Star City High School • October 29, 2014Project Lead the Way highlighted this month at Star City Schools

Vince Bertram, President/ CEO of PLTW talked to students in new STEM Center

Linda Kay Thompson, AP Coordinator, talks to Alison Kiernan and Jordan Johnson and at

Chamber of Commerce meeting held in the STEM Center where students showcased their projects.

Dr. Vince Bertram, President/CEO Project Lead the Way vis-ited the high school campus’ new STEM Center Monday Oc-tober 6. He also toured classes at Jimmy Brown Elementary School. PLTW students K-12 had the opportunity to showcase their programs to the Star City Area Chamber of Commerce, Wednesday, October 9 at the new STEM Center. Principal Mike Walker, along with Dani-elle Knight and Trae Montgom-ery, spoke to the United Meth-odist Women’s group October 20 about the program. Jimmy Brown Elementa-ry school is the only PLTW Launch school in the state and one of 20 in the nation. Star City Middle school is a PLTW Gate-way school with subjects like Medical Detectives, Magic of Electrons, Automation and Ro-botics, Design and Modeling. At the high school level course include Intro to Engineering Design, Civil Engineering and Architecture, and Principles of Engineering. Dr. Montgomery, Mr. Walker, Mrs. Richard, Gin-ny Chambliss, Lindy Vagts, and Leigh Price will par-ticipate in Project Lead the Way Summit in Indianapolis, November 3, 4, 5

Blake Wynn, pitcher, spent two days at a baseball camp that was hosted at Fort Myers, Florida. earlier this month. Scouts attend the camp to watch young athletes who came to play 2 baseball games.

Blake has been playing baseball since he was 5 years old. He heard about the camp through Rawling’s Prospect, a showcase summer baseball league from Little Rock that he plays with. Blake is interested in playing baseball for Ole Miss University.

Blake Wynn attends prestigious baseball camp

The band has competed in four competitions this month. On October 4 at Lake Hamilton High School in Hot Springs, they received Superior and won Best in Class Visual Performance and fi nished third overall. On Saturday, October 11th, the band competed in Paragould and was awarded an Excellent Band Rating, and Superior Color guard rating, received Best in Class Visual and Color Guard. The Bulldog Regiment was second overall out of eight bands in General Effect and Visual Per-formance. October 14th, the band competed at UAM and earned overall rating of Excellent. Bradley Diffee won Superior as Drum Major and a score of 95 out of 100. The Color Guard and Percussion also earned a Superior. The Bulldogs Regiment competed in Class AA at the Ouachita Valley Invitational Marching Band Competition in Camden Fairview on Oc-tober 25th. They were Class AA Champions and won Best in Class AA in Band, Percussion, Color Guard, and Drum Major and First Division in Color Guard and Drum Major. In Band and Percussion they won Second Division.

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Homecoming Royalty presented to alumni

Front L to R: Arinithria Scruggs, Natalie Stephens, Terica Brown, Jessica Allbright, Charity Davidson, Nikitia Wainwright, Jade Brasher , Harleigh Aldridge, Landon Hunter, Addilyn Hopkins, Alison Kiernan, Alani Hills, Kendall Anderson, Elijah Sloan, Kaneika Stigger, Jaida Harden, Morgan Reep, April Thompson, Megan Marlette, Hannah Merritt, Kassidy Newton, Makiya White. Back: Andrew Mad-dox, Matt Long, Davon Leak, George Dodd, Cory Hampton, Darien Chaney, Ethan Chambers, John O'Neill, Clay Lavigne, Cody Hampton, Da Junn Harris. L.J. Shel-ton, Jarrett Reynolds, Alan Mejia, Dillion Scarbrough, Bo McBroom, Lance Harvey, Jeffery Jackson.

This year’s homecoming festivities kicked off with Spirit Week. The daily themes were ‘Merica day, twin day, hero day, spirit day, and ended with coronation day. The students who showed the most spirit were chosen by the teachers to receive a free yearbook. The winners were Megan Belvedresi and Kacee Daniels. Before the coronation, FCCLA sponsored a homecoming breakfast for the girls of the court and their mothers, as well as the senior football players’ mothers. The ceremony was held in the gym for students, family, friends, and alumni to watch the 2014 SCHS Homecoming Court walk.

Megan Belvedresi and Kacee Daniels dressed up on Twin Day as Mrs. Richard, Asst. Principal and Mike Walker, Principal.

