Congratulations to our Academic Super Bowl team, who participated in the regional
championships on Tuesday at Central H.S. EDS had four group winners.  They were
Social Studies, Mathematics, English, and Interdisciplinary.  Of particular note is our
Social Studies team that has qualified to participate in the state championship. 
Only four schools are invited to participate from a pool of 64 teams from the entire state. 
The entire social studies team is made up of freshman. They are John Pharo, Grace Stevens,
William Weitzel, Fred Folz, and Collin Taylor.  The team will travel to Purdue on May 5
to challenge for the state title. At the regional competition, the EDS team had the
highest score of the twenty teams that competed.  The teams included all
public and parochial schools from Evansville and the immediate area. 

SPANISH AND FRENCH NATIONAL EXAMS Every year EDS students are given the option to sign up to take the French and Spanish National exams offered by the National Associations of Teachers of Spanish and French. More Day School students choose to take these exams than students from any other school in the Tri-State. SPANISH LEVEL I Over 900 students took this level of the exam in Indiana. Diplomas de Plata (Silver Diplomas): Ryan Pfender  8th and Sam Johnson  9th  highest scores in the state. Diplomas de Bronce (Bronze Diplomas): Bill Christian 22nd  and Luke Bucshon  26th highest scores in the state. Premio de Excelencia (Award of Excellence): Jaanki Patel, Will Haseman, scored in the 50% or above in Regular Category and Julia Linstrom (Outside Experience). LEVEL II Premio de Excelencia (Award of Excellence): Audrey Binyon ranked 10th in the Outside Experience Category out of 63 students statewide and Noora Aljabi scored 3rd   in the Bilingual Category out of 11 students statewide. LEVEL III  Premio de Excelencia (Award of Excellence): Amira Aljabi ranked 10th in the Bilingual Category out of 20 students statewide. FRENCH LEVEL I Nick Hebebrand ranked 10th , James Hitchcock 17th, Sara Humel and Ladijah Wood 19th, Neel Erickson 21st, Ben Parker and Kendra DuPont 25th  out of 626 students statewide. LEVEL II John Pharo 9th, Fred Folz 10th, William Weitzel 11th, Carolyn Jones 12th, Drew Stroshine 15th out of 466 students statewide. LEVEL III  Emily Wilhite 22nd, Bryce Hart 25th out of 501 students statewide. LEVEL V  Melissa Porter 15thout of 160 students statewide.

                                               
Speech Team News

October 11- Speech Meet at Mater Dei High School--Parents should arrive at 6:45 for Awards and Pick-up

October 16-Speech Encore Night at EDS in the Commons—Family and friends are invited to hear students perform their selections from 6:30-8:00

November 1-Speech Meet at Holy Rosary—Parents should arrive at 6:45 for Awards and Pick-up

November 8-Speech Meet at St. Benedict’s School—Parents should arrive at 6:45 for Awards and Pick-up

November 14-Tournament of Champions at Mater Dei—Only 11 entries from our team will compete at the tourney.  Students will know later in the season if they qualify for the tournament.

FYI—On Speech meet days, students may wear their dress clothes to school that day or bring clothes to change into before 3:00 departure from school.  Transportation to the meets is provided by parent volunteers. Nona Justice is coordinating the transportation, so if you would like to volunteer to take some members to a meet, please call Nona or Ms. Willis; otherwise, Nona may be calling you to help.  Students may purchase pizza, drinks, homemade baked goods, fruit etc. at the meets.  Three to five dollars should be sufficient to buy whatever your child would like. Remember, students will be at the meets from 3:00 to 7:30, so they will be hungry. 

I will be communicating to the students verbally and in writing expectations for behavior and dress at the meets.  Look for the handout next week.  Feel free to call or email me at school if you have questions or concerns.