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BBCHS Robotics Team Makes Its Mark During Inaugural Season
ronclad, the FIRST Robotics Competition team
of BBCHS, competed at the Central Illinois Re-
gional event on March 18 and 19 at Bradley Uni-
versity in Peoria, Illinois. With an impressive first-
year showing, Ironclad won the Rookie Inspiration
Award, Top-Seeded Rookie Award, and the Under-
writers Laboratory Safety Hard Hat Award. Forty
teams attended the competition from as far away as
North Dakota and Minnesota. (Continued on pg. 2)
Boiler Vision Monthly Newsletter from Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School
MARCH 2016
IN THIS ISSUE
Team Ironclad
Student Learning Update
Sound Check Impacts the
Community
Student Success Update
What’s Trending @bbchs307
Upcoming Events
Student Success Update
On the cover: BBCHS Team
Ironclad 5847 at the FIRST
Robotics Competition
Ironclad
Community Partnerships
e2i, Inc. NUCOR Steel
Argosy Foundation Precision Piping
FE Moran Valley Glass CSL Behring
Ruders PSI
Alexander Construction Capella College Tuffy Auto Care
800 Pound Gorilla Craig Page Agency Buffalo Wild Wings
F.E. Moran Meineke Car Care Center
Chicago Dough Pizza
Teams use a 10 foot by 10 foot
pit area to work and maintain
their competitive robots to play
the game FIRST Stronghold.
The medieval-themed game pits
three-team alliances against an-
other alliance. Each team earn
points for their alliance by cross-
ing different defenses, scoring
boulders (10" foam balls) into
high goals approximately 10 feet
above the ground and low goals
at ground level. Each team is giv-
en six weeks and a limited budget
to build a robot that complies
with all the game rules, such as
weight limits, dimension re-
strictions, and motor limitations.
After applying last minute repairs and mod-
ifications to its competition ro-
bot, Talos, the team passed a series of safe-
ty and compliance inspections. Talos is a
tank tread driven robot that includes a
mechanism to collect a ball, transport it
over different defenses, and score it in the
low goal. The robot has an attached manip-
ulator arm that can help Talos bypass vari-
ous defenses.
A series of qualification matches played on
Friday and part of Saturday generates a
ranking of each team in the tournament.
The top seeded teams select playoff allianc-
es for the playoff matches on Saturday af-
ternoon. Talos, operated by students John
Austin, Nick Thiessen, and Vidhi Patel and
coached by Teacher Katie Kunz performed
well enough that Ironclad was ranked 11
out of 40 teams by the end of qualification
matches. During the playoff alliance selec-
tion, Ironclad became a playoff alliance
BBCHS Ironclad Wins Rookie of the Year Award
Ironclad 5847 goes up and over the rock wall
captain and rolled into the playoffs.
During the Quarterfinals, the team’s 8th
ranked alliance faced off against the 1st
ranked alliance in a best of three set of
matches. Despite a high scoring perfor-
mance, the BBCHS alliance fell to the
opposition and was eliminated.
Ironclad is made up of approximately
60 high school student members and
over 20 adult mentors working
alongside them. Financial support
has been provided by the BBCHS
Academic Foundation, e2i,
Inc., NUCOR steel, the Ar-
gosy Foundation, Precision
Piping, FE Moran, Valley
Glass, and many other local
businesses. The team safety
award was made possible in
part by the financial spon-
sorship of NUCOR steel and
the first aid/CPR training
provided by CSL Behring.
The impressive Ironclad safety cart
was custom built for the team by
Valley Glass.
Ironclad will compete in
the Regional Competi-
tion on April 1, 2 at the
University of Illinois -
Chicago Pavilion. Admis-
sion is free. Additionally,
the team is hosting a Ro-
bot Reveal open house at
the Olivet Nazarene Uni-
versity Engineering
building on Thursday,
April 7 from 5 p.m. to 7
p.m. More information is
available at
http://eepurl.com/bUiQgv.
Student Learning Update
In order to increase awareness throughout the community about hearing loss and those it impacts, BBCHS Junior, Ian Lilienthal started a new school club called Sound Check. The club’s current member-ship is 20 students, led by a small group of students who either wear hearing aids or have a cochlear im-plant.
