Congratulations to the
Juniors in the Japanese Class at Groves
for the outstanding results
from the 2017 National Japanese Exam.

Exam level 1:

Honorable Mention:
Makaiya Sain
(National Ranking 131 of 466)

Exam level 2:

Gold prize:
Walter Davis
(National Ranking 1 of 565)

Gold prize:
Joan LaMar
(National Ranking 1 of 565)

Silver prize:
Antulio Erickson-Suzuki
(National Ranking 78 of 565)

Honorable Mention:
Shane Donovan
(National Ranking 166 of 565)

Walter Davis (junior)
also passed the
“Japanese Language Proficiency Test”
for the level called N4
which is the highest level
for high school level.

This spring, Groves Newspaper students
won 14 statewide awards from the
Michigan Interscholastic Press Association,
hosted by Michigan State University.

Two students on staff earned First Place
in the state for Division 2
and a total of 11 students earned
an individual statewide award.

Students won across many categories
of photography, writing, and research:
news, argumentation, narration,
human interest, sports, environment,
health coverage, and design.

Please congratulate the following
students for their awards:

Personality Profile
1st Place
Alex Johnson
Rori Mullen's art combats sexism

Environmental, Health or Science
1st Place
Charlotte Beggs
Rising opiate addiction in suburban schools

Personality Profile
Honorable Mention
Charlotte Beggs
Junior Kendall Hall produces album, Homily

Informative Feature
Honorable Mention
Charlotte Beggs
Stagefighting in spring play

Human Interest Feature
2nd Place
Robbie Juriga
Japanese teacher juggles seven classes
while battling cancer

Sports News Story
3rd Place
Allison Miller
Alumni compete in Olympic swimming trials

Human Interest Feature
Honorable Mention
Annalese Lohr
Sophomore Trevor Sullivan battles
second paralyzing condition

Personal Narrative
Honorable Mention
Katie Westerlund
Eighth wonder of the world

Personal Narrative
Honorable Mention
Jaxon Bumbaugh
My road to Washington

Sports Feature Story
Honorable Mention
Anja Rouaud
Sophomore Celia Crompton
trains for fencing Olympics

News Analysis
Christian Zeitvogel
Honorable Mention
New security after gun scare on campus

News Analysis
Justin Sherman
Honorable Mention
District Overhauls English Curriculum

Sports Action Photo
Honorable Mention
Josh Klein
Serving a leap

Front Page/Newsmagazine Style
Honorable Mention
Scriptor Staff
Art to combat sexism

The Groves High School Library Media Center
was declared
SL21 (School Libraries for the 21^st Century)
Exemplary status by the Michigan State Library.

(April 2017)

Team Automation Nation, the combined team of students
from Seaholm and Groves, travelled to St. Louis, MO,
to compete with 408 other FRC teams from across the World,
on April 27-29, 2017.

Six divisions played at the same time in the
Edward Jones Dome- America’s Center;
Team 2960 played on the Daly Division.

It was an energy filled three days,
of robot climbing, ball launching,
bot defense and gear driving.

Eventually, we had our first water game,
as the roof started to leak!
No worries, when you have a bunch of engineers in the room,
you grab an Ethernet cable, Painters tape,
and a tarp to figure something out!

During the qualification matches, the drive team,
led by Colin Jones, Nick Kroetsch, Dan Villalaba,
and the human players, Jacob Bejune, Max Whalen
and Ned Slavin, won 9 out of 10 games.

Based on ranking points awarded, this put
the team at a 6th place ranking of the 68 teams
participating on this field.

Eventually, they were named 5th place
Captains of our alliance.

We began our quarterfinals round and
advanced to the semi-finals, where we eventually
lost to the World Champions,
Stryke Force of Kalamazzo, MI,
The Cheesy Pooft of San Jose, CA,
The Lightning Robotics from Canton
and The Pascack PI-oneers of Montvale, NJ.

Overall, we had an amazing week!
We couldn’t be more proud of our team for
all their hard work and dedication.

In fact, they are already talking about next season!

Also, Congratulations to Colin Jones,
Senior at Groves High School, who was awarded
the FRIST Scholarship to Kettering University!

This is the largest scholarship offered
to any FIRST student attending Kettering in the fall.

Congratulations to all the following students for a Season of Success!

