Senior Trip to the Rockies game
The Edgemont Junior Class recently hosted the High School Prom, “Neon Nights,” on April 14. Keeping in theme, the EHS Junior Class spent the Thursday before Prom electrifying the stage with pink neon lights backed by a reflective silver background.
Led by Junior Class Sponsors Sam Miller and Garland Wright, EHS juniors, parent volunteers Shane Miller and Miranda Nelson, and custodians Brian Peters and Alex Warembourg spent the day hanging lights and setting up tables for the next night’s Prom event.
On April 14, the community arrived at 6 pm to attend Grand March. In typical Grand March fashion, the Junior Class President, JJ Ostenson, announced Prom couples to the community as they posed on stage for photos. The Grand March culminated with Senior Anna Hansen winning Prom Queen. Xander Lackey and Macy Andersen served as this year’s Prom Crown Bearers.
Shortly after Grand March, the community members left, and Prom attendees began dinner. Continuing in the Neon Nights Prom theme, students ate off UV reflective place settings.
The EHS Junior Class selected a menu of Caesar Salad, Shrimp Cocktail, Steak Tips, and a Dinner and Dessert Charcuterie Board. Highlights included Kerry Barker’s steak tips and the Charcuterie Board, including a glow-in-the-dark hot pink chocolate fountain.
A team of volunteers prepared various dishes to serve to the attendees. This year’s food prep team of volunteers included Garland Wright, Kerry Barker, Rachel Woodhead, Patty Shore, Leanne DeRouchey, Amy Ferley, Sandy and Lenny Heerdt, Molly Andersen, April Rhodes, Cayln Degnan, Brady Joseph, and the Edgemont Food Science class.
This year’s Prom servers were comprised of seventh and eighth-grade students. The Prom Server’s included Ethan Lawrence, Erik Medina, Levi Sheets, Cohin Klein, Kaylee Mergen, Burke Rhodes, and Treyan Urban.
After dinner, Prom attendees selected light-up glasses, headbands, necklaces, and bracelets. They then headed to the dance floor to dance the night away under the Neon Night lights.
“This year’s Prom was unlike any other one I’ve been to; I loved that the junior class got glow-in-the-dark things for all the students. It was super fun, and the pictures I took on my phone almost made it look like we were in a club instead of a high school gym,” states EHS senior Antje Rendon when explaining what she liked best about the EHS Prom.
Once the dance ended at 11:30 After Prom began. Organized by volunteers Christina Heisler and Kim Darrow, After Prom featured many activities and food for the attendees. Activities included a mechanical bull, glow-in-the-dark laser tag, cornhole, spike ball, glow-in-the-dark archery, and sumo wrestling in padded suits.
The South Dakota Army National Guard sponsored some activities for the After Prom. Also, the After Prom organizers fundraise throughout the year to provide activities and prizes for students at After Prom. At the end of After Prom, students won prizes ranging from mini-fridges, microwaves, televisions, dorm room furniture, games, and more.
The Edgemont Junior class is so appreciative to all those who helped to make the Neon Nights prom a reality. Thank you again!
Check out the video below to see more!!
https://youtu.be/FpSou3JwdLE
The Introduction to Agriculture class has been working hard on some silent auction items that will be available at this years FFA Banquet. For the past several weeks, they have been building some beautiful coffee tables! The banquet will be held Monday, May 8th at 6 PM in the gym. Tickets for the banquet are $15 and can be purchased from an FFA member or by contacting the school. We are looking forward to seeing everyone there!
Coding and robotics with STARBASE today!
Tonight nine high school students will be inducted into the National Honor Society. Following this, the EHS Quiz Bowl Team will take on a Staff Team in the Battle of the Brains! Induction starts at 7. Join us for a night of fun!
The class of 2024 spent the last two days decorating the gym and preparing to host the 2023 prom.
Please join us in the gym at 6:00 tonight (April 14) to admire their work and all the prom-goers as they show off their formal wear during Grand March.
Learning about types of sources.
To give everyone a chance to dig out, we are going to cancel school for Wednesday, April 5.
Stay safe and stay warm, everyone! We'll see you on Thursday.
School will be dismissed today at 2:30 due to the storm.
We will not have school tomorrow, April 4 due to this snow. Stay safe and stay warm, everyone!
~UPDATE~
The Annual Fine Arts Fair will be held on Thursday April 6th from 5 pm to 7 pm. We invite you to attend and celebrate the arts here at Edgemont School!
Students may take their artwork with them at the end of the show.
Because of this incoming storm, we are going to reschedule our fine arts fair and senior experience exhibit until Thursday, April 6 from 6:00-8:00. We hope to see you then!
We have the best kids ever!!! Seniors helping upper elementary with work!
The elementary Spanish classes will be making a craft that uses gallon jugs. If you have any empty gallon jugs that look like the one pictured please send them to school. We will start making our craft next week starting Monday and continuing through Thursday so if you have a milk jug before then please send them to school. Gracias for your support!
Opening night of the play "Hard Luck" was a success,and played to a packed house. One more chance to see this production- Saturday, March 25- 7:00
Opening Night!
EHS presents Hard Luck
7:00 Friday and Saturday
$7:00 Adults
$6:00 students
Don't miss the Edgemont High School play "Hard Luck". March 24 & 25 at 7:00
$7:00- Adults
$6:00- students & Seniors
Cast is getting ready for this weekend's play "Hard Luck". Don't miss it! March 24 & 25 at 7:00
To celebrate St. Patrick's Day, students in elementary Spanish class studied Spanish vocabulary associated with the holiday. We also discussed some traditions surrounding St. Patrick’s Day, leading us to discuss rainbows.
Everyone knows that if they can get to the end of a rainbow, there is a pot of gold waiting for them. The hard part is getting to that treasure. And despite our efforts, we never quite make it to the end of that rainbow. With that thought in mind, the Spanish class talked about the “treasures” they already have in their lives. They came up with quite an impressive list of things they find to be their “treasures.”
The most common “treasures” students listed (in no particular order) were my community, my family, God, my animals, my pets, my school, my friends, my house, and my country.
We, as a class, translated our “treasures” into Spanish. Students then wrote their treasures on slips of paper that served as rainbow beams, attaching them to a rainbow they had previously crafted.
Check out the attached pictures of the students’ rainbows and their “treasures.”
And thank you, Edgemont community, for being our students’ treasure!
Happy Belated St. Patrick’s Day!
P.S. Honorable mention to Braxton for her valiant effort at finding a rainbow. She once got very close to the end of a rainbow because she made her dad drive her there after picking her up from her grandpa's house. They were almost there, but then Braxton said she had to go home for supper, and they just ran out of time.
Ain’t that how it goes!
Keep chasing rainbows, Edgemont!
A musical group from Finland will be entertaining our students on Thursday, March 16 at 9:30 and 11:00. The name of the group is Okra Playground. They combine Finnish folk musice with a modern twist. The public is welcome to attend.
A day full of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math). Edgemont middle school students attended the, Women in Science Conference, Tues., March 14th at the SD School of Mines.
