Katy Boggs on the IHSA All-State Academic Team

“Congratulations to Katy Boggs for being selected to the IHSA All-State Academic Team.”

FFA Petting Zoo

EHS Hosts Honor's night

Congratulations to the large number of students that were honored on May 10th at the EHS honors night program in the auditorium.  Pictured are the Principal's Leadership Award winners: Katy Boggs  and Kristin Bloyd.

EHS Hornets at O'Brien Field

The Hornet's did a great job last night, Monday, May 9, representing EHS and the Hornet Baseball program. They beat Peoria Christian HS by the score of 12-2. Here is a photo just before their big night under the lights at O'Brien Field. Congratulations, Hornets!!!

Project Impact celebrates the end of the year

The students enrolled in Project Impact ended the year with a field trip to the paintball course in Mackinaw.  All of the students that attended this event have completed their required courses and logged the number of hours needed to recovery the credits they need towards graduation.  Congratulations to all of the students, Mr. Aldridge, and Mr. Whitaker for a successful year! 

Livestock, Dairy, and Horticulture State Judging Competition

The Eureka FFA's Livestock, Dairy, and Horticulture Teams recently competed at the state level competition. The Livestock Team placed 4th in the state, out of 107 teams; the Dairy Team placed 4th in the state, out of 78 teams; the Horticulture Team placed 22nd out of 32 teams. This year's competition was held at the University of Illinois, in Champaign, IL. Daniel Leman held the leading core of 511 for the Livestock Judging Team, Rebecca Kupferschmid held the leading score of 409 for the Dairy Judging Team, and Samuel Cottrell held the leading score of 430 for the Horticulture Team. This year's team members did a fantastic job practicing and preparing for the competition months in advance. Congratulations to this year's Eureka FFA Livestock, Dairy, and Horticulture Judging Teams for their performances at the state level!

Katherine Syndram (Jr) works on her floral arrangement for the Horticulture competition.

Harrison Frank (Fr) shows off his floral arrangement.

Mrs. Bertschi is honored

Congratulations to Deb Bertschi for being honored at the SAR banquet on April 14, 2011 with the Schweizer American History Teacher Award.  She is pictured with G. Gordon Bidner - GJB SAR Chapter President and Citizenship Chair

One of the Presenters During EHS Career Week

 One of the presenters, a dog trainer, her dog, and Mrs. Brown.

Morning Show Host for Power Radio 92

Go to the following site to listen to the Power Radio 92 show host talk about her visit to EHS during Career Week.
http://griffithd.edublogs.org/files/2011/04/Eureka-High-School-Career-Week-Power-92-3-1a66a6k.mp3

3rd Annual Career Week at EHS

The 3rd annual Career Week was April 11th-15th!  Twenty-two professionals came to EHS throughout the week to speak to our students.  An Emmy Award-Winning Animator, a Forensic Police Officer, a NFL Scout, an Early Childhood Educator, a Dog Trainer…just to name a few!  This was a great week for the students and community alike to work together in finding the perfect jobs for tomorrow's leaders. 

EHS students remember a friend and classmate

The Class of 2012 planted tulips in memory of Logan Sauder in October.  The tulips bloomed this week.   The following students helped plant the 105 tulip bulbs (one for each class member): Kurt Cottrell, David Crowe, Nikki Connolly, Jacey Hartman, Danielle Bill, and Lexi Bauman.

EHS hosts volunteer luncheon

Thanks to the social committee of Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Cook, Mrs. Schrepfer, Mrs. Rieke, and Mrs. Jackson for organizing this year's volunteer luncheon in the EHS library.  Also, a big thanks to Todd Hohulin of 2Chez restaurant for catering the event, the volunteers for helping out throughout the year, and the students for acting as receptionists!

EHS WYSE team places in top 20 at state

The EHS WYSE team placed in the top twenty yesterday at the state competition. If they would count all of the scores recorded, we would have been 11th and in the top five of the public schools. Congratulations to Thompson Zhuang, who was a medalist in the area of Chemistry.

