(L-R) Zuri Goldsmith, Caleigh Yang, Blake Wegner, Silas Baker, Andrew Rollette, Anna Ejnik, and Reese Brantmeier
The Regional Judging for Southern Lakes Anthology was completed on January 24th in Elkhorn. Again this year, Whitewater Middle School was very well represented at this event having seven of our submitted middle school entries chosen for publication.
The following Middle School students had their entries selected and were identified as Regional Winners: Zuri Goldsmith, Caleigh Yang, Blake Wegner, Silas Baker, Andrew Rollette, Anna Ejnik, and Reese Brantmeier.
These students will have their entries published in the 2018 edition of the Southern Lakes Anthology and will be publicly recognized at a special reception that will be held on May 23rd at the Young Auditorium here in Whitewater.
Great job and congratulations to all of the students whose work was selected. You make us very proud!
On the evening of Friday, January 26, Deputies and Officers will be escorting the family of PFC Barclay-Weberpal to receive PFC Barclay-Weberpal at General Mitchell Airport in Milwaukee, WI. The public is invited to line the escort route, to pay respects to PFC Barclay-Weberpal.
From PFC Barclay-Weberpal’s dad, Scott Weberpal:
Thank you so much for the time you put in to honor our son. For everyone who can, please line the streets for his return to Janesville from the airport.
At approximately 5:30 PM (updated from the previous estimate of 6:15 PM), the escort will begin from General Mitchell Airport to Whitcomb-Lynch Funeral Home in Janesville. The escort route is as follows :
– I-94 from General Mitchell Airport, to S I-43
– S I-43 to W STH 12
– W STH 12 through the City of Whitewater (Elkhorn Rd. to E Milwaukee St. to Main St to Whitewater St to Janesville St. to Walworth St)
– Walworth St to E CTH N in Rock County
– E CTH N to Milton Rd
– Milton Rd to E STH 59 (E Madison Ave) through the City of Milton
– E STH 59 to E CTH M
– E CTH M to N USH 51
– N USH 51 to W Memorial Dr
– Memorial Dr to N Oakhill Ave
– N Oakhill Ave to W Court St
– W Court St to Austin Rd, Arrival at Whitcomb-Lynch Funeral Home
Pictured [L-R] are Lydia Wiley Deal (flute), Caroline Crowley (clarinet), Composer Brian Balmages, and Jacob Zuehlke (trumpet).These talented young musicians were nominated by their director, Abi Kading, to perform with the group under this year’s guest conductor, the internationally known composer, Brian Balmages.
(L-R) With Margaret Jenks, guest conductor, are Lincoln participants: Adalyn Frye, Sami Van Daele, Alex Sullivan, Zoe Olson, Carley Boudreau, Dante Baker, Mrs. Hayes, Henry Gehrenbeck and Caleb Clapper.
The 85 students of 5th and 6th grade singers were selected from across the state by the Wisconsin Choral Directors Association and the 8 Lincoln students were honored to be included. Guest conductor was Margaret Jenks, Director of the Madison Children’s Choir. The LINCS students practiced the challenging music with their music teacher Mrs. Christine Hayes. The students loved learning new techniques, being challenged and meeting new friends from across the state who share their love of singing. The Whitewater Music Parents provided scholarships for each student to help with registration fees.
For the rest of the story from WFAW AM 940 by Gary Douglas . At the end of the interesting story click links to hear short appropriate comments from WHS Principal Mike Lovenberg and Marc Perry on the event.
Marc Perry, director of community programs at Community Action Inc., that offers programs to fight poverty in Rock and Walworth Counties with WMS Principal Dr. Tanya Wojciechowicz.
Marc Perry with Dr. Ozalle Toms, UWW Special Education Associate Professor, event coordinator and one of two trainers (UWW Dr. Lauren Smith not in picture) who trained about 50 adult volunteers who held WHS smaller home room class discussions on Dr. King’s six principles of nonviolence.
On January 6, the team traveled to Waukesha County Technical College in Pewaukee to participate in the FIRST Robotics Kick-Off Event. At the event, they learned about the game for the 2018 season, and they will have until February 20 to plan, design, build, and test their robot before it has to be sealed for competition.
The game this year is modeled after a 1980’s video game, with the robot needing to pick up and distribute “power cubes” to various places on the field. To view the video presentation of the game, visit .
The plan to design, build, and test their robot is underway!
Team Ferradermis would like to thank their community sponsors including HSI Rentals, Generac, First Citizens State Bank, LS Power, Whitewater Manufacturing, the Salverson Family, Basin Precision Machining, The Knights of Columbus, Hudapack, anonymous community members, Whitewater High School, and the Kiwanis Breakfast Club. Ferradermis has also received generous grants from the Wisconsin Robotics League Participation grant program, the Argosy Family Foundation, and from Pentair this year. With these donations and grants, the team will be able to compete in two regionals this year as well as a pre-regional at Sussex Hamilton High School on February 18. From March 22 – March 24 the team will be in Milwaukee for the Wisconsin Regional, and from April 4 – April 7 the team will be in LaCrosse for the Seven Rivers Regional. The regional events are free and open to the public.
If the team can raise a little more money, their goal is to build two identical robots so that after the first is sealed for competition they can continue testing and debugging the second in preparation for changes to be made once the first robot is unsealed in Milwaukee.
Team Ferradermis would also like to thank the large number of adults who are assisting faculty advisors Ms. Laura Masbruch and Mr. Cody Watson in mentoring the team. Three graduates who founded the team last year are returning to mentor their former classmates; Justin Brantmeier, Roberto Soto, and Jacob Lee are all attending college but giving up their holiday break and driving back on weekends to assist. Also mentoring the team are Rob Prager from US Tanker, Lead Coach Carissa Petzinger from Generac, Dilpreet Randhawa, Allison Conrad, and Caleb Johnson from the UW-Madison Robotics Team, UW-Whitewater student and FIRST alum Sam Smith, and community members Jim McKenzie, Tony Tautges, Steven Sahyun, and Karen Korf. Thank you to the community for your tremendous support!
