Brickie Bulletin

Students take third at Innovate Within Competition

The RearVue team, consisting of Andrew Romes, Alex Termini and Faith Spence, received third place at the Innovate WithIn State Competition. The team is sponsored by Daniel Schultz, PLTW teacher. The group wanted to improve bicycle safety, so they created a distance measurement harnessing LED technology to warn cyclists of approaching vehicles. They even have a provisional patent! We are so proud!

Band wins awards at issma

The two HHS bands and HHS orchestra had an incredible day at ISSMA Organizational Contest today! All 3 ensembles earned gold medals for their performances and gold in sight reading (that is the football-shaped medallion in the plaques).

Our kids represented SCOH in such a great way! We had many positive comments from the judges!

This is the first time in HHS history to have an orchestra attend ISSMA organizational contest.

JROTC women compete in Raiders competition

10 JROTC women just competed in a Raider meet in Detroit against seven other teams from around Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio. Every other team had eight men and two women, and ours had 10 women. We ended up winning one of the eight events and receiving second place overall in the entire week! We finished in the top three in every event.

Great job representing HHS, ladies!

Notes from the Nurse

Dear Hobart Families,

We are writing to inform you that due to the Measles outbreak in at least 15 states in our country this year. The guidelines are as follows: In the event of a confirmed case and notification from our Lake County Health Department. Any student who has not received the first dose of the Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) vaccine, including those with valid religious or medical exemptions, will be ordered to be kept out of school for 21 days after the last date of exposure (even if they receive their first dose of MMR vaccine during this period of time). Students in grades K-12 who have had one dose of MMR will not be allowed to attend school for 21 days after the last date of exposure, unless they receive their second dose of MMR vaccine. These students may return at any time after receiving this second dose. Any student with serologic evidence (blood test) of immunity to measles may continue to attend school. Please note that in the event of multiple confirmed cases, students who are not properly immunized may be out of school for several months. They will need to be out of school for an additional 21 days past the last date of the last confirmed case in the school.

According to the CDC, one dose of the measles vaccine is 93% effective and two doses is 97% effective in preventing measles. However, the doses must be given at least 28 days apart.

We want you to be informed so you can consult with your child’s physician and make health-related decisions based upon your child’s individual health history and needs. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact my office at 219-942-8541 Ext. 8310.

Thank you for your continued support,

Jamie Noel RN, BSN

Coordinator of Student Health Services

219-942-8541 Ext. 8310

jnoel@hobart.k12.in.us

Does your student take medication at school?

The end of this school year is coming soon! Don’t forget to pick up any medication that is in the nurse’s office before the last day of school. New forms for medication need to be filled out each year with medication needed. No medication can be transferred to the next school year.

PBS students complete bacteria labs

Ms. Tres' PBS students just completed some cool bacteria labs last week. They successfully used aseptic techniques to streak plates with different bacteria samples in order to isolate pure colonies and study their morphology. Then, they used those colonies to perform a gram stain in order to learn more about the bacteria’s characteristics and help us determine the particular species of bacteria that our patient was infected by.

The orange colored streaks are from the isolation and the other two are the microscopic results of the gram stain.