001[Music] It was what it was. Oh, you know what? It might be It's all Christian is able. All right, it's 6:02. Like to call the meeting to order. Uh would you please rise for the pledge of allegiance? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right, Kelly, would you call the role? Michael here Tomlinson here. Okay. So, we're doing our board meeting a little bit different this time around. And so, uh what we wanted to do was spotlight students uh in the form of recognition now. and we thought what a better or what better way to do it than to have the sponsors come up and speak a little bit about
002the students that they're honoring uh and why and then we'd like to award them with a medal and um recognize their amazing achievement this year. So, I'll uh I'll be short with my words and I'll I'll let Cara kick things off. I'll put you on the spot. Uh so, Cara, if you wouldn't mind coming on up and talking a little bit about the students that you're recognizing. That's what happens when you're a teacher. Well, Michael was a student. He knows my name. Cara Pointer. I'm here with two of my five State FA degree recipients tonight. Uh the State FA degree is the highest degree an FA member can get in the state of Illinois. There is about eight qualifications that they have to meet um including like GPA, classes taken, um keeping records, um earning
003a certain amount of money, community service, um I'm sure I'm missing something. So, Sage Kleener um had three different jobs um during his time um to get him his state degree. He worked for Ben Kirchman, he worked at Juel, and then his current job uh placement is Mark's Lawn Service. And he actually got that job at the job fair last year. So, that was kind of fun. host that. And then Maggie did hers on her horses that she has and her poultry. And she has a poultry business where she's selling eggs. So if you need farm fresh eggs, Maggie does that um as well. So I had two uh three others that weren't able to be here once at baseball. Kell Harve and he farmed with his family. Harve Farms. Uh Drake raises um purebred
004shrop sheep. Um he also was an aggracience national winner. And then uh Faith Shrader um did hers also on her horse and working at hot numbers. So it's a it's an honor um to get the state degree. So next week two weeks uh they'll get recognized at state convention um as a small population of members in the state of Illinois to receive this degree. So thank you for having us. I'm going to call in Aaron Dit to go next. Okay, I brought a little hardware with us, too. Um, with me I have three out of our 14 um i8 conference art winners. So, this is our fancy plaque. You can gander at later because you can't see it that far away. Um, and I was lucky enough that I wrote up something for our communications
005department, which I will read to you. Um, after I kind of explained what art conference is. So, some of you may not know that our art conference, our art kids compete just like sports does in our I8 competition. So, we compete against all the same I8 schools, but we're only allowed to bring 14 students. So, the three teachers have to kind of put our head together and decide what is our best of the best, and we get to bring 14 of those. These three were out of those 14. Congratulations. Um, and we did walk away with first place this year. Um, and quite a few first places as well as well as overall. Um, so what I wrote up about these students, I'm straight up reading to you because I cannot summarize it any better
006than what I wrote it to Mason Dukes. So, um, as art teachers, we get a front row seat to watch creativity, growth, and resilience unfold. But this year, our students truly went above and beyond. Not only did they earn multiple top placements, but one of our students um was awarded best in show. Congrats, Bri. Nice work. Um on an extraordinary achievement that speaks volumes about her talent and her dedication and creating original, highquality artwork is no easy task. It take hours of focused effort, problem solving, and vulnerability and a willingness to push through challenges. These students did just that. They explored personal ideas, took creative risks, and poured themselves into their artwork. We couldn't be prouder of the time, care, and heart that they brought into their pieces. Art isn't just something about making something
007pretty or beautiful. It's a powerful way to build empathy, critical thinking, and confidence. The discipline and creativity involved in art making help shapes well-rounded individuals who can navigate the world with imagination and insight. These students are a shining example of what's possible when young people are given the opportunity to express themselves and rise to the challenge. And we are so proud of you. Good job. [Applause] So, Mona Bahi, what did you what place was your second? Third in color drawing. Good job. Nice work, Mona. [Applause] What do you want to do? Walk across. Oh, walk that way. Wasn't paying attention. Good job. Work and breathing. Good job. [Applause] So, next on our list here, we have uh Megan Coberg and Brian Colberg. Uh they're the uh nominators for the group. Are they present here to
008recognize? Great. Would you come on up? They'll be talking a little bit about the Sycamore Middle School bowling uh and recognizing the students there and their accomplishments. Okay, thank you for having us today. Uh middle school bowling is only about three weeks long, so we don't have a lot of fun things, but we did have a great season. So, um there was about 95 teams in the state that competed. Um, and we are happy to have our recipients here. So, first we'd like to start with our boys award. Ryland Couse took 15th in the state. He ended up meddling. They meddled the top 15. So, congratulations to him. And then our girls team did much better. They ended up third in the state. So they actually recognize the top three in the state with wonderful
