FBLA at State Leadership Conference

Eagle Grove Future Business Leaders of America Chapter 1058 traveled to Coralville for the 2016 Iowa FBLA Spring Leadership Conference from March 31-April 2. 18 EGHS students joined 829 others from around the state to compete in business competition and also to elect the 2016-2017 State Officer Team. Seniors Brett Maier and Ben Wesselink served a voting delegates from Eagle Grove.

Eagle Grove FBLA also donated $200 from vending machines sales to the March of Dimes, FBLA national fundraising partner. Iowa FBLA as a whole raised over $16,000 this year for the March of Dimes in the fight to help end premature birth, birth defects and infant mortality.

The following EGHS members won individual awards:

Brandi Osborn: 3rd place in Future Business Leader (qualified for national conference)

Mariana Gonzalez: 4th place in FBLA Creed Oration

Luke Teeselink: 4th place in Business Knowledge and Current Events

Lincoln Miller: 5th place in Agribusiness

Chapter Award: 4th place (out of 30 Iowa FBLA chapters) in Event Sponsorship  

The National FBLA Conference will be held this summer in Atlanta, Georgia from June 29-July 2, 2016.

Group photo before banquet on Friday

Seniors attending their final SLC

Brandi Osborn - 3rd Place in Future Business Leader

PAGERUNNERS HELPED AT THE RBMS BOOKFAIR. 

EGHS Student Council News

State Leadership Conference October 26, 2015

October 26, 2015 at the Iowa Event Center in Des Moines, Iowa

Student who attended: Chase Quintus, Brittney Osborn, Maggie Wachowiak, Nick Halverson, Olivia Flumerfelt, and Mariana Gonzalez

EGHS Student Council won the State Honors Council with Meritorious Distinction Award again this year! Only 9 schools in the whole state won this award!

Conference Highlights

Keynote Speaker - Kyle Scheele

Chase Quintus and Mrs. Buseman presented two sessions on quick and easy activities you can do to help your students feel part of your school.

State Award Group Picture

Members in picture (left to right)

Front row: Katie Blase, Mallory Hammitt, Abigail Frommelt, Emily Anderson, Leslie Cooper

2nd row: Lindsay Davis, Michelle Mericle, Brittney Osborn, Mariana Gonzalez, Alecia Anderson

3rd row: Luke Tesselink, Sarah Wilson, Haley Jeske, Sydney Hill, Nick Halverson,  Olivia Flumerfelt

4th row: Christine Strickland, Caitlin Kimbrough, Lauren Davis, Chase Quintus, Maggie Wachowiak, Victor Frias, Dallas Hammitt, Katelyn Summers

5th row left to right: Austin Hill, Andrew Douglas

Missing from picture: Brian Gonzalez, Danielle Koester, Thutam Nguyen, & Mikelle Leonard

After the conference with met with Ballard High School to exchange ideas and talk about what we learned at the conference.

Eagles Update!

Many times our love for our community shows through our support for our school. We love Eagle Grove and this year we have a great vibe at the HS! Our students have rallied around each other and we have seen bigger crowds in the stands and bigger smiles in the halls. As a community we should be very proud.

Our football team got their first victory of the season and they deserve it, they work hard every day and it is time for a pay day. We are all so proud of them!

Our boys XC team is making an appearance at the State Meet this Saturday in Ft. Dodge, they will be running at 1:30 PM! These guys are a true definition of a team.. they work hard to be the best they can and they give it all they have! We wish them good luck and are so proud of them as well!

We are gearing up for the musical on the weekend of Nov. 14th. They put in many late nights and will be glad to see so many shining faces in the audience!

Gage Behnkendorf made the all-state band and will be performing in November! A huge accomplishment for Gage and what a great way to showcase his musical talents!

We are proud of all our fall athletes and their commitment to our school. Volleyball and girls xc worked hard this season, making huge improvements and contributions to their programs.

We are moving from our fall season into our winter one and we hope for continued support from our community and our students!

Go Eagles! :)

Back to School!

In just a few short weeks we will all be back at EGHS for the start of the 2015-2016 school year! We hope you had an enjoyable summer with lots of fun in the sun :) We hope you all found time to attend registration yesterday August 3rd at the Elementary, if not and you still need to iron out your schedule stop in the high school office to make some changes before school officially starts.

This year we welcome 3 new teachers to our staff, Mr. Nick Smith, science; Mrs. Sherry Leksell, english; and Mr. Rich Thacker, history and athletic director. They will be introducing themselves early on in the school year so stay tuned!

We look forward to a great year at EGHS and we will see each one of you on August 24th!

Go EAGLES :)

2015 EGHS Conferences

Last night we had our first of two days of high school conferences. We always look forward to talking with parents, but it seems like we get very few. Of course we would always like more, especially for me, not being a native of Eagle Grove I don't know a lot of my students parents unless we meet face to face at conferences or ball games. The weather did not help matters much and as they say in like a lamb out like a lion :)

But I would say for me this was one of the best conference nights we have had in awhile, meet 3 of our freshman boys (there were a few more but these guys stuck out the entire night!)

Garett, Chase, Colton 

Most teenagers can find something better to do on Tuesday night for 4 hours than hang out with a bunch of teachers in a gym but I am glad these three didn't, on a night that can be a little bland they brought some laughs to EGHS conferences!

Often times as teachers I think we forget the impact we can make every day, but these 3 prove the impact we often make is not on their knowledge of Earth history but that we care about them, that we are here to support them and they in return will make us laugh and make us proud :)


Lindsay Haugland
Twitter @LindsayHaugland
Email lhaugland@eagle-grove.k12.ia.us

Individual Events State Speech Competition

It will be a beautiful day at Starmont HS in Arlington, IA. Here is a list of students competing for Eagle Grove! 

27	Bromley	Kateryn	89	Reviewing	2:20-3:10 (2nd)
26	Bromley	Kateryn	89	Poetry	1:20-2:30 (2nd)
21	Carlson	Kya	89	Reviewing	1:00-2:10 (2nd)
35	Carlson	Kya	89	Original Oratory	2:20-3:30 (7th)
59	Davis	Lindsay	89	Acting	9:20-10:30 (5th)
91	Frommelt	Abigail	89	Solo Musical Theatre	10:20-11:20 (10th)
21	Leonard	Mikelle	89	Original Oratory	10:40-12:00 (7th)
16	Leonard	Mikelle	89	Acting	10:40-12:00 (2nd)
42	Nett	Anna	89	Original Oratory	12:20-1:30 (6th)
39	Nett	Anna	89	Spontaneous Speaking	3:40-4:50 (4th)
87	Nett	Jacob	89	Acting	3:40-4:50 (4th)
17	Nett	Jacob	89	Spontaneous Speaking	10:40-12:00 (3rd)
16	Ramsey	Andrew	89	Reviewing	10:40-12:00 (3rd)