The WHS Debate Team, competing with "2" novice squads, competed in the Open Division Saturday at Buhler HS and as a team, finished 3rd!
Riley Anderson and Philip Starnes placed 4th with a 3-1 record. The students also enjoyed a vigorous game of "Jack Rackham's Revenge", (created by Camryn Bannister and Kate Haines as 7th graders).
The WHS Debate Team, coached by Kurt Sherry, recently traveled to Coffeyville for DEBATE ACTION and came away with some medals!!
The 2020 Governor’s Scholars (the top academic 1% of Kansas HS Seniors), were announced this past week – congratulations go out to WHS Seniors Austin Fink and Mason Lough. Austin is the son of Pat & Judi Fink, Mason the son of Larance and Carri Lough.
The program is coordinated for the Governor by the “Confidence in Kansas Public Education Task Force”. It is funded by donations from private sector businesses in Kansas.
Wellington High School hosted the STATE 4A SCHOLARS BOWL TOURNAMENT on Saturday. Wellington, competed along with Bishop Miege, Circle, Chanute, Augusta, Fort Scott, Topeka-Hayden and Pratt. In the end it was:
1st Place - Fort Scott
2nd Place - Bishop Miege
3rd Place - Topeka Hayden
4th Place - Circle
(Courtesy Pic)
Congratulations to the WHS Scholars Bowl Team…you are looking at the 4A Regional Champs and WHS is hosting the State 4A Meet next Saturday, the 15th!
The competing members were Keegan Dridi, Hunter Bryant, Karsten Gill, Caleb Starnes, Julia Starnes, and Mason Lough!
This fine group is coached by Mrs. Sarah House. Awesome!! Great Job Crusaders!!
TEAM RESULTS
Austin Harriger and Austin Fink, for the 3rd year in a row, will be heading to the State 4A Debate Tournament in Ft. Scott tomorrow and Saturday. A sendoff was held today at WHS for the pair and their spares, Lizzie Harriger and Philip Starnes. We wish them all the best and appreciate greatly their awesome representation over the years. GO BIG RED!!!
The Patriot League Spelling Bee was held Tuesday afternoon at Wellington Middle School. Individuals from Clearwater, Rose Hill, Haysville West, Mulvane, Prairie Hills (Buhler), and of course Wellington participated - here are the outcomes for both 7th and 8th grades - CONGRATS TO ALL!!
The WHS Debate Team hit the road today for the first time. Only the novices competed at El Dorado - Lizzie Harriger and Philip Starnes went 2-2, Aurora Young and Karolina Gadzik went 3-1, and Quinn Mccue and Riley Anderson earned second place with a win-loss record of 4-0! This was the first time debating EVER for this group of novices!!
WHS Class Night is a time to pay tribute and honor the many achievements of the present graduating class at Wellington High School. The list of achievements is long for this group of graduates, a class that has excelled in areas all up and down the spectrum - a classy bunch!
The 9th Annual CTE (Career & Technical Education) Showcase was on slate Wednesday evening at WHS - impressions? impressive!!
The NOON LIONS CLUB held their annual JR LIONS AWARD ceremony at WHS on Tuesday - 12 exceptional "JUNIORS", 6 boys and 6 girls were selected for this honor, an honor based on good character, citizenship, and community. Congratulations to the following WHS Class of 2020 awardees!
Left to Right:
Tyler Brown (not pictured), Dominic Shore, Austin Soles, Austin Fink, Austin Soles, Christian Buckman, Kylie Aufdengarten, Maggie McMinn, Kylie Lloyd, Natalie Henning, Emberly Ryan, and Jordyn Young!
The Kansas Business Hall of Fame held an Essay Contest recently, receiving 92 entries from 10 Kansas high schools, almost double from last year's entries. A representative from KBHF paid a surprise visit Wednesday to Mrs. Elizabeth Vaughn's class where Freshman Jael Catlett was presented with a certificate for being 1 of the top 3 winners in the State! Jael, along with Jordin MacKenzie, a freshman at Blue Valley North, and Melvin Le, a sophomore from Liberal, took the top spots in the contest!
