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The academic and activities competition season has arrived!

Robotic's Teams 1970K and 1970A

Robotics

At the Omaha South Robotics tournament 2 Mount Michael teams got their season off to good starts. Team 1970K went undefeated finishing the day posting a 12-0 record and winning the tournament. They also placed 3rd in the skills challenge. Team 1970A posted a 3-3 record in qualifying getting eliminated in the quarter finals. They won the Judges Award given to a team who shows excellence in robotics building as well as team chemistry.  Follow the Robo-Knights on Twitter

Nebraska HS Press Association Awards

The Knight Writers attended the annual journalism work shop and received honors for their publications. The Freelance, a news blog, was awarded superior, The Mount, the school newspaper, was given an award of distinction as was The Seeker, the school's yearbook publication.  Follow the Journalism team on Twitter

Mock Trial

The Knight's Mock Trial team advanced to the final 8 and will resume competition on November 8.

The competition began with 24 teams. 

3 Knights Named National Merit Semi-Finalists; 1 Commended Student

Mount Michael is please to announce that three seniors have been named National Merit Semi-Finalists.  They are Garrett Gloeb, Nolan Huetter, and Matthew Thiele. In addition Dash Wedergren was noted as a National Merit Commended Student.

2018 National Merit Semi-Finalists

2018 National Merit Commended

About 1.6 million juniors in more than 22,000 high schools entered the 2018 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2016 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) Out of that number approximately 16,000 students qualified as Semifinalists for the 63rd annual National Merit Scholarship Program. These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 7,500 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $32 million that will be offered next spring. Scholarship winners will be announced in the Spring.

Garrett Gloeb is the son of Matt and Kristin Gloeb of Bennington, Nebraska. Garrett attended St. Vincent de Paul Grade School in Omaha. 

Nolan Huetter is the son of Kurt and Liz Huetter of Omaha, Nebraska. Nolan attended St. Patrick's Grade School in Elkhorn. 

Matthew Thiele is the nephew of Bob and Betty Knapp of Omaha. Matthew had attend St. Gerald's Grade School in Ralston, Nebraska

Dash Wedergren is the son of Scott and Shelley Wedergren of Elkhorn, Nebraska. Dash attended Elkhorn Ridge Middle School in Elkhorn. 

Congratulations Knights!

Wayne State Math Competation

Left to Right: Ian Kim, Max Nguyen, Jacob Gathje, Brayden Whitaker, Joey Chen, Jerry Fan, J.P. Jensen

The Mount Michael math team recently participated in the final contest of the year and achieved great results. This is the first competition without our seniors who have finished school, except for AP Exams.

Geometry: 1st Place Joey Chen, 3rd Place, Jerry Fan
Algebra 2: 10th  Place Jacob Gathje
Pre-Calculus: 1st Place J.P.  Jenson, 4th Place Brayden Whitaker
Calculus: 1st Place Max Nguyen, 2nd Place Ian Kim

Congratulations Knights!

6 Knights Win in Essay Contest

Mount Michael has 6 student winners in the Archdiocese of Omaha's Center for Family Life Formation Pro-Life Essay Contest.

The contest was open to 7th-11th grades students. Cash prizes were awarded for each grade level. 1st place winners entries are also submitted to the Knights of Columbus fall 2017 statewide contest.

Sister Carol Jean Vandenhemel OSB and Mrs. Amy Masek are Mount Michael's Theology teachers. Congratulations to them and all their students who took part in the contest!

9th Grade

1st Place Kolton Koubsky
Parents: Ken and Kristen Koubsky.
Parish: Mary Our Queen

10th Grade

1st Place Patrick Collins
Parents Charles and Kara Collins
Parish: Saint Margaret Mary

2nd Place Jacob Benes
Parents: Vernon and Michelle Benes
Parish: Saint Wenceslaus

11th Grade

1st Place Ben Arkfeld
Parents: Mike and Kelly Arkfeld
Parish: Saint Wenceslaus

2nd Place Sebastian Alegrett
Parents: Ernesto Alegrett and Leonor Morreo

3rd Place Jack (Ming Kai) Sun
Parents: Shuhong Sun and Rongle Wang

Knight Writers 4th @ State

Mount Michael's Journalism Team came in 4th out of 24 teams in Class B at the State Tournament held in Norfolk.

