High School Announcements

April 2019

• Senior Exhibition Night will be held on Wednesday, April 24 from 4:30-6:00pm.  Senior Awards will follow at 6:30pm in the high school gym.  All seniors are expected to attend. 
• If you want to be in band, drumline, or color guard next year, stop by the band room to get info from Mrs. Rosselit by April 15
• Lauren Geates Division 1 at State Band S&E
• Cristoffer Rivera Division 1 @ State Band S&E
• Congratulations to our Business Professionals Of America - Financial Analyst Team, they took 1st in the State at the Spring Conference!!!!  Also, George Kertawidjaja took 2nd in Medical Office Procedures, Emily Johnson took 5th in Payroll Accounting and Jae Won Seo and Jacob Herman also received Bronze Medals for their open events.  All the events listed above qualified for Nationals in May. 
• Congratulations BSHS Choirs on you Superior performance at Choir Festival.  Good Luck at State!
• I just wanted to inform you on our Middle and High School student's performances at the Regional Science Olympiad competition yesterday (Tuesday March 5th @ Lake Michigan College).

         Please congratulate our kiddos on their accomplishments!  They represented Berrien Springs very well         
         during the regional competition.
         These kids deserve some recognition due to their hard work and great performances!  We are proud            of them! 
         HIGH SCHOOL RESULTS
         Overall: 2nd out of 8 Teams  "Qualified for State as a team!!!"
         Out of 23 Total Events:
         1st Place Finishes: (5) 
         Boomilever                           (Shirso Sarker, Shekinah Mbwambo)
         Codebusters                         (Carter Sheline, Andreas Martinez, Jenna Andersen)
         Fermi Questions                   (JaeWon Seo, Lauren Schaer)
         Forensics                              (Jenna Andersen, Lauren Schaer)
         Mission Possible
         2nd Place Finishes: (6)
        Anatomy and Physiology       (JaeWon Seo, Lauren Schaer)
        Disease Detectives                (Lauren Geates, Christian Martinez)
        Experimental Design              (Ellie Griffiths, Adaline Griffiths, Lauren Geates)
        Thermodynamics                   (Jenna Andersen, Ellie Griffiths)
        Writght Stuff                           (Shirso Sarker, Shekinah Mbwambo)
        Write It/Do It                           (Tapiwaso Chitaya, Ellie Griffiths)
        3rd Place Finishes: (6)
         Astronomy                              (Andreas Martinez, James Burke)
         Fossils                                   (Carter Sheline, JaeWon Seo)
        Herpetology                           (Aldrich Mongkau, Adaline Griffiths)
        Mousetrap Vehicle                 (Andreas Martinez, Aldrich Mongkau)
        Sound of Music                      (Tapiwaso Chitaya, Talumba Chitaya)
        Water Quality                         (Aldrich Mongkau, Christian Martinez)
        The state competition will be held on Saturday April 27th @ Michigan State University.  

• ​Berrien Springs Virtual Academy Celebrates National Merit Finalist, Samuel Clough!!  Congratulations Samuel!
• Congratulations to the BSHS Competitive Cheer Team 8th Place Finish at Regionals
• ​We had a great weekend at solo and ensemble, despite the lack of rehearsal time with the snow days.  We had 28 events participate on Saturday and 26 events qualified to move on to state! We have never had this many go on to state. Please congratulate the following students.  

         Received Division I rating:
         Bel Canto - (smaller version of Bel Canto) PERFECT SCORE!
         Tone 6 (ensemble)- Jakyrah Palmer, Diella Ruhaya, Miracle Love, Jadae North, Jazmin Walker, Aryana         
         Blaylock
         Audrey Babler - solo
         Talumba Chitaya - solo PERFECT SCORE!
         Tapiwaso Chitaya - solo
         Tapi and Talumba - duet
         Isabela Constable - solo
         Ali Crumb - solo
         Ali Crumb and Leilani Wade - duet
        Leilani Wade - solo
        Chloe Daniels - solo
        Chloe Wells - solo
        Shammah Dosunmu - solo
        Lauren Geates - Solo
        Myah Hawley - solo
        Diamond and Myah - duet
        Lauren Landry - solo
        Morgan Phillips - solo
        Andrew Rogien - solo
        Lily Waggoner - solo
        Daniel Wauren - solo
        Betsy Mngo and Musonda Mwila - duet
        Melannie Ferreira and Anna Constable - duet
        Melannie Ferreira and Stephanie Ferreira - duet
        Melannie and Stephanie Ferreira, Lauren Geates, Kimberly Keni - quartet
        George Kertawidjaja, Garrett West, Jae Won Seo, Daniel Wauren - quartet
        Division II
        Erin Krueger - solo - QUALIFIED FOR STATE
        Diamond Hawley - solo

• ​Congratulations to the Varsity Quiz Bowl team on your winning your qualifying bid for State Competition.  And to our JV for a very successful 5-0 night at Fennville. 
• ​Updates for rescheduled games due to last weeks snow days can be found on the high school home page in the calendar. 
• Reminder: Do Not use the front drive to drop off students between 7:00am- 7:40am and pick up students Between 2:10pm-3:00pm.  Please use the north or south parking lot to drop off students.  
• Thank you to the Berrien Springs and Buchanan Communities for your support of the Athletes for Legault Fundraiser Dinner.  The event was a huge success!!!!