Republic County USD 109

Good luck to our high school golfers at Concordia today, tee time is 1:00 pm!

Make note-Baseball is at home today against Beloit! (this was wrong on the paper calendar). It is also Senior Night! Players and their parents will be recognized between games!

Repco Art Club hosted their First Annual Art Walk. It was a hit!! Thank you for coming out to support the arts in our community. We have some incredibly talented students!

Repco had 25 state qualifiers for the GFWC state art competition. They too competed this past Friday. We had two artists place first in their divisions. Gwen Cole with her dragon sculpture and Sarah Reike with her fiber sunflower piece! 🥇 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Two more Repco artists placed second in their divisions… Lindsay Gieber with her wheat print, and Elly Willams with her fiber butterfly. 🥈 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Dallas Eitzmann, Shanna Doyle, Mariah Bracamontes, Lindsay Gieber, and Dillon Burnett placed third in each of their divisions. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Jackson Voorhees, Jason Schrum, Zachery Foster (x2), Ayden Polansky, Brinna Stephens, Katana Mudd, Ella Pachta(x2), Damond Haberstroh, Abby Knoll, Traven Allen, Trinity Allen, and Kaden Novak all received honorable mentions on their pieces! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Lily Havel and Josh Shelly also had qualifying pieces, that were unable to compete in this competition, but went on to CCCC to compete on instead. Super proud of these kiddos! Next week we are off to compete again at our League Art competition…Wish us luck! 🍀

Today Repco art students had an awesome day at the CCCC Art Show! Here are our results… Lily Havel received a gold medal on her black and white photograph, and won the photography division over all! She also placed gold on her photograph of her cat Hazel, first on her photo of Tecca the dog, and second on her beach photo. Julian Cuellar received a gold medal on his apple painting and won the painting division over all! Kirsten Ball also received gold with her zentangle ink drawing. Caitlyn Foutch placed 1st with her oil pastel drawing of an apple. Isaac Morris placed 3rd in drawing& 3rd in watercolor. Josh Shelly placed 1st & 2nd with his wood burnings. Owen Weatherhead placed 2nd with his batik. Lexus Talkington placed first with her batik. Ella Pachta placed second in both photography and ceramics. Adam Krohn placed second with his photography. Zachary Piroutek placed first in ceramics. Graham Jensen placed third with his Cyanotype. Jasmine Horton received second on her mixed media piece. Maria Bracamontes placed first with her acrylic painting. Meg White placed first with her photography. Cameron Archambeau placed third in ceramics. Natalie Boyer placed second with her watercolor. Makenna Johnson placed 1st with her photograph. And Brooklynn Horner placed second with her ceramics. Congratulations to all our award winners! Come see their work on display at the art walk downtown! Repco PROUD!! 💙❤️

2nd & 3rd graders in Elementary Art this week creating one of a kind abstracts using acrylic paint & bubble wrap!! Miss Ami will have their artwork on display downtown tomorrow for the RCHS Art Walk at the Blair Theater from 4pm-7pm!

Congratulations to the 2023-2024 Republic County Junior High Student Council Officers. ParkerAlexander, President Haidyn Price, Vice President, and Taylor Peters, Secretary/Treasurer

Reminder: 2023 Buffalo Youth Track Meet tomorrow (04/22) at Republic County High School. Check-in will be available beginning at 8:00 a.m. Field events begin at 9:00 a.m. with running events to follow. Please reach out with any questions.

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RCHS Boys baseball wins 2nd game in exciting fashion with a walk-off homerun in the bottom of the 8th inning by Jude Lapo. The Buffs complete the sweep of Blue Valley Randolph, Go Buffs!

RCHS Lady Buffs softball loses 2nd game and get swept by Sylvan-Lucas 16-3.

Great day at Beloit for our golf team! 2nd place team, 2nd place 2-man, 5th place 4-man! Individually, Trey Melton medaled with an 8th place finish, Kaden Novak-11th, Austin Scrivner-18th, Benedict Baxa-20th, Damon Haberstroh-27th, Collin Dahl-33rd! Congratulations boys!

RCHS Lady Buff Softball loses the first game 19-9 to Sylvan-Lucas.

Student Council Elections were held for the 23/24 school year-Kadence Henke will be the President and Avery Stindt will be the Vice-President.

RCHS Baseball defeats Blue Valley Randolph 11-8 in the first game, Go Buffs!

RCHS pottery projects are coming out of the kiln! Blue is a popular color this year 💙 Bowl set-Katie Kort Mug- Aden Morris Planter- Julian Cuellar Coil Pot- Brooklynn Horner

Parents and family members you're invited to the FBLA/FCCLA Awards Night tomorrow Friday, April 21 from 7:00-8:00 p.m!

It is spring and so many activities going on! Hopefully you can get out and support our Buffaloes! Good luck to all of our teams! For Rock Hills JH track meet information and order of events, click on the following link:https://5il.co/1sugd

This Friday April 21st. Come check out all of 12 different high schools and their artwork from 9:30-1:00 in the CCCC gymnasium. Then meet us in Cook Theatre for the Awards ceremony at 1:00. Students will be on campus all morning taking workshops and making some sidewalk chalk art! Share the fun and Fuel Your Creativity!! Hope you can join us!

Thank you to Republic County Hospital for presenting various departments at the hospital available for career choices. Our students enjoyed learning about different career paths they might choose.