New Knoxville Students visit NB-NK Rotary Club

 New Knoxville Superintendent Kim Waterman brought 17 students to “show off” what they’ve been working on this year at school. “All of us sitting in this room are very fortunate to live in this area’” Waterman said.  “We have excellent schools.  I am very proud of our students.”  Two 6^th grade students won 1^st place in a multimedia contest sponsored by Southwestern Ohio Instructional Technology Association.  Their project consisted of a Power-Point presentation on the golfing career of Jack Nicklaus, using various sounds, images, pictures and features of the Power-Point software.

 Richie Felty spoke about his recent trip to Defiance College to attend the Rotary World Community Workshop.  “The theme this year was the Mayan Empire,” Felty said.  “I was on a team that researched the fall of the Mayan Empire.” 

 The Voice of Democracy is a speech competition sponsored by the VFW.  The 1^st and 2^nd place winners delivered their speeches. Hannah Burkhart gave her speech on heroes, identifying an historic WWII hero, her grandfather.  She also identified an Iraqi Marine veteran who led his group through battle unharmed.  Rebecca Shelton gave her speech on heroes as well, choosing the tales of two soldiers to illustrate her idea of a hero.  

The Scholastic Bowl Team has been Mac League Champs for four years in a row, undefeated in 36 straight matches during the regular season.  Scholastic Bowl matches run on Mondays during the beginning of the school year.  The teams are asked 100 questions and whoever has the most points at the end of the match wins.  The group provided a “mock” contest, answering typical questions they were asked in competition.  The students took great pride in stumping the Rotarians on most of the questions!

 Two God, Flag and Country speech contest winners presented their speeches from the popular Fraternal Order of the Eagles contest.  Marcus Nitshcke spoke about his great-grandfather, wearing the dress military hat while speaking in the person of his great-grandfather, then back in the narrative without the hat, as himself.  Brianna Jurosic spoke about the freedoms we enjoy in our country, paying tribute to those who fought to secure our freedom.  She identified soldiers and great American leaders like Martin Luther King Jr.

 Rebecca Shelton, Hannah Burkhart, Desiree Etchison and Ruby Hovey closed the program singing beautiful arrangements of “Lean on Me” and then the popular recent hit “I’m Yours.”  They performed a cappella, without accompaniment.  Waterman pointed out that nearly all of these projects were volunteer efforts, giving the students the opportunity to showcase their abilities and talents.   “It is an honor to be able to showcase some of our finest at New Knoxville,” Waterman said.  “Our nation is in good hands when we have kids like this.”  All of the students did an excellent job, and represented New Knoxville School wonderfully!

Hosting Rotarian: Tom Fledderjohann