IMPACT BANK will be sponsoring the "Career Technical Education's" Student of the Month awards again this school year! This is an awesome program at WHS!
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DECEMBER 2021 CTE Student of the Month
Winning "first" recently at the Business Professionals of America State Leadership Conference in Wichita (and consequently, a trip to Nationals in Anaheim, CA in early May), the KWHS NEWS TEAM stepped up again on Wednesday.
Saturday wrapped up the Business Professionals of America State Leadership Conference in Wichita. Melissa Buchanan, Elizabeth Vaughn, and Rane Case shared the results of the 16-student membership at WHS:
Those qualifying to attend the National Leadership Conference in Anaheim are:
Congratulations to the new 4A State Scholars Bowl Champion, Topeka Hayden! Coming in 2nd place today at WHS in the State 4A Tournament was Shawnee Mission-Bishop Miege. 3rd Place honors went to Garnett-Anderson Co. and 4th place to Towanda-Circle. Other 4A State Qualifiers included Winfield, Augusta, Abilene, and Tonganoxie.
The WHS Scholar's Bowl Team - participated in an 18 team tournament Monday @ Chaparral HS and did better than 17 of the other teams! (i.e. GOT FIRST PLACE!!!) Awesome bunch...!!
Left to Right: Caleb Starnes, Karsten Gill, Hunter Bryant, Devin Dickinson, Julia Starnes, and Jason Jeffery!
Bishop Carroll HS finished 2nd, Douglass HS 3rd
The squad is coached by Sarah House.
The WHS Debate Team competed at Augusta on Saturday (DEC. 1st) and "2" more Crusader Debaters are State Tournament bound in January! Congratulations to Devin Dickinson and Gabe Hyer who placed 6th with an overall win/loss rating of 4 wins & 1 loss. Great job gentlemen!
Students in Mrs. Defore's World History class completed their first big project of the year, "Conquest and Its' Impact".
One of the final products included a museum exhibit where students highlighted one aspect of their learning. The museum was set up in the library, and each class visited. Students were encouraged to leave "I like" and "I wonder" comments for the exhibitors.
The WHS Debate team, coached by Caitlin Hendrix, traveled to Chaparral on Saturday to compete in a varsity tournament with positive results!
Austin Harriger and Austin Fink qualified for state by earning a first-place ranking with a win-loss rating of 5-0! It is their first clean sweep! Alivia Holgate and Lucas Lyne earned a 7th place ranking with a win-loss rating of 2-3. Aidan Young and Nicole Holdaway earned a 1-4 rating, winning in their last round.
The WMS 7/8 Scholar Bowl squads were in action Thursday, for the final time this season. The KNIGHTS hosted the Patriot League Scholars Bowl Championships after school on Thursday. Teams in attendance, in addition to the KNIGHTS, Clearwater Middle School, Haysville West MS, Mulvane MS, Prairie Hills MS, and Rose Hill MS.
Mrs. Melissa Buchanan's "Youth Entrepreneurship Class" had their Market Day this week at WHS. After a lot of planning, the group went shopping on Monday and then on Wednesday, their pop-up businesses were setup and in action Wednesday during all "3" lunch periods. Profit reports are not in yet - suspect though there was more black than red on the post-day ledgers! The pics below are courtesy of WHS Yearbook Staff!
The WMS Scholar's Bowl Team hosted the first tournament of the 2018 season with Andover Central, Circle, Derby North & Mulvane.
Back Row: Camryn Bannister, Philip Starnes, Jax Cornejo, Caleb Nefzger, Jaxson Irey-Hurt, Daniel Garver.
