This Week in Newberg Nation

​Cheerleaders Double as National Champs!
Congratulations to Newberg Nation Cheerleading who won their second consecutive national championship this past week! Tiger Cheer has grown over the past six years into one of the most awe inspiring programs in the state of Oregon, let alone the United States! Finishing second in the OSAA championships for three consecutive years the cheerleaders then went on to win the past three OSAA State Championships thus resulting in six consecutive years of either 2nd or 1st place finishes! WOW!

Tiger Cheer has added upon their six consecutive 1st or 2nd place finishes in the state of Oregon by winning their second consecutive national championship this past week in California! Congratulations to Coach Lisa Berg and Tiger Cheer, we are very proud of you!!!

NHS College & Career Center

• Attention any students planning to attend George Fox next fall: The McGrath Family Scholarship applications are now available.  The award amount is $2,800 dollars and the deadline is April 30th.  Pick up your application in the College and Career Center.

Check out more available scholarships on our website!

Internships are available at Newberg High School!
For students interested in the health career field, there is a program with Providence Health System called Career Highlights. These are three hour mini courses focused on a specific health care career field. This qualifies as a Job Shadow needed for graduation. These events are on Saturdays and students need to provide their own transportation.

This is a reminder that registration for May Career Highlights begins on April 2nd and will be open until spaces are filled. The May Career Highlights include:

• Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant on Thursday, May 7 at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center from  1-4 PM
• Systems/Industrial Engineering on Monday, May 11 at Providence Office Park from 9 AM- Noon
•  Nursing on Tuesday, May 12 at Providence Portland Medical Center from Noon-3 PM

 *Note that Systems/Industrial Engineering is a unique Career Highlight in that it is non-clinical. We are excited to provide this opportunity for students who may be interested in some of the many non-clinical aspects of health care!

Also, there is still space available in ALL of our April events, so please get your students registered for those as well!

• Physician on Thursday, April 2 at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center from 1-4 PM
• Physician on Friday, April 10 at Providence Portland Medical Center from 9 AM-noon
• Rehabilitation Services on Tuesday, April 21 at Providence Willamette Falls Community Center from 1-4 PM
• Health Care Finance on Friday, April 24th in the Providence Office Park (POP2 Bldg.) from 9 AM-Noon

We would love to see your schools and organizations represented! Please visit our website to register at: www.providenceoregon.org/schooloutreach/ch. 

We’re pleased to announce Providence Newberg Medical Center’s 2015 Student Volunteer Summer Program. This volunteer program is designed specifically for a limited number of students between the ages of 15 to 18 who have a genuine interest in serving and pursuing a career in health care.

Interested students will need to complete a volunteer application which can be downloaded from our website at www.Providenceoregon.org/newbergvolunteers. The application needs to be returned by May 15.

FFA Cleans Up (again) at State

Once again our Future Farmers of America (FFA) Chapter represented Newberg Nation quite well at the Oregon FFA State Convention held during Spring Break in Silverton. Results from the state championships include the following:

Beginning Public Speaking

• 1st place (State Champion) - John McCarthy
• 2nd place - Abby Bull

Sophomore Public Speaking

• 2nd place - Peter Gentile

Advanced Public Speaking

• Top 8 - Johanna DeJoria

Creed Speaking:

• Top 8 - Davis Smith

Extemporaneous Speaking:

• 1st place (State Champion) - Margaret Halstead

State Degree Recipients:

• Johanna DeJoria
• John Lombardo
• Daniel Womack

Farm Business Management Team:

• 3rd place - Megan Joyce, John Lombardo, Karissa Noragon

AgriScience Experiments:

• 1st place Animal Systems Division 1 - Todd Halleman
• 1st place Plant Systems Division 1 - Wayne Barnett
• 1st place Environmental Sciences Division 1 - John McCarthy
• Also presented science experiments:  Karissa Noragon; Peter Fortner; and team of ShaeLee Barnett & Emily Sandberg

Information Contest:

• 2nd place team - Wayne Barnett, BrankoFrketich, Todd Halleman, John McCarthy

Art Contest:

• 3rd place - Sasha Perez

Photography Contest:

• 1st place Machine Division - Megan Joyce

Essay Contest:

• Entered - Karissa Noragon

State Winner "Specialty Animal" Proficiency (a member's business activities)

• Sasha Perez

State STAR Ag Placement (a member's employment) -

• Johanna DeJoria

State Officer Candidate

•  Margaret Halstead

Congratulations to all of these Flying Tigers, Coach Beckner and thank you to our FFA alumni and families for all they do in supporting our outstanding FFA program!

TigerCon is coming to…

Newberg Nation Next Week!

Newberg High School Seniors would like to invite all of Newberg Nation to the first ever TigerCon Senior Project Showcase. This new event will be held on Thursday April 9th from 6 pm to 8 pm in the Commons & West Commons @ NHS and all are welcome to drop by at anytime between those hours!

This event is intended to showcase all the great work the Seniors have put into their senior projects and for our community, parents, peers and staff (past & present) to see all the class of 2015 has accomplished! The seniors will be presenting their projects at booths set up throughout the NHS main building thus allowing you to pick and choose which projects you find most interesting!

We want to invite you to stop by during the event and come see what real world applications our seniors have been working on. Art projects, engine rebuilds, sports camps, blood drives, horticulture activities, business management, teaching, culinary arts and movie productions are only the beginning of a short list of the amazing projects our seniors have completed.

BTW - There will be over 300 projects to see!

Our Seniors would love to see you there and appreciate your support!

GOT WHEELS?

Senior Kieran Brown has put together a senior project that all car enthusiasts just have to know about! He will be putting on his very own car show in the Elliot Street parking lot here at NHS on April 25 from 9-2! 

