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Manchester Jr/Sr High School Awards Program Grades 7-8 Thursday, May 19, 2026 8:30AM

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YouTube / Manchester Community Schools
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2026-05-20
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Wabash County, IN
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2,256 words · about 13 min
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2026-06-06

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001Hey, are we Go down here. All right. Something started. All right. >> Good morning everybody. This is Molly, assistant principal. Um, good morning students, family, staff, and honored guests. We welcome you to our junior high awards ceremony. This morning, we come together to celebrate the hard work, dedication, growth, and achievements of our students. We're proud of the effort each student has shown throughout the year, both inside and outside the classroom. Thank you for joining us as we recognize their accomplishments and celebrate their success. Rose Squires. Um first we'll be starting off with this case. She's going to introduce Imagine Early and Early Commitment Scholarship and then there's also an ALA. So case for Good morning. I'm Mrs. Case from the Community Foundation of Wash County. My name is Jackson Bailey with the Indiana University. Hi

002everyone. Good morning. I'm Paige Robinson University. Hey eighth graders, 37 of you are enrolled in Community Foundation's Imagine Early Scholarship Program. Each of you will receive a certificate today from Indiana University Cooko and Manchester University. As you know, during fourth through 8th grade, you completed assignments each school quarter that earned scholarship fund. Do you remember getting a candy bar every year that how much money you earned. That's the scholarship we are talking about. Participation in this program helped you develop the ability to think about your future possible self and to prepare for your for the education that will bring you to the future of your dreams. Indiana University Bulmo and Manchester University are both awarding you $1,000 scholarship to everyone who participated in the Imagine Early Scholarships. This $1,000 will be used towards tuition upon

003enrollment whether you choose Manchester University or IU Como after high school graduation if that's where you decide to go. Um you will also be receiving a letter in the mail confirming this scholarship award. You'll receive these certificates after the award ceremony uh from Mrs. Wy. And so right now if you would just stand where the name is called and we'll recognize you with applause at the end. Okay. Uh, Brooklyn Baker, David Baker, Elizabeth Baker, McKenna Bolinger, Brendan Boy, Ansley Brew, Baker, Sutton Burke, Raven Coll, Ella Conley, Lillian Conland, Adeline Leard, Fern Diesburg, Emmy Deran, Colton, Rowan, Flora, James Garper, Caitlyn Garcia, Martinez, Gatsby, Trinity Harland, Brennan Harshman, Bill Harshman, Carrington Hearn, Evan Gent, Isaac Johnson, Hayden Kelsey, Nyish, Charlie Ker, Samors, Kay, Kendall Lauer, Ike Layman, Anley Mezer, Caleb, Tendley Mezer, Lane Miller, Lily Miller,

004Candace Num, Remington, Henro, Leam for us. Family pile, Natalie Reed, Tristan Sers, Levi Smith, Lincoln Smith, Elijah Sword, Chloe Stockton, Landry Warner, Hattie Weieber, and Matthew Williams. Congratulations. I think we need any fun, you guys, because they just put money in your account. I don't know if you've heard that understood, but they put $1,000 in your account. So, let's give it a hand to both Cooko and Manchester University and Mrs. Pace. Okay. Good morning. I'm here to present a Super Bowl. Uh this year our junior high team competed twice at the home event. We got first, second, and third place in all the events. So that was pretty cool. Um and then at area we got a couple seconds and third. So we did pretty good there as well. Junior high we have and when

005I call your name you can come down and get your award. Aris Mley, Mayor Nicodemus, Grace O'Hara, Lillian Roach, Madic sword. Fantastic. >> Thank you. And then Mr. Miller is heading down to the math awards. I'm going to go ahead and jump to 8th grade first. So for our outstanding eighth graders in math, we have roommaker and Chance Hendendricks. You guys can come down. Thank you. >> In seventh grade, outstanding math students, Grace O'Hara and Kinsey D. Next up, we have our Spanish award. Spanish student this year. We have a lot of support. And for our most Hi everybody. Um I am Bren Miller. I'm the science department chair and staff is not here today. So I'm going to be handing out the science awards for her. So the first one um has some kind

006of special awards for uh seventh grade science. The first one is for academic growth in science and this is presented to Gunnar Schulz. All right, the next award and I don't know your name. So if I mess please forgive me. Okay. Uh the next one is excellence in scientific thinking and this is presented to Ira Burn. All right, the next one is for outstanding lab work and this is presented to Lilyard. All right, next is the STEM Achievement Award and this award is presented to Ben Folk. And next is Perseverance in science. This award is presented to Tessa Bradley. And uh the last of kind of the special awards is excellence in collaboration and this is presented to Lillian Rodovich. All right. So, while taken, let's give them all a round of applause. All right.

