Mrs. Thompson’s Physical Science students recently designed and built mousetrap cars. Students had to design and construct a car that was powered solely by one mousetrap. The cars needed to travel 20 feet. Students learned the importance of potential and kinetic energy and how energy relates to force and motion. Our top five mousetrap car distances were: Bryce Niebrugge @ 74 feet, Mathew Habing @ 67 feet, Adrienne Koester @ 65 feet, Gavin Althoff @ 63 feet, and Ali Bloemer and Emily Meyer @ 60 feet.
The Board of Education will have a regular meeting on December 18, 2023 at 6pm in the Unit Office. The agenda can be found here - https://5il.co/2avn0
Just a reminder that the Class of 2023 can stop by the high school office to pick up their 2022-2023 yearbook if they haven't already done so. If another person picks up the yearbook, they must sign next to the student's name.
THS Art students recently spread some holiday cheer by decorating windows for Niemerg's Steakhouse and Teutopolis State Bank. Happy holidays!!
Congratulations to the following students who made the Illinois Music Educators Association All State! Band and choir students that made All-State are: Elaina Gaffin-All State Choir, Ben Esker-All State Choir, Casey Deters-All State Band (trumpet), and Maddie Zane All State Band (contrabass clarinet). Making all state is the highest musical achievement a high school student can make. Students will travel in January to Peoria for 3 days to rehearse and perform with other all state students from Illinois. We are proud of you!
Thanks goes out to the THS Choir for performing Christmas carols at three local nursing homes in Effingham. The THS Choir enjoys Christmas caroling every year and loves performing for the community.
Congratulations to Olivia Hemmen for being named our 2023 Homecoming Queen and to Hunter Stewart for being named our 2023 Homecoming King!
2023 Homecoming Court: Senior king candidate Myles Stortzum, Senior queen candidate Madison Deters, Senior king candidate Logan Mette, Senior queen candidate Kaitlyn Vahling, Retiring King Gus Siemer, Retiring Queen Taylor Bueker, 2023 King Hunter Stewart, 2023 Queen Olivia Hemmen, Carson Cornell, Freshmen attendant Josey Bales, Inman Wendt, Sophomore attendant Kaitlyn Horn, Henry Thompson, and Junior attendant Lily Beckman
National Honor Society students deck the halls!
Pictured is Casey Deters with Chief Petty Officer Chinchilla. In August Casey enlisted in the Navy as a Cyber Warfare Technician. Congratulations!
The high school statistics class gathered data to test Nabisco's claim of "1000 chips delicious" slogan from the era of the 90's. The data concluded a unit of study on normal probability distributions and will be used again as hypothesis testing is studied later in the course.
Congratulations to THS Senior, Myles Stortzum, on signing with the Army National Guard on Monday! He will report to Fort Sill in August to start his basic training.
Please see the linked agenda for the Effingham County School Boards Meeting scheduled for Tuesday, November 28, 2023 at 6pm in the THS Library Media Center.
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THS shop class cut out turkeys and art classes painted them for Turkey Hunt Bingo for Teutopolis for Tomorrow. The students did a fantastic job and the turkeys look great hiding around town!
This week's schedule for Wooden Shoe Athletics #GoShoes
It's official! Teutopolis Junior High has accepted the 2023 National Blue Ribbon in Washington DC! Congrats to our students, staff, administrative team, Board of Education and our entire Wooden Shoe community!
Jon Kinkelaar, the Veterans Day giveaway winner, with the flag he won. Congrats again!
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Please contact the Unit Office for more information about joining the Wooden Shoe tradition - 217-857-3535.
Some THS volunteen members gave a donation to the Santa Stomp/Honor Flight today.
Members of the cheerleading, girls basketball and boys basketball teams had the opportunity to be “celebrity readers” for the 2nd Grade classrooms last week. They also got to have recess!
Lt. Brandon Murray and Deputy Alex Ritz visited THS Civics classes last week to talk about the topic of search and seizure as it relates to the 4th Amendment as well as other current law enforcement issues. The students really enjoyed the information both officers shared and the unique perspectives they could provide.
