Scribblers art club helps beautify the Ritenour community

Living in the Ritenour school district, students come across many different ethnicities, cultures and religions. Art teacher Kristi Ponder has come together with twenty other high school students in a variety of grades to paint a mural in the lobby of Kratz, one of Ritenour’s elementary schools.

To get more in touch with the district, the high school students are being joined with some elementary children to create and represent the diversity of the school and to show the mixture of cultures in the students. The start of the project will begin in March and samples of drawings from both schools are being discussed.

Speech and Debate hosts a local tournament, with one student placing

The word debate is a formal heated discussion on a particular topic in assembly, otherwise known as arguing.

English teacher Christina Andrade teaches her students to do this to the best of their ability as the Speech and Debate sponsor. The team showed off their skills, as well as their high school when they hosted the Greater St. Louis Speech and Debate Association meet in January.

During the tournament, over 20 local Speech and Debate teams came to participate in a variety of events. The Ritenour team was responsible for running the event, doing everything from planning to selling concessions.

Ritenour junior Abby Gordon won third place for her Dramatic Interpretation performance.

Interested students can come to Debate Club meetings on Wednesday afternoons from 3 to 4 in room 252.

A new club comes to Ritenour, and spreads good will

Ever wonder what was happening in the other countries around the world? Social Studies Teacher Jared Bell is in charge of Ritenour High School’s new club: MAD HOPE, which explores issues related to people around the world..

MAD HOPE consists of students of all grades in high school coming together to talk about life in other nations, and the struggle to live in the variety of different economies.

Bracelets are being sold by club members during lunch for $1 to support charities and their club. The club was made to spread the knowledge of poverty and to take a step of action to find a way to help people to live a better life.

Ritenour Robotics competes in a local competition

Most clubs involve students coming after school and meshing a lot of different personalities together. While this club builds relationships, they also spend their time building robots.

This club is not only learning how to design, build, and program robots, they are also learning to work together with rival Pattionvile High School’s prestigious team to solve common engineering problems.

While robots are not quite taking over the Ritenour halls, they did take place in a big competition on Saturday Jan. 18, 2014 called the ‘Block Party’. Ten students traveled to Rockwood School district to compete against about thirty five other teams in the Saint Louis area.