
Tiger Newsletter
Spring, 2023
Once a Tiger, Always a Tiger
-- submitted by:
Sydney Cullison
Fort Scott High School
Agriculture Teacher/FFA Advisor
-- submitted by Jeff DeLaTorre
FSHS Athletic/Activities Director
...to Coach Del for driving Tiger Varsity Choir to/from Salina!
Front row, from left: Raylee Cowan, Abbie Gorman; Raveyn Kegler; Allie Brown; Carsen Wunderly; Jescie Comstock; Bryleigh Hymer
not pictured: Head Coach Pechone Stepps; Assistant Coaches Gary Floyd II and Dillon Duffy; team managers Lucy Dunkeson, Kaylie Dinneen and Rhyla Lewis
February 3, 2023:
FCCLA COMPETES IN STAR EVENTS
Fort Scott High School's Family Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) student-organization took 3 students to the 2023 District STAR Event Competition and Officer Elections.
Addison Feagins and Kylee Comstock competed in "Focus on Children". They created a mentor program that partners high school mentors with elementary students during our Wednesday early release days. They received 1st place and will be moving onto state competition in April.
Olivia Leighty positively represented FSHS by presenting the devotional.
Payton Miller competed in "Teach and Train". She created a lesson plan that taught first graders about traffic safety.
Payton also ran for a district office and was awarded Vice President of Communications.
-- submitted by Carissa Bowman, FSHS FCS teacher; FCCLA sponsor
Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge Held March 7th!
All students worked hard and below are the projects chosen as the winners:
Community Choice Tradeshow Winner $250 - Cooper George
Honorable Mention $250 - Simran Caldwell
3rd Place $500 - Cooper George
No second place - First Place TIE $1,000 (Each) - Kate Holder & Alyssa Hunt
Thank you for the community support!
Here's a link to a number of photos from our event:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1d07WYLVohvO65QziiNTB_miWmu20E_5U?usp=sharing
-- submitted by
Morgan Sage
Business Teacher
FBLA Adviser
TIGER WRESTLERS MEDAL AT STATE!
Jasper Allison and Kenna Miles finished fourth in their respective weight classes; Brody Gomez finished 5th and Brylie Schaub finished 6th.
Go Tigers!
TIGER MEDIA STUDENTS COMPETE!
Congrats to our Tiger Times and Crimson Yearbook students on their placements in the Kansas Scholastic Press Association (KSPA) Regional Contest:
Annabelle Gorman 3rd in Yearbook Design, pictured below
Jersee Wood 4th in Yearbook Design, pictured below
Anna Laubenstein 5th in Advertising Design, pictured below
Emma Guns & Kiara Thompson 3rd in Video News
Lanie Robison 4th in News Page Design
Lanie Robison 4th in News Writing
Kendall Armstrong 5th in Headline Writing & Design
Mena Hicks 5th in News Page Design
Mena Hicks 6th in Headline Writing and Design
Makenzie Robertson 6th in Yearbook Design
Michelle Laubenstein, EdD
Fort Scott High School Math & Digital Media Teacher
USD234 CTE Coordinator
3rd Place!
4th Place!
5th Place!
FOUR-DAY WEEKEND COMING!
Happy Easter!
FSHS Thespian Troupe #7365 Receives State Honors
During the State Thespian Festival in Wichita the first weekend of January, the troupe received the highest honor a troupe can receive, the Gold Honor Troupe Award, for the seventh consecutive year. The honor reflects the performances, community involvement, student leadership, and high standards a troupe achieves throughout the year. Troupe Historian Cooper George, a sophomore, created the honor troupe presentation that earned the award.
Senior Kinsley Davis and Junior Regen Wells both received a Superior rating on their Monologue performances. This qualifies them to compete in the International Thespian Festival at Indiana University in June. Other students who competed in Individual Thespy Performance events include: sophomores Mykael Lewis and Kaiden Clary in Duet Acting, senior Karen Primeaux and junior Josiah Eisenbrandt in Duet Acting, freshman Chris Newman with Monologue, freshman Junie Fisher in Vocal Solo, juniors Lexi Hill and Casey Gomez in Vocal Solo, sophomore Emma Guns and junior Jaedyn Lewis in Duet Acting, sophomore Alyssa Popp in Playwriting, senior Luke Majors in Vocal Solo, and junior Jericho Jones with Monologue.
