ESU 11

Holdrege, NE

Educational Service Unit No. 11

Service · Leadership · Vision

26th Annual Elementary Quiz Bowl

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ESU #11 sponsored the 26th Annual Elementary Quiz Bowl at the Nebraska Prairie Museum in Holdrege on Wednesday, January 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:

All thirteen of the Quiz Bowl teams were proud to support Bertrand’s Garrett Scholz who is battling Leukemia by wearing matching Garrett’s Pack shirts. Garrett will be starting his bone marrow transplant this Friday, January 11. We will all be thinking of you Garrett!

Invention Convention 2012

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The 21st Annual Invention Convention hosted by Educational Service Unit #11 of Holdrege, and organized by Tim Burke, Director of Gifted Education was held Monday, April 16, 2012 at Pioneer Village in Minden. 145 inventors in grades 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 participated. Participating schools included: Alma, Cambridge, Franklin, Holdrege, Minden, and Wilcox-Hildreth.

This year’s winners of the Harold Warp Memorial Inventor’s Choice Award were Cydney Hoskins and Konnor Nielsen from Minden. Their invention was the “Squeaky Clean Brush”. They received a certificate as well as a trophy that will be displayed at their school. Each inventor at Invention Convention casts one vote for their favorite invention to determine the winner.

Students were first judged in their grade level which was divided into groups called “Inventor’s Circles”. There were 14 different Inventor’s Circles which each had a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winner.

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Invention Convention 2011

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The Twentieth Annual Invention Convention hosted by Educational Service Unit #11 of Holdrege, and organized by Tim Burke, Director of Gifted Education was held Monday, April 18, 2011 at Pioneer Village in Minden.  134 inventors in grades 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 8 participated.  Participating schools included: Alma, Cambridge, Franklin, Holdrege, Minden, and Wilcox-Hildreth.

Students were first judged in their grade level which was divided into groups called “Inventor’s Circles”.  There were 14 different Inventor’s Circles which each had a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winner.   Results were as follows:

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