Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Greendale's Luke Eisner turned his passion into a business, and he's only in the 11th Grade.
Luke Eisner, owner of Luke Eisner DJ & Lighting, won the Junior Achievement’s Young Entrepreneur Award. And he’s only in the 11th Grade at Greendale High School, but he started working for his cousin's DJ service, Sounds by Design, when he was 13. “I’ve just always wanted to be around music and it’s always been my biggest passion,” Eisner said in his video. He started off working for a DJ that worked a lot of weddings and he saved his money to start his own company. Since 2010, the sales from Eisner’s company have increased by 600 percent. He also has 21 performances booked for 2013. Luke's company features five subwoofers, two 21-inch speakers, lasers and LED lighting. He's also given free performances for soldiers, the Milwaukee Rescue …
Friday, February 15, 2013
Nearly 100 students competed at Briggs & Stratton Corp. Thursday in the Junior Achievement Business Challenge. Check out some of the team photos!
Students from Greendale High School and 19 other area schools took a walk in some big shoes Thursday when they worked one-on-one with local business leaders at the Junior Achievement Business Challenge at Briggs & Stratton Corp. These teens got the chance to test their intellect at running a business using a hands-on computer simulation. From choosing what products to buy, just how much of that product, marketing and capital investments to research and development choices, they were all acting CEOs for a day. "This challenge is uniquely positioned to help the students use their creativity, test their leadership skills and participate in a competitive nature that focuses on business and entrepreneurship," said Todd J. Teske, chairman, …
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Greendale finished fourth in the Super Large Varsity division, which is a division for teams with 20 to 30 members, in Orlando Feb. 9-10.
The Greendale High School cheer team competed in the National High School Cheerleading Championship in Orlando, joining more than 450 teams at the two day event Feb. 9-10. Greendale finished fourth in the Super Large Varsity division, which is a division for teams with 20 to 30 members. Teams performed skills of stunting, tumbling, jumping, pyramids, dance and crowd-leading in a choreographed 2.5-minute routine. The Greendale girls made it through Saturday's preliminaries in seventh before elevating to fourth in the finals. In addition to competing, Greendale organized a practice for all Wisconsin teams Friday, Feb 8. The eight teams representing Wisconsin got together for a final practice and run through of their routines. Teams …
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
The expansion will allow for growing year-round and teachers to incorporate gardening principles into their lesson plans.
The Greendale School District is expanding the high school garden to allow for growing even in the middle of a Wisconsin winter. Through donations and grants from Walmart, Parkland Kiwanis and the Cooperative Education Service Agency, the district plans to construct a hoop-shaped greenhouse so students can enjoy hands-on learning no matter what time of year. The expansion will also allow teachers to incorporate gardening principles into their lessons. "We are trying to make our community a better place, and improve the lives of our citizens. The longer growing season at the school garden will allow us to grow vegetables and engage students and community all year round," said School Garden Manager and teacher July Lafond-Salus in a press …
Friday, February 8, 2013
A judge called Nicholas Olson's bomb threat a "terroristic act" and sentenced him to spend time in the House of Correction, against the prosecutor's recommendation for probation.
Calling the bomb threat a student made to disrupt Greendale's homecoming festivities a "terroristic act," a Milwaukee County judge said he couldn't let the teenage boy off without jail time. Nicholas Olson, 17, was a senior at Greendale High School when he made a bomb threat during homecoming week. He was trying to get the dance called off, after he had been voted onto homecoming court as a prank. Prosecutors had recommended Nicholas Olson, 17, serve only probation and pay restitution to the Greendale School District, a sentence Olson's attorney also supported. Judge Daniel Konkol didn't agree, and sentenced Olson to serve one week in the House of Correction as well as the year of probation. Konkol said things like Olson's threatening …
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Looking for a fun family-friendly event and want to help others while doing it? Check out this benefit concert.
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
The Greenfield-Greendale co-op swim team and Greendale wrestling squad begin WIAA competition Saturday at Greenfield High School.
The WIAA swimming and wrestling postseason kicks off Saturday, and Greenfield High School will be at the center of attention. The school will host both the WIAA Division 1 swimming sectional meet and a D1 regional wrestling tournament. The swimming meet will be a strong test for the Greenfield-Greendale co-op boys unit, which despite winning eight of 12 events took second at the 10-team Woodland Conference meet Feb. 2, finishing behind the deeper Shorewood Greyhounds. PantherHawk winners were: The 11-team sectional is at 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9. Diving is at 6 p.m. Friday, also at Greenfield High School. Among the teams expected to compete for the title with the PantherHawks is Southeast Conference champion Franklin. Wrestling postseason …
Friday, February 1, 2013
Greendale High School senior Dustin Hejdak has overcome personal adversity to earn the national Horatio Alger Association scholarship. The four-year scholarship is awarded to students who have succeeded despite hardships.
Like most high school juniors and seniors, Dustin Hejdak is not all that fond of filling out college scholarship applications. It’s time consuming, feels too much like homework and there is no guaranteed payoff. But when Hejdak sat down and wrote a series of essays for the national Horatio Alger Association scholarship, the Greendale High School senior found the process almost therapeutic. The essays are designed to demonstrate how a student has faced and overcome personal adversity. “It brought back a lot of stuff,” Hejdak said. “The essays were perfect for me to write about, which is probably why I got (the scholarship). I could have written for a long time; they were easy topics to write about.” Hejdak was one of 106 national winners …
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Greendale school officials outlined a few ways—monetarily and otherwise—to increase school safety.
While the Dec. 14 school shooting in Newtown, Conn. put many school districts in reactive mode, the Greendale School District had already spent several years working with community and police officials on a continuously-updated security plan, High School Principal Steve Lodes said. That work provided a framework for each school to customize its safety efforts, Lodes said. It will also make it easy for the school board to fulfill a state requirement to adopt and implement a school safety plan by May 26, because most of the work is already done. In a Greendale School Board meeting last week, Lodes outlined recent efforts and possible capital projects to improve safety in schools. Lodes said officials are studying ways to improve exits and …
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
A "Resource Period" will kick off most days at Greendale High School beginning next school year, giving students needing extra help some time with teachers, and freshmen some time to transition.
Greendale High School will have a 30-minute period at the beginning of most school days next year to allow struggling students to get support and help transition freshmen into high school. Called a "Resource Period," school officials say it will improve student achievement, create time for academic interventions and lead to opportunities for individualized learning. Identified students will report to a Resource Period with a teacher of the content area in which they are struggling, according to a report to school board members. Freshmen, meanwhile, will be in the Resource Period the entire first semester to develop the skills needed to succeed in high school. Sometimes, a student may pulled into the period for one day or a few days at the…
Billy Schmid
12:10 pm on Monday, April 29, 2013
This kid straight rocked our prom!! Dude will be huge and i hope i can make another one of his shows more ›