The Akron School Library is hosting an online book fair with titles for all ages. You are able to order February 19th to March 4th. Visit https://efairs.follettbookfairs.com/guest/home?classCode=ZL42W to browse the selection.
Outstanding Teacher Award
Congratulations to Mrs. Heather Weis for being selected as the 2020 Akron Outstanding Teacher. Each year a donation is given from an anonymous donor to recognize a teacher in the Akron School. The hope is to recognize the great work of teachers and the impact they make in students lives on a daily basis. The Akron School District is blessed to have a wonderful team of teachers and staff members who are deserving of recognition.
Thank you to the anonymous donors and our parents and community for your wonderful support of our school. We are better together!
Some of our Akron Rams at beef weigh-ins last Saturday morning.
Go to Wray HS tonight to support our HS Basketball Teams in their final season contest. Games start at 4 with 2 quarters of JVG followed by JVB then VG and VB. Districts start Tuesday with the girls playing in Julesburg at 6 PM and the boys playing in Wray at 7 PM. Go Blue!
What a great turn out as we sent our wrestlers off to State! Good luck Xavier and Gavin!
The JH LPAA Wrestling tournament has changed dates. It will now be on Monday, February 24th at 2 PM in Holyoke. Go to Holyoke and support our JH Wrestlers.
Go Blue!
Please come help us send off our wrestlers to the state tournament on Thursday, February 20, 2020 at 8:00 AM in the Akron Field House. The tournament is this Thursday-Saturday at the Pepsi Center in Denver. Good Luck Wrestlers! Go Blue!
Region 3 Wrestling Tournament
The Akron Rams advanced two wrestlers to the state tournament next week. Sophomores Xavier Livesay and Gavin Brown both finished as regional runner-ups and will compete at the Pepsi Center starting on Thursday. Senior Cameron Collins battled back to 5th place and just missed advancing to state losing a close challenge match. Senior Caden Zimmerman was impressive this year going out for wrestling for the first time.
Good luck at state next week wrestlers and coaches!
Results from JH Girl’s Tournament today at Caliche:
B Team
22-17 Merino
22-16 Wiggins
A Team
31-27 Akron over Merino
Championship game
27-16 Wiggins over Akron
We are proud of the grit our Lady Rams displayed this season!
The A.H.S. athletic teams were in action on Friday. Wrestlers competed in their first day of regional wrestling at NJC and our basketball teams were on the road at Julesburg playing Sedgwick County. Our basketball teams gave a good effort but dropped both contests against Sedgwick County.
The wrestlers will continue in their tournament today with each having hopes of qualifying for the state tournament next week.
Go Rams!
Akron Elementary students came to school on a Friday to participate in a LEGO workshop today. Students worked individually and collaboratively to design and build speed racers and robots. Concepts and skills practiced were around ENERGY, GEARS, RATIOS and TORQUE.
Thank you Paula Mcguire and Mrs. Pachner for helping to bring this to Akron Elementary. Also thank you to CHS for supporting this event!
We are excited to announce that Denver Bronco, Dalton Risner will be a guest speaker at the Akron School on March 11th, 2020. The following is a message from Andrew Perry, Otis R-3 teacher and coach, who was instrumental in setting up this opportunity for not only the Akron and Otis schools but also several of our neighboring districts.
It is my privilege to invite you and your school & community to the Akron Field House on Wednesday March, 11 @ 10 a.m. Dalton Risner (Denver Broncos starting linemen) will be our featured guest speaker and would love to positively impact our community. Superintendent /Coach Christensen of Akron also knows and supports Dalton and is generously allowing us all the use of the Akron Field House. Dalton is a 2014 graduate of Wiggins High School and played college football at Kansas State University before being drafted less than a year ago. Dalton breathes positivity and has written a children's book RISE UP, which can be purchased online using the QR code on the flyer attached to this email. He has asked that donations be made to his foundation RisnerUp, which can also be accessed via QR code on the flyer.
The Akron JH STEM class had their Bridge Building Competition. Students were required to learn about bridge structures and design. They created their own bridges and tested how much weight each bridge could hold.
Akron Career and Technical Education Week
8th grade recruitment for CTE week. FFA, FCCLA, FBLA
Over 200 Valentines treats delivered to Akron Students for Valentines day by Akron FCCLA students!
Akron students were honored on Thursday to welcome speaker Nathan Harmon from Your Life Speaks. He traveled from Indiana to speak with our K-12th graders. The K-4th graders learned about making good choices, being kind, don’t be selfish, and being a good listener. There were separate assemblies for the 5th & 6th graders and the 7th-12th graders where they learned about
“The Five”:
1. Work hard
2. Be transparent
3. Value people
4. Accountability
5. Good choices
If you would like to hear more about Mr. Harmon’s message, check him out at Your Life Speaks on Facebook or @your_life_speaks on Instagram.
Our 1st and 2nd graders discussed "being thankful" this week and wrote everything they are thankful for on the white boards in the hallways. There's a LOT to be thankful for!!
3rd Grade CSI Lab
Mrs. Anderson went missing. The third grade class had use inferencing and drawing conclusions to figure out who kidnapped her.
Mr. Samber's 8th Grade students put on Bill of Rights skits in Early U.S. History class.
Akron School Big Buddy Program