Groves:
Jacob Bejune
Colin Jones
Chaz Ringey
Matthew Weerakoon
Maxwell Whalen
Michael Fischer – freshman
Dustin Dimitry
JP DeRonne
Oriol Canallas

Seaholm:
Alex Bolejack
Aliyah Ahmad
Josh Chapnick
Jacob Dara
Grace Shenefelt
Nicholas Kroetsch
Malcolm Machesky
Gabriel Raymond
Ned Slavin
Nick Sotiroff
Daniel Viallalba
Miles Frierson
Pia Campbell
Kevin Gruich
Leah Kim
Alyssa Pascoe

The Groves Forensic Team:
CLASS A
STATE CHAMPIONS!!!!

This past weekend the Groves Forensic Team
competed at the MIFA Individual Events
(aka forensic) State competition
and earned the title of Class A State Champions.

The entire team of 28 competed and 21 of
the 28 advanced to the final round.

Individual Award winners include:

1st Place:
Kendall Hall-Impromptu
Victoria Lurz-Prose
Halle Tilotti-Dramatic Interpretation
Lauren Emerick-Sales 9/10

2nd Place:
Ashley Stewart-Prose
Olivia Reeves-Extemporaneous
Griffin Kozlow-Dramatic Interpretation 9/10
Casey Sherwood-Sales
Ryan Larson/Marshall Ross-Duo

3rd Place:
Zach Heaton-Impromptu

4th Place:
Ben Iverson-Broadcasting
Chance Stephenson-Extemporaneous
Paige Stearn-Storytelling

5th Place:
Jadyn Broomfield-Broadcasting
Sophie Dara-Informative
Cassie Delgado-Sales
Maddy Hardey-Sales 9/10

6th Place:
Harvey Reeves-Informative
Sophie Erlich-Oratory
Isaiah Johnson-Poetry
Lexy Schusterbrown-Dramatic Interpretation 9/10

Semifinalists:
Mia Ersher-Dramatic Interpretation
Scotty Lockwood-Storytelling

Quarter Finalist:
The Jungle Book-Multiple
(Misha Adler, Jordan Davis,
Ruby Kolender, James Laport, Hope Tusman)

State competitors:
Jack Gross-Oratory
Beau Lerner/James Hardy-Duo
Emma Simonte-Poetry
Hercules-Multiple
(Megan Darby, Cameron Howell,
Jacob Kroll, PJ Roberts, Brooklyn Scott,
Hunter Stabile,
Hailey VanWordragen, Becca Woodrow)

It has been 25 years since Groves
last won the title of Class A Champions,
we are thrilled to reclaim this title.

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The Birmingham Robotics Team, 2960 Automation Nation, (Seaholm and Groves) 
Congratulations to the Birmingham Robotics Team, 2960 Automation Nation,
for finishing as Finalists in the Dow Division at the FRC Michigan State Championship
at Saginaw Valley State University on April 15th.  Our team finished with a ranking of 18 out of 450 schools. 

Bernie Simms, Pat Hoover, and Rosa Everitt couldn’t be more proud of the team, for their dedication, hard work, and persistence,
which will lead us to the WORLD competition in St. Louis, MO for the Worlds Competition, April 26 & 27.

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Groves High School has earned the designation of  
EVERGREEN  for the 2016-17 program year! 

(March 2017)

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The Groves Orchestra Program both hosted and competed at the MSBOA District Orchestra Festival
held here at Groves on March 11 and 12.  Our Concert and Symphony Orchestras performed
extremely well at the competition!  They both earned straight 1^st division ratings
from every judge!  This is the highest score possible!  For our Symphony Orchestra,
this is the 15^thconsecutive year receiving this rating!!!  

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The Groves Forensic Team had a historic day on Saturday, March 11
at the MSCI Spring Fling Forensic Tournament. 
We received more 1st place finishes than we have before!

