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Roses Forced at SHS

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Remember the Observer’s past story about turf being greened in February in one of Goodyear Nursery’s greenhouses? The turf was used in the annual Flower & Garden Show at the Connecticut Convention Center. This year a new crop has been added. Sixty-five rose plants were forced to blossom beautifully in the Suffield High School Agriscience greenhouse for the February 21-24 show. This was not only a convenience for a Suffield resident but a good educational opportunity for the Agriscience students.

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Agriscience News

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The SHS Agriscience Department held their Chapter Speaking Day in January, where students participated in a variety of public speaking competitions. These competitions included Creed, Extemporaneous Speaking, and Prepared Speaking. The Creed Speaking competition was held for freshman only. It required students to recite the FFA creed accurately and passionately. Afterward, each student answered questions about the creed posed by the judges.

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SHS Goes to Congress

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Last week five students of Suffield High School participated in the 79th session of Model Congress held at American International College. Suffield High School’s delegation, Tabitha Hinkle and Marc Cox, along with our observer delegates Benjamin Grigoriou, Catherine Murphy and Veronica Partain made an excellent showing for our first year in attendance! Our team, along with students from ten other schools from within New England, developed mock legislation, held mock committees and debated fiercely to pass bills that would be appropriate for the United States today. While real legislation can take months –if not years–to pass, students who attended only had three days to debate what should become law! Our Model Congress team put in a lot of hard work prior to attending by developing legislation, completing many hours of research on why our legislation should be passed, conducting mock committee sessions and reviewing committee procedures. On top of all of this, they only had about two weeks to review legislation from all of the other schools.

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Sports Equipment Collected for Reuse

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In November, I attended the first ever Student Athlete Advisory Board meeting hosted by the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC). As one of three representatives for our area, I was tasked with sharing what we are doing in Suffield to promote sportsmanship and community involvement and bringing home new ideas. At the conference, students got together into small groups to discuss possible community service initiatives for our Class Act Councils. My group came up with the idea of a used sports equipment drive. I thought this would work well at Suffield High School because most students play sports throughout their whole lives, so I took the idea back to SHS, and we decided to offer the incentive for students to bring in used gear for free admission to any home basketball game.

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Aces High Prepares

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In mid-February, the enthusiastic team members of Aces High were spending most evenings in the Windsor Locks High School shop rooms, manufacturing and assembling the parts they have designed (and often redesigned) for the robot they plan to enter in FIRST Robotics Competition this year. As reported in last month’s Observer, they learned the details of this year’s game, called Deep Space, on January 5 and immediately began to plan their strategy and design their machine and its programming. In the Observer’s visit on February 14, team members were active in four rooms of WLHS’s great shop facilities, working with several adult coaches including head coach Peter Davis, who knows the Windsor Locks shop well, as he teaches there. There was activity in the wood shop, the machine shop, the computer room, and the “arena.”

The team’s stage of readiness for their first planned event, in Waterbury on the weekend of March 8-10, was not what they had wished for by mid-February, but they believe they will be able to roll out in March with full capabilities working. 

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Save The Date! Mamma Mia

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The Suffield High School Drama Club is presenting the Broadway smash Mamma Mia on March 14, 15, and 16. The house opens at 6:30 p.m. and the show starts at 7 p.m. in the high school auditorium. Tickets can be bought at the door or from a cast member.  This fun musical features the 70’s pop-rock band Abba and their hit songs such as “Dancing Queen,” “Mamma Mia,” and “Take a Chance on Me.” The show is about a wedding taking place in the Greek islands.