Art Club

Twelve students competed at the Visual Arts Classic on February 21st at Northland College in Ashland. Students worked on a long term project for months and brought it with them to the competition. Short term projects were started and finished on site in two and a half hours. Of the 24 projects, 18 took first place honors and the other six took second place. As a team, the students won the Critical Thinking Challenge, Art History Quiz Bowl, and the overall Regional Championship. As Regional Champions, the team will compete in all categories at the state meet on April 17th.

Band

The NHS Concert Band recently performed for a panel of three adjudicators at the annual WSMA Instrumental Music Festival which took place at Northwestern in our auditorium.  The group was rewarded with a gold rating for their efforts.  For this event, the group performed Chant and Jubilo by Francis McBeth, Chasing Sunlight by Cait Nishimura and The Perfect Morning by Darryll Johnson II.  They will add Imaginarium by Randall D. Standridge, as well as a brand new work for band by Ian Deterling, for the NHS Spring Concert on Monday, March 9 (7:30 pm).

You can follow the band on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/northwesternhighschoolband/

DECA

Your NHS DECA Chapter competed at UW-Stout on January 11th.  We had 36 competitors attend the conference.  From that 36, we had 21 students who medaled.  That’s almost 60% of the chapter who got up on stage!  Moreover, the following students placed in their events:

• Kylie Benesch and Brianna Linderholm: 3rd Place in Travel and Tourism Team Decision Making
• Brooklyn DeGraef: 2nd Place in Restaurant and Food Service Management
• Ryleigh Hill and Jocelyn Luostari: 1st Place in Hospitality Services and Team Decision Making

Moving forward, 10 student representatives will be competing or participating at the State Career Development Conference in March at the Grand Lake Geneva Resort.  Wish them luck!

Additionally, thirteen DECA members headed to Green Bay, Wisconsin at the end of February for the WI DECA Sports and Entertainment Marketing Conference.  At this event, students had the opportunity to hear from industry leaders, tour major sports complexes, experience a professional sporting event, and network with peers and mentors.

Forensics

The forensics (speech) season is upon us. We have 27 groups of speakers preparing speeches, reading poetry, or memorizing scripts to perform for speech judges. Our first competition will take place on February 27 at Northwestern. Students perform three times for three different judges in hopes of earning enough points to advance to the next level of competition. We will need some volunteers to help our event run smoothly. :) In addition, the public is invited to come and watch students perform. The rounds will be roughly at 4pm, 5:30pm, and 7pm.

NHS Quiz Bowl Team:

Quiz Bowl had their end of year tournament at CESA 12 February 12th.  We went into the tournament in 4th place from our matches during the year and came out of the tournament in First Place.  Quiz Bowl is an activity in which teams of 4 compete against other teams by answering 40 academic questions.  Look forward to next season!

Trap Club

It's almost time for Trap season!
High School Trap League Registration is open until March 23. Returning athletes​ have been sent an email with instructions. New athletes can pick up a registration instruction sheet in the main office of NHS or NMS.
There will be an informational parent meeting on March 4th in NHS room 2051 at 6pm.
Please call Cynthia Wick at 715-363-2434 ext. 2051 or email her at cwick@nw-tigers.org with any questions!
 

Yearbook

The Black and Gold yearbook staff is wrapping up the 2020 yearbook this week.  If your son or daughter has not yet ordered a yearbook, there is still time to do so.  You can log onto https://www.jostens.com/apps/store/customer/1116879/Northwestern-High-School/ to place an order or you can fill out an order form and send it with payment to Mrs. Thompson at the high school; yearbooks are currently $70.  Yearbooks will be distributed mid May.