Bellevue Public Schools – Mar 2023 District Digest

State AcaDeca

Bellevue East competed in State AcaDeca on February 18th. The team placed 6th in the state, bringing home 12 medals and the regional runner-up trophy this season. Congratulations to the following individuals: Eowyn Ziegerer, Gold for Highest individual scoring team member; Alison Stuart, Gold in Economics and Bronze in Literature; and Lily Predoehl, Gold in Speech. All team members earned Silver in the Social Studies Super Quiz: Eowyn Ziegerer, Mary Ziegerer, TayLana Tolbert, Seth Kline, Riley DeHaan, Matthew Lively, Alison Stuart, and Lily Predoehl.

Bellevue West Forensics

The Bellevue West Forensics team competed at Omaha Marian on February 10th. 

Individual results: Kilee Wilkinson, 2nd, Program Oral Interpretation and 2nd NIETOC Bid; Nathan Deters, 3rd, HI honors finals; Kilee Wilkinson, 4th, HI honors finals; Landon Joy, 5th, HI honors finals; and Aarj Patel, 3rd, Extemp honors finals.

The team also competed at Millard North on February 11th and captured 4th place. Individual results: Tamyia Bender, Oratory Champion and 4th, Program Oral Interpretation; Kilee Wilkinson, Program Oral Interpretation Champion and 6th in HI; Lexie Dinverno and Andrew Hedin, 4th in DUO; Lexie Dinverno, 2nd in Honors finals DI; Andrew Hedin, 3rd in Honors finals HI; Aarj Patel, 5th in Extemp and 1st in Impromptu Honors finals; Carter Hamblin, 1st in Honors finals Oratory; Nevaeh Seward, 4th in Honors finals Poetry; and Joe Reimer, 4th in Honors Impromptu.

US Army Corps of Engineers Workshop

Approximately 40 BPS middle school high ability learner (HAL) students attended the US Army Corps of Engineers workshop on February 14th. This was sponsored by the Society of American Military Engineers – Student Mentor Program. One of the teams from Lewis & Clark Middle School won the tower-building competition! Congrats to Alex, Owen, Jaycee, Liv, and Zoe! 

One of the guest speakers was a Logan Fontenelle & Bellevue West grad who works for the Corps and spoke about the flood recovery from 2019 as the USACE Resident Engineer of the L-550 Levee Repair Project.

NSBA

Bellevue West Percussion Ensemble was selected and performed at the NSBA spring convention, under the direction of Marques Eckhoff and Jason Pentico. Featuring guest artist Dr. Nathan Daughtrey.