Jefferson West High School

Our FCCLA Chapter is attending the Fall Conference today at Jackson Heights. This is an exciting conference with breakout sessions, competitions, and recognition. While attending, members can compete in Skills Demonstration Events, LifeSmart Knowledge Bowl competitions, and take Knowledge Tests within different areas of Family and Consumer Sciences.

GO TIGERS!!

📣 Booster Club Meeting

Join us Wednesday, November 5th at 6pm at Gambino’s!

Come share your ideas and help support our Tiger programs. 🐾

It's Election Day! Get out and exercise your right to vote!

Polls will be open no later than 7am on Election Day and they stay open everywhere until 7pm. Be nice to election administrators and volunteers; they’ve had a tough couple of years.

📚 JV/V Scholars’ Bowl

Join us Monday, November 4th at 4pm as our JV and Varsity teams compete at JWHS! 🧠💪

Come support our scholars as they show off their knowledge and teamwork!

Our Scholars' Bowl teams travels to Silver Lake today. Enjoy the experience and show off your knowledge!

Scholars' Bowl is a competitive academic quiz game where teams of students answer questions on a wide range of subjects. It tests quick recall of facts across areas like history, literature, science, and current events, using a buzzer system to determine who answers first. The competition exists in various formats for middle school, high school, and college students and is also known as quiz bowl or scholastic bowl.

Upcoming HS events for the week of 11/2-11/8…

11/3 V Scholars Bowl @ Silver Lake 4pm
11/3 Board of Education Meeting 6:30pm
11/4 Election Day – Remember to Vote
11/4 JV/V Sholars Bowl @ JWHS 4pm
11/5 FCCLA Fall Leadership Conference @ Jackson Heights
11/5 Booster Club Meeting @ Gambino’s 6pm
11/7 WIT – No Classes – MUST report to JWHS by 11:30pm
11/7 Debate @ Topeka High School 3:30pm
11/7 V FB Regionals @ Prairie View
11/8 District Band/Choir Auditions TBA
11/8 Debate @ Topeka High School 8am

A local business (Lago Vista Grill) shared their desire to help those in need during these hard times. Sometimes it’s hard to know where to help, but this is a simple way to make a difference. Bring what you can, and let’s fill our local blessing boxes together. 🍎🥖🥫

Get your road trip gear ready! It is a bit of a drive but let's show up for more Tiger Football this Friday as they take on the Prairie View Buffalos (don't forget your cowbelll - you know who you are!).

Watch for more information posted during the week.

National FFA Convention Heading Home - We headed home from National FFA Convention. We had a wonderful driver, Randy, that drove us safely around. Randy shared that his heart swelled when he saw our group in official dress and his faith in our country restored. He is a big caring retired farmer that enjoyed getting to know the kids.

We arrived back to Hiawatha and drove back home. Once we unloaded, two of those students came to work a shift at the football game. Big Thank You’s go out to Chase and Logan for working the concession stand last night.

We want to say Thank You to our chapter sponsors, parents, our teachers, our school administrators and our school board that helped us go to National FFA Convention this year. We got to see opportunities and began visioning on what steps we can do as individuals and as a chapter.

The next few weeks will be a flurry of competitions and events. A reminder to all that Fruit & Meat fundraising will finish up and orders need to be turned in for the students to order before November 4th and 5th depending which Ag class students are in. If you would like to purchase items or wish to direct a donation to the chapter you can message Mr. Bartel at 785.364.0255 or email him directly at alex.bartel@usd340.org before this Tuesday.

Thank you for the continuing support of Jefferson West Ag Ed and FFA!!

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National FFA Convention Day 2 adventures continued

National Convention Day 2 - Full day of touring. We started at the National FFA Center in Indianapolis. We toured the offices, history and memorabilia of headquarters of the FFA. We found the Kansas FFA rock!

We then traveled to Louisville to see Churchill Downs and the Kentucky Derby. We were shown the main race track were training and racing occurs daily, the lower facility and the museum. We learned a lot about the history of horse racing not just about the winning horses but also the people of care for them, the jockeys, the farriers, and the owners. We were amazed how enormous the all encompassing that race facility was.

We then traveled to Louisville Slugger where they continue to manufacture wood baseball bats for all leagues of baseball. We toured the machining shop where a basic piece of selected birch, ash or maple is turned into a custom bat. The engineering and art that it takes to make a piece of timber into a bat is amazing. We were able to try out different major league players bats.

Finally we took a short walk to the Ohio River front in Louisville. There was some barge traffic that slowly passed by as we watch the river roll on. Then we walked to our supper location close by at Joe’s Crab Shack. We really enjoyed the unique dining atmosphere, the conversation and the food! Afterwards we headed back to the hotel for the evening and rest. It was a full, good day.

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National Convention Day 1 - We started early with heading to the National Convention and Expo. We were able to look and learn about different opportunities in Agriculture. Then we headed to Lucas Oil Stadium to the opening session of the National FFA Convention. We listened to National Officer presentations, National FFA Chorus and Band, National FFA Advisor’s challenge “to Empower” ourselves to do more and the keynote speaker motivational A’ric Jackson to “get out of your box”. We finally made it back to the hotel late and tired. It was a great day of learning, exploring and goal setting. We have more to come today.

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National FFA Convention Travel Day 1 - Yesterday was an exciting day of travel. We loaded up on the charter bus in Hiawatha with Sabetha and headed to our first stop at Wilhite and Frees Speciality Equine Hospital outside of Kansas City. Got some lunch in Columbia, MO. Then we traveled and visited the Arch in St. Louis, MO. Ate at the Sawmill BBQ restaurant just a few minutes down the road. Then finally arrived at our overnight stop in Greenville, IL. The bus has been fun to listen to all of the new conversations the different chapters are having with each other too. Today will be another adventure as we get to the Indianapolis Convention Center and see the opening session of National FFA Convention.

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Lady Golfers Addison Fechter, Izzy Higgins, Taryn Taylor, and Dearah Garrett have earned recognition for their outstanding performance by being selected to the Kansas 3-2-1A All-State golf team. Their hard work and dedication to get better every practice pays off!! TIGER ROAR!!

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Check this out! Volleyball shout out to Liz Deeter! Awesome!

If you’ve watched Addison play, it’s no surprise! Way to go Addison Schwinn!

Our JWHS FCCLA kids got into the action at the trunk or treat event hosted by the Meriden/Ozawkie Area Chamber of Commerce. They passed out food and drink to all of the local trunk or treaters.