Student Shoutouts

Student & Staff Shout Outs

Congratulations to Newberg FFA Members who competed at the Sectional contest at Sherwood High School this past week! Over 20 schools were represented from Marion, Polk, Yamhill, Washington, and Tillamook Counties. 
 
3rd Place - Extemporaneous Public Speaking: Israel Pintor
4th Place - Advanced Prepared Public Speaking: Kylie Holveck
Top 6 - Job Interview: Mariah Lemen
 
3rd Place - Advanced Parliamentary Procedure: 
Chairman: Davis Smith
Secretary: Abigayle Darula
Team Members: John McCarthy, Violet Elder, Todd Halleman, Israel Pintor
 
 
Gwen Thomas and Kiernan VandenHoek will be featured artists in the Scholastic Art Show at Oregon State University from March 11th-April 3rd.  Congrats to Gwen and Keirnan!!
 
 
Last weekend, NHS had four teams who participated in the FIRST Tech Challenge Robotics Competition through ORTOP. The FTC program is composed of three parts: the robot game, the engineering notebook, and community outreach. This season's game, or mission, was called Velocity Vortex. The object of the game is to score the most points by shooting particle balls into either the center or corner vertices, placing a cap ball on top of the center vortex, or pressing beacons on the side of the 12x12 foot mat. Each year, teams record their design, building, and programming of robotics in their engineering notebook. Most importantly, teams encourage STEM through community outreach like educational camps, school visits, FIRST LEGO League team mentoring, public presentations, and spreading the word about the FIRST program. All teams compete in a local league that consists of five weekend meets, then the top fifty percent (50%) qualify to participate in the super- qualifier tournament, then it goes on to regionals (state), super regionals, and the the FIRST world championship. Overall, the FTC program is a great program for those interested in STEM and robotics. Participants often spend more time working on robots and community outreach than a typical high school sport, which makes FTC a great program for college and personal resumes.
 
Here are the season results:

Kronos:

11th at super qualifier.
9th at league qualifier, winner of Finalist Alliance Award and PTC Design Award.

Iron Men Mach II:

21st at super qualifier.
6th at league qualifier, winner of Finalist Alliance Award at league qualifier.

Beta Pi:

16th at state last weekend, made it to the semifinals.
6th at super qualifier, winner of Finalist Alliance Award.
16th at league qualifier; winner of Winning Alliance Award, Connect Award, and 2nd Place Inspire Award.

Bullet Proof:

9th at state last weekend.
3rd at super qualifier.
3rd at league qualifier; winner of Motivate Award.

The Robotics program is currently working during this off-season to create a high-caliber program capable of making it to the FIRST world championship by coordinating more community outreach events and practicing robotics skills. Students can sign-up for our Coding University and look for more information about our first Tiger Tech Summer Camp soon. You can also learn more about this season and their accomplishments by clicking HERE.