As part of the team objectives, the group developed programs for youth and senior citizens who live with hearing loss. Sound Check Jun-ior, the first program organized by club members, was held on March 12th at the Bourbonnais Public Library. Families in the community with hearing im-paired children were invited to wear their favorite superhero gear while they listened to a sto-ry, made a craft and played games. Older children with hearing loss and all parents listened as two members from the Sound Check leadership team shared their stories about growing up with hearing loss and how they developed strategies to overcome challenges. Leaders facilitated a Q & A session for the audience. Following the inaugural event,
Student’s Club Benefits Entire Community
Paths to Success at BBCHS
Summer Academic
Program Offerings
A Step Ahead
Session I
Week 1: June 6-10
Week 2: June 13-17
Week 3: June 20-24
All students must be in attend-ance for the final exam on June 24th, please refer to attend-ance policy in brochure
Session II
Week 1: June 27- July 1
Week 2: July 5 - 11
Week 3: July 12- 18
All students must be in attend-ance for the final exam on July 18th, please refer to attend-ance policy in brochure
Fast Forward June 6th - June 24th
Visit www.bbchs.org for
more information.
The subject-area schedule is as follows:
Monday – Math
Tuesday – Science and English
Sound Check members paired up with kids with a hearing loss to become their mentors. The men-tors are encouraged to send a note or email to their Sound Check Jr. buddy regularly and occasionally meet so that young children with hearing loss may develop a rela-tionship with club members. Sound Check Jr. plans to meet four
times per year and the mem-bers are hoping that by do-ing the mentoring program, they will cultivate long-term relationships to build a hear-ing impaired community in the area. The group also coordinated a second community event called Sound Check Sr. at Riverside Assisted Living facility in Bourbonnais. Sound Check members in-
teracted with residents. Sound Check members plan to go to Riv-erside Assisted Living facility one Sunday a month to continue this
program. A club with a vision and plans for ongoing community outreach, BBCHS Sound Check is uniting young people in a common goal.
Student Success Update
Hard Work + Creativity = Success for BBCHS Art Students
What does it take to make an award-
winning piece of art? People who’ve
never taken art classes often share why
they would never take art, saying, “I
can’t even draw a stick figure!” Visit art
classes at BBCHS to see that art is
something that can be learned like any
other subject area. “Our students prove
time and time again that many hours of
higher-level thinking combined with
technique practice and art-making are
the recipe for success for making art,”
notes teacher, Katie Bretzlaff.
At the last of the big art shows this
season, BBCHS art students’ hard
work paid off. Students earned sev-
eral honors at the KCC High School
Art Exhibition on March 29. Seven
students received awards – more
than any other high school.
BBCHS Merit award winners in-
clude Jenna Howard for her graph-
ite drawing, Cheyanne Kozuch for her
ceramic sculpture, Madison McMullen
for her painting made with cosmetics
and Sidney Bradley. Lauren Buschek
was awarded honorable mention in 3D
design for their artworks.
Mia Morris’ photograph
also earned an honorable
mention award,
along with Sien-
na Jackson’s
acrylic painting.
Madison
McMullen’s art-
work was not
only awarded a
Merit, but also
selected as the promotional
image for the exhibition.
McMullen, a senior in AP
Studio Art, remarked how surprised
she was when she heard her name read
for the award. “It was exciting. I’m glad
that my grandparents were there too.”
Jenna Howard
Lauren
Buschek
Madison McMullen
Cheyanne
Kozuch
The subject-area schedule is as follows:
Monday – Math
Students whose works were selected for
the KCC High School Art Exhibition
include: Cheyenne Altshue, Matthew
Barthel, Samantha Bauman, Cait Boyd,
Sidney Bradley, Charisma Brattin, Tom-
lyn Brza, Lauren Buschek, Kenny Car-
ruthers, Emma Clark, Samuel Clark,
Carmen Cyr, My’kel Dabney, Emma
Endres, Samantha Estes, Savanna Feth,
Chyanne Fuller, Arianna Garcia, Sarid
Garcia, Ashley Grimm, Jordyn Hajek,
Leann Hale, Julia Hasik, Angelica
Heneghan, Aubrey Hernandez, Jenna
Howard, Shy Jackson, Julia Hutson,
Michaela Kieffer, Lindsay King, Bryson
Klups, Cheyenne Kozuch, Sienna Kra-
mer, RiAnna Lanie, Cierra Macon, Sa-
vannah Maysey, Steven McDaniel, Mad-
ison McMullen, Stephen Menard,
Dustin Meyer, Jake Meyering, Jaime
Molina, Shelby Monferdini, Marissa
Montwid, Mia Morris, Marueen Orvis,
Paityn Riegel, Daniella Riordan, Josh
Rutnicki, Khadejia Sawyers, Laura Shi-
er, Mandy Smith, Alexandra Sterk, Josie
Stone, Aidan Stringer, Claire Tanner,
Abigail Tebrock, Grace Wahlen, Paige
Wilson, Ronald Wozniak, Jared
Wurster, and Jeffrey Wurster.
