Photos by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today
Here are photos from the last chance track meet at Oak Ridge High School on May 4, a week before the sectional at Science Hill in upper East Tennessee, which determined which athletes and teams advanced to the state track and field meet this week.
Members of the Oak Ridge Wildcats track and field team are competing in the state meet in Murfreesboro on Thursday.
Photos by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today
Here are photos from the last chance track meet at Oak Ridge High School on May 4, a week before the sectional at Science Hill in upper East Tennessee, which determined which athletes and teams advanced to the state track and field meet this week.
Members of the Oak Ridge Wildcats track and field team are competing in the state meet in Murfreesboro on Thursday.
Selena Piercy (Photo by Oak Ridge High School Orchestra)
Note: This story was updated at 1 p.m. April 15.
An Oak Ridge High School violist has earned first chair in the Tennessee All-State Orchestra, ORHS Orchestra reported on Twitter.
That means Selena Piercy is the top high school violist in Tennessee, ORHS Orchestra said.
Piercy will be the first chair viola in the All-State Orchestra. This is a first for Oak Ridge High School, according to Oak Ridge Schools.
More information will be added as it becomes available.
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Static Engine Team: Jack Borchers, Brian Dittner, Matthew Thompson, Matthew Powers, and Brooke Bigi (Submitted photo)
On Friday, October 27, the Automotive Maintenance and Light Repair classes from Oak Ridge High School competed for the second time in the Top Wrench competition at McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base. The students had their first experience in this competition in April 2017.
Now in its 27th year, Top Wrench Competition hosts 17 area schools, including more than 600 instructors, students, and other attendees.
Oak Ridge students entered the following competitive events: Static Engine Challenge, Pit Crew Challenge, and Computer Control Car Challenge. ORHS teams placed as follows:
Besting 17 schools to take first place in the Static Engine Challenge (repairing an ailing 427 Chevrolet engine to running status), the team completed the task in two minutes even. (The next closest time was 2:45.) [Read more…]
There will be a community town hall meeting at the Oak Ridge High School Auditorium on Thursday, October 19, from 6 to 7:30 p.m.
The purpose of the meeting is to get feedback from the community about the current ORHS course schedule and possible alternative scheduling models.
There will be a brief presentation by ORHS staff regarding the current schedule and plans for a schedule review process occurring this fall.
This press release was submitted by Amber Roberts, assistant principal at Oak Ridge High School.
Amber Roberts, vice principal of Oak Ridge High School, will give a talk on “Oak Ridge High School’s Vision for 2020” at the general meeting of the AAUW (American Association of University Women) on Monday, September 25, at 11:30 a.m. in Room 102 of the Activities Building of First Presbyterian Church, 1051 Oak Ridge Turnpike.
Roberts joined the staff of the high school as vice principal in 2009 after teaching eighth grade in the Atlanta metropolitan area for 11 years, a press release said.
She has a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Agnes Scott College, a master’s degree in middle grades science education from the University of West Georgia, and an educational specialist degree in educational administration from Lincoln Memorial University.
Her talk will be first for the 2017-2018 year for AAUW. New presidents for the year are Mayme Crowell and Fay Martin, the press release said. [Read more…]
The Oak Ridge High School Class of 1982 will be holding its 35-year reunion September 1-3.
Activities include a Friday night social, a Saturday night dinner and dance, and a Sunday picnic. The cost for the weekend’s events is $65 per person.
For more information or to register for the reunion, contact Mark Boatner at (865) 483-0402 or by e-mail at [email protected].
The Oak Ridge High School WildBand trombone section is shown above during a practice in 2017. (Submitted photo)
The Oak Ridge High School WildBand Preview Show is at 6 p.m. today (Friday, July 28) at Blankenship Field.
If it’s raining at 4 p.m. today, the show will be presented in the ORHS Performing Arts Center Auditorium.
The students have been working hard to prepare “Danza del Toro” for the fall marching season, a press release said. [Read more…]
Oak Ridge High School is participating in the Sprint 1 Million Project program. Through that project, the high school will receive free internet devices and service to help students complete their schoolwork from home, a press release said.
“Sprint’s mission with this project is to provide free wireless devices and service to one million students who are in need of reliable internet service,” the press release said. “The 1 Million Project is the largest corporate initiative in U.S. history to bridge the digital divide and help close the ‘homework gap’ for students lacking home internet access.”
The press release said Sprint plans to welcome approximately 200,000 eligible high school students into the program each year for five years, offering them devices and connectivity for up to four years while in high school. Oak Ridge High School is now a part of this five-year program.
“For the 2017-2018 school year, we will receive 300 devices,” the press release said. “We will continue to communicate with Sprint annually to determine the device quantities needed for the following program years.” [Read more…]
The Oak Ridge High School JazzKats, along with the entire Band, will play their final concert of the school year on Thursday.
The concert is scheduled to start at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 25, in the ORHS Performing Arts Center Auditorium.
“The JazzKats will kick off the show with the Concert and Symphonic Bands following,” a press release said. “Come enjoy our free concert and help us send our seniors off on their next adventure!”
You can see a short video clip from the last concert, “Come out Swingin’” by Larry Neeck, here.
Oak Ridge High School freshman Edward Moran, left, bears down to win his last-round match against a senior from Maryland to clinch second place. (Submitted photo)
There were 1,585 high school category entrants among the 5,578 students from across the country competing in the 2017 USChess SuperNationals tournament, which was held May 12-14 at the Opryland Convention Center in Nashville. ORHS juniors Bronson Burdick, Andrew Chan, and Carson McGhee, as well as freshmen Justin Blanchard, Edward (“Bear”) Moran, Logan Ogle, and Mack Patrick were among them, joined by former world champion Garry Kasparov, who made the ceremonial first move.
The school’s top score was Bear Moran’s 6.5 of a possible 7 in the U800 category, which was a clear second overall behind only a junior from Florida who had the only perfect score of the 220 players in that division. The ORHS players overall had a winning percentage of more than 55 percentage against the top competition in the United States.
Each year, there are national competitions for elementary (K-6), junior high (K-9), and high school (K-12). Every four years, these championships are combined in one venue as “SuperNationals.” The organizers stated this was the largest chess tournament in history in terms of participants. [Read more…]
Oak Ridge High School student Lara S. Blokland has won a National Merit Scholarship. The scholarship winners were announced this week by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.
Blokland is one of two area students to win a National Merit Battelle Scholarship. The other is Nalin H. Varma of Farragut High School.
Blokland’s probable career field is physics, a press release said, and Varma could study chemical engineering.
This week’s announcement was the first announcement of National Merit Scholars in 2017 by National Merit Scholarship Corporation, or NMSC. NMSC will name recipients of National Merit $2,500 Scholarships on May 10 and winners of college-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards on June 7 and July 17. [Read more…]
