GCT Weekly BEAKVolume 399, April 14, 2017

Congratulations to the 7 OM Teams who qualified for the World Competition held in May in Michigan, More information on this will be in next week’s edition of the

beak!

Good Luck to the FFA Teams who are competing in judging activities on the state level . See page 6 for pictures of the teams competing.

Congratulations to the GCT Odyssey of the Mind Teams that represented us at the State OM Competition last Saturday. Just a little statistical information for the record. GCT sent 15 competition teams to regional competition and they all advanced to state. We had more teams competing at regional and state competitions than any other school district in the state. We lead thestate in the number of teams that will represent Arkansas at OM World Finals. We have a total of 7 teams going to OM World Finals at Michigan State University (5 first place teams and 2 second place teams). Greene County Tech School District teams swept the Balsa Structure Problem taking 1st place in each of the three divisions. The structure could only weigh 15 grams and the High School team held the most weight of all teams in all divisions with 858 pounds of weight as their score. If you see any of these students or coaches be sure to let them know how proud we are of the way they have represented Greene County Tech School District.

Below is the specific information about each team by problem. Thank You all for your support of our teams. Kem Drake

Problem #1 (Vehicle Problem)Catch Us If You CanDivision I

Greene County Tech Intermediate 4th PlaceLandon BessermanChaney FulbrightKason GoodmanPiper LaneAndie PiercyBeau ThomasJake TowellCoaches: Caleb Thomas & Vonnie Greer

Division IIGreene County Tech Middle School 1st PlaceJacie AndrewsAbby DunnJaiden HensonJared NoelSam ScottGage SnyderCoaches: Marilyn Jerome, Kelly Dunn, & Stephanie Noel

Problem #2 (Technical Problem)Odd-A-BotDivision IGreene County Tech Intermediate 5th PlaceBrooklyn BowdlerEamon BuchmanConnor GerrishGarson HicksJackson KiddGarrett VealEmily WegnerCoach: Jennifer Barr

Division IIGreene County Tech Middle School 3rd PlaceSable CraftonCaleb GerrishBenji GoodmanNathan HartnessCarter McBrideEllie StanfordAlly WoodCoach: Shelly Templeton

Greene County Tech Jr. High School 2nd PlaceGabi AmaralMax BennettLacie EdginBlaine GroomsMackenzie HodgeConley HuntDustin SipesCoaches: Gretchen Hunt & Shawna Grooms

Problem #3 (Classics Problem)It’s Time, OmerDivision IGreene County Tech Intermediate 1st PlaceMason CampbellColter HuntKayden KingLandry LewisNatalie JordanCasey SimpsonRobbie TateCoaches: Teresa Chipman & Mickie Garner

Division IIGreene County Tech Middle School 9th PlaceEli CoffellElizabeth HuffmasterKinsey LermaGabby LincolnKaitlyn LizarragaMacey McLaughlinGareth YarbroughCoach: Marci Lincoln

Division IIIGreene County Tech Jr. High 8th PlaceAlex CuppBrianna CuppLuke HickoxAbby EdringtonPhoebe HarrisLane ScottCarlee WeatherfordCoaches: Jessica Gazaway & Amy Sloan

Problem #4 (Structure Problem)Ready, Set, Balsa, Build!Division IGreene County Tech Intermediate 1st PlaceHailey NelsonBrookes ReddickAddie TerrellEmmi ThompsonAnnalyn ToombsIan VasquezKatie WengerCoaches: Melinda Gilliam, Sonya Nelson, & Carl Nelson

Division IIGreene County Tech Middle School 1st PlaceBodee BrasherChloe ClarkHailey DenhamSavannah McCainNate QuintanaKarter WillisCoaches: Brent McCain & Brianna Myer

Division IIIGreene County Tech High School 1st PlaceTrisha AdamsJackson BarrDakota HudsonMattie MaceElijah RitterJacob RossDevin SmithCoaches: Jessica Gazaway & Gregory Spooner

Problem #5 (Performance Problem)To Be Continued: A SuperHero CliffhangerDivision IGreene County Tech Intermediate 4th PlaceZoey AndrewsMaggie ColeKeely DropeParker HarrisJD HoveyKailyn KrospJarrett RogersCoaches: Charity Andrews & April Bowen

Division IIGreene County Tech Middle School 2nd PlaceMattie BurkBrody CoffellNeeleigh DartyJoshua NelsonJace ScheerHannah StallingsKate YoungCoaches: Tammy Thompson & Marti Johnson

Greene County Tech Jr. High 3rd PlaceGenesis CoxOlivia IrwinFletcher LattingZoe MaagBailey OvershineMason VincentChandler WatkinsCoaches: Jessica Gazaway & Amy Sloan

Division IIIGreene County Tech High School 7th PlaceHouston BakerKarlee BakerAshton ColemanLucia FloresMatthew GunnJacob RossCoach: Jessica Gazaway

OM ranks balsa teams by their weight. Two GCT Teams are ranked in the top 10 in the United States. Intermediate team is ranked 10th and the High School team is ranked 5th. See the attached for exact weight held on the attachment. Mrs. Drake stated, “I am so proud of the teams”.

GCT High School sent the Leadership Paragould Students to Little Rock to tour the Capital and to visit the Legislative Process on Wednesday, April 5, 2017. Thank you to Kathy Faulkner for the photos.

