Tag: School

On
Kevin Wondrash

Dodgeville students place second in Odyssey world finals

DODGEVILLE — Amazing, unbelievable, impressive, and remarkable are all adjectives that describe the feelings from the students when they heard their team called for second place at the Odyssey of the Mind world finals.

St. Joseph School sent two teams to world competition recently in Ames, Iowa, at Iowa State University. There they competed against teams from all over the world.

Many teams had gone through multiple eliminations at sectional, regional, and divisional competitions, in order to get to world competition, so the competition was tough.

Read More
On
Kevin Wondrash

Love Begins Here 2014 sessions

MADISON — Love Begins Here (LBH), an apostolate of the Catholic Diocese of Madison’s Office of Evangelization and Catechesis, works to provide the youth with an opportunity to encounter Jesus Christ in a life changing way through weeklong, local mission trips where they live in Catholic community and continue His work on earth.

Read More
On
Cathy Lins, For the Catholic Herald

Baraboo students’ artwork on display

MADISON — Students from throughout the southern half of Wisconsin, including St. Joseph Catholic School in Baraboo, worked on nature-based art “messages” that will be sent to Cuba through the Children Are The Hope (CATH) program.

Students from 14 Wisconsin and Cuban schools took part in the environmental and cultural education program and international art exchange during the 2013 to 2014 school year.

Gallery hosts exhibit

From May 26 to 31, the Common Wealth Gallery in Madison will host a collection of nature-based artwork created by the fourth and fifth grade students and similar-aged students from northcentral Cuba.

 

Read More
On
Kevin Wondrash

St. Peter School to hold open house

MIDDLETON — St. Peter Catholic Elementary School will be hosting an open house event on Wednesday, May 28, at 6:30 p.m.

The event is open to all current and prospective families interested in learning how St. Peter Catholic School promotes a culture of scholarship, service, and salvation.

Read More
On
Kevin Wondrash, Catholic Herald Staff

Dodgeville students return to ‘Odyssey’ world finals

DODGEVILLE — For the second year in a row, students at St. Joseph School in Dodgeville will be taking some of their skills and talents to a worldwide stage.

Two teams from the school are advancing to the Odyssey of the Mind world finals set to take place at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, from May 28 to May 31.

More than 800 teams from around the world will compete in the 35th annual competition which, according to its website, “emphasizes creativity and teamwork and has grown into the largest international creative problem-solving competition worldwide.”

Read More
On
Mary C. Uhler, Catholic Herald Staff

Value of Catholic school education: This graduate wouldn’t trade it for a million dollars!

Editor's View by Mary C. Uhler

“I would not trade my Catholic education for a million dollars!” That’s what Ashley Hornung, soon to be a graduate of St. Peter Catholic School in Ashton, says in her reflection in the Graduation section published in this week’s Catholic Herald.

Ashley is one of this year’s Catholic school graduates in the Diocese of Madison who were asked to comment on what their Catholic school education means to them.

Learning about their faith is priceless

Ashley is right. That strong faith is indeed worth more than a million dollars. It helps these young people on the path to holiness and happiness in this life and the next — things that are priceless!

Ashley also said, “I feel that I am a stronger person because of my Catholic education. I will miss my Catholic school very much next year! The thing I will miss the most about St. Peter’s is the cozy Catholic environment. Everybody at St. Peter’s is so nice, and it reminds me of a family. I like the fact that I can talk so freely with everyone at St. Peter’s about my faith. My friends and my wonderful teacher will be missed the most!”

Most of the graduates mention the importance of learning about their faith at their Catholic schools. They say they have become stronger in their faith and will take that with them as they go on to the next level, whether it be middle school, high school, or college.

Read More
On
Kevin Wondrash

Edgewood Campus School’s EdgeTech team enters Technovation Challenge

MADISON — A team of five eighth grade girls from Edgewood Campus School (ECS) participated in the 2014 Technovation Challenge. Technovation is the world’s largest and longest-running tech competition for girls. There were 842 teams worldwide entered in the 2014 challenge.

In Technovation, teams of young women identify a problem, create an app to solve it, code the app, build a company to launch the app in the market, and pitch their plan to experts — all in 12 weeks. The 2014 challenge required teams to develop an app that solves a problem in their local community.

Read More
On
Margarete Schels, For the Catholic Herald

Peace project at St. John the Baptist School in Jefferson

JEFFERSON — “Let Peace Begin With Me” is a song with a powerful message of personal responsibility in planting and nurturing the seeds of peace in one’s own world.

The fifth and sixth grade classes at St. John the Baptist Catholic School in Jefferson, under the guidance of school counselor, Mrs. Joanna Becker, embraced the idea of working towards world peace by bringing it closer to home.

Sadako’s story

Mrs. Becker introduced the “Peace Project” by sharing the true story of a young Japanese girl, Sadako Sasaki, who was an innocent victim of war as she suffered the effects of deadly radiation after the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945. She was only two years old on the day of the bombing and died 10 years later as a result of leukemia.

Read More