These artworks, along with those from
Art 4 Heart and the SWSC Visual Art
Exhibition, will be on display in the
BBCHS Library on Tuesday, April 5
from 2:00-3:20 p.m. A reception will be
held during this time for artists, admin-
istration, faculty, staff, and friends.
BBCHS Student Artwork
will be on display on
April 5th from
2:00—3:20 p.m.
By the Numbers—BBCHS National Honor Society Induction
clude a variety of coverage in an eye-catching design. They, along with 2015 editor Abby Devine and the rest of the yearbook staff, created the 236-page yearbook as part of their coursework in Yearbook I and II classes. Gabby shared, "It's great to have my work published in our school's year-book, but to see my work published in this magazine is particularly excit-ing. We all worked very hard to make it a memorable edition and I think we succeeded." This book was especially important to the staff because it was the 75th edition. Extra copies of this special edition are available for purchase the BBCHS main office. Gabby is the daughter of John and Paige Chinski of Bourbonnais.
Student Success Update
Bradleyan Yearbook Featured in Magazine
Submitted by Katie Bretzlaff
What’s Trending: @BBCHS307
The subject-area schedule is as follows:
Monday – Math
Tuesday – Science and English
@BbchsBaseball Your boil-
ers with another big 7-1 win!
Moving to 3-0 on the season!
Great pitching performance
from Owen Starr!
@bbchs307 Congratulations
to the Boiler Band over 200
members strong marching in
the Disney Electric Parade.
@bbchsrobotics Ironclad is
proud to win the Rookie Inspi-
ration Award and the Highest
Rookie Seed award!
@BBCHSwrestling Congratu-
lations Trevor Conroy and
Jaden Llorens!! Frosh/Soph
State Qualifiers and will com-
plete in Springfield next
weekend! Boiler UP!!
@DrBrianWright Congrats to
returning & new members of
National Art Honor Society!
Thanks for making life more
colorful!
BBCHS senior Gabrielle Chinski can now say that her work has been pub-lished in a national magazine, thanks to the hard work she put into the 2014 Homecoming spread in last year's year-book. The work was featured in Wal-sworth Publishing Company's biannu-al Idea File magazine, which is distrib-uted to high schools and universities throughout the country. Chinski is a student in Yearbook II class and serves as co-Editor-in-Chief. Gabby, along with 2015 graduate Mad-dux Reid, created these pages to in-
BBCHS Summer Youth Theatre Experi-
ence is registering participants for the
first annual summer camp. Attendees
will learn about all aspects of theatre
arts from the professionals who produce
the critically acclaimed BBCHS theatre
productions. The summer experience
will take place from June 1st through
July 17th from 6—8:30 p.m. and will
accommodate vacations. Participants
will produce Seussical the Musical Jr.
For more information, contact David
Morgan at [email protected] or visit
the program Facebook page.
First Annual BBCHS Summer
Youth Theatre Experience
July 15th at 7:00pm, July 16th at
2:00pm and 7:00pm, and July
17th at 2:00pm
BBCHS Prepares for the ACT
Upcoming Events
Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School
700 W. North St.
Bradley , IL
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815.937.0156 fax
www.bbchs.org
Event Date Time Location
BBCHS Art Showcase 4/5 2:00– 3:20
p.m.
BBCHS Library
Early Dismissal 4/6 11:12 a.m.
NHS Meeting 4/7 7:30 a.m. North Cafeteria
Teacher Institute Day—NO
SCHOOL
10/23
Tri-M Executive Board Meet-
ing
4/11 7:15 a.m. Choir Room
National Library Week 4/11—4/16
Teacher Institute Day—NO
SCHOOL
4/15
Student Council Petitions
Available
4/18
Spring Play 4/21—4/23 7:00 p.m. Auditorium
Student Council Petitions Due 4/25 3:00 p.m.
Senior Class Meeting 3/26 8:00 a.m. Auditorium
NHS Meeting 4/28 7:30 a.m. North Cafeteria
Jazz Concert 4/28 7:00 p.m. Auditorium
SWSC Activities Assembly 4/29 9:00 a.m. Auditorium
BBCHS Prom 4/30 6—10 p.m. Chicago’s Navy
Pier
Event Spotlight
Bradley Bourbonnais Com-munity High School has been selected as the recipi-ent of the Daily Journal 2016 Progress Award for Excellence in Education. BBCHS was nominated for the award by the Village of Bourbonnais. The District will be formally recog-nized for demonstrating the spirit, initiative and commit-ment needed for progress in the community on Thursday, April 14, 2016 at the Hilton Garden Inn and Riverstone Conference Center.