Sharon-Mutual Public Schools

Beaver Track Meet Results Hutch Baggett 1st Place 100 Meter Dash 1st Place 200 Meter Dash 2nd Place 4x100 Meter Relay Dakota Walker 1st Place 300 Meter Hurdles 2nd Place 4x100 Meter Relay 6th Place High Jump Patrick Wheeler 2nd Place 4x100 Meter Relay 6th Place 100 Meter Dash 6th Place 200 Meter Dash Teagan Marlatt 2nd Place 4x100 Meter Relay Lexi Groff 3rd Place High Jump Makenzie Baggett 4th Place 3200 Meter Relay 6th Place 1 Mile Run Triniti Mabra 4th Place 3200 Meter Relay Gracie Mabra 4th Place 3200 Meter Relay Raelyn Syms 4th Place 3200 Meter Relay

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Congratulations to Cashlyn Spencer who placed 3rd in Microsoft Spreadsheets testing and 2nd in Microsoft Word testing at the Southwestern Interscholastic Meet at Weatherford! Great work Cashlyn!

Results from Okeene JH track meet: today are: Easton Bosscawen 5th 1in the 10 meter hurdles, Cooper Hutt 2nd in the 100 meters, 3rd in the 200 meters, 4th in the long jump, Boys 4x100 relay earned 6th. Way to go Trojans!!

Results for OBA Track Meet today: Dakota Walker 1st Place High Jump 1st Place 300 Hurdles 6th 100 Meter Dash Hutch Baggett 2nd 100 Meter Dash 2nd 200 Meter Dash Patrick Wheeler 1st 110 Hurdles 5th High Jump Great job guys!

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Pictures taken by Destinie Thompson, 2024 Yearbook Photographer, feature students displaying their quilts made in Mrs. Schmidt's FACS class this year.

Cimarron Link is donating a scholarship to graduating seniors at selected schools near the project area here in Oklahoma. This scholarship is in the amount of $1,000 and is available for graduating students at Sharon-Mutual High School planning to attend a two or four-year college. Applicants must be a graduating senior who is pursuing an agriculture or STEM-related career. Up to one student in each school district will be chosen as a scholarship recipient. The scholarship may be used for the student’s educational expenses when attending any college, vocational, or technical school of the student’s choice. ELIGIBILITY To be eligible for consideration for these scholarships, students must meet the following criteria: Plan to attend a two-year or four-year college to pursue an education in agriculture or a STEM-related field. Have a cumulative GPA of at least 2.8 on a 4.0 scale. Have a minimum ACT composite score of 20. Be a high school senior at an eligible school district. Have a letter of reference from a high school teacher or administrator. SCHOLARSHIP PAYMENT Recipients will receive $1,000, distributed after submittal of the college enrollment form. TIMELINE The scholarship application is now available at CimarronLink.com and will close on at 5 p.m. CST on March 31, 2024. Form and letter of reference must be received by that date. All scholarship recipients will be notified before the end of the school year. Letters of reference may be emailed to the Cimarron Link team at CimarronLink@Invenergy.com. What is Cimmaron Link? Like pipelines that transport natural gas, transmission lines carry electricity from where it is generated to where it is needed. Cimarron Link will unlock access to one of the lowest costs, steadiest producing natural energy resources available anywhere in America – the inexhaustible wind energy of the Panhandle. Cimmaron Link will: Strengthen long-term energy security by reducing our reliance on foreign energy. Support energy price competitiveness and stability for Oklahoma families and businesses by increasing energy supply with a new pathway to market for low-cost sources. Bolster reliability by diversifying the energy mix. This multi-billion-dollar energy infrastructure project will deliver for Oklahoma – supporting thousands of jobs, providing hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue to benefit Oklahoma schools and county services, and helping the state attract new business. Have questions or comments about the project? Contact us at CimarronLink@invenergy.com or call (580) 375-3038.

Scholarship opportunity!

Wyatt Neuenschwander was 2nd in the 145 pound class today with a 930 pound total at JH state powerlifting competition. Way to go Wyatt!!

