Hamilton High School senior Nathan Goecks was named an Academic All-State honoree by the Golf Coaches Association of Wisconsin (GCAW) for the boys’ golf season that just concluded. Students are nominated by GCAW member coaches if they meet the following criteria: a minimum 3.5 cumulative grade point average, participation in at least 75 percent of […]
Willow Springs students branching out
Willow Springs Learning Center will hold its annual Branching Out Ceremony June 6 at 10 a.m. and 1:45 p.m. in the Hamilton Fine Arts Center. The ceremony is the culminating activity of the year for students who will attend 5-year-old kindergarten at their neighborhood school next year. The ceremony recognizes their growth as 4-year-old kindergartners […]
Woodside student recognized in poster contest
Woodside Elementary School fifth grade student Olivia Cannestra won an honorable mention in the 2012 “Slow the Spread by Boat and Tread” poster contest. Her poster was selected from more than 300 entries statewide. Cannestra will be recognized at the Invasive Species Awareness month awards ceremony at Olbrich Botanical Gardens in Madison, and her poster […]
Hamilton students named GMC Winter Scholar Athletes
The Greater Metro Conference (GMC) has named the following Hamilton High School students Winter 2011-2012 Scholar Athletes: Danielle Latt – girls basketball; Nicholas Patterson, Brandon Hagenow and Bryan Kristensen – boys basketball; Coaches nominate student-athletes who: earned a minimum 3.5 cumulative grade point average; participated in at least 75 percent of the team’s varsity matches; […]
Hamilton students attend Badger State
Hamilton High School juniors will again attend Badger Girls and Badger Boys State. The young women who will attend Badger Girls State June 17-22 at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh campus are: Emily Poenitsch; and Kate Wehrman. Attending Badger Boys State June 9-16 at Ripon College will be: Kyle Bathke; and Sree Karri. The Sussex Lions […]
Templeton teacher selected for national award
Templeton Middle School social studies teacher Rhonda Watton is a 2012 recipient of the Distinguished Teacher Award from the National Council for Geographic Education (NCGE). The award recognizes those who have made extraordinary contributions to the teaching and learning of geography in the classroom. A panel of NCGE reviewers chose Watton for national recognition for […]
Hamilton named a Top Workplace
Thanks to feedback from employees, the Hamilton School District was listed among the best places to work in southeastern Wisconsin in the May 20 publication, “The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Top Workplaces.” Hamilton was among the businesses and organizations named in a special section of the Sunday newspaper and online at www.jsonline.com. Evaluation for the […]
Hamilton on Newsweek’s “Best High Schools” list
Hamilton High School was one of the schools named to Newsweek Magazine’s “America’s Best High School” list for 2012. The ranking highlights the best 1,000 public high schools in the nation – ones that have proven to be the most effective in turning out college-ready graduates. Only 21 Wisconsin high schools were on this year’s […]
Danielle Latt signs with Evangel University
Hamilton High School senior Danielle Latt recently signed with Evangel University in Springfield, Mo. She received a full academic-athletic scholarship to attend the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Division I university and play on its women’s basketball team. Her parents are Scott and Dee Latt. […]
Former student nominates Akin for MSOE award
Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) will present Hamilton High School math teacher Steven Akin with its Award for High School Teaching Excellence. Hamilton 2007 graduate Joshua J. Kapelke nominated Akin because his Advanced Placement calculus class inspired Kapelke to purse a degree in computer engineering. “Mr. Akin went above all expectations in order to be […]