Pekin Community High School District #303 - The Fire is Within

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Last Saturday the S'Pekin Dragons competed at the IHSA Sectional Speech Tournament at Washington Community High School. It was a very competitive tournament in which students had to place 1st, 2nd, or 3rd to qualify for the IHSA State Tournament. After a long day of competition, THREE students were able to qualify to State: Nevaeh Mankle, Kaitlyn Heaton, and Elisabeth Sandoval!!!! Here are the results: STATE QUALIFIERS: Humorous Duet Acting 3rd place = Nevaeh Mankle (Sr) & Kaitlyn Heaton (Jr) Informative Speaking 2nd place = Elisabeth Sandoval (Jr) Original Oratory 3rd place = Elisabeth Sandoval (Jr) Pekin also had several other final round placements that just missed the top three cut to qualify to State. Here are the rest of the results from Saturday: Dramatic Duet Acting 5th place = Andrew Lambe (Jr) & Kaeli Harkleroad (Jr) Original Comedy 6th place = Kaitlyn Heaton (Jr) Poetry Reading 5th place = Taylor Cady (Jr) Radio Speaking 6th place = Andrew Lambe (Jr) Special Occasion Speaking 4th place = Madison Rudloff (Sr)

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Instrumental music students got to take part in clinics from the great music faculty at Belmont University

Instrumental music students got a backstage tour at the grand old Opry before their performance!

BBB Final Score: Washington 63 #Dragons 55. #DragonPride #NextUp home vs Metamora.

BBB Score Update: Washington 44 #Dragons 36 end of the 3rd quarter. #DragonPride

BBB Score Update: Washington 32 #Dragons 16 at half. #DragonPride

BBB Score Update: Washington 15 #Dragons 10 at the end of the 1st quarter. #DragonPride

Congrats to Ryan Haynes and Jared Dowell on qualifying for the #IHSA State Finals in wrestling. #DragonPride #StrikeUpTheBand #DejaVu

Instrumental Music students traveled to the Frederick Hart museum of art and the GIG museum in Nashville, TN to see works of visual and musical artistry! It’s said that Hart taught himself trigonometry, and the majority of the guitar collection was a privately owned donation!

GBB Final Score: #LadyDragons 41 Limestone 33. #DragonPride #Jenna #Ariel #Braelyn #Remi

GBB Score Update: #LadyDragons 28 Limestone 24 end of the 3rd quarter. #DragonPride

GBB Score Update: #LadyDragons 19 Limestone 19 at half. #DragonPride #SeniorNight

GBB Score Update: Limestone 10 #LadyDragons 9 at the end of the 1st quarter. #DragonPride

Congrats to our senior girls basketball players. We will miss you. Good luck with your future endeavors. #DragonPride #Jenna #Ariel #Braelyn #Remi #ClassOf20

PCHS Band and Orchestra students arrived in Nashville, TN, took a tour at Belmont University, and got to see music row where all the music publishing companies reside!

Bruning’s Foods 2 said “The pizza was a little cheesy, but it was still grate!”

Yearbook did it again! The 2018-19 yearbook was chosen to be in the Herff Jones Portfolio book. The odds of making it into the Portfolio book are 1 in 675 nation wide. One in six schools in Illinois were selected. There's time still left to order your (soon to be) award winning 2019-20 yearbook. Stop by the BFO. Yearbooks are only $35. #yearbook #dragonpride

Just a reminder: Seniors who qualify to walk in graduation, must have all fees paid by May 1st, 2020 in order to be able to walk in the graduation ceremony.