Republic County USD 109

Make note: Baseball today is at Lucas. The field is located at 306 S Main in Lucas. Good luck Buffaloes!

High School Track is at Home Today! Clay Center is hosting the meet at the RCHS Track! Click on the link for order of events: https://5il.co/1rfrn

Be sure to stop by on the 10th!! There will be some awards and LOTS of amazing work on display.

Results are in!!! Kirsten Ball’s watercolor was selected as one of three 1st place pieces in the Junior Federal Duck Stamp Competition! Pictured below are the top 5 from her age division. Congratulations, what an achievement! RC Proud!💙❤️

Today the Junior class traveled to Rock Springs 4-H Center for an etiquette dinner. Pat Pesci, Professor Emeritus at Kansas State University,led the show today! Mr. Pesci has taught numerous etiquette courses for K-State’s athletic programs, as well as fraternities and sororities over the years. He lead RepCo students in setting the table, seating, passing food and drinks, gave tips on how to order, how to treat wait staff, and table manners. The food was great, the atmosphere was fun, we even got dressed up! A big thank you to the Republic County Community Foundation and everyone else who helped make this event possible!

The Junior class is trying to sneak in one last fundraiser before Prom… all money raised will go towards helping with expenses of Prom. Here’s how it works… 1.) Pick a date on the calendar that you would like to sponsor 2.) Pay the amount according to the date. 3.) You can pick more than one day. April 1st=$1 April 10th=$10 Both dates=$11 Each $10 donation is an entry for our drawing of a $100 Casey’s gift card! You may use the Venmo listed below to make a donation or ask any RC Junior!

It was a packed house tonight for the RCHS Jazz Band and Show Choir Concert! The audience got to see an amazing concert! Great job to our jazz band under the direction of Ryan Nelson and show choir lead by Pam Gallion! Also thanks to the accompanist Karla Chizek and Kirk Gallion!

Juniors… Reminder: Etiquette Dinner tomorrow!!! Come dressed in business casual. We will meet in the front flex room for attendance at 8 am bell.

RCHS Baseball loses first 2 games of the season to Concordia 0-17 and 0-16, next games are Tuesday at Sylvan Grove.

Today was all about March Madness in sixth grade STEM. Students were asked to create a basketball hoop that would provide an automatic return for both missed and made shots.

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Good luck to our high school baseball team as they begin their season at home today!

Senior Brecken Isaacson had an idea last year. He wanted to build a darkroom for his art project. He researched, met with the superintendent, made purchase orders, cleaned, painted and waited… it’s been a year and now the RC darkroom is finally up and running! We can’t wait to explore the art of black and white film! We will keep you all posted! 📷

Yesterdays 4th grade STEM class coded the Ozobot robots to go bowling and coded the Dash robots to play the xylophone!

Kindergarten STEM classes have been working through the introduction to color coding with Ozobots!

📣Calling all young ARTISTS (0-Sixth Grade) RCHS Art Club is looking for artists to submit their work for the 2023 Young At Art-Children’s Gallery, at our first annual Repco Art Walk on April 22nd. This year we will be featuring youth artists in our outdoor gallery on the square! Apple One will be printing your artist’s work on yard signs like the ones shown above. Cost is $12 per entry…(you will get to keep your sign at the end of the art walk) To enter email a high resolution image of your student’s work to Mrs. Strnad at tstrnad@usd109.org. Please include title of your student’s work and the name and age if your artist. Mrs. Strnad can email you a payment link or you can drop a check off at RCHS. Please make checks out to RCHS Art Club. All entries and payments must be in by April 1st! Contact Mrs. Strnad with questions.

RC Art students have been busy working on getting some of their digital photos ready for competition! 📷 Tide by: Lily Havel Blue Teal by: Lily Havel Black Swallowtail by: Katie Kort Tecca by: Lily Havel

The National Honor Society banquet was last night! Congratulations to our newly inducted members as well as the current members!

RC Senior Ella Pachta wrapped up this watercolor today!

Make sure to note banquet time is 6:30 pm tonight!