The Heartland Community Schools National Honor Society held their annual induction ceremony on Monday, April 20, in the Heartland Theater.
The ceremony began with the current officers reviewing the four pillars on which NHS is based and conducting the candle lighting ceremony. Those pillars are Scholarship, Leadership, Service, and Character.
The eleven new inductees then repeated the pledge and . . .
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Twenty-six Heartland FBLA members attended the Nebraska State Leadership Conference in Kearney on April 16-18. Five students won seven awards during the three-day conference.
Students attending the conference along with adviser Karma Yantzie and parent chaperone Jenny Goertzen were: (Seniors) Samuel Friesen, Josh Goertzen, Mia Hiebner, Brayden Ogorzolka, Will Regier, Laura Splinter, Holden Switzer, Hallie Tessman; (Juniors) Tara . . .
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The third graders enjoyed a wonderful field trip to the Hastings Museum.
Highlights included:
• Learning about ecosystems, seed dispersal, and the importance of pollination
• Seeing the new Kool-Aid exhibit and making our own Kool-Aid for home
• Lego building and exploring
• A planetarium show about the Earth, Moon, and Sun
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From March 25-27, the blue corduroy jackets stormed the Lincoln, Nebraska, Haymarket. The Heartland FFA Chapter took 40 members over those three days for sessions, workshops, and competitions. On Wednesday night, 12 Heartland seniors received their FFA State Degree. The recipients are as follows: Lexi Inglsbee, Faith Hiebner, Landon Mierau, Lane Farrall, Mary Dente, Grace Splinter, Riley Quiring, Weston Panko, Kaleb Ostrander, Andrew . . .
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The Heartland Quiz Bowl Team traveled to Seward on Wednesday, April 1, to compete in the History/Geography tournament. The morning started like an April Fool's Day joke with the organizer informing us that we were scheduled to have two teams, but we only brought six students.
The team members played rock-paper-scissors and divided into two teams to compete in the round-robin matches scheduled for the morning.The . . .
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The Heartland Quiz Bowl Team traveled to Clay Center to attend the SNC Quiz Bowl competition hosted by Sandy Creek. The afternoon started with one practice round for each team to review the rules and allow the workers to work out the kinks followed by a double-elimination tournament.
The B team faced the A team from Wilber-Clatonia in their practice round and lost a close match. Unfortunately, their . . .
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This year, the Heartland FFA is combining its auction and awards ceremony into one event.
Meal & Auction from 5:00-7:00 p.m. in cafeteria
$10 hamburger meal
Auction items will be around the perimeter of the cafeteria
Awards Recognition from 7:00-8:00 p.m. in theater
Awards presented to students and new officers announced
Auction winners will be announced following the awards ceremony. . . .
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On Tuesday, March 17th and Wednesday, March 18th the district facilitated an external visitation as a part of our continuous school improvement process. These external visitations are a required part of our accreditation process and they typically occur every 5 years.
Our external team consisted of Erin Sieh (elementary principal, Freeman Public Schools), Dani Beerbohm (director of learning, . . .
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Two Heartland robotics teams competed in the Nebraska First Lego League Competitions on March 20 and 21. According to the website, “The Nebraska FIRST LEGO League Challenge, coordinated by Nebraska 4-H , is designed for students in grades 4–8, typically ages 9–14 . This program involves teams building and programming LEGO-based . . .
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Two junior high teams competed at the ESU 6 Quiz Bowl Tournament at the Seward Civic Center on Wednesday, March 4.
Both teams went 3-0 in their morning pool play games.
In the afternoon tournament, the team of Jack Bearinger, Tori Thieszen, Avery Hiebner, David Jahnke, and Taylor Schmidt lost in sudden death to Dorchester.
The team of Micah Haidle, Ryker Stebbing, Jada Quiring, Violet Goertzen, and Cole Eberle made it all . . .
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