ESU #11 Coordinates Technology Integration Workshop for Staff and Students in Arapahoe and Cambridge

On November 1, 2012, the ESU #11 Staff Development Department coordinated a technology integration workshop for Cambridge and Arapahoe Public Schools. The facilitator for the day was Kevin Honeycutt.  Kevin is a technology integrationist and a staff developer from Central Kansas. He spent 13 years teaching K-12 art, and now travels the country and the world sharing ideas with educators.  During the morning, Kevin worked with students in grades K-12 and focused on Internet safety and bullying prevention.  During the afternoon, Kevin worked with K-12 teachers and discussed ways they could try new technology tools.  Kevin also shared the notion of “self-directed staff development” and showed teachers how they can build their own personal learning network.

 

     

2012 JH/MS Quiz Bowl Results

ESU #11 sponsored  the  Jr. High/Middle School Quiz Bowl at the Nebraska Prairie Museum in Holdrege on Wednesday, February 8th.  Teams attending were Alma, Arapahoe, Axtell, Bertrand, Cambridge, Elwood, Eustis-Farnam, Franklin, Holdrege, Loomis, Minden, Southern Valley,  and Wilcox-Hildreth.

Results were as follows:

  • 1st Place – Arapahoe
  • 2nd Place – Franklin
  • 3rd Place – Axtell

1st Place - Arapahoe

2nd Place - Franklin

3rd Place - Axtell

Senior High Academic Quiz Bowls 2011

The 24th Annual ESU #11 Senior High Academic Quiz Bowl was held at 8:30 a.m. on April 27th at the Nebraska Prairie Museum. Thirteen teams from the ESU #11 area competed. Teams were: Alma, Arapahoe, Axtell, Bertrand, Cambridge, Elwood, Eustis-Farnam, Franklin, Holdrege, Loomis, Minden, Southern Valley and Wilcox-Hildreth. The top two teams from that competition participated in the Nebraska State ESU Senior High Academic Quiz Bowl. Those teams were Alma and Bertrand.

1st Place - Alma

2nd Place - Bertrand

3rd Place - Arapahoe

Beginning at 1:00 p.m., twenty-five teams from 13 ESUs competed at the 18th annual Nebraska State ESU Senior High Academic Quiz Bowl including: Adams Central, Arcadia, Banner County, Central City, Chambers, Chase County, Columbus, Elgin, Elkhorn South, Exeter-Milligan, Johnson-Brock, Kearney, Medicine Valley, Mullen, Omaha Westside, Nebraska City Lourdes CC, Norris, North Platte St. Patrickʼs, Rock County, Superior, Valentine, Wahoo and Wisner-Pilger along with the top two ESU #11 teams (Alma & Bertrand).

1st Place - Elkhorn South

2nd Place - Adams Central

3rd Place - NE City Lourdes CC

The Quiz Bowl competitions were sponsored by ESU #11 in Holdrege.

Arapahoe’s Dan Schaben Awarded

Arapahoe Public Schools Math Teacher, Dan Schaben, has been awarded a Robert Noyce National Science Foundation (NSF) Master Teaching Fellowship by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.  This Fellowship is one of only 24 to be awarded in Nebraska.  Robert Noyce Master Teaching Fellowships are funded by the NSF and are intended to recognize and reward outstanding mathematics teachers who make a 5-year commitment to continue teaching in a high need school district and to pursue professional development opportunities that support their development into the state’s most outstanding master teachers.

JH/MS Quiz Bowl Results & NTV Good Life Clip

ESU #11 sponsored  the  Jr. High/Middle School Quiz Bowl at the Nebraska Prairie Museum in Holdrege on Wednesday, February 9th.  Teams attending were Alma, Arapahoe, Axtell, Bertrand, Cambridge, Elwood, Eustis-Farnam, Franklin, Holdrege, Loomis, Minden, Southern Valley,  and Wilcox-Hildreth.

Results were as follows:

  • 1st Place – Minden
  • 2nd Place – Alma
  • 3rd Place – Arapahoe

NTV’s Good Life show, which is on daily Monday through Friday from 9:00 to 10:00 a.m., broadcast a live 10-minute segment from the Nebraska Prairie Museum at the beginning of the Quiz Bowl. Co-Hosts Roni Lewis and Carol Staab were in the studio and Zach Richie was at the Quiz Bowl.  View the video of the live broadcast below.

Permission to use video authorized by Mark Baumert, NTV News Director.