For the second year in a row, FSHS had a team advance to the Finals Round of Competitive Improvisational Acting. The team included Majors, Hill, Wells, Eisenbrandt, and Mykael Lewis.
The Advanced Drama class competed in the One-Act Play category with the play “There is No Play” by Arthur M. Jolly. The performance was the world premiere of the one-act and the class was able to video conference with Jolly from Los Angeles and workshop the play as they rehearsed. This original cast will be published in the printed version of the script set for publication in the near future.
Thespian Director Angie Bin also received the Director of the Year Award for Southeast KS.
In addition to performing, the troupe experienced 3 days of workshops with professional actors and theatre technicians, main stage musical and play performances, meetings with colleges and performing arts conservatories, and fellowship with Thespians from schools across the state.
-- submitted by Angie Bin, angela.bin@usd34.org
Fort Scott High School Theatre and Speech
Bringing Home the Gold!
Superior Performances!
Congratulations, Ms. Bin!
State Powerlifting Send-off Video Link!
TIGERS ATTEND LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE
This is the fourth year we have sent a group to compete and they represented our school well! Students competing were: Seniors Kaitlyn Leavell and Jessee Cox, Junior Cody Geiger, and Sophomores Joy Self and Jase Anderson.
Huge congratulations to the Fort Scott High School Debate team on an outstanding performance at the 4A 2-speaker State Debate Tournament!
The team of Kinsley Davis and Joy Self finished in 2nd place and the team of Cadence Tuck and Regen Wells brought home the 3rd place trophy!
Anna Hall and Silvia Moreno also won 2 rounds.
Congratulations to the entire team and their first-year coach, Tyler Slinkard!
-- submitted by Jeff DeLaTorre
Athletic/Activities Director
Fort Scott High School
Tiger Mathletes Excel!
March 9, 2023:
Nick Davis - 1st in Junior Simplifications and 2nd in Junior Computational Math
Sam Deloney - 1st in Senior Math Potpourri and 5th in Senior Word Problems
Caroline Barnes - 2nd in Sophomore Word Problems
Cody Dean - 2nd in Senior Simplifications and 3rd in Senior Word Problems
Adelynn Nolan - 2nd in Junior Math Potpourri and 2nd in Junior Simplifications
Cody Geiger - 3rd in Junior Math Potpourri and 5th in Junior Simplifications
Maia Martin - 5th in Senior Equations & Inequalities
Joy Self - 5th in Sophomore Math Potpourri
The following students placed in the team competitions:
Algebra Relay 1st place team - Sam Deloney, Maia Martin, Nick Davis, Joy Self
Medley Relay 4th place team - Cody Dean, Cody Geiger, Caroline Barnes, Rylan Miller
Freshmen Algebra Relay 5th place team - Junie Fisher, Claire McElroy, Ben Phillips, Kathryn Williams
This is a list of all 17 students that represented FSHS at the competition:
Tayton Allen
Caroline Barnes
Savanna Cunningham
Nick Davis
Cody Dean
Sam Deloney
Junie Fisher
Cody Geiger
Maia Martin
Claire McElroy
Rylan Miller
Adelynn Nolan
Ben Phillips
Aiden Sigafoos
Joy Self
Bryar Smith
Kathryn Williams
--submitted by Morgan Felt, FSHS Math Club sponsor
February 25, 2023:
CHEER/DANCE INFORMATION
Dance tryouts are March 22nd & 23rd, 3:45-6:00 p.m., in the aux gym.
FSHS Chapter of SkillsUSA Hosting 2nd Annual Career Fair!
TIME: 8 a.m. until Noon
LOCATION: FSHS Aux Gym
FSHS GRADUATION IS SATURDAY, MAY 13TH!
Baccalaureate, 4 p.m., FSHS Main Gym
Class of 2023 Commencement, 8 p.m., Frary Field, weather permitting
FSHS PROM INFORMATION
Saturday, May 6th: Walk-in begins at 6:30 p.m., FSHS Prom is 8 p.m. until 11 p.m., River Room
Schedules: TIGER GOLF; TIGER TENNIS; LADY TIGER SWIMMING
Tiger Boys Golf: https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/1015/FSHS/2276068/Boys_Golf_Schedule_2023.pdf
Tiger Boys Tennis: https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/1015/FSHS/2276071/Boys_Tennis_Schedule_2023.pdf
Lady Tiger Swimming: https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/1015/FSHS/2276074/Girls_Swimming_2023.pdf