Students:
Spring Break is April 1-5.
IHSMA Solo/Ensemble Festival has been set for Saturday, April 6, at South O’Brien High School. Times are set by the IHSMA later. Times can be anywhere from early morning to 4 p.m. This festival includes vocal solos and small ensembles, instrumental solos, string solos, and piano. Mrs. Kuiper will help in whatever way possible. See her for more information.
Seniors, Grandparents Day is coming up on Tuesday, April 9. Please invite your grandparents and RSVP on the green signup sheet on the bulletin board by March 29.
BZBots, our robotics team, had a really good year! A phenomenal year! They finished 2nd in the state of Iowa and are invited to the “Worlds” competition in Detroit, Michigan on April 23-27. This is a really big deal! Congratulations to our team members and coaches on this accomplishment. They are busy planning their trip to MI!
Speaking of big deals, how about this? Senior Caitlin Van Engen was informed that her original oratory speech, “Synonyms,” qualified her for All-State! Caitlin is the first all-state speech person in our school’s history. Congratulations to Caitlin and her coach, Mrs. Bloemendaal. The All-State Speech Festival is Monday, March 25, at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls.
The junior/senior banquet has been rescheduled to Thursday, April 18. Juniors and seniors will be dismissed at 11:45 AM on Thursday, and they have no school on Friday, April 19.
Seniors, keep an eye on those scholarship dates!
General:
The Freshman/Sophomore Pasta Feed and Game Night Fundraiser is this Friday at Trinity Christian HS. New teams are still welcome to register for volleyball high school age and older, $10/person), bean bags (grade school, free), and Rook (all ages, $5/person). Lasagna will be served 5:00-7:30 with hot fudge sundaes to follow. There will be a monitored activity area for children during the tournaments. To ask questions or to sign up a team, email Rochelle Bloemendaal (rbloemendaal@trinitychs.org). We hope to see you there!
From the Trinity Christian HS Apparel Committee: Do you have some golf fans in the family? If so, the Web store should be open later today to order your golf apparel!! There are also a few generic items available in the web store – shorts and quarter zips…… So hurry over to the Web store as it will be open only until Tuesday, March 26 at 11:59 a.m!! No late orders will be accepted. We plan to have the items delivered to TCHS by April 8.To shop – Go to www.getbranded360.com, Shop, then Store and Universities, then select Trinity Christian Golf.
Trinity is hosting the annual PRTI Teacher’s Convention next October. We last hosted in 2010. If anyone would like to get in early on the food committee, please inform Trinity’s office.
We are looking to fill the position of athletic director and cross country coach. See Mr. Regnerus to apply.
From the HPRCS Ladies Guild:
The 3 on 3 Tournament is scheduled for April 13 at Trinity. Registrations and payments are due March 29. The registrations can be found in the school office or on the grade school website. Please fill them out and get those turned in soon. Email or text Kim Brummel with any questions. Kbrum75@hotmail.com of 712-470-4198