AG Mechanics Agronomy

Floriculture

Food Science

Horse Evaluation

Congratulations to the GCT FFA teams that qualified for the 2017 State FFA Contest held in Fayetteville, AR. They will be traveling to compete on April 13-14. GCT wishes them the very best in the competition! Thank you to GCT High School Agriculture Teacher, Hannah Gray for the photos .

Livestock

Poultry

Vet Science

Congratulations to Buffalo Island Junior Livestock Show Grand Champion Commercial Ewe, Trisha Adams who is a

GCT student. Thank you to Ben Gander for the photos.

Congratulations to Cason Murry who won Grand Champion Broilers at the Buffalo Island Livestock show on April 5, 2017. GCT is very proud of him.

Congratulations to GCT Student Cassidy Hass who won the Grand Champion Katadhin at the Buffalo Island Junior Livestock Show.

Thank you to the Paragould Rotary Club who provided free coloring books for a literacy project to GCT Elementary 2nd grade students on Monday, April 10, 2017. The coloring book is called the “Andy and

Elmer Project”.

Thank you to the GCT High School Interact Students who came and helped with the Rotary 2nd grade presentation of the “Andy and Elmer” books. Thanks to Mr. Nelson

for driving the students on the bus for the activity!

GCT JR. High School was honored with achievement fund by Senator Blake Johnson and Representative Jimmy Gazaway for student performance on standardized testing. The faculty and staff voted to spend the funds on staff bonuses for the fundingreceived. This is the 2nd year that the GCT JR. High School has received the funding from the state. The Jr. High received a total of $27,150.00.

Ray Stricker, high school counselor, and the Drug Free Teens visited the Primary. They read to Beth Stricker's class and Kimber McMillon's class. After the read aloud, they sat down for buddy reading and discussed the stories. The younger students enjoyed the experience of getting to read with older students. Thank you to Beth Stricker for the photos and information.

During Spring Break 2017, the GCT Maintenance Dept. installed a sewer pump at the Main Campus. The pump was needed due to the deterioration of the old sewer line. The Pump will service the Multi- Purpose Building, the Football Field House and the North Concession Stand. A big shout out goes to the following people: Mike Johnson, Mitch Gander, Jim Morrow and Wes Gill for all the hard work. The District is fortunate to have people with the experience and knowledge to undertake such a massive job. Thank you to Donnie Russell for the photos.

Congratulations to the 4th grade GCT Intermediate School Midwinter Quiz Bowl Champions: Ms. Harrelson's Class and

students pictured from left to right: Hayden Jackson, Eli McClain, Jackson Kidd, Capt., and Jennalee Tombs. Thank you

to Lennie Hurst for the photos and information.

Congratulations to the 5th Grade Midwinter Quiz Bowl Champions: Mrs. Porter's Class Students pictured from Left to

Right: Mason Smith, Zoey Hyten, Derek Brown, Capt., and Eamon Buchman Thank you to Lennie Hurst for the photos and

information.

Congrats to the JROTC Physical Fitness team in taking second at the Westside meet. Special note Dakota Allison took 2nd in Male all around. Thank you to Col. Antoline for the information and photos.

Jr. High Teacher, John Baldwin, had two students who were selected to publish articles in the Paragould Regional Chamber of Commerce's Education Committee’s “Get a Life” publication. A copy of the articles that were posted on line to a link on the

chamber’s web site follow below.

BY Elizabeth NoelGreene County Tech

WEEKLY BIRTHDAYS

Ashley Robbins 4-15Lindsay Roberts 4-15Brandi Slayton 4-15April Friar 4-16Olivia Vasquez 4-16Cloyce Eaton 4-19James Jumper 4-20Alice White 4-21

Greene County Tech School District

MOTIVATION

EMPLOYEE SPOTLIGHT

JoShDowler has worked for the

Greene County TechSchool District for thepast three years. Heserves as a Health/PEteacher at GCT Jr. High School and is the Asst. Jr. HighBoys Basketball Coach. He also serves as an Asst.coach for girls soccer. Josh is agraduate of BlackRiver TechnicalCollege. He also has a BSE from ArkansasState University. Joshis married to Kimberly Dowler andthey have threechildren, Braden who

is 12, Eli who is 8 and Clara who is 2. Josh stated that he liked working at GCT because, “he likes how the community comes together when a person or family needs help”. Josh can play the guitar and bass, and in his spare time enjoys watching basketball, and spending time with family.

1st choice – Amanda Mikel2nd choice – Caree Pfeffer3rd choice – Tamara Parsons:Your choices are on the attachment to choose from

The quarterly winner is……CASSIE ROE!

Congratulations to the April 2017 Fitness Challenge GCT Winners from GIA Taylor

Congratulations to the following GCT Staff members who have earned a “what's your excuse t-shirt” by working out 5 out of 7 days and have done this for 3 weeks in a row. Thank you to Gia Taylor for the information.

Brian BrightwellAmber framer Tamara Parsons Becky Biggs Andrea Spence Kristy Rowe Larissa Newman Gina Hobbs Angie SchefferKelli WolfbargerKimberly Mayberry Stephanie Newberry Stacey Harrelson Hailey Deck

Cassie Roe Stacie DickinsonSara Sims Mickie Garner Angie Tibbs Kim WebbKara CallahanJacklyn Wade Gena Mangrum Janet HookerCaree PfefferCharity Andrew Golden Williams