) Fossil Ridge High School would like to honor the following students and teachers for their accomplishments.

Please help us congratulate the students of the FRHS Wind Symphony for receiving a "Superior" (the highest!) rating at the State Concert Band Festival April 21, 2009. The Wind Symphony was one of only 10 groups from the entire state (regardless of school classification) to receive this great honor!
We are extremely proud of the hard work and dedication of these talented students, and their continued effort to achieve excellence on a state and national level.
PSD students qualified for national competition in 9 events -- 5 are from Fossil Ridge! Please congratulate these students for their accomplishments.
French, Spanish and German students ruled yesterday at the UNC Foreign Language Day!!
Annalena Frey 2nd place
Jesus Castro and Victor Monnet both in 1st place
Hello PSD!
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Award winners include:
Polaris: Samantha Borrego and the Hispanic Institute for Leadership and Learning
The Wind Symphony was one of only 12 groups in the entire state, over the 5-day regional period, that received straight "1-Superior" ratings from all judges! The Wind Symphony now advances on to the State Concert Band Festival, which will be held at the CSU-University Center of the Arts Concert Hall on April 20 and 21.
We would also like to invite you all to our upcoming concert on Tuesday, March 10, at 7:00pm in the PAC.
FRHS ladies who attended the LYLC conference at CSU
Hello everyone,
Just a quick(ish) summary of our trip to
Forty six students from Fossil Ridge qualified for the state conference and all of them ended up going and competing. Eighteen students advanced to the finals in their events.
Summary of results:
Students who qualified for finals:
§ Jason Clark-Business Services Marketing
§ Becky Ewing-Hotel and Lodging Management
§ Kayla Carriker-Quick Serve Restaurant Management
§ Matt Whitney-Sports and Entertainment Marketing, Individual
§ Codi Farrar, Daniel Kotsides, Ashley Hewitt-Public Relations Project
§ Ashley Hewitt, Daniel Kotsides – Hospitality Services Management Team
§ Barney Schmidtke, Zach Alcorn – Internet Marketing Management Team
§ Alisha Jost, Taylor Jackson – Sports and Entertainment Marketing, Team
§ Kevin Corneilson, Montgomery
§ Taylor Jackson, Becky Ewing, Alisha Jost – Learn and Earn Project
Students who placed in finals and qualified for nationals:
§ Alisha Jost, Taylor Jackson – Sports and Entertainment Marketing, Team –
§ Kevin Corneilson, Montgomery
§ Taylor Jackson, Becky Ewing, Alisha Jost – Learn and Earn Project –
§ Kayla Carriker-Quick Serve Restaurant Management –
Advisors that are very proud, very tired and thankful for such awesome students:
§ Tanya Alcarez
§ Jamie Menefee
§ Karen Seeton
§ Andy Stevens
Lois Kaiser was elected by student voting delegates as the District Vice President for the 2009-2010 school year. She will represent our district at local, district, state and national conferences and competitions.
Please congratulate these students if you see them and thank you for your patience while they were representing
Our first ever Mock Trial team had superb performances this Friday and Saturday at the regional competition at the Larimer County Justice Center. Our defense team participated in one trial, and our prosectution team performed twice (two hours per trial). We placed a respectable third, behind Rocky and Ridgeview, who also took the top two places last year. We missed state by one place.
Please congratulate the following students who all placed in the Top 10 at FBLA Districts February 18, 2009. The list is crazy long -- 59! We mean BUSINESS.
