Base Commander Visits GC
April 30, 2013
American history students had a grand opportunity to talk with a Submarine Base Commander during third and fourth hour on April 22nd, 2013. Chuck Hasbrouck was in the United States Navy for 31 years and has experience well beyond the classroom and submarines. He talked with the students on what life is like under the [...]
Golden Learning Opportunity
April 30, 2013
Written by Marissa Brown and Emily Greiner, 8th graders On Monday, April 8th the eighth graders went to Des Moines to visit the State Capitol and Historical Museum. While at the State Historical Museum, the eighth graders saw exhibits such as Rarely Seen: Cool Stuff from the Museum, the Delicate Balance, and You Gotta Know [...]
Ag Ed Update
April 1, 2013
HAPPY SPRING! As the snow begins to melt away and the grass begins to green, once again it is time to think about the garden. This year the horticulture class is planting a number of new varieties of tomatoes and peppers. We will be offering a several heirloom tomatoes including a Yellow Pear, a Black [...]
Transformations in Geometry
April 1, 2013
The geometry students have been working in groups to explore transformations in a coordinate plane. They began by using a geometry software called geogebra to manipulate figures in order to define translations, rotations, and reflections and then made conjectures about the properties of each transformation. Finally, the students practiced drawing the transformations on a coordinate [...]
National Honor Society Inductees
February 1, 2013
Seven new members will be inducted into the Maggie Gray Chapter of the National Honor Society on Friday, February 8, 2013, 6:00 p.m. in the Grundy Center High School IMC. The students were selected by the GCHS faculty on the following criteria: SCHOLARSHIP, SERVICE, CHARACTER, and LEADERSHIP. The public is invited to the ceremony prior [...]
Reading in the Middle School
February 1, 2013
Sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students are enjoying reading and having discussions about book characters surviving a plane crash in Africa, having everlasting life, fleeing home and starting over in a new country, being a teenage war hero, overcoming a year with polio, surviving the problems of the Holocaust, becoming a pro athlete at a [...]
Academic Decathlon
February 1, 2013
It seemed like business as usual. On January 23, buses from nine districts pulled into the Waterloo Columbus High School parking lot. Students piled out of the buses and made their ways inside to participate in the first round of the 2013 Iowa Academic Decathlon. What wasn’t business as usual was the fact that four [...]
Hawkeye Community College Enrollment Opportunities
December 11, 2012
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Hawkeye Community College Scholarships
December 11, 2012
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