WSD Weekly

January 30, 2026

📅 Upcoming Calendar Events:

🏫 February 6 - Professional Development Day (No School)
🎆 February 16 - President's Day (No School)
View the student academic calendar

Starting Monday, February 3, Wenatchee School District is launching MLSchedules, a new online system for reserving school and athletic facilities.

What's better:

• Create your account once and use it for all future bookings

• Upload insurance and IRS documents once - no more resubmitting

• View real-time availability across all district facilities

• Streamlined billing process
  
  

Why This Change?

We listened to feedback from community groups and user organizations who wanted a simpler, more efficient way to reserve facilities. The new system eliminates repetitive paperwork and makes it easy to see what's available when you need it.

Bonus: Eastmont School District also uses MLSchedules, creating greater consistency and ease of use for organizations that work with both districts.

We're committed to making our facilities accessible and easy to reserve for the community groups and organizations that serve our students and families. This new system is one more way we're working to support you.

Go to our facilities use website

Students from all three Wenatchee School District middle schools showcased their career and technical skills at the SkillsUSA Central Region Competition.

On January 20th, students from Pioneer, Foothills, and Orchard middle schools traveled to Wenatchee Valley College to compete against peers from across the region in the SkillsUSA Central Region Competition.

SkillsUSA is a national organization that helps students develop technical, workplace, and leadership skills through hands-on competitions and experiences. For many WSD students, this was their first opportunity to test their skills in a competitive setting and explore potential career pathways.

WSD Students Competed In:

• Preventative Taping - Demonstrating proper athletic taping techniques

• First Aid/CPR - Showing emergency response skills

• Photography - Showcasing creative and technical photography abilities

• Job Demo Open - Presenting career skills and knowledge

• Job Demo A - Demonstrating job-specific competencies
  
  

Competition Results:

Preventative Taping:

🥇1st Place: Avantika Chakravarthy (Foothills MS)
🥈2nd Place: Jane Hall (Foothills MS)
🥉3rd Place: Ava Haglund (Pioneer MS)
4th Place: Gibson Fluegge (Foothills MS)
5th Place: Trey Williams (Foothills MS)
6th Place: Elsie Varga (Pioneer MS)
7th Place: Laney Redden (Foothills MS)
8th Place: Eli Smith (Foothills MS)

First Aid/CPR:

🥇1st Place: Everly Vertrees (Orchard MS)
🥈2nd Place: Marcus McNaught (Pioneer MS)
🥉3rd Place: Lenny Higareda (Pioneer MS)
4th Place: Grayson Tooley (Pioneer MS)
5th Place (tie): Luzelena Calzada (Pioneer MS)
5th Place (tie): Elsie Varga (Pioneer MS)
7th Place: Jesus Merlo Rodriguez (Pioneer MS)
8th Place: Isaac Rose (Pioneer MS)

Photography:

🥇1st Place: Micah Barry (Orchard MS)
🥈2nd Place: Ben Alling (Orchard MS)
🥉3rd Place: Lourdes Masuda (Orchard MS)
4th Place: Marion Thornock (Orchard MS)

Job Demo Open:

🥇1st Place (MS/HS Division): Avantika Chakravarthy (Foothills MS)

Job Demo A:

🥇1st Place: Jane Hall (Foothills MS)
🥈2nd Place: Elsie Varga (Pioneer MS)
🥉3rd Place: Ophelia Booth (Pioneer MS)
4th Place: Laney Redding (Foothills MS)
5th Place: Ava Haglund (Pioneer MS)
6th Place: Janet Ferral (Foothills MS)
7th Place: Marion Thornock (Orchard MS)

These competitions give students real-world experience, build confidence, and help them discover career interests—all while representing Wenatchee School District with pride and professionalism.

The Wenatchee High School Class of 2026 is accepting nominations for its Distinguished Alumnus/a Award. The recipient will receive their award and present a speech at the graduation ceremony on Friday, June 5, 2026.

The distinguished alumnus/a must be a graduate of Wenatchee High School and demonstrate commitment to their career, community, and country through examples they set after graduation. Past recipients have included Shiloh Burgess (class of 1999) in 2025 and former mayor Frank Kunz (class of 1981) in 2024.

To submit a nomination, please email a letter sharing how the nominee meets the award criteria above to Wenatchee High School Senior Class Advisor, Brandon Harle at harle.b@wenatcheeschools.org. Nominations will be accepted until 4:00 PM on Tuesday, February 10, 2026.

For more information, contact Mr. Harle via email or call (509) 663-8117.

📸 Photo Credit: Wenatchee World

Congratulations to the WHS boys swim & dive team for securing their first league championship since 2020 on Thursday, defeating West Valley and Sunnyside! The boys are undefeated, 6-0, this season. Congratulations to our swimmers who dominated the relays and their individual events:

• Liam Sullivan: 1st - 500 freestyle, 200 freestyle

• Aiden Grigsby: 1st - 100 backstroke

• Brian Vargas: 1st - 100 butterfly, 100 breasststroke

• Noah Doiron: 1st - 50 freestyle, 100 backstroke

• Oliver Bownlee: 1st - 100 freestyle, 3rd - 50 freestyle

• Gavin Brown: 2nd - 200 individual medley

• Noah Herling: 2nd - 100 breaststroke

• Judah Blakey: 3rd - 100 freestyle

• Kaden Moore: 3rd - 100 backstroke

NIGHT WITH THE PROS

Thursday, February 26 | 6:45 PM

Eastmont High School

Professional musicians and select students perform

Admission by donation

JAZZNIGHTS CONCERT

Friday, February 27 | 7:00 PM (doors at 6:30 PM)

Wenatchee High School

Full school ensembles perform with guest artists

Tickets: $15 | Livestreamed

The Wenatchee Jazz Workshop is a non-profit organization run by volunteers and funded by community donations, ticket sales, and support from Wenatchee and Eastmont school districts.

Tickets available online or at the door.