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Akron Alumni hosts a banquet reunion every Mother's Day weekend to honor current year graduates, past graduates, and milestone years of past graduates. The banquet is held at the Akron School Field House with a social time, meal, recognition of all in attendance, and a short meeting. Other activities are planned by specific classes to fill the weekend and a golf tournament is held to raise funds for a scholarship given to a current graduate. It is a great time to reconnect with old friends and visit the school to reminisce about old times

All Akron graduates and honor graduates are invited to attend!

FREE Sports physicals are offered each year at the school through the Akron Clinic.

These physicals are a chance for all current 5th through 11th graders to get their physicals done for FREE and prepare them for participation in sports next school year. Each student is given a packet of paperwork to be completed by parents and athletes together at home and then the packets must be returned to the school for the doctor to use to give the physical. **The paperwork must be signed by the parents giving permission prior to the doctor giving the physical.

Packets will be sent home on Monday, May 8.

The dates for the physicals this year are:

Thursday, May 11 beginning at 10:15 am (will begin with 11th graders)

Thursday, May 18 beginning at 9:30 am (will begin with current 8th graders)

Tuesday, May 23 beginning at 8:30 am (remaining students needing a physical)

On Monday, Preschool-4th grade entertained a full house at their Spring Music Concert. The program was directed by elementary music teacher, Mrs. Sue Hellyer. It was a beautiful production!

At the end of the evening, our students thanked “Miss Sue” for her many years of providing our students with the gift of music. She will be dearly missed as she is “hanging up” her music teaching keys at the end of this school year. Thank you “Miss Sue”!

The preschool class has been studying insects. To celebrate all that they learned, Barney and Jessica Filla, our local bee keepers, put together a fun presentation for parents and children to experience together.

On Thursday, our elementary students celebrated our kitchen staff by making signs and presented the staff with survival kits and ice cream!

We are proud to have such a hardworking and dedicated team that goes above and beyond to provide healthy and nutritious meals for our students and staff.

Thank you Mrs. Walker, Mrs. Bulik and Ms. Iris for everything you do!!

Akron FFA students traveled to Ft Collins last weekend to participate in State FFA. Official results are below:

VET SCIENCE - Sierra Brown 138th, Brya Kusel 198, Carley Hase 199 ; 57th of 62 teams

FLORICULTURE - Zaya Wells 91st, McKenna Lucero 133, Molly Porteus 150, Lluvia Arteaga 166th; 41st of 60 teams

FARM BUSINESS MANAGEMENT - Caleb Poss 3rd (Gold), Merek Charney 4th (Gold), Jackson Filla 30th (Silver), Addicyn Kessinger 34th (Bronze) ; 2nd of 30 teams.

MEATS - Jace Portillo 80th, William Lyons 105th, Mason Porteus 116th ; 33rd of 33 teams.

LAND EVALUATION - Jesus Davisson 20th (Bronze) , Brian Mireles 34th, Caleb Hansen 38th, Taylor Benish 54th ; 10th of 17 teams

FOOD PRODUCTS - Tyler Murphy 27th (Silver), Tucker Stahn 42nd (Bronze), Wesley Couch 57th, Terran Couch 84th; 12th of 31 teams (Bronze)

HORSE - Brandon Hellyer 79th, Maverick Bethel 105, Kendal Zimmerman 143; 35th of 47 teams

AG MECHANICS - Anderson Filla 31 (Silver) , Wesley Lewis 34 (Silver), Darin Knutzen 60 (Bronze), James Vorce 140; 8th of 54 teams (Gold).

LIVESTOCK - Brock Swedlund 137, Kelbi Schwartz 168th, Dalton DeMers 178 ; 41st of 61 teams

Congratulations to all students, teams, and advisor, Mrs. Mollie Dreitz on their hard work.

Akron High School held prom Saturday night at the Event Center.

Congratulations to the royalty:
Princess-Vashti Winter, Prince-Ryan McCaffrey, Queen-Laura Vorce and King-Jackson Filla. Attendants were Graydi Houston and Brooklynn Reid.

Coach Hocheder and her Lady Rams had a good week of golf this week. Monday, they went to Sterling for the Patriot League invite and played against some good competition in preparation for Regionals. Thursday, they went to Burlington, where the Lady Rams played well. Kendall Velder tied for 3rd with a 94, and Molly Porteus tied for 14th with a 111. Rounding out the varsity squad, Zaya Wells and Bibi Davisson played well, also finishing in the middle of the pack. The JV played well and made huge improvements.
Go Blue!

The Akron Rams baseball team defeated the Prairie Mustangs in the first round of the District Tournament, winning 15-3. The Rams will continue their District Tournament on Friday, May 5, at 10 am in Ft. Morgan.

Way to go, Rams!

Our high school track athletes hosted the Tom Meyer Invite last weekend and then competed in Wray on Wednesday. The athletes are working hard to improve their skills and are gearing up for state at the end of the month.

Keep working Rams!

Friday, May 5

NO SCHOOL – Teacher Inservice

10 am HS District Baseball at Ft Morgan vs Merino Leave at 7:45 am

Saturday, May 6

9 am HS Track at Yuma HWAY Leave at 7:30 am

Monday, May 8

9 am HS Track at Holyoke

10 am HS girls Golf at Akron

7 pm NE BOCES Board Meeting

Tuesday May 9

9 am Colorado Literacy Day – Cattlewomen

12:15 pm FFA Member Meeting

6 pm FFA Officer Interviews

7 pm School Board Meeting

Wednesday, May 10

5th Grade Field Trip to Old Town in Burlington

FFA Barnyard

7:30 am Kindergarten Zoo Field Trip

8 am Construction Trade Career Day – Stage

12:15 pm FCCLA Member Meeting

4 pm End of Year Writing Celebration

5:30 pm 9th Grade Orientation

6:30 pm 12 Grade Orientation

Thursday, May 11

7:15 am Staff Meeting – Groups

7:30 am Preschool Field Trip to Children’s Museum

10 am HS Girls Golf at Limon

10:15 am HS & MS Sports Physicals – Part 1

12:15 pm HS Boys Summer BB Meting – Stage

7 pm MS/HS Band-Choir Concert