Front Row: Abbey Gill, Michael Davis, Alec Gonzalez, Kate Haines, Heidi Gulick, Hunter Lough
Congratulations to the WMS 8th grade squad - they finished in 2nd place (3-1), just behind Mulvane, also (3-1). Place was determined by head to head tie-breaker
The Wellington National Honors Society 2018-2019 Inductions were held at WHS on Sunday, Oct. 7th. There are "23" Inductees, who as members must pledge to uphold the high purpose of the National Honor Society to which they have been selected; they will be true to the principles for which it stands; they will be loyal to their school, and will maintain and encourage high standards of scholarship, leadership, service, and character.
Congratulations to these 2018-19 Inductees:
The WHS scholars bowl team was 1 of 30 teams who competed in the pre-seasonEntertainment tournament Thursday at Wichita West HS. All questions asked revolved around Entertainment. When all questions had been asked and answered, WHS walked away with 2nd place! Congratulations to team members Lydia Dridi, Julia Starnes, Dakota Lynnes, Tanner Dillon, Mason Lough, Gabe Hyer.
What: Students and faculty at Wellington High School are celebrating Career and Technical Education (CTE). This year’s theme is Oh the places you will go with CTE! Hundreds of CTE students will showcase their work. The public is invited to attend and support their endeavors.
The BIG-10 Conference announced their winter honor teams on Wednesday and "5" Nebraska Huskers earned Academic All-Big Ten Honors!
Seniors Jasmine Cincore and Emily Wood both collected their third academic All-Big Ten awards of their careers, while junior Maddie Simon claimed her second honor. Senior transfer Janay Morton and sophomore Grace Mitchell both earned their first academic All-Big Ten awards as Huskers.
The WHS Junior Class took a couple buses on Wednesday to Abilene, KS for one of their annual trips down history lane. Abilene is an extraordinary visit and of course the hometown of the 34th President of the United States. (Eisenhower was actually born in Texas but raised in Abilene) The students spent time at the Eisenhower Library and Museum, which offers a complete layout of President Eisenhower's life and career, including his boyhood home.
WHS students Bryce Gilbreth, Alisha Waters and Mason Sparks attended the Technical Career Day at Davis-Moore in Wichita this past Saturday. There were several post-secondary institutions represented which allowed the students opportunities to explore training options. In addition, they were able to network with master technicians and see some demonstrations in the service area of Davis- Moore.
Several WHS FFA students toured Cargill Innovations Center on Wednesday, March 14th, and had the opportunity to speak with industry professionals that work for Cargill. The students discussed with these industry leaders, ways to develop plans on how to feed the world with growing populations and fewer resources and also, how they can shape the future of agriculture itself. During the session, WHS FFA Senior Malachi Tidwell addressed 300 students and the industry leaders about the importance of Agriculture and the FFA!
The Pioneer League Math Relays held at Wellington Middle School on Tuesday, resulted in strong finishes for Wellington's 7th and 8th grade squads!
As a team, the 7th graders finished 2nd, just behind El Dorado and just ahead of Ark City! The 7th grade team members included Banks Hinshaw, Daniel Garver, Keaton Hartman, Jaxson Irey and Riley Trowbridge.
The individual champion for the 7th grade teams was Gage Patty from El Dorado.
Mrs. Terri Driskell's 7th Grade Social Studies classes visited the traveling MAGNA CARTA display at the Sumner County Courthouse on Tuesday. The students perused the display and then a group discussion about different aspects of the Magna Carta were discussed including Habeas Corpus, King John and more! The students walked the 3 blocks one-way to the courthouse, spent about 20 minutes at the display and returned to the school. A great day for all of that!
Mrs. Rane Case at WHS released the following results from this weekend's BPA - STATE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE. Congrats to the achievers and to Mrs. Melissa Buchanan and Mrs. Elizabeth Vaughn who assisted with student preparation and driving.
Congratulations to the following WHS Students!!
Statesman Award Recipients: Marisa Black, Chaney Leonard, Dakota Lynnes
PRESS RELEASE
Female High School Students Earn Awards for Aspirations in Computing
Kansas City, Mo.— Feb. 9, 2018 – As part of an effort to encourage more young women to choose careers in technology, the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) and Commerce Bank of Kansas City will recognize 18 high-school women for their accomplishments and aspirations in computing and technology at an award ceremony and reception at Kansas City Power & Light. on February 9. 2018.