16 of Mount Michel's 19 journalism team members qualified for the state competition.

Medalists

Group Entries: 
5th Yearbook Theme Development - Nash Kelly Nick Orr, Michael Ecker.
3rd In-depth News Coverage - Nick Orr, Joey Recker
4th In-depth News Coverage - Andrew Ahn, Miles Hock, Hudson Hohman, Joey Recker, Ben Bies.

Individual Medals:
1st Nick Orr - News Writing
2nd Ben Murray - Entertainment Writing
2nd Jack Avilla - News Writing
3rd Dan Jewell - Sports News Writing
4th Dan Jewell - Headline Writing
4th Kyeongmin Kim - Editorial Cartooning
5th Homer Xu - Photo Illustration
6th Homer Xu - News/Feature Photography

Congratulations Knights!

Academic Decathlon & Robotics Wrap-up Seasons

Last week Mount Michael's Academic Decathlon and Robotics teams competed at their national and international tournaments in Madison, Wisconsin and Louisville, Kentucky with great results.

Academic Decathlon

The Academic Decathlon team finished in 3rd place in the small (< 650) school division and 2nd in the Quiz Bowl.  They also earned 14 individual medals.  The team also received the Rookie of the Year award for the highest team score among teams who where first time attendees at the event.

Individual Medalists:

Honors:

Henry O’Callaghan: 3^rd Literature, 3^rd Science, Most Valuable Team Member, Team High Score

Gerald Righter: 2^nd Social Science

Broden Kaps: 1^st Speech, 3^rd Essay, 3^rd Math

Scholastic:

Jackie Kure: 3^rd Math, 3^rd Interview, 3^rd Speech

Donovan Clements:  3^rd Literature

Varsity:

Kevin Arul: 1^st Math, 3^rd Art

Luka Mixan: 2^nd Economics, 3^rd Interview

Robotics

The Robotics Team went 10-0 in the qualification matches and finished first place in their division!  They were one of just seven (out of 564 teams worldwide) to go undefeated through the qualification matches.  As one of the top eight teams, Mount Michael and their alliance partners advanced to the elimination matches and were not beaten until quarterfinals.

Congratulations Knights on your great seasons!

Robotics Team Places 3rd at U.S. Open National Robotics Tournament.

Left to Rights: Dr. David Peters, Nolan Gottsch, Nick Huetter, Reilly Jackson, Nolan Huetter, Lukas Williams, Drew Goddard, Coach Michael Williams

Congratulations to the Mount Michael Robotics team, Knight Shift 1970K.  At this year's CREATE U.S. Open National Robotics Tournament, April 6-8, with 175 high school teams from the U.S., Canada, and as far as China, the team placed third in the national event.  Next stop is the VEX Worlds Robotics Tournament in Louisville, KY later this month.  Go Knights!

S.A.M.E Competition

The 23rd annual Society of American Military Engineers Competition was held at the Walter Scott Conference Center at the University of Nebraska Omaha.  There were 20 area high school teams involved this year.  Mount Michael sent both a senior and junior team.

The Senior team's project was to design an enclosed pedestrian walkway that would connect the original school building to the new D J Sokol Learning Center.  The Senior Team won 3 gold and 2 silver metals giving them an Award of Distinction.  This Award includes a $500. check from a sponsoring engineering firm to be used in the Drafting Program.  The Senior Team was Dylan Herrmann, Sam Clements, Nathan Carpenter, Peyton Hottovy, Jack Straka, Joe Coldiron and Ian Price.

The Junior Team project was to renovate Camp Mount Michael by moving it out of the school building and centering it around the pond in the northeast corner of campus.  The Junior Team was made up of Colin Lakeman, Riley Kruse, Thomas Janecek, Lucas Rief, Will Fleissner, Nolan Gottsch, Luke Van Haute, John Hudson, Grant Pavlik, Nolan Huetter and Jeff Kim.

