren Cook - Shout out to Amy Fox for putting together the slide show for the I-STAR Ceremony!!

Warren Cook - Shout out to Jill Carmony and her class for making the dessert for the I-STAR Dinner!!

Warren Cook - Shout out to Megan Alexander for getting the Junior students together to help at the I-Start Dinner and Ceremony!!

Warren Cook - Shout out to Rachel Monk for making the slide show work in the cafeteria for I-STAR

Warren Cook - Shout out to Jeff and Connie Amos for providing the Pulled Pork for the I-STAR dinner.

Warren Cook - Shout out to our Cafeteria staff members Misty Fields, Tina Huffamn, and Sandy Abrams for working the I-STAR Dinner and making sure the food lines ran smooth. Thank you Misty Brindley for getting that set up!

Liz Meek - Shout out to Mr. Hedrick- for conducting SAT test sessions for our Opportunity Schools kids

Liz Meek - Shout out to Mrs. Logan- for coordinating our Opportunity School students to get to SAT Testing and for allowing us to use her space for testing

Liz Meek - Shout out to RCHS 9, 10, 12th graders- for being so respectful during classes and passing periods. Testing rooms didn't even know there was a passing period because you all were so quiet!

Liz Meek - Shout out to RCHS 11th graders- for doing their best and coming to school to take the SAT! We had AMAZING attendance for SAT day!

Liz Meek - Shout out to RCHS 11th grade parents/guardians- I know it isn't easy scheduling appointments, but I appreciate the fact that we did not have any students have to leave testing early! You also got your students to school for testing, which I also know isn't easy sometimes! Thank you!

Liz Meek - Shout out to RCHS Staff- thank you to everyone who helped the SAT testing day go smoothly (proctors, monitors, technology, all other teachers!). Many of you had SRTs with students you weren't familiar with and I appreciate everyone's willingness to help out and take on extra responsibilities for the day.

Liz Meek - Shout out to Mr. Cook and Mr. McCartt- for covering other duties while I handled testing all morning (and for putting up with me all week)

Liz Meek - Shout out to Mrs. Parmerlee and Mrs. Harris- for manning the front desk. Different schedule days are never easy and I know it causes extra work for you. Thank you!

Liz Meek - Shout out to Mr. Augsburger- Thank you for manning the Learning Commons for our special case students to have a space to be when they didn't have a class assigned to them due to the change in schedule

Liz Meek - Shout out to Mr. Peters- for making sure our bus transportation situation was worked out due to our WCC change of schedule.

Shea Gerrian - Shout out to custodial staff for always making sure we have everything we need. We appreciate all the big and small things you do for everyone.

Warren Cook - Shout out to my right and left hands Liz Meek and Collin McCartt. The I-STAR dinner and ceremony was a success because of your efforts and help!!!!

Brittney Corum - Shout out to everyone who came out Wednesday to support the Life Skills Classroom at DQ this week. It was lovely to see the community attend such a special event and support the kids. In cash donations alone, we collected over $200. 00. So thank you again for supporting these kids. You all are amazing.

Nan Scanlan - Shout out to Elizabeth Meek Great job on the SAT testing day.

Lanea Adams has taken Speech and Debate to a whole new level this year!! She has scored more points than any Speech team member at RCHS has since the 1990's. Research is being done now and she may even graduate as the highest Points achiever in RCHS History! Last weekend Lanea went in and took the District Competition by storm and taking FIRST PLACE. Lanea will now be headed to the National event this summer. Before this happens she and five of her teammates will be competing in the State Meet this weekend! Congratulations Lanea and good luck to the Speech team this weekend!!!

Mrs. Durand joined our family in January of this year. She has been teaching Chemistry, Physics, and Integrated Chemistry and Physics. It is very impressive how she has just hit the ground running! She is an absolute natural at teaching and kids are definitely responding. She often is teaching her upper level classes at a college level and kids are thriving. Kids will meet the bar at whatever level you set it at. Mrs. Durand has set a high bar and kids are meeting it!!

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New Amazing Opportunities for students at RCHS. We offer the Indiana College Core by offering 26 different Dual Credit courses in several different areas. Students can graduate with 30 college credit hours that will apply at ALL INDIANA PUBLIC COLLEGES and even some private colleges like UIndy!! Best thing is this one year of college credit for FREE !! Click the link below to get more information!!

STOPit - Open the PDF and read about our new Anonymous Reporting System. This online anonymous reporting system is designed to deter bullying, discrimination, and other inappropriate or unsafe behaviors.

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We are constantly told by others that things just aren't that simple. That actually is not true! The truth is it is that simple!!! BE A GOOD HUMAN!!!