Bruiser escorts Bridgett in the homecoming ceremony Servers for the Homecoming breakfast are L to R: Ma’lic Mitchell, Mallory Haire, Carly Shep-herd, Carnecia Mays, Heather Michalski, Kayley Spivey, Brianna Burns, Carleta Thompson, Danyelle Dees, Zach Dodd, Autumn Bates and Mrs. Amy Shepherd.

Left: Tyniquia Brown and Deionna Trotter on Hero Day at Spirit Week.

Right: April Thompson and Cole Richard on Hero day

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State Fair Winner in FFA All Region Choir Winners

Blake Morgan won 3rd place in the Class/Junior

and Open Brahman Show

Kendell Linkey won 5th in Class/American Com-

mercial Heifer Show

Makayla Holbert won 2nd in Class/American

Commercial Heifer Show

Randy Rainwater hosted Drive Time Sports at Bulldog Stadium when the Bulldogs met the Dollarway Cardinals. Mike Lavigne, owner/manager of Sonic hosted the Sonic Blast

The Star City High School Choir competed in the Southeast Senior All-Region Choir and nine students made All Region October 18. They are L to R: Peyton Sullivan, Alto 2-24th Chair (alt. 4); April Thompson, Soprano 2-24th Chair (alt.4); Brock Sullivan, Tenor 1-1st chair; Lauren Crain, Soprano 2-15th chair; Megan Marlette, Soprano 2-20th chair. Brandon McCool, Tenor 2-15th chair; Danyelle Dee, Soprano 2-7th chair; Dillion Scarbrough, Tenor 1-4th chair; Christen King-Alto 1 20th chair; George Dodd, Bass 2-11th chair and Brittany Hallum alto 1-16 chair. The choir is under the direction of Deupree Kelly.

Jaclyn Vagts, shown here with her mini broken rex, won a fi rst place and two third place ribbons at the State Fair.

Harlee Magness won Best opposite Sex with her rabbit

Kaylee Werry shows off her blue ribbon she won with her rabbit.

Upcoming EventsNovember 13 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. STEM NIGHT at high school. Grand prizes give away including a laptop and tablet

November 20, Yearbook Order deadline. Forms are on line (school website) or see Ms. Scifres

December 3, Senior ad orders due. Forms are on line (school website) or see Ms. Scifres

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DaJunn Harris Bank of Star City

Offensive

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2014

Players of the Game

Da Junn runs the ball against the Hamburg defense Tye Brown looks to connect on the pass in

the Dumas game

Bulldog Football update

Cody HamptonGardner Nursing Center Defensive

Dumas

Austin CappsGardner Nursing Center Defensive

Blake WynnBank of Star City Offensive for both

Dumas and Dollarway games

Hamburg

L.J. Shelton Bank of Star City

Offensive

Eric Esteban kicks the ball as Blake Wynn holds in the Dollarway game

Dollarway

C. J. EverettGardner Nursing Center Defensive

Star City faced two losses against Hamburg and Warren, but rallied for a big win against number 2 in the state Dollarway.

Hamburg

The Bulldogs lost 37-20 to the Hamburg Lions October 10. First to score for Star City was Tye Brown from the one yard line with the help from DaJunn Harris and Bo McB-room who moved him into position for the score. L. J. Shelton scored in the third quarter and Harris scored

in the fourth. The coaches’ picks for the game were Austin Capps-Player of the Game, Sam Jackson-Offensive, Davon Leak-Defen-sive, Eric Esteban-Special Teams, and Caleb Walker Scout Team.

Warren

The Bulldogs lost 46-21 against the Warren Lumberjacks. Da Junn scored on the Bulldogs fi rst posses-sion of the game with a 65 yard run to the endzone. Tye Brown threw a 55 yard pass to connect with receiv-

er Blake Wynn in the endzone. In a 72 yard 11 play drive Brown ran it in for the score after connecting fi ve times with passes to Allen Wain-wright, Blake Wynn and Bo McB-room. The Coaches’ selections were Bo McBroom—Player of the Game, Matt Long-Offensive, Cory Hamp-ton-Defense, Hunter Logan-Special Teams and Kyle Conner-Scout Team.

Dollarway

The Bulldogs defeated Dollarway 24-20. Those to score were Da Junn

Harris from the 4 yard line twice. The second time was with the help of a Brown/Wynn connection for 68 yards to set Harris at the 4 yard line. Eric Esteban made good on a 21 yard fi eld goal and L. J. Shelton ran it in the fi nal score after Lance Harvey stripped the ball from a Cardinal player and Blake Wynn recovered. The coaches’ picks were the De-fense—Players of the Game, Blake Wynn-Offensive, C.J. Everett-De-fense, Eric Esteban-Special Teams, and Jaylen Mallett-Scout Team.