West Holt Public Schools

Couldn't be prouder of these kids! Northeast Nebraska Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge Winners are as follows: 1st Place ($2000): KidzKlubhouse- Makenna Schaaf, Abby Davis, and Kim Wettlaufer 2nd Place ($1000) & People's Choice ($500): Burn 'Em Down Waterfowl Co. - Mason Crumrine, Oliver Shane, and Cole Poessnecker 5th place ($250) & Northeast Community College (Full tuition and fees for a year): Gearhead Garage- Jaxson Camp

West Holt Speech traveled to Laurel-Concord-Coleridge for the GNAC Speech Meet on 3/10/25. The team tied for 2nd place! Individual medalists are as follows: Extemporaneous: -Brooklynn, 1st -Elizabeth, 2nd Informative: -Madison K, 2nd -Emersyn, 4th Serious: -Madisyn H, 6th Poetry: -Madison K., 5th POI: -Peyton, 3rd Entertainment: -Drew, 5th -Daleni, 6th Humorous: -Olivia, 3rd Persuasive: -Lily, 4th -Elizabeth, 5th OID: -Hannah, Teagan, Lily, Drew, 5th -Emersyn, Claire, Aila, Daleni, Taylor S., 6th The Huskies will travel to Boone Central on Tuesday for the C1-4 District Meet.

Juniors and Junior Parents - please check your emails for important ACT information!

Sophomores and parents of sophomores: Please check your email for details about the PreACT on Wednesday, March 26th! Contact Mrs. Ruppert with any questions!

Lost & Found has grown in the past few weeks! Be sure and check with your kiddos if they are missing items.

JH Track for all 7-8th graders will continue this week during 8th period. There will be no practice on Thursday or Friday due to state basketball. Parent meeting for JH track will be on Monday March 17th at 6:00 in the lecture hall.

Elevate 2025 is off and "rolling"! Our first lesson this year was on potential and kinetic energy. Students constructed cars and we've discovered that the current designs are either too heavy or that the "engines" are insufficient in generating the necessary force. We will refine our designs and see what happens!

Attention 3rd-6th grade girls: Girls on the Run begins on Tuesday, March 11th, from 3:30-4:45! If you would still like to sign up, use the QR code below!

West Holt Public Schools will not be having classes on Thursday (3/13) and Friday (3/14) of next week. We hope to have as large of a crowd as possible down in Lincoln to support the boys basketball team and the coaches! Have a great weekend!

For the last couple of weeks, the junior high students have been writing their persuasive speeches. To help us out, two high school speechsters gave their persuasive speeches for the 7th grade class. Senior, Lily V. performed her persuasive speech on the value of travel, and sophomore, Jacob P. explained the benefits of learning a foreign language.

GNAC Honorable Mention All Conference Basketball

GNAC All Conference Basketball

Here is the link to order West Holt State Basketball apparel. Orders are due by NOON this FRIDAY, MARCH 7th! https://whboysbasketball25.itemorder.com/shop/home/

State BB Information Please Read!!! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FX9Sc6rIBpf361IPsPRyAGnOzpzvXf_XrA4HmzKpXto/edit?usp=sharing

Megan Huber 8:45 AM (1 hour ago) to Megan Congratulations on qualifying for the 2025 NSAA Boys Basketball Championships! New this year, Pinnacle Bank Arena is handling ticketing at their venue through Ticketmaster. This means that you will receive your session tickets for your supervisors from Ticketmaster for all games at PBA. You must have a Ticketmaster account to access and transfer these tickets. The people you are transferring tickets to also must have a Ticketmaster account. If you already have a Ticketmaster account linked to a different email address, please let me know no later than 3pm FRIDAY (3/7), so that we can use that email to send your tickets to. If I don't hear back from you by 3pm, we will use the address you received this email at to send the tickets to. The Pinnacle Bank Box Office will begin sending tickets out Saturday evening. Once they have sent your tickets, they will also send you an email with how to access and transfer them. **NOTE: If you play at Devaney or in the 3rd Place Game, those tickets will come from GoFan still. **Please share this ticket information found on our website with your fans.** If you have any questions, please let me know. Good Luck next week! Megan Huber Business Manager/Assistant to the Executive Director Nebraska School Activities Association A: 500 Charleston St., Suite 1 * Lincoln, NE 68508 P: 402.489.0386 This email and any attachments may contain confidential and privileged information from the NSAA. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by return email, delete this message and destroy any copies. Any dissemination of this information by a person other than the intended recipient is unauthorized and may be illegal.

We are so excited for the boys basketball team and want this upcoming week to be about them! But, with spring break and Husky help day on Monday, we know there will be questions about practice schedules and other things that 70+ kids will need to know and we won't see a lot of them until after school next Monday. While we are waiting to see how things play out, please use the following website for track updates: https://whps.info/track The kids were given business cards like this on Monday at practice, and while we are sure they are all hanging on their refrigerators at home, here is a digital copy. The website will be updated as we know more. GO HUSKIES!

West Holt Public Schools will have a 10am late start tomorrow, Wednesday, March 5th. No morning preschool. Please drive carefully!!

Tomorrow's Kindergarten Round Up has been moved up to 2:00 due to the boys District Final basketball game. Kindergarten will still dismiss at 1:00 tomorrow. Parents of current preschool students that are attending Kindergarten Round Up can leave with their child when it is completed. If parents are not attending Kindergarten Round Up, you can pick up your preschooler at regular dismissal time. Thank you for understanding!

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We will be taking a 9th-12th grade Student Body Fan Bus to the Boys’ District Final Basketball game held at Grand Island Central Catholic High School tomorrow, Wednesday, March 5th. The game is scheduled to begin at 6:00 PM. We will dismiss students riding the bus at 2:45 PM and will plan on departing at 3:00 PM. If your student wishes to ride the fan bus, we will need you to send them to school tomorrow with a signed note saying you give them permission to ride the bus. Turn the note into the office. If the bus exceeds its capacity, we will give preference to upperclassmen and those that turned in their permission notes early. There are NO concessions at the game due to Ash Wednesday being observed at GICC. We ask that all students bring $5 and we will call ahead and order pizza to be picked up and eaten on the bus after the game. Students will want to bring something to drink and possibly a snack for the ride down. We hope to have a loud and fun student section to cheer on our boys! Reach out to Mr. Havranek via email if you have any questions. His email is codhavranek@westholt.org.