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The Cape Central High School Beta Club attended the Missouri Senior Beta Convention on Friday and Saturday in Branson. The 42 Beta members who made the trip had the opportunity to listen to great speakers, compete in competitions, and help with a service project. Club members competed virtually and in person in over 60 different events and left the convention with numerous awards, multiple state champs, and even more national qualifiers. Betas that earn a 1st through 5th finish automatically qualify for Senior Beta Nationals this June in Savannah, Georgia. Congratulations to the following Betas who placed Top 5 in the State of Missouri. State Champions 10th Grade French - Zea Grabel 11th Grade Language Arts - Caitlin Hill 12th Grade Science - Anshula Vanteddu 9th Grade Spanish - Grace Baker Digital Art Division I - Kaleigh Fisher Performing Arts: Solo, Duo, Trio (Dancer) - Jackie Zhang Speech Division I - Danika Marriott 2nd Place 11th Grade Agriscience - Ashlynn Hickey 9th Grade Biomedical Health Science - Cameron Watson 12th Grade Biomedical Health Science - Tristen Stovall 9th Grade French - Yuliana Orellana Peralta 11th Grade Spanish - Emily Velasquez Rico Drawing Division I - Jason Zhang Pottery Division II - Alexis Weibrecht Quiz Bowl - Dulina Dias, Sahil Khot, Jacob Long, Anshula Vanteddu 3rd Place 11th Grade Biomedical Health Science - Audrey Ray 9th Grade Language Arts - Sophia Gant 12th Grade Math - Natalie Voshage Poetry Division II - Avery Criblez Painting Division II - Jessie Feng 4th Place 10th Grade Biomedical Health Science - Will Miller 11th Grade Math - Royce Liu Poetry Division I - San Srikant 5th Place 12th Grade Spanish - Aaliyah Solis Sculpture Division II - Libby Gorman Marketing & Communications - Nazim Aliyev, Ashlynn Hickey, Garrett Snider, Michael Snider Our Musicology team finished in the Top 8 for the first time allowing them to compete onsite this year. We would also like to recognize Jackie Zhang who earned the Missouri Beta Council Scholarship. This is the top scholarship given by the Missouri Beta Council. The council selected three Betas out of the more than 40 applicants to interview for the scholarship onsite at the convention. Each of the three received a minimum of $500. As the winner, Jackie receives an additional $1,500 from the council. Congratulations, Jackie. The Missouri State Convention includes competitors and clubs from more than 100 different communities across the state and our CHS Betas did amazing against some very tough competition. Thank you to the wonderful teachers and faculty in our school district who have poured knowledge into these kids. We continue to be more successful each year because of you. Mrs. Womack and Mrs. Criblez would love to recognize our two volunteer chaperones, Mrs. Heider and Mrs. Snider, who continue to support our Betas each year by getting kids to events, helping to stage living literature projects, making sure we have all of our art and display boards, and keeping track of the many bags and water bottles that our kids conveniently leave everywhere they go. They are absolute rock stars! We are incredibly proud of what our club has accomplished so far this year and look forward to what these Betas can do on the national stage.

Thanks to the Civil Air Patrol, four of our JROTC cadets had the opportunity to fly this weekend. Overcoming weather delays and maintenance issues, we were finally able to take to the air. Cadets Patton, Klosterhoff, Miget, and McAdams took the controls to fly around the local area.

JROTC cadets volunteered to support the Noon Optimist Chili Dinner at Arena Park this week. Cadets helped make chili, serve chili and drinks, package to-go orders, and clean-up. Thousands of customers came to the event with all profits going to community youth programs.

Five members of the CHS choir sang at the Senior Night Men’s SEMO Basketball game! They did a great job.

The Black History Month presentation was amazing! Thank you to Te'Meiah Dorsey for all the hard work she did to organize it and all the performers.

Mrs. Taylor is offering an ACT Tips and Tricks Presentation on Feb. 27th. All CHS students are welcome. It is expected to last about an hour.