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Physics & Chemistry Field Day Results

Physics Team Takes 1st at Creighton University Physics Field Day

Pictured are Sung Ha Park, Sebastian Winters, Jackie Kure, Abbot Michael, Junho Ho, Armel Mignondje, John Kuhry, Lucas Williams, Jihwan Shin, Nolan Huetter, Nick Huettter, Eric Zhang, Ian Kim, Kyeong Min Kim, Mr Michael Williams.

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Chemistry Team Results: 

Team Nihonium Photo by Nguyen/Kalkowski

• Advanced Team Americium-Am: 3rd Place, 
• Alex Earsley, Ian Price, Matthew Winters, Jeff Kim
• Primary Team Nihonium-Nh: Wins Balancing Chemical Equations
•  Kevin Zhang, Max Nguyen, Daniel Davies, Cole Kalkowski

Other Teams participating for Mount Michael:

Advanced Team Iridium-Ir : Oscar Dong, Alvin Ming Hint, Leo Li, Jack Sun Matthew Thiele

Primary Team Technetium-Te: Trevin Detwiler, andrew Shellberg, Chaemin Lee, Zan Li

Primary Team Seaborgium-Sg: JP Jensen, Levi Kicken, Skyler Davis, Allen Cheg

Primary Team Californium-Cf: Shin Fujita, Norman Tran, Riley Goddard, Andrew Wilson.

Photo by Nguyen/Kalkowski

13 Knight Writers Qualify for State

On Monday April 24th, fourteen members of the Mount Michael Journalism Team will complete in the Nebraska School Activities Association state journalism tournament to be held in Norfolk.


They qualified in the following categories:

Miles Hock-Column Writing
Brian Schneider-Column Writing

Kevin Arul-Graphic Illustration

Andrew Ahn-Sports News Coverage, Indepth

Homer Xu-Photo Illustration, News/Feature Photography

Nash Kelly-Theme Development, Yearbook

Michael Ecker- Theme Development, Yearbook

Joey Recker-Entertainment Writing, Feature Writing, Indepth

Nick Orr-News Writing, Theme Development, Indepth

Ben Bies-Indepth

Hudson Hohman-Column Writinng, Indepth

Andrew Nigro-News Writing
Dan Jewell-Headline Writing, Sports News Coverage

Jack Avilla-News Writing

View Preliminary Entries from all schools

Good Luck Knights!

Junior Wins National Travel Award

Garrett Gloeb '18

Garrett Gloeb, a junior at Mount Michael Benedictine School, has won the 2017 Junior Travel Award for his achievement on the National Spanish Examination and for his excellent skills in the Spanish language. 

This national award, valued at over $3,500, is given each year to twenty-four students from across the United States who become eligible by earning a high scores on the National Spanish Examination and then submitting samples of their written and oral work in Spanish to a selection committee. 

In July, Garrett will be traveling to Peru with the other 23 winners. Peru is the cradle of the Inca civilization. Among the places they will visit on the trip will be Machu Picchu, often referred to as the lost city of the Incas, and the floating islands of the Uros on Lake Titicaca.

Garrett is the son of Matt '82 and Kristin Gloeb of Bennington, Nebraska.  

Mount Michael Benedictine School, which has a long history of excellence in academics, has participated in the National Spanish Examination for the last 25 years.  Congratulations to Garrett Gloeb and his Spanish teachers, Chad Schuttler and Carolina Westling who are very proud of his accomplishments.

EconChallenge

Update: The Knight's qualified for State and finished in 3rd Place. Congratulations Knights!

Chaemin Lee, Dash Wedergren, Drew Goddard and Luka Mixan have qualified for the Spring Nebraska State Online EconChallenge Competition. They finished 2nd out of 118 teams. If they finish in the Top Ten in the spring they will compete in Lincoln with the hopes of qualifying for the National Competition.

Knights Head to Nationals in Academic Decathlon

Update: Mount Michael finished in 3rd place at the National Competition

For the first time in Nebraska history a Small School Division team has won the overall State Championship of Nebraska.  On April 22-25, 2017 Mount Michael will represent our state at the national competition held in Madison, Wisconsin.

