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) 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.

* Invited to participate at FBLA Nationals in Anaheim in June.

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* Matt Whitney - 1st Business Calculations

* Zach Alcorn - 1st Business Math

* Kayla Carriker - 1st Job Interview

* Allison Kiefer - 2nd Personal Finance

* Taylor Jackson - 1st Sports Management

More Top 10 Finishers

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Claire Overholt - 6th Business Communication

Kevin Cornelison - 9th Business Law

Becky Ewing - 6th Business Procedures

Stephanie Schaulin - 10th Electronic Career Portfolio

Erin Petersen - 3rd Entrepreneurship Team

Stephanie Schaulin - 3rd Entrepreneurship Team

John Heikes - 7th Global Business Team

Barney Schmidtke - 7th Global Business Team

Suzanne O'Halloran - 10th Help Desk

Sami Dedolph - 4th Marketing

Krisie Dunnigan - 5th Partnership with Business Team

Sami Dedolph - 5th Partnership with Business Team

Travis Locklear - Peak III Chapter Award

Zach Bissell - Peak III Chapter Award

Largest Chapter in District Award

March of Dimes Fund-Raising Award

French, Spanish and German students ruled yesterday at the UNC Foreign Language Day!!

Who are the students that helped Fossil shine??? They were:

Hannah Murray and Tiger Kaufman 3^rd place in the Song and Dance

Jasmine Fujiwara and Kayla King 2^nd place for Video taped commercials

Mike Lamb 3^rd place for Individual Talent

Elias Zabalza scored 3 goal in the soccer competition

And in the Native Speaker categories:
Annalena Frey 2^nd place
Jesus Castro and Victor Monnet both in 1^st place

Don’t forget to congratulate them when you see them!!!

Hello PSD!

Attached is information about the annual CSU Cesar Chavez events .

We are pleased to be honoring over 40 of our very own PSD High School Students and/or Student groups at the Community Celebration on March 24, 2009 at 6 PM at CSU for their amazing work.

Award winners include:

Fort Collins High School: Oyuki Chavez, Latasha Moreno and Pilar Delgado

Fossil Ridge High School: Ingham’s Senior Advisory 2009 and Jesus Castro

Polaris: Samantha Borrego and the Hispanic Institute for Leadership and Learning

Poudre High School: Selina Lujan, Miriam Zapata and Kevin Mendoza

Rocky Mountain High School: Rocky’s Diversity Club

Please join us in congratulating the students of the FRHS Wind Symphony for their outstanding performance at the Regional Concert Band Festival on Friday.

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 Colorado Springs for the DECA State Leadership Conference and Competition.

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 – Community Service Project

§ 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 – 1^st Place

§ Kevin Corneilson, Montgomery Taylor – Community Service Project – 2^nd Place

§ Taylor Jackson, Becky Ewing, Alisha Jost – Learn and Earn Project – 3^rd Place

§ Kayla Carriker-Quick Serve Restaurant Management – 3^rd Place

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 Fossil Ridge High School.

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:

Prosecution Team

Taylor Jackson

Montgomery Taylor

Kevin Cornelison

Suzanne O'Halloran

Becky Ewing

Jordan DeLano

Defense Team

Andrew Scheaffer

Logan Immich

Daniel Kotsides

Ashley Hewitt

Colton Blair

Nathan Liston

And FYI:

Attorney/Judge Coaches

Jolene Blair

Greg Lammons

Matt Zehe

Sara Stieben

Timer: Molly McGuire

Court Artist: Claire Overholt

Teacher Sponsors: Mark Barry and Karen Seeton

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.

* Qualified for State

Student Event Rank

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)

Silver Key:

Molly McGuire (Prismacolor Marker drawing)

Honorable Mention:

Laura Albaugh (Photography)

Elliot Hammans (Pencil Drawing)

Naomi Miskimins (Charcoal Drawing)

Congrats to these students! Haley and Crystal's work will go on to represent Fossil at the National competition. All of the above work will be on display at Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design through the month of January.

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 Loveland and Fort Collins Schools. We qualified the following 24 students to compete at the State DECA competition in February held at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs.

Individual Events:

v Taylor Siebenaler – 1^st place Apparel and Accessories

v Kristie Dunnigan – 4^th place Apparel and Accessories

v Kayla Carriker – 1^st place Quick Serve

v Erin Petersen – 1^st place Food Marketing

v Rebecca Ewing – 1^st place Hotel and Lodging Management

v Cody Hollifield – 1^st place Restaurant and Food Management

v Chris Kelley – 4^th place Retail Merchandising

v Jason Clark – 2^nd place Business Services

v Michelle Brakke – 2^nd place Sports and Entertainment

v Matt Whitney – 3^rd place Sports and Entertainment

v Chris Roth – 5^th place Sports and Entertainment

Team Events:

v Taylor Jackson and Alisha Jost – 1^st place Sports and Entertainment Marketing

v Travis Locklear and Zach Bissel – 3^rd place Sports and Entertainment Marketing

v Tiana Lujan and Maggie McCutchan – 4^th place Buying and Merchandising

v Zach Alcorn and Barney Schmidtke – 1^st place Internet Marketing

v Daniel Kotsides and Ashley Hewitt – 2^nd place Hospitality Services

v Lois Kaiser and Kalina Martinez – 3^rd 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.