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High school business teacher Mr. George Snelling, is proud of the achievements of members of the Houston Chapter of FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America). The group walked away with 27 medals and 6 state qualifiers at district competition held in West Plains last Friday.

The winners were:

Abigail Murray - 3rd in Technology Concepts

Alexis Adey, Bailey Earp, and Olivia Woosley - 3rd in Entrepreneurship

Chelsea Hinton, Myrickl Terry and Desiree Venable - 3rd in Emerging Business Issues

Kelli Albrecht, Kayla Shriver, and Dusti Turner - 4th in Management and Decision Making

Dusti Turner - 2nd in Job Interview

Emily Gabel, Tyler Lake and Katelynn Walter - 2nd in Web Design

Jonathan Howard, Tyler Lake and Thomas Parks - 2nd in Network Design

Kelli Albrecht - 4th in Impromptu

Shirley Mings, Kara Neugebauer and Abigail Murray - 2nd in Marketing.

The State Qualifiers were:

Kelli Albrecht, Dusti Turner, and Desiree Venable - 1st place in Banking and Finance

Jonathon Howard, Tyler Lake, and Thomas Parks - 1st place in Management and Information systems.

Twin Pines Conservation Hosts Workshop

Members of the Houston FFA Forestry and Soils contest team attended a workshop hosted by the conservation at Twin Pines Conservation Area in Winona. Students received training for identification of types and textures of soil, as well as determining slopes.General knowlege of trees included identification and calculating board feet.
Last Updated on Monday, 04 March 2013 08:43

Community Breakfast

Parents and students worked hand in hand to prepare, serve and cleanup during the annual FFA Week Community Breakfast. FFA Sponsor Van Kirkwood appreciates the outstanding support shown to the member led Houston FFA Chapter.
Last Updated on Monday, 04 March 2013 08:42

Basketball "Pink Out"

The Houston Lady Tigers basketball team held it's 2nd Annual Pink Out game on Feb. 11. In all, the team raised $2086.06 for Relay for Life. The total amount raised included t-shirt sales, silent auction baskets from each school building, as well as pink food items and carnival-type games. The night also included the "Proudest Pink Person" in different age categories.

Big thank you's go out to the following: The Bank of Houston generously donated pink mugs for the games as well as money for the airplane toss at half-time of the varsity; Neal's Sporting Goods for printing the t-shirts; D&L Florist for donating pink balloons; staff members in the coop, elementary, middle and high school for donating items for their silent auction baskets; the Lady Tiger Basketball players for coming to the game early and offering to help set up tables, signs, etc. in the concession stand area.

The Houston community and crowd were a great group of people who showed positive behavior and support for the night.

Character Counts

Some of the students in Mrs. Ruth Wallace's class had the opportunity to discuss Respectful, Responsible, and Ready on the radio on Tuesday, February 13th.