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Student trustee reports to school board

Hot Spring County School Board Student Trustee Karina Lea’s report was delayed on Oct. 20, ironically enough, by one of the items on that report.

“The reason I was gone (is that) fall drama has officially started,” Lea said. “Our one-act is going to be 14 lines. We’re changing it up this year. Instead of a proscenium, we’re doing it in the round, which means audience members will come on stage, and sit in a box around the presentation. It’ll be something different.”

Lea noted the speech and debate team has sent out its first round of recruitment letters, and added, “We’re hoping to get a lot of individual interaction and encourage new members, (including) upperclassmen, to join, since we’re seeing a shortage of those, but we have high hopes for this year.”

Lea pointed out that the cross-country girls’ team took first place at conference, the weekend prior to Oct. 20, “which was really cool to see.”

Lea also touted the cheer team for conducting a junior cheer camp with younger kids, “and they actually performed with the little ones at the last game,” while their regionals approached within two weeks of Oct. 20.

Meanwhile, the student council is moving forward with what Lea deemed “smaller in-between” charity fundraisers,” including starting a monthly hat day, “because we see a fair amount of interaction with that,” with students paying a dollar to wear a hat for the day.

The fall movie day is slated for Nov. 10, and after polling and voting, Lea said it would likely be “The Princess Bride.”

The seniors of National Honor Society convened a meeting earlier in the day on Oct. 20, with an eye toward “opening up” the NHS to the number of sophomores who are already enrolling in college courses, so to Lea’s mind, “It’s only fair they should be able to be inducted into the Honor Society. We’re also going to try and encourage upperclassmen who may not have joined last year to do that as well, because we want to see everyone taking hold of the opportunities that can be afforded to them, with a 3.5 GPA or higher.”

The NHS induction ceremony took place Nov. 7, the same night as its academic honor celebration, while the Future Farmers of America’s livestock judging team took fourth place at the American Royal in Kansas City, Missouri, and its horse judging team also took fourth in Montana, both during the weekend prior to Oct. 20, “so FFA is on fire right now.”

Oct. 21 saw the high school seniors celebrate their second-place ACT composite score in the state, for which they traveled to Worland to enjoy bowling and pizza.

Robotics competitions are coming up in November and December, and Lea concluded her remarks by reporting that the district’s entrants for the state marching band competition in Casper received a District Three rating — “which, I don’t know much about marching, but I’m told that’s pretty good.”

 

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