Slight Schedule Change

Dismissal times have moved 5 minutes earlier because we must board our bus before school lets out.

Oct 3 FHMS dismissed at 2:35, Heritage at 2:55
Oct 24 Heritage dismissed at 2:50
Nov 14 (no change) Heritage dismissed at 2:55
Dec 5 Heritage dismissed at 2:35 FHMS at 2:55
Jan 9 FHMS dismissed at 2:50

Please pick up children at only the designated school else I will be counting kids and in a panic trying to finding the missing child and then all 50 kids will be late getting back. Pickup times are usually accurate to within two or three minutes unless it's snowing.

Friendly Hills news

Looks like I'm going to be running a chess club/team at FHMS. If any of you math whizzes also play chess, this is your year to try it. You'll get some top-notch coaching, we'll compete in local tournaments, in the winter join a league, and in the spring play in the state championship and in the national championship which for the first time ever will be held in Minneapolis.

My strength as a chess coach is to quickly bring beginners up to a competitive level. I currently coach 5 different teams and have coached state and national champions. So come prepared to learn a lot in a hurry!

Heritage Scores

OK Heritage, like the pre-season Twins we were favorites going into this season, but to win it all we have to do two things:
1) work hard (always a good idea)
2) recruit your nerdy friends - Nick is your brother going to do this - he'd be really good this year

Scores:

Allison Rocke	9
Julia Michienzi	8
Nick Bachman	7
Ben Carland	5
Aiden Jacobs	5
Gabriel Rivera	4
Hannah Skarstad	4
Bailey Dusterhoff	4
Daniel Kolar	4
Aidan McNally	4
Simon Meyer	3
Gabriel Fromm	2
Anna Barton	2
Angela Gotham	0

Friendly Hills Results

Here are the results of the first test:

Elizabeth Whitcomb	9
Caleb Golberg	9
Greta Prokosch	9
Monte Fischer	5
Matt Richards	5
Nathan Whitcomb	5
Matthew Morse	4
Brigham Williams	4
Lendale Smith	4
Logan Woods	4
Dev Bhakta	4
Carter Henry	3
Luc Kaderlik	3
Alex Nilles	2
Kieran White	2
Vic Fischer	2
Allie Prokosch	2
Laura Skemp	2
Hannah Kirby	2
Charlie Rutman	2
Sarah Miller	0
Mandi Wen	0
Oliver McEllistrm	0
Tommy Buell	0

Time for Math Club Again! 2011-2012

First meeting is Sept. 19 - New rooms from last year.
HERITAGE - 3:10 pm - 4:15 pm Lower Yellow House room 142
FRIENDLY HILLS - 7:30 am - 8:25 am Lower Blue House Room 146
Hope to see you there. Bring a pencil. - Bill Heinemann

Schedule:

• Sep 19 Monday PRACTICE
• Sep 26 Monday PRACTICE
• Oct 3 Monday Meet at South St. Paul Pick-up: 5:25 Heritage, 5:40 FHMS
• Oct 10 Monday PRACTICE
• Oct 17 Monday PRACTICE
• Oct 24 Monday MEET – at Friendly Hills M. S. Pick-up: 5:10 FHMS, 5:30 Heritage
• Oct 31 Monday PRACTICE
• Nov 7 Monday PRACTICE
• Nov 14 Monday MEET – at St. Thomas Acad. Pick-up: 5:10 FHMS, 5:25 Heritage
• Nov 21 Monday PRACTICE
• Nov 28 Monday PRACTICE
• Dec 5 Monday MEET – at St. Paul Academy Pick-up: 5:20 FHMS, 5:40 Heritage
• Dec 12 Monday PRACTICE
• Dec 19 Monday PRACTICE
• Jan 9 Monday MEET - at Heritage M. S. Pick-up: 5:00 Heritage, 5:20 FHMS

Party Time!

Time for a party! Celebrate a successful season. Work on Mr. Heinemann's box of wonderfully mystifying puzzles. Eat ice cream! Get your picture taken for the yearbook!

Heritage: Monday Jan 24, after school in the cafeteria 3:15 - 4:15

Friendly Hills: Monday Jan 31, after school in the Lower Red House 3:15 - 4:15

Way to go!

Way to go! Great finish to a great year!!
Both ISD 197 teams took team trophies.
Perfect scores by HMS's Adrian, Jennifer and Allison on Event A
Perfect score by FHMS's Sarah on Event B
Great scores by Allison and Monte to tie for the 10th place medal.
Heritage 5th grader Julia scored 18 points!!! And Sean outscored 4 of the FHMS Gold players!

Don't forget the year end party with more awards for all, great puzzles, and ice cream after school in the cafeteria.
Jan 24 - Heritage
Jan 31 - Friendly Hills

SE Metro Final League Standings
------------------------A--B-TM-MT5--YR
1 St Paul Academy Gold 62 53 40 155 764
2 Heritage Gold .......64 38 36 138 672
3 Friendly Hills Gold..44 26 32 102 563
4 St. Thomas Academy...40 30 20..90 536
5 South St. Paul.......42 34 16..92 423
6 Friendly Hills Red...38..6..0..44 284
7 St Paul Academy Blue.26..0..8..34 231
8 Heritage Red.........18..8..4..30 219


TOP 10 Earned Medals and Certificates of Achievement
1 Neerja Thakkar ..... SPA 28 125
3 Sandhya Ramachandran SPA 28 119
2 Griffen Dufeck ..... STA 20 116
4 Adrian Rocke ....... HMS 22 110
5 Brian Heilig ....... SPA 18 105
6 Sarah Yotter ...... FHMS 24 104
6 Jennifer Gravelle .. HMS 24 104
8 Milo Wittenbert .... SPA 18 92
9 Chris Gitter ....... STA 18 91
10 Monte Fischer .... FHMS 22 90
10 Allison Rocke ..... HMS 24 90

Meet5 Individual Results
Name .....A..B.Tot
Heritage Gold
Adrian...14..8 22
Jennifer 14 10 24
Allison. 14 10 24
Nick......8..4 12
Joe D....10..6 16
Eric......4..0..4
Heritage Red
Amanda....2..0..2
Julia....10..8.18
Gabe R. ..2..0..2
Isabel....2..0..2
Jorge.....2..0..2
Adam......0..0..0
Heritage Alternate
Parker....0..0..0

Friendly Hills Gold
Sarah ...10 14 24
Monte ...10 12 22
Meagan ...8..0..8
Elizabeth 6..0..6
Matias....4..0..4
Victoria..6..0..6
Friendly Hills Red
Max.......6..6 12
Jack......4..0..4
Tyler.....2..0..2
Daniel...10..0 10
Matt.....10..0 10
Sam.......6..0..6
Friendly Hills Alternates
Owen......4..0..4
Sean......6..4 10
Carla.....4..0..4
Ellie.....2..0..2
Caleb.....4..0..4
Brigham...2..0..2
Matt......4..0..4

And as a preview for next year - I totalled the top six from each team who will be returning and here what I got:
369 Heritage
327 St.Paul Academy
311 Friendly Hills
256 St. Thomas
134 South St. Paul