St. Joseph High School News - Week 15
St. Joseph High School News
12/10/18 - 12/14/18
Mr. Walter’s Classes: Food Drive
This fall, Mr. Walters' 5 classes collected food for the Stuff-a-Truck Food Drive. They managed to collect 120,498 servings of food, breaking all previous records at St. Joseph High School. All food will go to food banks in Berrien County.
Bears of the Month:
Congratulations to Jordan Sanderson and John Adkins for being recognized as our December Bears of the Month at SJHS!!!
Business Bites:
*We are excited to announce our next Business Bites lunch will be this Thursday 12/13 with a technician from City Plumbing & Heating. He will provide a practical presentation about heating & plumbing in our boiler room. This is a growth industry and the Occupational Outlook Handbook predicts there will be 75,000 more job openings in this field through 2026.
Pizza will be provided for students who attend and they can sign up on itsLearning.
*Did you know that socks are the most needed but least donated item for homeless people? We learned this when Mike Smith talked to our students this fall. We are continued his message about being a wisher, talker or doer during our Advisory Tuesday. We will discuss activism and the idea of complaining less & giving more. To kick this off we are having a 6-12 grade sock drive. It will go from Tuesday 12/11 - Wednesday 12/19, our Key Club is sponsoring a sock drive and we will be competing with Upton to see who can bring in the most donations!
Virtual Reality Goggles: Mr. Cole’s Class
Mr. Cole’s class has been working with a program this year funded by a St. Joseph Public School Foundation grant that utilizes virtual reality goggles to provide students with real life-like opportunities to experience historical events. They have even worked on creating their own tours of some of our own historical artifacts here in our local community and had an opportunity to present these to government officials in Lansing recently.
Here are the links to the VR tours created by our students
Historic St. Joe - https://poly.google.com/view/aTMQACzn8-8
The Lighthouse - https://poly.google.com/view/feq11aE0DA1
The Capitol in Lansing - https://poly.google.com/view/8lo30RaL52b
Whirlpool Challenge: Good Luck and Congratulations!
We have three top 10 teams presenting on Friday December 14th- they will be presenting their 8-minute projects at 9:45, 10:30 and 11:00 if you would like to see a team presentation. When the teams are not presenting they will be stationed in the hall for an "Idea Fair" to give a two-minute elevator pitch to various Whirlpool employees to try to sell them their idea from 9:00 until 11:15. The overall decision will be announced around 12:15 as to which team/idea is the winner of the Innovation Challenge!
We will be spending the morning at the Whirlpool Riverview Campus- 600 W. Main Street in Benton Harbor if you are interested in stopping by to see a presentation or just walk through the Idea Fair to check out the competition.
Seniors:
Cap and Gown (DEADLINE FOR ORDERING)
Attention Seniors! If you missed the order day to turn in your cap and gown and other graduation products order form, the deadline has been extended until Friday, December 14. You have 2 options to place your order. Online at www.jostens.com or call 1-800-JOSTENS (567-8367) no later than this Friday. Please do not miss this final deadline.
Senior Pictures
The yearbook staff needs to have a color picture of each senior by January 31, 2019. The basic guidelines for the yearbook photo are as follows: wallet-sized, head/shoulder, all color, indoor vertical shot (an outdoor pose with a clean, simple background is acceptable). The Picture Day photo will be used if the senior doesn’t submit one. Photos can also be emailed to Mrs. Joyce Hunter at jhunter@sjschools.org. If you have further questions, contact Mrs. Hunter at 269-926-3357.
Chili Cook Off : Mrs. Berry Culinary Class
On Friday, December 7, five teams from St. Joseph High School competed in the 10th Annual High School Hospitality and Culinary Arts Student Summit and Cook-Off Competition at Lake Michigan College. The teams had to make chili and cornbread using portable butane cook stoves. There were awards given for Best Tasting Chili, Plating/Tablescape, and Best Portfolio. Four schools participated including Benton Harbor, Dowagiac, KRESA, and St. Joseph.
The St. Joseph teams brought home 7 awards:
The Mountaineers team took THIRD PLACE for Overall Taste
and FOURTH PLACE for their Tablescape!!
Savannah Eldridge, Balin Woodman, Chloe Braswell
The Asian Invasian team took FOURTH PLACE for Overall Taste!
Isaac Meyer, Nathan Barfuss, Gabe Lingk
High School Lunch Supervisor: Open Job Position
The high school is currently looking for a part-time lunchroom supervisor. Hours are approximately 11:00 am - 1:00 pm, Monday through Friday.
Please apply directly at the link below...
Search for Job ID: 5844
If you have any questions, please contact Jim Berry at jberry@sjschools.org 926-3213
Athletic News:
Monday:
Tuesday:
4:15 Girls 9th Basketball vs. Kalamazoo Central
4:15 Boys 9th/JV Basketball @ Kalamazoo Central
5:45 Girls JV Basketball vs. Kalamazoo Central
6:00 Boys Swim @ South Haven (Bus leaves @ 4:00)
7:00 Girls VAR Basketball vs. Kalamazoo Central
7:00 Boys VAR Basketball @ Kalamazoo Central
Wednesday:
6:00 JV/VAR Wrestling vs. Niles
Thursday:
4:15 Girls 9th Basketball @ Mattawan
5:45 Boys 9th Basketball @ Mattawan
7:00 Boys JV Basketball @ Mattawan
Friday:
4:15 Girls JV Basketball vs. Mattawan
5:45 Girls VAR Basketball vs. Mattawan
7:00 Boys VAR Basketball vs. Mattawan
Saturday:
9:00 JV Wrestling @ Kalamazoo Central JV Invite
9:30 VAR Wrestling @ Gull Lake Invite
Upcoming Events:
12/12 - Wed. - 1 Hr. Late Start
12/12 - Wed. - Middle School/High School Winter Band Concert @ 7pm in the John & DeDe Howard Auditorium.