009big awards. So we'd like to introduce them. First we'd like to go with Jordan Ziggler, Lily Harper, Savannah Wood, and then meddling in our team in 14th was Ryland Jordan. Taking ninth in the state was Brienne Perkins. So, we'd like to thank the board for recognizing us today. Middle school bowling is very short and sweet, but these guys did a great job and they worked very hard at what they got. So, how about a nice round for them? And of course, my coaches Megan Coberg and Riley Reniki was just not here tonight. So, thank you [Applause] Youth and Government has Jordan Wilkerson as the nominator here. Is Jordan in the audience? Okie do. Alex, you want to come on up? you guys. Are you here for We're looking for We've got Clara, Will, Michael, Liam,
010and Nate. A little. All right. So, I actually had the opportunity to go down to Springfield with these guys and supervise as an alum of Youth and Government because it's something I participated in in high school. And these guys um got the Let's see. Did you guys only get out of committee or how did Jordan have you guys? Okay. Well, I'll just read off what we've got. So, Claire um was a LA and she got second place in the forum competition. Claire's not here today though. Will was Will Dunkey got third place in the legislative assistant forum. Michael Carapus passed his bill out of Senate and passed and did you pass House too? Does it really is Michael here? I don't know if you're Michael. Okay. See I I was in a different I should
011cl I wasn't their leader. I was just at the event so I didn't um interact with them. Liam, your chair, um, was elected to be a committee chair at the state level and Nate Burgess was elected to be a committee chair at the state level as well. So, these guys were sort of the top performers um, that Sycamore had at Youth and Government, I think. Did all the bills pass either the House or the Senate? Okay, so all of our bills got out of either the House or Senate. And what Youth and Government is is a um It's a program sponsored through the YMCA where students go down to Springfield to essentially run a mock um legislative forum over the weekend and they it takes place at the Capitol building and they try to pass
012their bills out of um committee and then they take them to the House and then the Senate to hopefully pass out similar to how a bill would pass that's written by the state congress. So it's it it it gives them a great insight into um state governments. So it's pretty cool program and these guys did a great job. We have girls track uh recognized by Joe McCormack. Joe, are you in the audience? [Applause] All righty. Uh, thank you. Uh, I have some hardware as well. Uh, this was a pretty pretty special year. Um, our team goal from the very beginning of the season back in January was to win conference. um not really knowing, you know, the competition and what freshmen were coming in across the uh the conference, but I thought we had a
013talented bunch of groups uh of girls returning and um some talented young people. So, we did accomplish that first time in 25 years uh Sycamore's won the conference and it might be the first time in school history where both the boys and the girls won the conference in the same year. Uh so, it's quite uh I'm quite proud of their accomplishments. Um, I'm just going to go right in order of of what we have here. So, we got Kenna Butler, all conference in shotput and um all sectional and state qualifier in shotput. We have Chris Cobb, all conference in discus, state qualifier in discus, state place winner in discus. Alyssa Stacy, all conference in the 4x1, the one, the two, state sectional, all sectional in the one and the two, and state qualifier and state
014place winner in the one and the two. Someone we're going to really miss. Uh, Mackenzie Man, all conference in the 4x1. Uh, Jordan Lefield, all conference in the pole vault. Uh, Isabelle Massie, all conference in the 4x2. Gigi Law, all conference in the 4x two. Uh Leila Jananish, all conference in the eight in the mile, state qualifier in the eight. We have Sydney Fabrizius, all conference pole vault, state qualifier and pole vault. And Reese Becker, all conference um high jump. Yeah. And were you in the relay? 4x4. 4x4. Okay. So quite the talented group. the seniors we're really going to miss, but the um the underassmen and juniors are going to pick up the baton and take us hopefully to another conference championship next year. Thanks, ladies. We have a lot of really talented students
015and staff that have led us to this point. And I'd just like to take a moment to thank all of the uh coaches and sponsors who took the time to nominate their students to be uh recognized today uh in front of the board at our regular board meeting. U throughout the month of May, I know that there is a lot of student recognition that happens that the district puts on. And so another night where recognition happens, I think is uh always tough to fit in the schedule. But I'd like to thank all the parents um and other uh parent uh people present who are here to recognize uh these students and their amazing accomplishment in an otherwise uh very busy month. So thank you for everyone for all uh that you do. And at this
016time um like to give you guys a round of applause. The board is now going to take a 42-minute recess and rejourn in the library for the rest of its regularly scheduled meeting. Thank you.