1st Place:

Olivia Reeves   -Extemporaneous
Kendall Hall    -Impromptu
Sophie Erlich    -Oratory
Casey Sherwood    -Sales
Mia Ersher    -DI (Novice)
Halle Tilotti    -DI  (Open)
Ryan Larson/Marshall Ross    -Duo
Isaiah Johns    -Poetry (Novice)
Victoria Lurz    -Prose

2nd Place:

Sophie Dara    -Informative
Lauren Emerick    -Sales (Novice)
Griffin Kozlow    -DI (Novice)

3rd Place:

Ben Iverson    -Broadcasting
Maddy Hardey    -Sales
Ashley Stewart Smith    -Prose
Scotty Lockwood    -Storytelling

4th Place:

Chance Stephenson    -Impromptu
Cassie Delgado    -Sales

 
5th Place:

James Hardy/Beau Lerner    -Duo

6th Place:

Harvey Reeves    -Informative (Novice)
The Jungle Book    -Multiple (Misha Adler, Jordan Davis, Ruby Kolender, James Laport, Hope Tushman)

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Team 2960 Automation Nation
had an awesome weekend as they competed
amongst 40 other robotics team throughout
the state of Michigan and Ohio.
At the competition in Southfield,
 our team became not only the winners of the innovation
and control system award, but were partnered
with the killer bees of Notre Dame,
and the Mech Warriors of Brither Rice and Marion
 to be declared the first place champions
of Southfield High School first week of FRC!

Our students have been dedicated to building
our 117 pound robot for six weeks to compete
 in this year Steamworks competition.  
They have worked diligently to create a ball shooter,
 a gear pick up, and the robots that climbs the rope!
Without the dedication of the students,
this would not have been possible. 

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On Saturday, March 4 the Groves Forensic Team
took 1st place in the "Daimyo" (Large School) Division
at the Ninjatational Forensic Tournament
at Avondale High School. 

Individual award recipients:

1st
Griffin Kozlow-DI 9/10
Zach Heaton-Impromptu
Halle Tilotti-DI Open
Lauren Emerick-Sales 9/10

2nd
Mia Ersher-DI
Scotty Lockwood-Storytelling
Victoria Lurz-Prose

3rd
Cassie Delgado-Sales
Olivia Reeves-Extemporaneous
Emma Simonte-Poetry
Maddy Hardey-Sales 9/10

4th
Hercules (PJ Roberts, Hunter Stabile, Cameron Howell,
Jacob Kroll, Becca Woodrow, Brooklyn Scott,
Megan Darby, Haily Van Wordragen)
Ashley Stewart-Smith-Prose
Casey Sherwood-Sales

5th
Paige Stearn-Storytelling
Sophie Dara-Informative
Ben Iverson-Broadcasting
Lexy Schusterbrown-DI 9/10
Beau Lerner/James Hardy-Duo

6th
Jack Gross-Oratory
Kendall Hall-Impromptu

Thanks for all of your support!

(February 2017)

$31,429.44 was raised for
The Make-A-Wish Foundation - Michigan
during Charity Week.
Special Thanks to the Students, Staff
and Community of Groves High School.

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The Theatre 5 students
competed at the MIFA One Act Competition on February 11.  
The students presented the play Girls Like That by Evan Placey. 

Groves came in 1st place at the regional competition
and secured a spot to compete at next week's State competition.

In addition to coming in 1st at the Regional competition
a number of students were recognized for their individual accomplishments.

Ashley Stewart-Smith-Superior for Acting
PJ Roberts-Excellent for Acting
Entire cast-Superior for Ensemble Acting
Entire Technical Crew-Superior for Technical Execution
Olivia Reeves, Alison Rhen, Misha Adler-Superior to Student Direction
Ryan Larson-Superior for Fight Choreography
Caitlin McCoy & Victoria Lurz-Superior for Costume Design
Sophie Erlich, Marshall Ross, Halle Tilotti-Superior for Lobby Design
Olivia Reeves, Alison Rhen, Misha Adler-Superior for Script cutting
PJ Roberts, Ryan Larson, Harvey Reeves-Superior for Music/Song Selection
Harvey Reeves & Sean Sullivan-Sound Execution

(January 2017)

2017 Individual Category Scholastic Art Awards

The Southeastern Michigan Region of the Scholastic Art Awards is sponsored by the College for Creative Studies and supported by an advisory board of volunteer art teachers.  This region receives more than 6,200 works of art and 250 portfolios from middle school and high school students, which are then adjudicated and selected for Honorable Mentions, Silver and Gold Key Awards, American Vision nominations, and Best of Show Portfolios.