From classic cars to cruisers, new age and radical custom jobs Kieran’s show will be a true Newberg Nation moment (who knows, maybe the Risen family’s restored ’73 Nova SS will have to make an appearance as well, or maybe their daughter in laws immaculate ’52 Chevy pickup…both perhaps?).

It will be an event that will bring all automotive lovers hearts to sheer joy as there will be endless chrome, polish, see through gloss paint and horsepower everywhere! For more information on the show or how to get your entry submitted contact Kieran at hoy.brown@comcast.net!

 Breakfast Club
Our next Breakfast Club meeting will be held on Friday, April 24, from 8-10am at the Coffee Cottage in downtown Newberg. Come talk about all things Newberg Nation!

‘Spring Fling’ Tonight!!!

Newberg Nation fans we are excited to announce that we have added an additional dance to this year’s activities calendar. The dance is titled “Spring Fling” and will be held at the NHS commons from 8-1030pm tonight, Friday, April 3rd.

We would like to ask all of our Tigers to help us out and be respectful of their peers by dressing and dancing appropriately at tonight’s event. The dance will end promptly at 1030pm so please plan your transportation arrangements accordingly. We look forward to a fun event!

Tiger Music

Newberg Nation is excited to host the Three Rivers League inaugural District Choir Championships this coming Tuesday here at NHS! Good luck to our Tiger Choir members and Director Hawthorne as they pursue choral excellence on Tuesday!

Registration and Freshmen Orientation:

SAVE the DATES!!!
Wednesday, September 2: Freshmen class of 2019) will register in the morning
(they will stay for Frosh Orientation that afternoon)

Wednesday, September 2: Seniors (class of 2016) will register in the afternoon

Thursday, September 3: Juniors (class of 2017) will register in the morning

Thursday, September 3: Sophomores (class of 2018) will register in the afternoon

Got A Story? An Accomplishment?

An Award? Scholarship? Internship? Joining the U.S. Military?

As we talked about in last weeks newsletter we want to know, we want to celebrate, and we want to honor all things Newberg Nation! This message was delivered to all NHS students at last weeks assembly by Activities Director Mark Brown, Assistant Principal Janay Cookson and Principal Mark Risen.

                Again, we want stories, we need to celebrate your and our accomplishments, and we are proud of everyone in Newberg Nation! Please feel free to send your stories to brownm@newberg.k12.or.us and rennet@newberg.k12.or.us. Go Tigers!

Grad Night $$$$

Every Tuesday, Ye Olde Pizza donates a portion of their proceeds to help support NHS Grad Night.  Take the family out for some great pizza between 4:00-9:00pm and help provide a safe and fun grad night for our 2015 Seniors. 

Beginning Monday, April 6th, drop items off at Krohn’s Appliance. 
Krohn’s Appliance is located at 2700 Portland Rd, Suite C, Newberg (across the street from Goodwill). 

Hours are Monday-Friday 9-5 and Saturday 9-12.

Furniture, tools, appliances, bikes, household goods, sporting equipment etc. are welcome, including large items.  
Please no clothing.

For additional information or drop off options, contact Heather Storedahl at 503-504-2998 or Tina Oathes 503-810-7216.

 Help will be needed on Friday, April 17th, for picking up stored items, pricing and set up.  Stop by and help as you can on Saturday. 

Newberg High School is participating again  in the Oregon Healthy Teens Survey (OHT), survey sponsored by the Oregon Health Authority Public Health Division and the Oregon Department of Education. The survey gathers information about health risk behaviors of students in grades 8 and 11.  The survey includes questions about nutrition, physical activity, tobacco, alcohol, and drug use, personal safety and violence-related behavior, HIV knowledge, mental health, suicide, harassment, sexual risk behavior/attitudes, and interactions with peers, adults, school staff, and community members that influence youth well-being.

Students will be asked to complete this online survey through their advisory class April 27 – May 8. Each junior will receive a letter explaining more about the survey in advisory next week. In this letter there is an opt out section for parents. If you feel that having your student take this survey is something you would rather they not do, please fill out the bottom portion of the letter and have your student return that portion to their advisor.

If you have additional questions, please feel free to contact Mr. Malone at 503-554-4400

Newberg NationThoughts…

~Principal Risen

            I had the privilege of attending a leadership workshop this week and found myself intrigued by the definition of “culture” they gave at this presentation. Their definition was that culture is “what you allow.”

            Having spent considerable time contemplating this notion of culture being “what you allow” I came up with three key constructs to ponder regarding this statement.

            The first thing I contemplated was what is the “what” they are referring to?

            The second included me exhausting myself over who is “you” in this statement?

            Finally, the third variable I analyzed to my wits end was this notion of “allowing.” What did they mean by “allow?”

            What I ultimately took away from this definition of culture (what you allow) is that we are all individually and collectively responsible for building our culture, thus the “you” is each of us.

 “What” each of us allows does become an accepted part of our culture. Therefore, we must be mindful of “what” we are allowing as it will become a part of our culture, an accepted norm.

But what does it mean to “allow?” I left the conference understanding that “allow” meant that we each bear the responsibility of positively policing ourselves, each other, and our community, as what we allow individually and collectively will define our culture.

So what are “we” and “you” willing to allow?

• Excellence, or non-excellence?
• Negativity or positivity?
• Friendliness or less than friendliness?
• Zero kids fall through the cracks, or kids fall through the cracks?
• Excuses or results?

There are many, many more elements of culture that we must consider if we analyze “what you allow” as a definition of culture. But what we allow, what we don’t allow, and what we continue to allow will define Newberg Nation, Newberg High and the greater Newberg community.

So what are you going to allow to define us as our culture?

Flying Tigers…

“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!”