CTA is doing a Double Good Popcorn Fundraiser from February 20-24, 2024. The delicious popcorn you purchase will be shipped right to your door! The money raised will go towards the four scholarships CTA awards here in the spring. CTA would appreciate it if you could share the link on your social media. Thank you for your support! Order at https://popup.doublegood.com/s/i9a40qh1

Over 40 area veterans and eleven CHS Betas enjoyed breakfast together on Tuesday! We heard countless times how much it truly meant to these (mainly Vietnam) Veterans that our teenagers were so engaged and interested in the history and experiences of their elders. Thank you Veterans!

The CHS Girls Swimming and Diving Team has won the Missouri State Class 1 Championship! Congratulations, Tigers! #WeareCT

CHS Girl's First Place State Swim team! We are so very proud of all of you!

We are excited to report that three of our Beta Club members received Beta scholarships this year. National Beta received more than 2,700 applicants and only 257 are selected each year. Lydia Cao, Avery Criblez, and Anshula Vanteddu all received $1,000 scholarships. Lydia was also selected as one of the top 100 applicants and has the opportunity to compete for one of the top 5 scholarship awards ranging from $2,500 to $20,000. Congratulations ladies!

There will be no school Thursday, February 15th for Family/Teacher Conferences. Students are also out of school on Friday, February 16th for a Staff Professional Development Day and Monday, February 19th for President's Day.

Spectrum has fixed the issues with our WiFi, internet, and phone connections. Thank you for your patience.

Open gym for cheer has been scheduled for March

Due to a Spectrum fiber outage, many of our schools are currently experiencing disruption of service to phones, internet, email, and Wi-Fi. Spectrum does not have an estimated time of repair at this time. The phone lines in the main offices at schools are working, but please be patient as you call. If you cannot get through to the main office at your student’s school and need to relay a message, you can call the Central Administrative Office (CAO) at 335-1867. Thank you! -CGPS We apologize for any inconvenience the outages have caused. We will provide an update as Spectrum shares more information. Thank you for your time and continued support of Cape Girardeau Public Schools.

Shout-out to Mr. Walker for putting together a WWI trench warfare simulation activity for American History students. The students really enjoyed their version of trench warfare.

T-Ravs Fundraiser TODAY! Come help FBLA raise some funds for competition!

Congratulations to the following CHS Band students who were selected for the Southeast High School Honor Bands: George Dean, Ezekiel Reinier, Xander Edginton, and Maybry Shaver.

Cape Central FBLA competed in districts on Feb. 1st. The following students qualified for State on April 14-17 Aimee Caldwell sang the National Anthem and did an amazing job! AFJROTC presented the flags and made us proud as usual. Mitzi Quintas-Cruz was elected District Secretary and Haneef Ahmad District Parliamentarian. Sahil ran an unsuccessful campaign for District President but we are very proud of him and all the work he put into it. Cape Central won the Escape Room The following members qualified for State competition 1st Place – Parliamentary Procedures Team – Dulina Dias, Sahil Khot, Haneef Ahmad , Nazim Aliyev, Royce Liu 2nd Place – Public Policy – Anshula Vanteddu 2nd Place - Computer Applications - Sahil Khot 1st Place - Intro to Business Math – Jason Zhang 2nd Place – Client Service – Anshula Vanteddu 2nd Place- Business Ethics – San Srikant and Jacie Spooler 2nd Place -Intro to Event Planning – Alex Moyers-Warren 2nd Place – International Business – Eric Nordstrom 3rd Place -Intro to FBLA – San Srikant 3rd Place – Accounting 2 – Dulina Dias 4th Place – Accounting 2 – Sahil Khot 4th Place – Computer Problem Solving – Eric Nordstrom 5th Place – Securities & Investments – Eric Nordstrom 5th Place – Personal Finance – Royce Liu 5th Place -Intro to FBLA – Zea Grabel 5th Place – Accounting 2 – Corryah Goodin

Recently Nathan Coleson, Andy's store manager, spoke to Mrs. Taylor's management class about the realities of a manager's job.