Congratualtions to:

Callie Barnas
Honorable Mention Editorial Cartoon

Nick Joseph
Gold Key Digital Art
Gold Key Photography
Gold Key Photography
Silver Key Photography
Honorable Mention Photography

Victoria Kincaid
Gold Key Photography
Honorable Mention Photography
Honorable Mention Photography

Samantha Mantua
Silver Key Ceramics & Glass

Larkin O'Gorman
Gold Key Photography
Silver Key Photography
Silver Key Photography

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Groves Scriptor takes home 3 First Place National Awards for the second year in a row

For the second year in a row, the  American Scholastic Press Association awarded The Scriptor three first place awards in their national competition:  National First Place for Newsmagazine,  National First Place for Investigative Reporting, and a National First Place for Sports Photography  

Each year ASPA’s  panel of journalists and educators rank student newsmagazines from colleges and high schools across the United States based on the following criteria: coverage, ethics, research and writing, page design, general plan, art/photography, business acumen, creativity, editing, and community leadership.

Each category is further broken down into multiple rubrics related to writing, design, and research ethics.  This year, the Scriptor  scored in the highest on the rubrics to earn a these first place Awards. 

In this year's, congratulations letter to the Scriptor staff, the ASPA 2016 the judges wrote: “Scriptor is an excellent publication, which deserves first place.  Creating  a magazine teaches students the fundamentals of publishing and a variety of writing modes,  proofreading and editing skills, concepts of design and composition and promotes a community of young writers, thereby promoting esteem and school-wide status.  Your magazine shows the superior efforts of talented and creative writers, artists, photographers, layout/graphics designers, staff members, and adviser.”

The judges ranked the Scriptor especially high on  research, writing,  photography, and creativity.

The following newspaper students were especially instrumental in helping the Scriptor win this award:

Christian Zietvogel
Charlotte Beggs
Connor Bradbury
Justin Sherman
Ali Abdalla
Misha Adler
Eric Gaines
Connor Mason
Molly Ryan
Chris Biddle
Gavin Barry
Shane Donovan
Rebecca Gonska
Derrik Lockhart
Jaxon Bumbaugh
Derrik Lockhart

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Groves Orchestra MSBOA District Solo & Ensemble Results 

Members of the Groves Orchestra program participated in the MSBOA (Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association) District Solo and Ensemble Festival held at Brighton High School on January 18, 2017.  This is an event where students perform a solo, and/or in an ensemble, and compete against a set criteria for a rating.  The rating guidelines are as follows:  Division I = Superior, Division II = Excellent, Division III = Good, Division IV = Fair, Division V = Poor.   

We are proud to announce that the Groves Orchestra program had 24 events participate resulting in 19 Division I, and 5 Division II ratings!!!  Our Groves orchestra students have worked very hard in preparation for this event and we are extremely proud of their efforts!  Please congratulate the following students at your earliest convenience:

Division I

(in no particular order)

Stephanie Green, Ethan Biederman, Anna Citko, Tessa Irish-Minewiser- string quartet

Alison Brandt- violin solo

Claire Wilusz- violin solo

Tessa Irish-Minewiser- cello solo

Samantha Zerafa, Zaria Seabron, Parker Tomkinson- violin trio

Claire Wilusz & Tessa Irish-Minewiser-  violin & cello duet

Morghan Larson- violin solo

Samantha Zerafa- violin solo

Kendall Pollard- violin solo

Ethan Bieberman- violin solo

Stephanie Green- violin solo

Josh Holmes & Curtis Rogers- cello duet

Alexander Shier- cello solo

Morghan Larson & Molly Kohl- violin duet

Zaria Seabron- violin solo

Jilianne Kowalchuk- violin solo

Kaan Gurun- piano solo

Jana Dinkeloo- violin solo

Molly Kohl- violin solo

 Division II

Joy Tenjeras- viola solo

Anna Citko- viola solo

Ben Tushman- viola solo

Aaron Stottlemyer- viola solo

John Doyle- cello solo

 (December 2016)

39 Superior Rankings

40 Groves High School theatre students attended the Michigan Thespian Festival
at SVSU and made history by receiving the most superior ratings ever.
(Superior is the highest a student can achieve,
similar to a 1 rating for Solo/Ensemble in the music world).

