Falls City Public Schools

The Falls City FFA Chapter had a busy start to September. Saturday, September 6, the Falls City FFA officer team assisted with the Verdon Pedal Tractor Pull in cooperation with the Little Tuggers. The team helped set up the area, prepare the tractors, and organize the list of pullers. Fifteen kids pulled in different age divisions, as well as the six officers in attendance and both advisors. The evening concluded by deconstructing the area. A few days later on, Wednesday, September 10, the Falls City FFA Chapter attended Husker Harvest Days in Grand Island Nebraska. There were a total of thirty members and four sponsors that attended. Everyone learned about various agricultural systems and ideas throughout the day. Each member wrote a paragraph about the things they learned throughout the day. State Bank of Table Rock and F&M Bank helped sponsor tickets to get into the event for the members and sponsors. The chapter as a whole had a fun week, and we are looking forward to our upcoming events!
#handsonlearning

The Constitution was signed 238 years ago on this date in Philadelphia. The Constitution is composed of the Preamble, seven articles, and 27 amendments. The first 10 amendments are known as the Bill of Rights.
#wethepeople

On Tuesday, the FCT ESports Middle School Smash Ultimate players swept Platteview Middle School. Liam Sutton, Noah Jacobs, and LeLand Simmonds all won 2-0 in their best of three matches. Dierks Foster competes on Thursday for his NSESA Week 1 match.

For the high school, Asher Kuker defeated Loeffelholz from Louisville, NE, 2-0. Deacon Jacobs lost to Heins of Louisville 0-2. Wissman, Jean, Webster, and Rumbaugh compete on Thursday.

What an amazing home opener for FCMS Tiger volleyball! A, B, & C teams walked away with wins. An amazing show of commitment, communication & collaboration. We are so proud of you ladies!

Thank you to the First Interstate Bank ladies for volunteering at South School for a whole afternoon. They read books to some classes, hung art work, played at recess, and did some painting in the recess area. Thank you for making our school a brighter place!

Thank you to Frontier Bank for completing teller training. These 5th graders will lead our In School Savings Program this year at South School by taking money, helping students fill out deposit slips, and tracking totals in accounts. This program is also known as the “Tiger Branch Bank”. We will have a kickoff rally on September 29th with the first deposit day to follow on October 1st. Your child must have a signed permission slip to participate. What a great program to teach students about the importance of saving money!💵

Our local students would like to thank FAST Global for their donation of welding gloves, jackets and glasses to our welding classes at SCC. Thanks for your support of the next generation of welders in our community!

Falls City Public Schools will hold picture retakes next week.
If you want a retake, please send the original photo package back to school on retake day.

Reminders:
- Students absent on the first picture day will be photographed during retakes.
- If this is your child’s first photo, an order form will be available in the office.

Questions? Contact your building office for your retake date and time.

Congrats to the FCT ESports Marvel Rivals Team on their win over Hemingford, NE. Monday evening, the Marvel Rivals Team (Deacon Jacobs, Camden Jean, Asher Kuker, Carter Rumbaugh, Kreighton Huppert, Seth Jackson, and Elijah Diltz, along with subs Jarred Webster and Bentley Loper) won 3-0 in a best of five. The team is now 1-0 on the season.

We are currently working on some internet firewall issues in order to be able to stream our matches for parents and fans to watch on our Twitch channel.

Congrats to the Freshmen volleyball team for going 3-0 at the Horton Quad! Great job ladies!

Tiger Middle School volleyball team will host the Maryville Spoofhounds today at the Middle School gym. Game time is 4:30 PM.
#prowlwithpride

No game today. The Middle School football will host Syracuse on Thursday the 25th at Jug Brown Stadium 4:30 PM.

On Tuesday, the FCT League of Legends team (senior Peyton Brown, freshmen Kamdyn Huppert and Andre Shafer, and 7th Graders Kreighton Huppert, Leo Rue, and Conner Sailors) won their first preseason match 2-0 in a best of three. They competed against David Starr Jordan Senior High School in Los Angles, CA.

Also on Tuesday, some of the Smash Team were able to compete in their first preseason matches. sophomore Camden Jean lost 2-0 to a student from McCook High School, sophomores Burke Wissman and Deacon Jacobs both lost 2-0 to students from Omaha Concordia High School, sophomore Asher Kuker lost 2-0 to a student from Fort Calhoun High School, and freshman Jarred Webster lost 2-0 to a student from Throckmorton High School in Throckmorton, TX (joined a later queue time, placing him outside the NSESA preseason queue).

On Monday, the FCT Overwatch 2 team (sophmores Deacon Jacobs, Asher Kuker, and Carter Rumbaugh, 8th Graders Cohen Shields, Seth Jackson, and Dierks Foster, and 7th Graders Kreighton Huppert and James Lunsford) competed in their first preseason match against Ike ESports from Eisenhower High School in Lawton, Oklahoma. Ike, whose five starters were a much higher level, won the match 3-0 in a best of five.

On Thursday, the FCT Marvel Rival Team (sophmores Deacon Jacobs, Asher Kuker, and Carter Rumbaugh, freshmen Elijah Diltz, Bentley Loper, and Jarred Webster, 8th Grader Seth Jackson, and 7th Grader Kreighton Huppert) will compete in their first preseason match.

Exciting week for our Tiger ESports Program. The Nebraska Schools ESports Association's (NSESA) Fall Season started this week with a two week preseason, and the regular season set to begin September 22. Because of the growing interest in ESports across the state, now with over 120 schools competing in four classifications, the NSESA has partnered with the nation-wide ESports Platform, Play Verses (PlayVS). This partnership provides our student-athletes with additional opportunities throughout the school year. This Fall, the NSESA will be competing in Marvel Rivals, Chess Online, Rocket League, and Super Smash Bros Ultimate. In the Spring, the NSESA will be competing in Valorant, Fortnite, Mario Kart, and one other game still to be determined. As part of PlayVS, the Tiger ESports Program will be fielding teams for Overwatch 2 and League of Legends this Fall who will compete against teams across the nation. The Tiger ESports Program has almost thirty student-athletes from Grades 7-12 competing this Fall, and it has another twenty 6th Grade students participating in its after-school club on Wednesdays.

This is one of the things we love about our esports program, and this is also one of the things most people who don’t understand gaming get. We shared a video with our FCT ESports supporters through our ESports Band App Group where they could listen to these young men communicating together, and it's awesome. The amount of communication, skill, and teamwork that go into most of our games in order to be successful rivals any other sport, and they’re tools that these student-athletes can use now and in their future to be the best versions of themselves. More colleges every year are giving out more scholarship money because esports is quickly growing at the high school and collegiate level, and these colleges know that most esports competitors are tech savvy and do very well in school, so they want them to come to their school. #FCTEsports

The JV Volleyball team is in action at Horton tonight at Quad at 5:00 PM .
#LETSROAR

Wesley Vitale and Ace Harkendorff are stocking the pop cooler in the cafeteria preparing for the upcoming Volleyball game.