Keya Paha County Schools

The FFA Officer team for the 2024-2025 school went on their officer retreat to the Black Hills this past week. On Monday, the officer team, along with Mrs. Trahan and Tonya Stephen departed from Springview at 2:00 pm for the five-hour drive to their Airbnb. On the way up, the officers brainstormed ideas on ways to help our local chapter thrive. Once we got to Spearfish, SD, they decided to stop and get pizza at a local pizza shop. After everyone got their filling of pizza, they continued their journey until they reached Lead, SD, the group made a pit stop at the grocery store to pick up food for the stay. After the team arrived, everyone made s'mores and called it a night. The next morning, the team ate some breakfast and then started to grind on planning out as much as possible for the upcoming year. That afternoon, the officers had a Zoom meeting with Victoria from the Nebraska FFA Association about a new sponsorship program. After a hard day of working, the officers had grilled burgers for supper and decided to go relax in the hot tub included with the Airbnb. The next morning, the group ate a quick breakfast and headed to a short rodeo preview in Deadwood, SD, where Zayle and Kit got to meet Shad Mayfield, a tie-down roper who has competed in the NFR and won the World Championship in 2020. After the team was done in Deadwood, the group came back to the cabin and finished up a few little details for their first FFA Meeting on the first day of school, and ran through a practice meeting. After that, everyone hung around the cabin and got ready to take FFA pictures. The group found some beautiful scenery to take officer pictures. After the team got back to the cabin, everyone changed and took a scenic drive around Lead. The group stopped at a lookout of an old mine and took a few more pictures, before the group headed back to the cabin, they stopped at a local ice cream shop for a sweet treat. Once everyone finished their sweets, they headed back to the cabin and got everything packed up and cleaned so they could adventure to Mount Rushmore early in the morning. After a delicious supper and an eventful day, the team decided to relax in the hot tub once more before heading out the next morning.

The KPCS calendar is now available on the Apple APP store.

Our Back To School registration links are live at https://www.keyapahacountyschools.org/o/kpcs/page/back-to-school-24-25

Fall Sports 2024 Conditioning and Practice (Times are subject to change) Cross Country Meeting – August 5th – 8:00 am at Bassett – 9:30 am at Springview August 6th-9th, T/Th @ RC, W/FR @KP at 7pm August 12th-16th – Regular Practice Times at Bassett Football Conditioning & Practice August 5th – 7:00 - 8:00 am – at Springview August 6th – 7:00 - 8:00 am – at Springview August 7th – 7:00 - 8:00 am – at Bassett August 8th – 7:00 - 8:00 am – at Bassett August 9th – 7:00 - 8:00 at Separate Locations August 12th- 19th – 3:30 - 6:00 pm – at Springview (RC Transportation Leaves @ 3:00PM) Volleyball August 5th - August 9th – 7:00 - 8:00 am at Bassett August 12th- 19th – 3:30 - 6:00 pm – at Springview (RC Transportation Leaves @ 3:00PM) Junior High August 19th – Junior High Football, Volleyball, and Cross Country Practice at Bassett Any athlete grades 7-12 who wish to participate in athletics must have the following forms turned into the High School offices by August 5th or before their first practice. Athletes cannot participate until these forms are turned in. *Physical Form *Medical Consent Form *NSAA Form *Concussion Form *Rangeland Rehab Consent to Treat Form

KP gym is closed until Tuesday July 23rd for floor refinishing.

Staff: George will be here Wednesday and Thursday the 10th/11th of this week. Please bring your computers in for cleaning and maintenance. You can leave them in the grade school library. Any questions, let me know. Thanks~Becky

The Keya Paha FFA is sponsoring the Top Baker Award at the 124th Keya Paha County Fair! Hope to see all your fair entries at the fair this year!

A full week in Washington D.C. has come to an end. Here is the week's summary by Sami. We landed in Washington D.C. Monday afternoon, where we then headed to our hotel (Omni Shoreham hotel). We explored around, ate some amazing food, and called it a day. Tuesday we did some more exploring, shopping, and eventually checked into our new hotel room where we got to meet our roommates and soon to be lifetime friends. We spent most of Tuesday getting to know other people while also completing sessions. We got divided into 14 groups of 25 kids in each group, we all had unique names for our groups, mine was called The Justice League. Wednesday was definitely the best day, because we got to go on a city night tour. We took a bunch of buses and got to walk around some very important memorials like: the Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial, Vietnam Veterans Wall, Vietnam Women's War Memorial, Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, World War ll Memorial, Washington Monument, Korean War Memorial, and Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial. Thursday we went to Capitol Hill, this is where we went and took a tour of the Capitol which was absolutely gorgeous inside. The architecture was very detailed and colorful. The statues and the smallest details in the Capitol all had important meaning to it. Friday, we went to the Arlington Cemetery, we saw the changing of the guards. These guards were guarding the tomb of the unknown soldier, this was an amazing experiences to witness. It was nice to see that all those graves and tombs were shown so much respect at the Arlington Cemetery both by people passing and the guards. After we got back from the Arlington Cemetery we got a few minutes to rest and then we attended some more sessions, did a reflection of the day and called it a day. Saturday, we went to the Smithsonian Institution where we got to see the museum of natural history and American history. The Smithsonian institution consisted of many different museums types of museums that you could go and explore. After we spent some time at the museum we then got free time in the city where you could go and explore the city freely with your advisor. We walked around for a while where we got to see Dwight Eisenhower's Executive Office Building, the front of the White House, we took some pictures and then rode back to the hotel on the metro. We rested for a bit then celebrated the ending of our time here in Washington D.C. Here in Washington D.C. there is so much greenery that is was surprising to see it all around us everywhere we went, also the places that we went to were absolutely amazing.

Over the last few days in Washington D.C., Sami has continued her leadership development through workshops on collaborative group discussions, advocacy, and taking action. She also got a tour of the Capitol and Arlington Cemetery.

First full day of the Washington Leadership Conference is completed! Sami completed leadership workshops over communities, being a change maker in a community, and understanding leadership styles. She also got to experience a night tour of some of the famous Washington DC Memorials. These included Abraham Lincoln, Washington, World War 2, Korean War, Vietnam War, Franklin Roosevelt and Martin Luther King JR.

This year's annual Ag. Business Trip headed to Washington DC for the Washington Leadership Conference hosted by National FFA!

This year's annual Ag. Business Trip headed to Washington DC for the Washington Leadership Conference hosted by National FFA!

2024 Keya Paha FFA Colorado Peaches are here! Please pre-order using this link https://forms.gle/tHvzqgMYzyxk52UGA Pick-up will be in August - early September depending on the ripening season. Payment will be due when the peaches arrive. Please do not send payment early!!!

Link for State Golf Apparel: https://northcentralstategolfapparel2024.itemorder.com/shop/home/

Congratulations to Keian Fischer for making the State Golf Meet next Week in North Platte.

State Track Meet Information and Schedule of Events:

A great Wrestling Camp Opportunity for area Wrestlers!

Attention students: please remember to bring your computers (Fully Charged!!), chargers, and computer bags to school on Monday for computer checkin.

2023-2024 FFA officers and Ag. Leadership students completed their community service project! Huge thank you to KBR, Monty Painter and Cinch Painter for helping them out! The wind made it challenging but they got it completed !

Welding students are selling gate latches. $15 a piece and we have 23 of them.