Superior Rating:

Short Film                           Misha Adler

Monologue                        Victoria Lurz

Playwriting                         Lexy Schusterbrown, Chance Stephenson

Duet Acting                        Maddy Hardey/James Laport

 Solo Dance                         Cassie Delgado 

Group Musical                  Sophie Dara, Megan Darby,  Noel Stanley, Hailey VanWordragen, Becca Woodrow

 Scenic Design                    Harvey Reeves, Sean Sullivan

 Monologue                        Caitlin McCoy

 Group Acting                     Grace Balow, Sophie Dara, Griffin Kozlow, Scotty Lockwood

 Duet Musical                     McKenna Moosekian/Jordan Davis

 Solo Musical Theatre        Sophie Erlich

 Sound Design                    Alexandria Pawlik, Harvey Reeves, Sean Sullivan

 Group Musical                 Jordan Davis, Griffin Kozlow,

Isaiah Johns, James Laport, Scotty Lockwood, PJ Roberts,  Hunter Stabile

 Stage Management        Ruby Kolender,  Alison Rhen

 Group Dance                     James Hardy/Ashley Stewart

 Duet Musical                     Marshall Ross/Paige Stearn

 Costume Design               Caitlin McCoy, Olivia Reeves

 Monologue                        Marshall Ross

 Duet Musical                     Mia Ersher/Victoria Lurz

 Theatre Marketing          Sophie Erlich, Alison Rhen, Hunter Stabile

 Solo Musical                      Olivia Reeves

 Lighting Design                 Alexandria Pawlik

Group Acting                     Megan Darby, Beau Lerner, Lexy Schusterbrown, Chance Stephenson

Solo Dance                         Talia Stern

 Makeup Design                Misha Adler, Hailey VanWordragen,  Becca Woodrow

 Group Musical                  Mia Ersher, Victoria Lurz, Talia Stern

 Solo Dance                         Halle Tilotti

 Group Dance                     Halle Tilotti/Cassie Delgado

Duet Acting                        Ryan Larson/Ashley Stewart

 Excellent Rating:

Duet Acting                        James Hardy/Beau Lerner

Solo Musical Theatre      PJ Roberts

Costume Design               Noel Stanley

Lighting Design                  Ari Kohl

Ensemble Acting              Ruby Kolender/Ryan Larson/

Natalia McIntyre/Paige Stearn

 Individual Events

Individual Events are an opportunity for an individual or small group of students to present scenes, musical numbers or design ideas for a panel of three judges.  All of the judges are either university educators or theatre professionals. The judges evaluate the students on a series of criteria and then rank the students with a rating of Superior (1^st), an Excellent (2^nd), or Good (3^rd) or Fair (4^th).  Students compete against standards, not other students. 

(Nov. 2016)

Oakland County Robotics Championship

Saturday, Nov. 19, 2016, the Seaholm/Groves robotics team, the "Automation Nation",  captured 1^st place at the Oakland County Robotics Championship.  In addition, we were awarded the tournament Strategic Design Award and were named finalists for the 2016 OCCRA Foundation Award, which takes into account other things your team does, mentoring, community outreach, etc.

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Robotics team wins OCCRA tournament

The Birmingham robotics team won 1^st place out of 24 teams at last night’s Oakland County Competitive Robotics tournament.  This years’ game is “Go 4 It”, a game that resembles Connect 4 for 120 pound robots and uses 10 inch kick balls for scoring pieces.  Students from Seaholm and Groves took 6 weeks to design, build, test, and program the robot.

(Oct. 2016)

Debate

At the Okemos HS invitational held at Lansing Community College on October 21-22, 2016, several Groves debaters received individual speaker awards. David Boarman, at his first novice tournament, was top speaker in the novice division in a field of 26 competitors. In the open or varsity division, Piper Meloche was 3rd and Luke Bagdon 4th individual speakers. Posting winning 3-2 records in the novice division were teams of David Boarman and Ari Sherman, and the three person teams of Jonathan Giha, Dennis Coates and Jasmine Worthy.

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Marching Band

The Groves High School Falcon Marching Band performed at the MSBOA District 4 Marching Band Festival and received an overall Division 1 rating. This is a fantastic achievement by this group of students who have been working extremely hard since the first week of August. Also please recognize Sean Smith assistant director of bands, Brian Stukey our drum line instructor and Sarah Stukey for all the hard work they have put into our season.

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