Rack Row:  Cole Dorfmeyer, Donovan Clements, Gerald Righter, Cole McCoy, J.P. Jensen, Jackson Panzer,
Front Row: Coach Dave Cormier, Joe Coldiron, Keven Arul, Henry O'Callaghan, Broden Kaps, Ryuta "Jackie" Kure, Luka Mixen, Dr. David Peters.

Omaha World Herald

Mount Michael swept the small school division for top scorers on all levels. Honors Henry Callaghan, Scholastic: Jackie Kure, Varsity Kevin Arul.

In the Super Quiz the Knights tied for 1st with Omaha Burke.

Individual Medals:

Honors:

Henry O’Callaghan: 1st Art, Econ, Lit, Science, Essay; 2nd Math & Speech; 3rd Music; 1st overall Honors; Team High Score

Gerald Righter: 2nd Art, Econ, Science, Essay; 3rd Lit; 2nd overall Honors

Broden Kaps: 1st Math; 2nd Interview

Alternate Honors: 

J.P. Jensen: 1st Hard Science, Soft Science, and Fine Arts

Scholastic:

Jackie Kure: 1st Econ, Math, Interview; 2nd Science; 3rd Lit; 1st overall Scholastic

Joe Coldiron: 1st Science; 2nd Interview & Math; 3rd Econ; 2nd overall Scholastic

Donovan Clements: 1st Art & Lit; 3rd Econ & Science

Alternate Scholastic:

Cole McCoy: 1st Hard Science, Soft Science, and Fine Arts

Varsity:

Kevin Arul: 1st Math, Music, Science, Speech, Interview; 2nd Lit; 3rd Art & Econ; 1st overall Varsity

Luka Mixan: 1st Art, Econ, Lit, Essay; 2nd Speech & Interview; 3rd Music & Science; 2nd overall Varsity

Jackson Panzer: 3rd Speech & Lit

Alternate Varsity:

Cole Dorfmeyer:  1st Hard Science & Soft Science; 2nd Fine Arts

Robo Knights Headed to World Championship

Congratulations to the Mount Michael robotics team, 1970K Knight Shift.  This past Friday and Saturday at the state robotics tournament they were awarded first place in robotics skills out of 50 participating teams.  They went on to the semi finals in the event.  Both accomplishments qualified them to go to this years Vex Robotics Worlds Tournament in Louisville, Kentucky April 19-22. 

 Go Knights!

Knight Shift  1970K team members:  Reilly Jackson '17, Drew Goddard '17, Lukas Williams '18, driver Nick Huetter '17, Nolan Huetter '18, and Nolan Gottsch '18.

Academic Decathlon Team Wins Regional

On Saturday January 21st the Knights Academic Decathlon team won the regional competition held at Midlands University in Fremont, Nebraska.   They now are in preparation for the state competion to be held at Creighton University February 17-18, 2017.

Standing: Henry O'Callaghan, Donovan Clements, Broden Kaps, Jackie Kure, Luka Mixan, Kevin Arul, Joe Coldiron
Kneeling: J.P. Jensen, Cole McCoy, Cole Dorfmeyer, Gerald Righter. Not pictured: Jackson Panzer

 Medals from the regional competition

Honors:

Henry O’Callaghan: 1^st Econ, Lit, Math, Music; 2^nd Art & Science; team high score

Gerald Righter: 1^st Art & Science; 2^nd Econ, Lit, & Music

Alternate Honors:

J.P. Jensen: 1^st Econ, Music & Science; 2^nd Art, Lit, & Math

Broden Kaps: 1^st Art, Lit, & Math; 2^nd Econ, Music, & Science

Scholastic:

Joseph Coldiron: 1^st Art, Econ, Math, Music, & Science; 3^rd Lit

Donovan Clements: 1^st Art & Lit; 2^nd Econ & Science; 3^rd Math & Music

Alternate Scholastic:

Jackie Kure: 1^st Art, Econ, Lit, Math, & Music; 2^nd Science

Cole McCoy: 1^st Science; 2^nd Lit & Math; 3^rd Art, Econ, & Music

Varsity:

Kevin Arul:  1^st Art, Math, & Music; 2^nd Lit; 3^rd Econ & Science

Luka Mixan: 1^st Econ, Lit, & Science; 2^nd Art; 3^rd Math

Alternate Varsity:

Cole Dorfmeyer:  1^st Econ, Lit, Math, Music, & Science; 3^rd Art

Jackson Panzer:  2^nd Art, Econ, Math, & Science; 3^rd Lit

Team:

Regional Champions

First place in Super Quiz

Robo Knights Win Again!