007Next, we have the science achievement awards for seventh grade science. So, what I'll do is I think I'll just kind of bunch of you. So, I'm going to call you up and then have you all line up and I'll uh picture. All right. So, real quick, uh, Lillian Donaldson, Aeris Mley, go ahead and make a line. Yeah, perfect. Uh, Isabella Young Slater, Ariel, Grace O', Madd, Serenity Sweart, Addison Albert, and Mighty Rockwell. All right, one more round of applause, please. Okay, so for eighth grade science we have a home award and this award goes to the dress today. Okay, let's give me a round of applause. You're welcome. All right. And then for my class, I have awards for honors biology. Uh our first award goes to Fern Gert. And our second award is for

008Tessa Boom. All right, it looks like up next we have English. So, let's give a big round of applause to Thank you. Okay. So, I have an outstanding achievement for seventh grade English. Um, this person received an A+ this semester and so that's a lot of hard work in my class. So, I would like to give this to Okay. Is also outstanding performance for teacher first semester and it was unanimous together. Um, so this kind of goes hand in hand with what just happened. and surround All right. I teach English this year, but I'm sure I have two awards for vocabulary. They are And lastly, my last award goes to my top student who has insatiable curiosity, writes poetry for fun, lost short stories and recently learned how to make bread. So, John will come

009down Hello, I'm grade teacher and two awards to give one for seventh grade outing art. Um a student who constantly demonstrates creativity, responsibility and dedication in the art room. They both stay focused and exceed expectations while still honoring the goals of each assignment. I can count on them to do pretty much anything the first time I do. Um, and they're trustworthy and dependable. Our student is Outstanding art student is Okay, my name is Ambrose and next year for college and careers and in that class we're think about what do we want to do in the future and part of it is what do you want to do with your money and so we played the song became students are given $100,000 of money, play money, but they can buy real companies. And this is the

010first time in a very, very long time that I have had students that made a bunch of money, which means probably my retirement account made a bunch of money. You can always tell like what the economy is doing with the stock market. And so I have four teams that actually did really well this year. The first team um they made over $19,000 in 10 weeks and so they they um also received money and their certificate and they metal earlier in the year. So Pton and Evan have a general down they earn $50 as the winning swag that they got from their money. Um they also were fifth in the state. So that is really really good. Um second team um they made almost $19,000 and so I like Cooper Lauder, Isaac Johnson, and Caleb. each

011um received $25 on their certificate earlier in the year. Um the next team, they made a little over $13,000 and they were third in the region, ninth in the state. So Braxton Martin would come on down. His teammate is not here today. and have one more team. They finished fifth in the region, made um over $7,000. And so Trinity Harber if you two would like to come down here. monies I earned this summer. Okay. All righty. We are here to present our social studies awards for seventh and eighth grade. We'll start with seventh grade. Okay. So there are a lot of you. So if you could just call your name afterwards achieve it. So to earn a level of achievement in social studies. Not only do you have to obviously earn that high level of

012success when it comes to your grades, but as you know seventh grade when it comes to projects really going above and beyond um the expectations that's what really the certificate. So here we are helper Robson. mind and congratulations. for eighth grade. It's kind of it's kind of unique because I don't necessarily have all eighth grade students all year long. Mrs. F and I and Mr. have some eighth grade classes. So, um I give two awards out for the eighth grade students that I have. Uh and the first award I give out is for um the certificate for academic achievement and this year that means and then the second award that I give um is for the student who who I feel like um really contributes to the class participations uh in our discussions volunteers answers

013those types of things and so this is the it matters award And that's the Tessa. >> All right. It is great pleasure to have you not so blessed to announce our achievements. Congratulations. interest of this emotional or society. something that as a group I am so so proud of this group of students showers qualities service our sto so if you can stand um I'm going to announce our first year members first and then our second Um but these were are NJHS students who were inducted this year. They are astonishy ducky flirtmania shorts early and And for our second Johnston Congratulations Okay. And next up, it looks like we have our Apple ones. We're going to skip to band really quickly. Um, these students received their uh certificate at last night's concert, but I want to

014recognize them anyway. So, come on down to when I call your name. Uh this year's junior high band motion group band members were Mia Henderson and Boston. First chair award winners were Conor Brew Baker and Joseph and uh the known award winners uh which are most outstanding members were Johny Johnson and Marcy And then finally, I want to recognize uh that we had several junior high band members who participated in march again this fall and uh march band all the way to semi-state. So they did a special recognition. Please uh come on down with your marching band this fall. Turn it down. Fireworks. I will be presenting the eighth grade. award. It is called agricultural ambassador and that goes to Aan Cromlet. >> All right. With athletics Each teacher should have a folder with certificates