Wellington High School will be providing the sophomore class an opportunity to be involved with a program called "Reality U".
Mrs. Melissa Buchanan's Web Design and Entrepreneurship classes at WHS, are assisting students from Kennedy Elementary each day this week with the "HOUR OF CODE" project as part of Computer Science Education Week! Read below for more info! (or click HERE)
WMS had a solid group of Knights and Lady Knights take part in the Pioneer League Div IV Championship Tuesday. Congratulations to all of them for their participation, that takes considerable nerve and composure to participate in these kind of events and to do so at middle school age says a lot about this group of 5!
Kudos to Jax Cornejo who finished FIRST in the 7th grade division - he won it all, spelling the word Methuselah correctly! Great job Jax!
The WMS 8th grade has been working on an "Egg Drop Challenge". Students design their "egg vessels" if you will and determine which prevent the egg from breaking when dropped from different heights.
First Drop: Track Bleachers
2nd Drop: Bandroom Balcony
3rd Drop: North Exterior Gym Balcony
Final Drop: From atop Cafeteria (by Custodian Troy Jones)
Wellington High School Debate and Forensics is doing fundraising a little differently this year! We have partnered with Dillons Community Rewards. This means that if you follow the directions on the image below and enroll our organization, every purchase you make with your Dillon's Plus Card helps fund Debate and Forensics! There are no extra purchases necessary. Just swipe your Plus Card and Dillon's sends a percentage to us!
Thank you for supporting WHS Debate and Forensics!
Freshmen at WHS participate in CRUSADER WAY classes their first year as Crusaders, learning a myriad of social and community skills and how to utilize them.
You can read books about it, you can listen to lectures about it, you can even watch videos and other media materials BUT there is nothing like the real thing and it's the real thing WHS Juniors participated in Tuesday on a 16 hour road trip to Kansas City and back home. WHS instructors Mike Wilmoth and Rick Phelps oversee these annual excursions. Between the 5:15AM departure and 9:45pm arrival back home, here's what they did!
The Pioneer League Championships were held Thursday at El Dorado MS for their PL Division's Scholar Bowl competition.
Congratulations to our Wellington Knights who finished 2nd (7th Grade) and 3rd (8th Grade) out of 6 teams at the end of season event! You can see by the wins and losses, the KNIGHTS fared very well - congratulations again to both the 7th and 8th grade squads! Awesome job overall!!
With the WMS Scholars Bowl season winding down, the 7th and 8th grade Knights road tripped to Goddard on Tuesday with grand results! Our 8th graders, for the 3rd time this season grabbed the gold, defeating host Goddard, Ark City, Haysville and Valley Center. The 7th graders fared well too, finishing 3rd in the field of 5.
Congrats to both squads and good luck this Thursday in El Dorado at the Pioneer League Tournament which will conclude the Fall 2017 scholars bowl season.
The KU Honors Banquet, formerly held at WHS for all Sumner County schools each Fall, moved to Wichita North HS this year. The event is sponsored annually by the KU Alumni Association and honors the TOP 10% from area schools. Pictured are the Wellington Seniors that were in attendance at the event Thursday evening in Wichita. Congratulations Crusaders on your academic successes at WHS - way to represent!
WHS Youth Entrepreneurs had the opportunity to run their own pop up businesses during lunch on Wednesday. They worked in groups and planned and operated their own business..
Throughout the project, students performed market research to determine what they would sell, figured start-up and operating costs, and determined a break-even point.
Congratulations to the WMS 8th Grade SCHOLARS BOWL TEAM! The Knights were in Newton Thursday and went UNDEFEATED, topping host Newton, Augusta, Mulvane and Salina South. How awesome is that?
The Scholarly Knights...L to R:
Baylee Newberry, Ali Zeka, Crosby Fairbanks, Deitrek Gill, Jay Ybarra, Dylan Dickinson and Brett Wyckoff
Congratulations 8th Grade Knights!