Students of the month - February PreK - Clay Steadman PreK - Wade Smith Kind. - Preslynn Lieswald 1st - Kaylin Cole 2nd - Haidyn James 3rd - Braxton Knapp 3rd - Amy Paez 4th - Crey White 4th - Kenlee Morris 5th - Raelynn Majors 6th - Austyn Veach #trojanprideneverdies Great Job Students!!!

AR Party YOU HAVE TO READ FOR YOUR RIGHT TOOOOOO PARTY WITH THE PRINCIPAL!!! AR students who scored who have scored 50 AR points this nine weeks were rewarded with a pizza party!!! Great job students!!!

The Ball Insurance Agency has once again made their scholarship available. See Mrs. Hopper for an application.

Do you have a senior graduating this year that’s headed to college or a trade school? If you live within a 50 mile radius of Woodward and are interested in applying for a scholarship, please contact Mrs. Hopper about the Woodward API scholarships available. This year, API will be awarding 6 scholarships one of which will be awarded to a student attending tech school. The deadline for entry is April 9th.

Modern States-OU Thrive College Access Initiative. This initiative will allow Oklahoma’s high school students to earn college credit during the school day at no cost (more information below). Funding for the initiative comes from Steven and Maureen Klinsky and the Carnegie Corporation - this opportunity comes at no cost to the student or the district! More information: For this initiative, high school juniors and seniors take courses online within the school day or on distance learning days. After students complete course content and pass a practice exam, they take the official College Level Examination Program (CLEP) test. Modern States provides all online courses and vouchers for students to take CLEP tests for free. There is no cost to districts or to the students who participate. What is Modern States? Modern States is a non-profit philanthropic organization funded by national philanthropists Steve and Maureen Klinsky and the Carnegie Corporation. In 2023, over 18,000 students in all 50 states took courses through Modern States and passed CLEP examinations leading to college credit. Modern States offers online courses for college credit in algebra, sociology, economics, and many other core subject areas. All of the courses are delivered asynchronously by highly rated college professors. Students who pass College Level Examination Program (CLEP) tests are eligible to receive college credit at more than 2,900 colleges and universities. Watch an overview of Modern States here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_rp3sizcec How would this initiative work in your district? This spring, the OU Thrive Center will identify high school students interested in taking Modern States classes in fall of 2024/spring, 2025. Typically, eligible students are those who are on track academically (e.g., minimum 2.75 GPA). For the fall term, we set aside a class period within the school day (or distance learning day) for 11th and 12th grade students to take Modern States’ classes. From the pool of interested students, OU Thrive will randomly assign a portion of students to take classes via Modern States. The other students will be assigned to whatever class/study hall they were planning to do. We will compare the outcomes in these two student groups to test how well Modern States is serving your students. What are the benefits for your district? High school students will have an opportunity to earn college credit at no cost. If you find that the initiative works well within the district, OU Thrive will work with you to expand and deliver courses to your students. Our main interest is to study the effects of Modern States under a credible research design. How will OU Thrive evaluate the initiative? They will use a randomized controlled trial design that will generate causal estimates on the effects of Modern States on participating students. They will examine attendance, GPA, college credits earned, high school credits earned, course completions, and the overall cost-benefits relative to other college access options that students in your district use. Direct questions to: Daniel Hamlin, Associate Professor Director, Online Education Doctorate Research Director, OU THRIVE Center Educational Leadership & Policy Studies University of Oklahoma daniel_hamlin@ou.edu

Students and parents planning to attend the FAFSA prep on Wednesday at 530 should bring your 2022 tax return.

We will have a representative of HPTC here to help seniors and/or their parents with FAFSA preparation on Wednesday, March 13, at 5:30 p.m. in the computer room at the high school. You need to go into fafsa.gov and set up your user ID TODAY for it to be available to you by Wednesday.

So exciting!!

Congratulations to the Trojans as Class C Regional Team Champs in powerlifting!! JD Sessoms placed 4th in his weight class and Dakota Walker placed 2nd in his.

UPCOMING BOARD MEETING DATES March 11th - Do to a scheduling conflict this meeting will be at 6:30. March 12th - 6:35 setting the date for the sale of the Bonds We will keep updated as we move forward.