Keya Paha County Schools

There will be a send-off for Coach Swan, Brenna, and Bailey for State Speech at 8:10 Thursday March 27th in front of the High School.

Join us for Kindergarten Round-Up on April 4th.

Just a reminder that After School Enrichment will begin again starting this Thursday, March 20th.

🌟Senior Spotlight: Brenna Caulfield 🌟 🎨Future Plans: My plans are to attend the University of South Dakota to pursue a degree in art education. 🩺Childhood Dream: When I was little, I wanted to grow up and be a doctor. 😂Favorite High School Memory: Going to speech meets with Miss Emily and the rest of the team and having a lot of fun and good laughs. 💍Most Valued Possession: My pickup and my turquoise and silver jewelry.

Congratulations to these North Central Basketball Players for receiving NVC All-Conference Honors: Zak Swanson and Mya Lewis 1st Team All Conference--Bridget Lewis, Karlene Kepler and Kol Otten for 2nd Team All-Conference-and Collin Hagan and Keian Fischer for Honorable Mention

Planting seeds in the greenhouse, completed shop projects, participating in the UNL mobile beef lab, and experimenting with our new dehydrator have been some of the highlights around the KPCS agricultural education program. Happy National Ag. Day!

Scholastic Day at Northeast Community College on March 19th, has been cancelled due to incoming weather.

Keya Paha FFA went to Sargent on Tuesday for our final round of District CDE Competition. We co-hosted the Vet Science competition with over 100 students and had our Natural Resource team qualify for state! Full results will be printed in the Springview Herald!

Keya Paha FFA is up and ready to serve you breakfast! Breakfast will be ready for you from 6:30-9am today!

Reminder: Keya Paha FFA Pancake Feed is Wednesday, March 12th from 7am to 9am in the Multipurpose room! We hope to see you there!

Here is the 2025 Track Apparel Link:https://northcentraltrackapparel2025.itemorder.com/shop/home/

On February 25th, Keya Paha FFA members competed in District CDEs (Career Development Events) at Northeast Community College in Norfolk, NE. In the welding competition, the Keya Paha FFA team came in fifth and qualified for State FFA. Individually, Lucas Clay placed 11th in SMAW (Shielded Metal Arc Welding), Mason Schubauer placed 3rd in GMAW (Gas Metal Arc Welding), Angela Frick placed 10th in OAW (Oxyacetylene Welding), and John Schrader placed 1st in GTAW (Gas Tungsten Arc Welding). In the Ag Technical and Mechanical competition, the team came in third and qualified for State FFA for the third year in a row. Members of this team are Lucas Clay, Landon Stephen, John Schrader, and Mason Schubauer. In Livestock Management, Keya Paha placed 14th. The livestock management team included Reece Taylor, Kit Painter, Ely Weller, Nate Frick, and Shelby Kepler. Keya Paha had two teams for the Envirothon competition, where each team had to answer a set of tests about different environmental topics. Keya Paha A, which included Reece Taylor, Angela Frick, Kit Painter, Thomas Carr, and Ely Weller, placed 7th. Keya Paha B, which included Zach Wiebelhaus, Karlene Kepler, Trace Kaupp, Courtnie Krueger, and Wyatt Fowler, placed 11th. 8 members competed in the food science competition. Food science is when the competitors have to complete a scent test, where the contestant has to identify the scent, a triangle test, where the competitors have to tell which food is the same compared to which sample is different, and a 50-question test. As two teams, Keya Paha A, Karlene Kepler, Bailey Kaufman, Karleigh Crawford, and Zach Wiebelhaus, placed 7th, and Keya Paha B, Zayle Stephen, Zoey Snyder, Shalee Klein, Courtnie Krueger, placed 12th. Individually, Karlene Kepler placed 9th, Bailey Kaufman placed 26th, Karleigh Crawford and Zach Wiebelhaus placed 34th and 35th with tied points, Zayle Stephen and Zoey Snyder placed 41st and 42nd with tied points, Courtnie Krueger placed 56th, and Shalee Klein placed 64th. For Floriculture, the Keya Paha County team placed 9th. Individually, Karleigh Crawford placed 23rd, Jamison Graham placed 34th, Shalee Klein placed 41st, and Zoey Snyder placed 46th. In Agronomy, Nate Frick placed 6th, Drake Johnson placed 8th, Jamison Graham placed 9th, and Trace Kaupp placed 11th. This team placed 2nd out of three teams. The next CDE competition is in Sargent, NE, on March 11th.

The speech team has had a busy last few days, we traveled to Ainsworth to compete, Brenna placed 4th in Humorous prose and 6th in serious prose. Today, we traveled to Bartlett to compete at conference. The girls worked hard to place us 7th out of 10 schools. Bailey placed 2nd in poetry and Brenna placed 6th in both humorous and serious prose. All girls worked extremely hard and should be extremely proud of themselves. They represented their school well!

Due to the forecasted weather there will be NO school at Keya Paha County Schools on Tuesday, March 4. Again, there will be NO school at Keya Paha County Schools on Tuesday, March 4.

Things are feeling pretty "GOLDEN" around here! We just received notice that Mrs. Ellen Trahan is the recipient of the Golden Owl award, an honor sponsored by the Nebraska FFA Foundation and Nationwide that recognizes agricultural education teachers that demonstrate dedication to agricultural education, a commitment to students, and have a positive impact on their students. She will be one of six recipients honored at the Nebraska State FFA Convention in Lincoln this April. Congratulations, Mrs. Trahan! You are truly an opportunity seeker who isn't afraid to try hard things! ~ United We Educate ~

Twenty-four FFA members traveled to Norfolk to compete in District CDEs (career development events). Some of the events included agricultural mechanics & technology, welding, floriculture, livestock management, food science, and environthan. Results will be posted when available.

Celebrating Dr. Seuss Week and Read Across America Week March 3rd-6th.

D1-1 District Girls Basketball Final Information for Friday February 28th in Pender: Livestream Link: https://fan.hudl.com/usa/ne/pender/organization/16114/pender-high-school/

Boys D1-8 Sub-District Basketball bracket

Keya Paha FFA is wrapping up this week. We had close to 30 toy pickups for our show day and we are celebrating our last day with treats from PTO. Congratulations to our pickup day winners: Most Unique: Pistol Biggest: Irelyn Smallest: Clancy Oldest: Ansleigh Newest: Gian Most Used: Levi Thank you all who have helped us celebrate FFA Week! We will be celebrating Ag Month in March!