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Central takes 3rd in Stock Game |
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This International 6th-grade team from Central Middle School – front row, l-r: Gabrielle Killebre and Autumn Strickland; back row, l-r: Patience Cox and Julian Madrid – earned 3rd place in the Region in the Spring Stock Market Game.
During this past school year, students in teacher Mary Page’s 6th-grade International Humanities class earned 3rd place for the Region in the Spring Stock Market Game. The International team members were Patience Cox, Gabrielle Killebrew, Julian Madrid, and Autumn Strickland.
Competing teams were given a hypothetical $100,000 to invest as they learned about the financial markets such as the New York Stock Exchange. Page explained that her students used actual data from the stock markets to create and manage a portfolio of stocks and mutual funds. |
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KHS student earns 2nd for music video |
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Kokomo High School 2012 graduate La Shay Young poses at her work station in the Kokomo Area Career Center TV Production classroom after earning 2nd place for her music video.
La Shay Young, a Kokomo High School 2012 graduate and Kokomo Area Career Center TV Production student, earned 2nd place for her music video in the statewide Indiana Association of School Broadcasters (IASB) music video competition. KACC instructor Alice McKellar noted that this was a highly competitive category, and Miss Young entered a video based on the song “Who You Are” by Jesse J., which followed a teenager going through a period of self-doubt until the teen realized she was just fine being herself.
For her two months of work on this music video, Mrs. McKellar commended La Shay, “for telling an important story through well-composed videography, creative writing, and good acting.” |
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MS cheerleaders participate in clinic |
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The Kokomo-Center middle school cheerleaders are shown here performing at a 2012 United Way meeting.
The Kokomo-Center middle school cheerleaders participated during the past school year in the 16th annual Super Bowl Cheerleading Clinic. The primary focus for the NFL players, coaches, and cheerleaders was to encourage the middle school participants to follow their dreams and aspirations. |
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KACC Cosmetology student – Locks of Love |
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Kokomo Area Career Center Cosmetology student Kirsten Harmon cuts Marissa Riley’s hair for a Locks of Love donation. Marissa’s hair was taken to Mane Attractions Beauty Salon in Kokomo, and then was sent to Locks of Love, which provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children in the United States and Canada. |
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KACC TV Production students pose with Colts |
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During the past school year, the Kokomo Area Career Center TV Production classes and chaperones had the opportunity to pose with some Indianapolis Colts players at the Super Bowl Huddle with WISH-TV. |
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Debate Nationals |
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KHS seniors Thomas Jiang, left, and Morgan Mohr react after learning they had earned a National Forensic League Top 18 plaque in Public Forum Debate.
Kokomo High School seniors Thomas Jiang and Morgan Mohr earned a prestigious Top 18 Public Forum plaque from the National Forensics League for their outstanding performance at the recent 2012 Brickyard National Speech and Debate competition. Among the 3,000 national finals competitors, 484 teams competed in Public Forum debate.
According to KHS Debate Coach Jenifer Scott, Public Forum is the newest form of debate on the national circuit, and is considered “every man’s” debate because it is constructed so that any person off the street can be a judge since it deals with real-world topics. The resolution for the 2012 Public Forum Nationals was: “Resolved: Stand Your Ground laws are a legitimate expansion of the doctrine of self defense.”
Scott noted that Thomas and Morgan “spent countless hours at school, at home, and in coffee shops researching Supreme Court cases, the doctrine of self defense, the various Stand Your Ground laws in each U.S. state, and the definition of the word ‘legitimate’.” Following two days of six opening rounds, Thomas and Morgan earned the “break” into the top 92 teams nationally.
A 2-0 record in rounds 7 & 8 made Thomas and Morgan the lone Indiana Public Forum team still alive in the national competition. In rounds 9 through 12, Thomas and Morgan won 2 and lost 2 to earn their Top 18 Public Forum plaque.
“Not only did Morgan Mohr and Thomas Jiang represent KHS well with their talent, diligence, and dedication, but they also represented the State of Indiana beautifully,” KHS Coach Scott said. “Coaches and educators from across the nation respected their intelligence, elegance, and poise as other competitors filled the debate rooms to observe and learn from Morgan and Thomas.”
Scott added that she and her Hoosier debaters were amused by non-Hoosier competitor comments as one competitor asked, “You’re from Kokomo? Is that near Aruba or Jamaica?” |
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