At the DC West Robotics Tournament Mount Michael's Knight Shift, 1970K, continued their winning ways. The team has won first place at all but one of seven area tournaments so far this year, and the one we missed, our team took second place.  They've competed against students from all over the US who come to these events.

There are literally thousands of high school teams (17,000?) in the world and Mount Michael's Knight Shift is in the top 100, and Nick Huetter is somewhere in the top 25 or 30 robot drivers on the planet.  

Video 1 - Video 2

Team 1970K - Knight Shift : Teacher/ mentor Mr. Williams, Drew Goddard '17, Reilly Jackson '17, Nolan Gottsch '19, Nolan Huetter '18, Nick Huetter '17, and Lukas Williams '18.

First place team alliance with Mount Michael Knight Shift and Benson High Bunnytronics.

Elkhorn Robotics Tournament Champions

The winning team/ alliance at Saturday December 3rd's Elkhorn Robotics Tournament.  It included the Mt. Michael team 1970K  "Knight Shift" that includes: Nolan Gottsch, Drew Goddard, Nick Huetter, Nolan  Huetter, Reilly Jackson, and Lukas Williams.  The three students on each end are from Elkhorn High School.

Picture provided by Elkhorn coach/ mentor Glen Benes.

Journalism Team earns honors in competitions

Nebraska High School Press Association workshop and competition:

Journalism team photo taken in Lincoln during the NHSPA Workshop

All three publications that the journalism team produces, The Mount, The Seeker, and The Freelance placed in competition.

The Freelance(online) received an award of Merit.

The Seeker(yearbook) received a Superior(This is the highest award our yearbook has received in this competition, and the first time the publication as a whole has been awarded)

The Mount(Print edition) received a Cornhusker (This is the highest award possible for any publication and it is the first time our print edition has received it.  “I am particularly proud of this achievement because it reflects the work of the entire team.  To get this honor it means our team is not only writing well, but also editing and laying out pages well.” Adviser Gina Fosco said.

A few of the Knights attending the Conference in Indianapolis 

Journalism Education Association/National Scholastic Press Association Convention

Students attended workshops, networked with other high school journalists and competed in write off competitions.

Patrick Halpin’17 received an honorable mention in Sports Writing.

UNL Math Day Results

2016-2017 Math Team

The Mount Michael Knights had an award winning day at the annual UNL Math Day.  On the PROBE I (Problems Requiring Original and Brilliant Effort) exam Mount Michael earned second place in their division missing 1st by .75 of a point. They placed 4th out of all schools in Nebraska. In the Quiz Bowl they also placed 2nd.  The Knights had 5 individuals place in the top 40 out of more than 1700 participants.

• Junho Ho and Max Nguyen tied for 13th place
• Kevin Zhang earned 20th place
• Vincent Dai earned 26th place
• Zach Cairney earned 31st place

More Photos from Max Nguyen

Wayne State College Math Contest

The Mount Michael Math Team had great success in their first contest without senior team members.

Joe Coldiron(11), Jordan Nguyen(10), Garret Gloeb(10), Nick Hutter(11), ) James Crotty(9), Max Nguyen(9), Bokai Zhang(9), Liyu Li(9), Cole McCoy(9). Sitting: Oscar Dong(10

Algebra: James Crotty 10th

Algebra 2: Jordan Nguyen 3rd

Geometry: Bokai Zhang 1st, Ziyu Li 2nd

Pre-Calculus: Max Nguyen 1st, Garret Gloeb 4th

Calculus: Nick Huetter 2nd, Joe Coldiron 3rd