Kudos

«  To the Warrior boys and girls track teams for sweeping the Siouxland Conference track meets and also for the

o    To these members of the Warrior girls track team for being winning conference titles in their events

§  Shuttle Hurdle – Bailie Sandbulte, Miranda Lammers, Cami Cleveringa, Patricia King

§  4 x 100 meter relay – Clare Kortlever, Katie Te Grotenhuis, Pia Beermann, Madison Beaver

§  4 x 200 meter relay – Clare Kortlever, Madison Beaver, Payton Boer, Katie Te Grotenhuis

§  4 x 400 meter relay – Clare Kortlever, Madison Beaver, Payton Boer, Jessica Harald

§  Distance Medley – Lexi Toering, Aubrey Sandbulte, Madison Beaver, Payton Boer

o    To these members of the Warrior girls track team for qualifying for the State Track Meet in Des Moines next weekend.  Others may qualify pending results from qualifying meets being held today.

§  400 meter dash – Brooklyn Vermeer

§  3000 meter run – Tara Kortlever

§  400 meter hurdles – Payton Boer

§  4 x 100 meter relay – Clare Kortlever, Katie Te Grotenhuis, Pia Beermann, Madison Beaver

§  4 x 200 meter relay – Clare Kortlever, Haley Sitzman, Madison Beaver, Payton Boer

§  4 x 400 meter relay – Clare Kortlever, Madison Beaver, Payton Boer, Jessica Harald

§  4 x 800 meter relay – Alexis Toering, Haley Sitzman, Jessica Harald, Andrea Verburg

§  800 meter sprint medley – Aubrey Sandbulte, Pia Beermann, Clare Kortlever, Brooklyn Vermeer

§  Distance medley relay – Payton Boer, Madison Beaver, Aubrey Sandbulte, Alexis Toering

§  Long jump – Pia Beermann

o    To these members of the Warrior boys track team for being winning conference titles in their events

§  100 meter dash and 200 meter dash – Derek Hooyer

§  400 meter dash and 800 meter run – Chris Borchers

§  3200 meter run – Haile Duden

§  Shot put – Christian Rozeboom

§  4 x 100 meter relay - Christian Rozeboom, Derek Hooyer, Blake Kamerman, Marcus Winterfeld

§  Shuttle Hurdle relay – Christian Rozeboom, Derek Hooyer, Blake Kamerman, Ko Kieft

o    To these members of the Warrior boys track team for qualifying for the State Track Meet in Des Moines next weekend.  Others may qualify pending results from qualifying meets being held today.

§  200 meter dash – Derek Hooyer

§  3200 meter run – Haile Duden

§  110 meter hurdles – Christian Rozeboom

§  4 x 100 meter relay – Christian Rozeboom, Chris Borchers, Blake Kammerman, Derek Hooyer

§  4 x 110 meter shuttle hurdle relay – Christian Rozeboom, Blake Kammerman, Ko Kieft, Derek Hooyer

§  Long jump – Marcus Winterfeld

§  Shot put – Christian Rozeboom

«  To Warrior these members of the Warriors boy’s golf team for earning All Siouxland Conference honors

o    Matt Van Engen, Brock De Boer, and Braden DeBoer – 1^st team

«  To Warrior these members of the Warriors girl’s golf team for earning All Siouxland Conference honors

o    Samantha Vander Velde – 2^nd team

«  To the following students for earning an Outstanding Performance at  State Solo & Ensemble Contest

o    Paige Sandbulte

o    Kate Kooiker

o    Sarah Sandbulte

o    Amber Van Regenmorter

o    Sam Hawks

o    Mitchell Mouw

o    Ty Lassen

o    Matthew Bruxvoort

«  To the Treble Clef, Bass Clef, Concert Choir and Band who earned Division I ratings at State Large Group Contest

«  To Mr. Doornenbal and the engineering team for winning the Northwest Iowa Community College Engineering Contest.  Caleb Bronner, Tyler Oliver, Jordan Nomansen, Jayden Vermeer, and Graham Zomermaand won both the accuracy and distance competition (they threw an egg 243 feet) and the overall competition.

Way to Go! Part 2

Sioux Center High School’s FIRSTTech Challenge Robotics Team, Aluminerdy, competed at the NW Iowa League Championship in Sioux City, Iowa January 31 on the campus of WIT Community College.

The field of competitors consisted of twenty teams from across northwest Iowa.  The top five teams from this competition advance to the FIRSTTech Challenge-Iowa Championship to be held March 6 & 7 at the Marriott Hotel in Coralville.  Qualifying Teams were” Marsupial Tech”, a 4-H team from Sgt. Bluff,” BZ Club” from Trinity Christian in Hull, Sioux Center’s” Aluminerdy”, Esterville-Lincoln Central “Midgets” and Sioux City West “The 50FIRST”.

Teams not only compete with their robots.  They also compete for other awards based on their judging interview and engineering notebook.  Sioux Center, in addition to qualifying for state, also won the PTC Design Award. The intent of the PTC Design Award is to expand the challenge, inspiring Teams to incorporate industrial design into their robots. These elements can be shown in the simplicity of the design as it applies to the tasks, the look and feel of the robot, and how the design allows us to think of robots in new ways. The Design aspect must serve a function – but they should also differentiate the robot in a unique fashion – not an easy task with a limited set of parts and game challenge.

Sioux Center was also a 3rd place finalist for the Inspire Award. The highly sought-after Inspire Award is given to the Team that the Judges felt truly embodied the ‘challenge’ of the FTC program.  This Team serves as an inspiration to what this program, and the young minds involved, can accomplish. The Team that receives this Award has performed well in all Judging categories and was chosen by the Judges as a model FIRSTTech Challenge Team. The Judges use Match performance, observations made during interviews and in the pit area, the Team’s Engineering Notebook, and performance on the playing field in determining the winner.

The tentative agenda for the state event is as follows:

Friday, March 6: teams check in between 11am-3pm. Inspections and judging occur on Friday.

Saturday, March 7: opening ceremony, qualification matches and closing ceremony.

Members of the Team:

Jayden Vermeer

Anton Vonk

Cole Peterson

Jordan Nomansen

Graham Zomermaand

Matt Bruxvoordt

Keaton DeJong

Eric Keizer

Blake Boone

Emma Rathbun

Payton VanBeek

Jacob Schrader

Josh Rathbun

Sam DeJong

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