FFA Lock-in 2011

This year’s FFA Lock-In was a blast!  The night started off with a team building activity in which the members present were split into groups, and each group duct taped one of the 5 girl officers to the wall.  Laughter and smiles filled the room as the game started; the results were humorous to say the least.  This event was the prelude to a night filled with never ending games of dodge ball and basketball, plus a bouncy and lot of scrumptious food!  75 Eureka FFA members of all ages came and enjoyed a time of fun, food, and lots of friends! 

This group decided to duct tape their officer, Larae Zimmerman, sideways!

Taylor Dawson enjoying the fun!

Anna Sophia Christ, Jacob Leman, Tommy Kempf, and Matt Hill

EHS students attending PAWAC conference

On March 26, 2011, the Peoria Area World Affairs Council (PAWAC) will be hosting their annual conference at the Par-A-Dice Hotel, in East Peoria.  This year the conference is exploring the challenges and possibilities in Latin America.  The following students were awarded scholarships to attend the conference from the Eureka Rotary and PAWAC:  Brad Brewer, Christopher Crawford, David Crowe, Emily Cuffe, Jehanne Eveno, Erica Garber, José Hidrogo, and Chase Scherer.  Thompson Zhuang was chosen for the PAWAC National Scholastic Bowl team and will travel with the team to Washington D.C.  This is the first time an EHS student scored so high; this high score was why he was chosen to participate on the national team.  EHS Social Science/Studies teacher, Deborah Bertschi, will be accompanying the students to the conference.

EHS student places at Corn Belt Art Show

Congratulations to Anthony Myers, who placed 3rd in Painting at the March 3rd art show at Bloomington Central Catholic High School.

Poetry for the President contest winner

A big thanks to Ms. Blunier for her work with students on the Poetry for the President contest.  She had 6 students complete and submit a poem on Ronald Reagan. Of the poems submitted, Nicole Connolly of Eureka, who is pictured with  Ronda Cross - Regional Supt of Schools, was selected to represent the MPW Regional Office of Education  in the Area II contest. She will be competing against 8 other high school students from northwest region of the state. Congratulations to Nicole and Ms Blunier!!!

Link to CUSD 140 Student Survey

Click on the link below to go to the CUSD 140 Student Surveyhttps://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CUSD_140_student_survey

WYSE team advances to state

Congratulations to the following students who made up the team that placed second to U-High at the WYSE sectional competition at Bradley on Wednesday. They will now be advancing to the state competition on April 13th. Following the student’s name is the area in which they were a medalists
Anna Boggs

Katy Boggs

Matt Dillard

Jeremy Gerber- 2nd in Biology and 2nd in Computer Fundamentals

Derek Jennings

Derek Reinmann – 1st in Computer Fundamentals

Simran Sandhu

Evan Stalter

Caleb Wells

Thompson Zhuang – 3rd in Math and 2nd in Chemistry

Emma Zimmerman

Student Council attends convention

Eureka High School Student Council brought home many awards today from the Hopewell District Student Council Convention!  First of all, Michelle Leman received a scholarship for college because of her leadership abilities.  Ellen Wuethrich was awarded an Honor Council Award for her excellent work on the Student Council scrapbook!  Ashley Schrock received the Zach Swingle award which is honoring a freshman or sophomore student that exemplifies integrity, positive and energetic leadership, devotion to family and friends, and academic achievement.  For the first time since Mrs. Brown has been the advisor, there are two students being on the executive board-  Quint Noe is 2011-2012 1^st Vice President and Kyle Hinrichsen is the 2011-2012 2^nd Vice PresidentJ  The final recipient of an award was Stephanie Brown and she received the Advisor of the YearJ  This year’s Student Council has been Taking Advantage of Tuesdays- each week Mrs. Brown gives the students a task for the week from donating old books and agreeing to not eat junk food to giving free hugs and writing letters to people in the military.  This year has been an amazing year for Student Council- Our biggest event is yet to come….HOPE WEEK 2011 is April 4^th-8^th…please be on the lookout for events to come!