015in it and also medals. The way it works is you get a certificate for your first year of participation, get a medal for your second year of participation and if you're a third year six what we're going to do is I'm going to read the names off for each of them. Go ahead and stand up in your seat. each team after each team. Go ahead and applause that one. All right. So, first of all, we start with fall awards for football. Seventh grade certificates, Jess, Landon, Brendon Johnson, Logan Jones, Eliot Miller, Holmes. The eighth grade certificate, Bryson, Lu Carson. And the eighth grade second year medals, David Baker, Alexander, Brendan Boyd, James Gar, Isaac Johnson, Mason Huge, Bla Miller, Bar and Ry. Congratulations. Cross country 7th grade certificate. How seventh grade second year medal Carson

016Carroll Lily Benton Faves Patrick Hydia Short Eighth grade certificate Charlie Mason Matthew Williams eighth grade second year medal Caleb Phyl and Maline Reed an eighth grade and third year medal Samar. Congratulations Jill. Seventh grade certificate, Anley Duffy, Hannah Jackson, Michael Johnson, Alexander. Eighth grade certificate, Gabriella Ruber, Kay Snick, A3 second medal, Heather Aguire, Ella, and John Johnson. And then volleyball seventh grade certificate. Katie, Charlie Bradley, France, Dwayne Burgess, Lily, Ky Finch, Eliia Howard, Paris, Kenyon, Mariah Bon, Brley Wester, Isabella Young, then eighth grade second, Lizzie Baker, Angley, Rena, Dwayne Harchman, Harrington, Ken, and Congrats. And then our last sport is co-headed tennis. Seventh grade second year medal Benji Mechanical Kron Martin. Eighth grade six year medal Sutton Burke Weaver and Leo Riley. And then eighth grade third year medal Brooklyn Bakery Goth and Trist. Now

017on to our winter sports. Boys basketball. Seventh grade certificates. Jesse Br, Carson Carol, Logan Jones, Miles Kever, Mayor Das, Bennett, Gavin Holmes, Eli Shot, Hley Slim Lake. Eighth grade certificates, Jason Shepard, and then eighth grade secondary medal, David Baker, James Garber, Chance Hendricks, Isaac Johnson, Cooper, Braxton Martin, Caleb, Leavonia, Kim, Braxton, and Wood. Congratulations. Winter girls basketball seventh grade student Charlie Bradley France Delaney Burgess Harris Mley Grace O'Hara Ali Ry and Brenley West 8th grade second medal Lizzie Baker Angelington her congratulations Winter cheerleader seventh grade certificates and nothing hes eighth grade certificate Gabriella Raker eighth grade second level Heather Aguire Ela Johnson and Lyn And then our last winter sports co-ed wrestling. Seventh grade certificate Landon Conover, Eli Guyer, Brendan Johnson. Eighth grade certificate, Aaron, William Chorus, Casey Shepard. Eighth grade second, Alex Blanch, Mason

018Kish. eighth grade third year, David Baker, Nancy Jer, Katie Kelsey, St. Lucas, and West. And then our spring sports, which we're just wrapping up right now. Code soccer, seven. Yep. Seventh grade certificate burning camera. Seventh grade, second ten eighth grade certificate, Elijah sword, eighth grade second, Jamie Crown, and eighth grade third level, Evan Jent, Isaac Johnson, Gra. Hey boys and girls track seventh grade certificate Veruendenteza manager Eric Andre manager Keny Gersa Young Tessa Charlie Bradley France Lily Bson Ba Esper Man, he Jackson 8 second Brooklyn eighth grade third medal seventh grade certificate rich seventh grade second year medal Brandon Johnson Logan Jones eighth grade certificates AC Miller eighth grade seven medals Jason Ma Samas eighth grade and third grade level. Congrats. And then our final spring support seventh grade medal is Benjamin 8 certificate. Congrats.

019appreciate all the time efforts looking forward to having you in the high school. If there's anything that was missed or anything that sort of Mr. >> All right, guys. So, um one thing that's not in your bulletin because um we kind of forgot but we that you can recognize um junior high play members. So this year we did a show of the sisters and everybody who was in the play was exceptional. Um you guys really put together an amazing performance. So I'm going to um read off our cast list and when I call your name please stand up so you can be recognized. Disc Johnson beat Dress Colton Height Bryson Vance Lia Short Adward Elijah Sword Astrona Amy Sue Engel Michaela Johnson Ker Lily Donaldson Kenham uh Aris Eric Smith Mason Huish uh Maggie Kerr

020Duffy um sorry some name was on there twice so I call you twice. I'm sorry. Uh Charlie, Eric Smith, Lily Vineyard, Hannah Jackson, Lily Donaldson, Katie Acres, Rihanna, um Short, Michaela Johnson, Mackenzie Damron, Candace Snickham, Madison Sword, Patrick, and Albert. Oh, and our backstage, I don't know if you guys listened on the cast list that I have, but if you were backstage, please stand up so you guys can also recognize All right, great job this morning everybody. Congratulations if you received an award or recognized. Um, at this time we're going to go back to SRT

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