Nowata Public Schools - Home of the Ironmen

Mrs. Mitts began her February lessons this week. The lessons will focus on kindness and respectful communication. Students will complete activities with her this month as we work toward positive character development. Mrs. Mitts enjoys spending time with the amazing students at Nowata Middle School.

Here is a link and QR code that will take you to the site to get your very own Northeast Valley Conference Champion T-shirts! Come celebrate with us as our boys basketball team went undefeated in conference play. https://nowatabasketball.itemorder.com/

Nowata Middle school is proud to recognize this lunch bunch for their perfect attendance, including zero tardies! They enjoyed their cheeseburgers with Mrs. Thompson and Mrs. Mitts. #IronmenPride

Here are the links to the brackets for basketball playoffs http://www.ossaa.net/docs/2022-23/Basketball/BK_2022-23_2AGArea3.pdf?id=24 http://www.ossaa.net/docs/2022-23/Basketball/BK_2022-23_2ABArea3.pdf?id=24

Nowata hosted a Robotics Competition this weekend. We did extremely well bringing home 9 trophies in total. Team 44044A the Allstars won the Sportsmanship Award. They are a Middle School team consisting of Tristan Scmardo, Zané Dyches and Zander Dyches Team 44044B The Ironmen won the Judges Award. They are a High School team consisting of Jacob Williams and Cheley Sullivan. Team 44044D Disco Freaks won the Energy Award as well as Tournament Finalists which means that they finished 2nd place in the finals. They are a High School team consisting of Jacob Horner and Trinity Lippert. Team 44044 F Overengineered won the Build Award as well as Tournament Champions 1st place in the tournament. He is a one man Middle School team consisting of Dalgus Gipson. Team 44044P The Paralyzed Penguins won the Think Award for having the best programming. They are a Middle School team consisting of JJ Gipson, AJ Vidal, and Savannah Hultz (not pictured). Team 44044R unfortunately did not get any awards, but they played great. They are a Middle School team consisting of Bailee Vidal and Thomas Merrill. Team 44044T The Rat Pack won the Tournament Finalists award for their 2nd place finish. They are a Middle School team consisting of Kalen Banuelos, Cayson Pinney, Damon Cantrell (not pictured), and Brayden Stewart (not pictured). Team 44044Z Danger Zone won the top award of the event, The Excellence Award. They are a Middle School team consisting of Shelby Webster, Nevada Gilmore, and Vyon Vang (not pictured). The Excellence Award and Tournament Champions are both qualifying awards to the State Championship! We are super proud of these kids and all the hard work they put in to the Robotics Program here at Nowata.

If you'd like to place an ad in this year's yearbook, please contact Mrs. Sanco. Prices are: Full Page-$200, 1/2 Page-$100, 1/4 page-$75, 1/8 page-$50.

Basketball Tonight: Senior Night! Jv at 4:30. Girls then Boys. Senior Night stuff starts at approximately 6:00PM. Varsity girls Vs Chelsea start at 6:30 PM followed by boys.

Congratulations to members of our MS and HS Band as they represented Nowata at the MEOBDA District Honors Band. The Honor Bands are made up of 32 participating schools. Each participant auditioned for a chair in one of the three honor bands. A total of 900 students auditioned and 300 made it in. Jana Lippert (7th grade) Clarinet received 6th chair in the 7th grade band. Kollin Ivie (8th grade) Trumpet received 6th chair in the JH Band. Jazmyn Ortiz-Velez (11th grade) Flute received 5th Chair in the HS Band. After a day and half of rehearsals, the students performed a concert for family and friends. I am super proud of our talented musicians. Way to represent Nowata.

Parent survey please review the options in the link and vote for the option you like. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1WKy5ZPjW_eYqELQJwLXkS-ip5beIlehEqXnTPJwnMEk/edit

HS Basketball tonight @ Home Vs OKU. Girls JV at 4:45 followed by boys JV. Varsity Girls start at 6:30 followed by V Boys.

Jr High Basketball Tonight: 6,7,8 grade boys at Nowata, girls at OKU. 5:00 start.

Tickets go on sale TOMORROW for the High School Valentine's Day Dance! $5 per person or $8 per couple! The Student Council will be accepting donations for the dance such as case of water, pop, bags of candy, cookies, ANYTHING SWEET! Contact Mrs. Monae at the High School if you would like to donate. We can't wait to see you there!

High School and Middle School Book Fair! Go shop this week to support our school library!

It's Homecoming Day! Pep assembly at 2:15PM JV Girls start at 4:00PM JV Boys Start about 4:45PM Homecoming Festivities start at 6:00PM Boys Varsity at 6:30PM Hall of Fame Induction of GL Myers at Halftime Girls Varsity at around 8:00PM

Jr High Basketball tonight: 6,7,8th grades starting at 5:00. Boys in old gym, girls in the new.

Mrs. Scott’s Biology students’ bacterial transformation lab was a success! The bacteria that received the plasmid DNA demonstrated antibiotic resistance, and the presence of lactose activated the gene that caused the bacteria to “glow”!

Mrs. Scott’s Biology students are completing day 1 and day 2 of the bacterial DNA transformation lab - hopefully tomorrow our samples will show the presence of glowing fluorescent bacteria!

Mrs. Scott’s Zoology classes studied the effect of water temperature on a fish’s respiration rate! Thank you Rob Fischer for donating the goldfish! The students loved the lab activity!

Basketball Tonight: Due to weather concerns, games will start at 4:00 PM. Varsity girls followed by varsity boys. No JV.

Baseball Teamstore is back open. Some people liked one of the hoodies, but not the logo so we got that updated. These clothes are definitely a HIT! Get some before they RUN out! https://bsnteamsports.com/shop/2EQNZv2RCt