CHS students chosen for Language Speech Contest
Chesterton High School seniors, left to right, Josh Guzek, Bryan Pamintuan and Sailor Franklin have been chosen through a preliminary selection process to be speech finalists at the 32nd Annual Japanese Language Speech Contest on Saturday, March 17 at the Japan Information Center (JIC) at the Consulate in Chicago. All three are Japanese 5 students. Their teacher is Aki Tsugawa. The JIC has been hosting this contest to promote the study of the Japanese language in the Midwest and to deepen the mutual understanding and friendship between Japan and the United States.
CHS Japanese Olympiad Teams Place Second and Third at State Competition
Chesterton High School was state runner-up in the second-year division and placed third in the fourth-year division at the Japanese Olympiad of Indiana at Earlham College in Richmond this past Saturday. CHS has won the Japan Bowl/Japanese Olympiad state championship twenty times along with three national Japan Bowl championships and one national runner-up.
The Japanese Olympiad of Indiana is an academic competition for second, third and fourth-year students with categories including speaking, culture, kanji characters, proverbs, listening, geography, current events, history, and onomatopoeic expressions.
The CHS second-year team of Aidan Li, Emily Case and Hunter Stewart finished second to Indiana Academy and ahead of Avon High School. The other second-year team of Abbey Leffert and Jacob Waters did well in their preliminary round.
In the fourth-year division, the team of Nate Kravitz, Jonathon Sumita and Orion Bohren finished in third place to Bloomington North and Michigan City.
Competing in third-year, but not advancing to the finals were the teams of Will Shook, Hannah Grimes and Sam Henderson, and Eve Senderhauf, Elise Dorsey and Davian Ojeda
Celebrating Black History month
Liberty Elementary fourth grade students celebrated Black History month by presenting living statues of famous African Americans. Over one hundred different African Americans were presented. Front row, left to right, Turner Enderle (Marshal Thurgood), Drew Barich (Martin Luther King), Aubrey Bamber (Brianna Scurry), Liam Gray (Hank Aaron) and Aubree Williams (Althea Gibson). Back row, Madeyln Street (Sojourner Truth), Mara HuneryagerRosa Parks), Addison Mason (Mary Eliza Mahoney), Addy Nash (Simone Manuel), Chamiyah Powells (Renee Powell), Jack Richardson (Marcus Garvey), Lexie Lauzon (Simone Biles) and Lillyanne Peschke (Sarah Vaughn).
Chess teams headed to state
Two Duneland School Chess Club teams are headed for the state competition after qualifying on Saturday, March 24 at the Indiana Scholastic Team Chess Regional hosted at Morton High School in Hammond on Saturday, Feb. 24. Chesterton Middle School placed first in the eighth grade and under division and Westchester Intermediate placed ninth out of 38 teams in the sixth grade and under division. Top photo, CMS chess team members, left to right, seventh graders Joseph Garland, Ian Conex and Jonathan McClure and eighth grader Tyler McCarthy. Bottom photo, Westchester Intermediate chess team members Nick Van Wagner, Mike Schwab, Ian Michael, Gage Adcock, Cyrus Veden and Dakota Arvin.
LIS Robotics Club winners head to state
According to VEX Robotics, "The world faces an unprecedented need for new innovators, thinkers, and problem-solving leaders. At current rates, there are simply not enough students choosing STEM-related paths to meet the global demand."
In response to this need, the fifth and sixth-grade science teachers at Liberty Intermediate School are involved in STEM-related paths, and are in their second year of robotics club competition with 30 students participating among five teams.
The Liberty Intermediate club teams have been designing their robots for competition since September. The competitions consist of two teams collaborating to earn the most points moving rings from posts across a 4’ x 8’ field. These teams of students are tasked with maneuvering their bots in a game-based engineering challenge. There is a separate skills challenge that students participate in individually.
During this season, Team D qualified for the state competition while participating in the Wanatah meet in December earning the “Teamwork Champion Award" while Team B qualified in February at the Michigan City meet earning "Teamwork Champion Award "as well.
Both teams will compete at the "Indiana VEX IQ ES State Championship" on Saturday, March 10, 2018 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.