| Ally Keifer | Management Decision-Making Team | 1 | * |
| Becky Ewing | Business Procedures | 1 | * |
| Chris Roth | Desktop Publishing Team 1 | 1 | * |
| Erin Petersen | Entrepreneurship Team | 1 | * |
| Kayla Carriker | Management Decision-Making Team | 1 | * |
| Lauren Wilson | Entrepreneurship Team | 1 | * |
| Montgomery Taylor | Sports Management | 1 | * |
| Patrick Gormley | Desktop Publishing Team 1 | 1 | * |
| Stephanie Schaulin | Entrepreneurship Team | 1 | * |
| Suzanne O'Halloran | Help Desk | 1 | * |
| Brandon Krizanovic | Global Business Team 1 | 2 | * |
| Chris Kelly | Computer Problem Solving | 2 | * |
| Claire Overholt | Business Communications | 2 | * |
| Donna Clayton | Client Services | 2 | * |
| John Heikes | Global Business Team 1 | 2 | * |
| Jonathan Clark | Desktop Publishing Team 2 | 2 | * |
| Maddie McGuinty | Cyber Security | 2 | * |
| Matt Whitney | Global Business Team 1 | 2 | * |
| Rob Guenther | Desktop Publishign Team 2 | 2 | * |
| Stephanie Schaulin | Electronic Career Portfolio | 2 | * |
| Zach Alcorn | Business Math | 2 | * |
| Kevin Cornelison | Business Law | 3 | * |
| Taylor Jackson | Sports Management | 3 | * |
| Rachel Den Herder | Business Law | 4 | * |
| Jason Clark | Cyber Security | 5 | * |
| Liz Parker | Accounting I | 5 | * |
| Matt Whitney | Business Calculations | 7 | * |
| Rachel Duval | Business Communications | 8 | * |
| Barney Schmidtke | Desktop Publishing Team 3 | 3 | |
| Lois Kaiser | Job Interview | 3 | |
| Carly Jin | Name Tag | 3 | |
| Zach Alcorn | Desktop Publishing Team 3 | 3 | |
| Alisha Jost | Parliamentary Procedure Team | 4 | |
| Allison Keifer | Personal Finance | 4 | |
| Ashley Hewitt | Parliamentary Procedure Team | 4 | |
| Becky Ewing | Parliamentary Procedure Team | 4 | |
| Daniel Kotsides | Parliamentary Procedure Team | 4 | |
| James Isenhour | Help Desk | 4 | |
| Kayla Carriker | Job Interview | 4 | |
| Taylor Jackson | Parliamentary Procedure Team | 4 | |
| Andrew Petersen | Business Ethics Team 1 | 5 | |
| Brandon Krizanovic | Accounting 2 | 5 | |
| Travis Arnold | Business Ethics Team 1 | 5 | |
| Alex Ray | Business Ethics Team 2 | 6 | |
| Carly Jin | Global Business Team 2 | 6 | |
| Daniel Kotsides | Cyber Security | 6 | |
| Rashmi Kumar | Global Business Team 2 | 6 | |
| Robert Kurth | Sports Management | 6 | |
| Sami Dedolph | Marketing | 6 | |
| Tom Clancy | Business Ethics Team 2 | 6 | |
| Travis Arnold | Personal Finance | 6 | |
| Gino Parisi | Sports Management | 7 | |
| John Heikes | Cyber Security | 7 | |
| Nathan Liston | Business Law | 7 | |
| Ashley Hewitt | Business Procedures | 8 | |
| Michelle Brakke | Accounting I | 8 | |
| Afton Bartz | Global Business Team 3 | 10 | |
| Lindsey Beverly | Marketing | 10 | |
| McKenzie Tappy | Global Business Team 3 | 10 |
We would like to recognize the following students and their success in the Scholastic Art Awards this year:
Gold Key winners:
Haley Miller (Oil Pastel Drawing)
Crystal Schuller (Prismacolor pencil drawing)
It was another great day for FRHS! DECA Districts were held yesterday at the Fort Collins Marriott where 75 FRHS DECA students competed against all the
Individual Events:
v Taylor Siebenaler – 1st place Apparel and Accessories
v Kristie Dunnigan – 4th place Apparel and Accessories
v Kayla Carriker – 1st place Quick Serve
v Erin Petersen – 1st place Food Marketing
v Rebecca Ewing – 1st place Hotel and Lodging Management
v Cody Hollifield – 1st place Restaurant and Food Management
v Chris Kelley – 4th place Retail Merchandising
v Jason Clark – 2nd place Business Services
v Michelle Brakke – 2nd place Sports and Entertainment
v Matt Whitney – 3rd place Sports and Entertainment
v Chris Roth – 5th place Sports and Entertainment
v Taylor Jackson and Alisha Jost – 1st place Sports and Entertainment Marketing
v Travis Locklear and Zach Bissel – 3rd place Sports and Entertainment Marketing
v Tiana Lujan and Maggie McCutchan – 4th place Buying and Merchandising
v Zach Alcorn and Barney Schmidtke – 1st place Internet Marketing
v Daniel Kotsides and Ashley Hewitt – 2nd place Hospitality Services
v Lois Kaiser and Kalina Martinez – 3rd place Travel and Tourism
Fossil Ridge Finance Students Top Out Over $1 Million To Earn “Highest Net Worth” In Stock Market Competition
38 teams from Northern Colorado competed in a stock market simulation sponsored by Junior Achievement and The Monfort College of Business on November 11, 2008.
Six teams from Fort Collins, 3 from Fossil Ridge and 3 from Fort Collins High School competed in a pool of 140 high school students to see who could earn the most on their initial $500K investment over a period of 60 simulated days. One minute represented one day of trading in the simulation. Students were able to buy and sell mock stocks in a live trading event.
Members of the winning FRHS team were: Jordan Helm, Mike Lamb, Amber Scheaffer, and Monty Taylor with a final net worth of $1,179.744 a 136% return or 816% annualized return. Each member received a $75 gift card to Best Buy along with a plaque.
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