Monthly Archives: November 2019

Wausau Students Raise $6,000 for Turkey Drive


A turkey being used as part of a fundraiser.

Wausau FFA students recruited a live turkey to raise money to buy hundreds of turkeys and hams for families in need this holiday season, television stations WAOW and WSAW reported.

Classes raised money to buy a square. Then they brought in a live turkey which picked one of the squares. The class that picked the square got a prize. On Sunday, the school district will hand out 450 turkeys and 120 hams to people in need.

Read the full story here.

 

 

Wausau High Schoolers Earn National Honors at FFA Competition

Two Wausau West High School students teamed up and won 3rd place at the 2019 National Future Farmers of America Agriscience Fair in Indianapolis, reports the Wausau television station WAOW.

Lexi Voight and Trinity Foster researched the flammability of different popular types Christmas trees and how to prevent them from going up in flames.

“If you water your tree it will be less flammable, but there wasn’t much out there already about specific species,” said Lexi Voight of FFA Wausau.

The duo worked on their research for over two years, testing top purchased Christmas tree species locally.

The pair experimented on the Balsam Fir, Blue spruce, Fraser Fir, and White Pine, finding which are better at retaining water, making them less likely to start on fire.

“Water your trees, because they will be less flammable. If you don’t water your tree they will dry out. Also, Balsam is the safest tree, so if that’s what your looking for to have in your house, pick Balsam,” said Trinity Foster, secretary for FFA on Wausau’s westside.

Read the full story here.

Jefferson teachers offer ‘Bedtime Stories’

An elementary school in Jefferson is using a new app to move storytime outside of the classroom, the Daily Jefferson County Union reports

West Elementary School students can take advantage of this opportunity through a new Facebook feature being debuted this fall through the Jefferson school’s Facebook page.

The new Facebook “Bedtime Stories” program is an outgrowth of the school’s Literacy Committee, which formed a couple of years ago and which has been meeting regularly ever since to come up with new 

events and efforts aimed at increasing students’ literacy and making reading fun.

One of the most important factors in a youngster’s future literacy is being read to as a small child, especially when that reading time is celebrated as a fun ritual.

The Literacy Committee includes principal Mike Howard and other staff representatives from a variety of grades and areas, including one specializing in English Language Learners.

The group has set its purpose as instilling a love of reading in students, with the vision of making West into a “community of readers.”

Starting last week, the school has invited one staff member per week to share a favorite bedtime story.

 

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Wheatland Center School students win prestigious fluid power challenge

Students from Wheatland Center School compete in an engineering challenge Nov. 11. They built a machine that could grab, lift and place an object on a board.

Students in Kenosha County’s Wheatland Center School took top honors at an engineering challenge in Milwaukee Nov. 11, the news website westofthei.com reported.

In their third year competing in the Fluid Power Challenge at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, students from the the school’s PATHS Academy outperformed 26 other teams to win the Overall Champion Award.

Wheatland students left for Milwaukee early on Nov. 11 amidst the falling snow and came back with the coveted hardware.

Students from all over Milwaukee participated in the event held at the Milwaukee School of Engineering. Each group had 5 weeks to design a machine that uses hydraulic and pneumatic power that can rotate, lift, and grab an object and move it on a challenge board in order to score
points.

“It was easier this year because I knew what to expect, but it was still challenging to build an efficient machine to accomplish the task,” said WCS student Mason Biehn.

Continue reading the full story at westofthei.com.

Wheatland Center School students win prestigious engineering competition

Students from Wheatland Center School compete in an engineering challenge Nov. 11. They built a machine that could grab, lift and place an object on a board.

Students in Kenosha County’s Wheatland Center School took top honors at an engineering challenge in Milwaukee Nov. 11, the news website westofthei.com reported.

In their third year competing in the Fluid Power Challenge at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, students from the the school’s PATHS Academy outperformed 26 other teams to win the Overall Champion Award.

Wheatland students left for Milwaukee early on Nov. 11 amidst the falling snow and came back with the coveted hardware.

Students from all over Milwaukee participated in the event held at the Milwaukee School of Engineering. Each group had 5 weeks to design a machine that uses hydraulic and pneumatic power that can rotate, lift, and grab an object and move it on a challenge board in order to score points.

“It was easier this year because I knew what to expect, but it was still challenging to build an efficient machine to accomplish the task,” said WCS student Mason Biehn.

Continue reading the full story at westofthei.com.