UHS Track competed at the Humboldt Invitational Thursday, May 4...results are as follows: Next Thursday will be the TRL League Track Meet at Pleasanton. Jackie
Humboldt Invitational 5/4/23
Emily Steinbruck 100M 7th 14.66 200M 7th 30.19 LJ 3rd 15’`10
Zoey Hull 1600M 7th 6:59.8 3200m 6th 16:41
Seth Shadden 1600M 5:42.6 7th 3200M 5th 12:56
Jett Harvey 110HH 2nd 17.45 300IH 1st 42.91
Caleb Davis 2nd Jav 137’8 Disc 103’3
Andruw Martin Jav 57’6 Shot 27’9 Disc 82’7
On Sunday, May 7, Commencement exercises for the Class of 2023 will take place in the WBE gymnasium. The events will begin with a Baccalaureate service at 1:00pm hosted by Club 3:16. Trent Freeman, owner of The Artificers Art Gallery, will be the keynote speaker. Graduation will follow at 2:00pm. Please join us to congratulate this year's seniors and newest UHS Alumni.
Reserve Champion Kansas FFA Meat Evaluation Team!!!
Byron Fry- 2nd High Individual
Addisyn Hall- 5th High Individual
Brycen Stewart- 14th High Individual
Corrynn Atkins- 21st High Individual
43 teams and 158 Individuals
We are very
proud of this team for making great strides and putting themselves in position to qualify for a national contest.
With their 2nd place finish this team will have the opportunity to represent Kansas FFA at the National Western Meat Evaluation contest in Denver, Colorado in January!
West Bourbon Elementary Library will be hosting a book fair May 8th-12th, during school hours. We will be open during Track and Field Days. We look forward to seeing you!
Students in Mr. Banks' Physical Science class constructed rockets from used 2-liter bottles and competed to see whose model would stay airborne the longest. The rockets were propelled using pressurized water. A team made up of Paityn Hueston, Dylon Deibert, Colter Powell and Cameron Coulter were the First place winners 4th hour with a rocket that flew for 4.57 seconds. Tate Ames, Jesse Jones and Colby Herring were the 3rd hour and overall First place winners with a rocket that stayed in the air for 5.85 seconds.
The Uniontown high school choir, as well as soloist, Destiny Walker, competed at the state solo and small ensemble contest this past Saturday!! Destiny, received a two excellent rating on her solo and the choir also received a two excellent rating at the State!! Please congratulate these students on a stellar performance! Below is a link for you to watch the high school choir performance if you wish to see it! https://youtu.be/DlHoYRBy5ds
We would like to highlight Agriculture student Matthew Poyner this evening on this set of trailer pens he has been working on and completed today in the Ag shop.
We had a gentleman reach out and ask about fabricating a set of pens that would hold showpigs in individual pens inside his stock trailer. This is the end result.
Nice work Matthew!
Boys golf places 2nd as a team and has 3 individual medalist. Trent Eck finished in 6th place, Heston Stewart 7th place and Newt Reed 10th. We travel to Baxter on Monday for a 9 hole tournament.
Industrial Tech Spotlight of the week. Senior Tyler Reed built this custom fireplace for his mother. It features an electric insert and book shelves on the ends. Andruw Martin built this shelf for his grandparents closet for clothing.
UHS Track Results from Neodesha 4/27/23
Caleb Davis. 1st Javelin. 134-9
Jett Harvey 2nd 110 HH 1st 300IH 41.57
Zoey Hull 4th 3200M
Seth Shadden 3rd 3200M
Emily Steinbruck 4th Long Jump. 3rd 100M
Great day for a meet! Our athletes competed well…will be at Humboldt next Thursday.
Awesome day for our junior high Ag students at the Perry-Lecompton Junior High Aggie Day!
High Team Overall
Hailey Shadden- High Individual
Marley Sutton- 3rd High Individual
Kole Harris- 6th High Individual
Payton McAfee- 8th High Individual
Jace “Tortilla” Harvey- 10th High Individual
Kendyl Bloesser- 11th High Individual
They also got to participate in mini workshops including a presentation by a Veterinarian, a leadership game hosted by some local district FFA officers and a discussion about the benefits of collegiate livestock and meat judging.
2023 UHS Summer Drivers Education
Session 1 5/22 thru 6/2
Session 2 7/10 thru 7/20
Session 3 7/24 thru 8/4
Limit 8 Students Per Session
Must be 14 before First day of Class
For enrollment Papers See Mrs. Camac Or Mr. J Mason.
We are thrilled with the new parking lot conveniently located between the softball and baseball fields. This project was done through donations from our amazing community. A special thanks go to the following; Brandon Hathaway, Keith Belford, Matt Russell, Jason Koch, Bandera Stone, G-3 Cattle Co., and Flying M Ranch.
USD 235 continues to look for a School Resource Officer to serve the district in the 23-24 school year. If this opportunity is of interest, please reach out to Vance Eden for more information. veden@uniontown235.org or 620-756-4302
Jett Harvey 1st 110HH 16.14 300IH 41.63
Caleb Davis 1st Javelin 133-7 6th Shot 36-6.5
Seth Shadden 4th 3200M 12:58
Zoey Hull 1st 3200M 15:21.16 Great day for a meet!! Several of our athletes had personal bests in their respective events...
If a student plans to play any sport next school year, they can get a free sports physical at UHS on Wednesday, May 3, 2023. Students will need to return their completed and signed sports physical form to the school nurses or the UHS office by Monday, May 1, at the latest, in order to be scheduled for their physical. Additional forms are available in the UHS office -- 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students already have a copy.
Ag Shop Student Spotlight!
Junior High Ag student Hunter Bartlett has been working hard in the shop during 1st hour each day. He and Kole Harris are building a box to go around Kole's digital scale platform at home.
UHS Track competed in the Gene Farrow Track Meet (Waverly) which was held at Iola. This is always a BIG meet--22 schools participating in the meet. It was a great day weather wise for the meet, and we had the opportunity to compete schools that are going to be in our Class 2A Regional in May which will be held at Lyndon. Results are as follows:
Emily Steinbruck 6th Long Jump
Jett Harvey 2nd 110 HH 2nd 300IH
Spring is in the air, and so are the rockets at USD 235!! Mr. Banks and his science classes created rockets, launched them at the football field, and then added to their knowledge by using formulas and time to determine the maximum height reached. Way to go science students!
Eagles golf took 5 players to play in the West Franklin 2 man scramble. Trent and Heston medaled in 5th place overall. Newt Reed and Colby Herring were paired up and Tater drew the short straw and had to play with 2 kids from Osage City. We travel to Frontenac to play on Thursday
