October 15, 2015 - Timpson ISD Bear Update
Pep Rally
The Timpson High School pep rally this week will be Friday, October 16 at the football stadium at 2:00 p.m. Everyone is invited to the pep rally to cheer for the Varsity Bears who will play Overton at home at 7:30 p.m. in the second district game of the season. Congratulations to the Varsity Bears who defeated Mt. Enterprise in last week‘s first district game by a score of 42-14.
THS Youth Advisory Council
The Timpson High School Youth Advisory Council is a group of students dedicated to three core values: community service, personal responsibility and setting a good example for others to follow. YAC founder and advisor Mr. Vernett Richardson began with less than 10 students in the Youth Advisory Council and has grown it to over a 100 student membership.
YAC members volunteer and help organize a number of school and community events including the Veterans and Memorial Day programs, Frontier Days and school events. To develop personal responsibility YAC members are expected to always show respect to others, set goals and develop plans to achieve their goals and understand and accept responsibility for their words and actions.
YAC members also are charged with setting a good example for others to follow by maintaining good order and discipline, respecting authority at all times and learning good character traits and apply them to life situations. Mr. Richardson meets with the YAC members regularly to help them develop and practice these core values. YAC members also have the opportunity to become leaders with the council organization.
They are required to apply for these leadership positions. He hopes these important skills will not only help students during their school years but will be life skills they can use to become successful contributing adults.
Bears In The Sky
Bears In The Sky launched its latest balloon October 6. It flew to 95,000 ft. and descended 75 miles from Timpson 3 hours and 11 minutes then landed in a 60ft tall pine tree where it slept 4 days before being retrieved. It's top jet stream speed was exactly 70mph and its slowest speed at 79,000 ft was 2mph. At burst it dropped a half mile in 30 seconds in contrast to it landing at 259ft in 30 seconds. The recovery crew, consisting of members from the Nacogdoches Amateur Radio club, and two impromptu and curious Louisiana Highway patrol, watched the package descend its last 7,000ft. We want to thank Barron’s Tree Service employees Donny and Perry for getting NS7 to complete its journey. Thank you to Ronny Samford of Our Town Times newspaper for sharing his photo the balloon and the moon!
TES First Grade News
Timpson Elementary School first grade students learned about magnets this week. Students predicted, described and explored how a magnet can be used to push or pull an object. They enjoyed seeing how like poles of magnets repel and the amount of objects various magnets would attract.
