Acuity Business Challenge

Student Reporter: Kayla Zimmer


On Saturday, March 7th, 48 teams of 96 students gathered at Acuity to compete in the Acuity Business Challenge. Students from nine area high schools competed to sell an imaginary product called the “Holo- Generator”. Students needed to use their brains and a lot of creativity to sell their product in different financial situations and real life economic times like booms and recessions. Not only did they have to make economic decisions, but they also had to deal with financial issues and running a business.


Teams were made up of two students and one adult business coach who could assist the students when they needed help. The students needed to run their business wisely, work hard, and make wise on the dime decisions to try to be one of the few to make it to the top.


Among the top contestants were Jordan Vrubley and Amanda Isken, who were runners up. They each won two year scholarships to UW-Sheboygan and were automatically entered into the state business challenge on April 30th. Also among the winners were students James Gallager and Alex Isken, who were Industry C winners of the groups ranging from A to F.


All of the students who participated in the event had a good time. Andy Post said, “The Business Challenge was a fun and exciting event, and I learned a lot from it.” The Acuity Business Challenge was an opportunity to learn how businesses are really run and at the same time have fun interacting with other people in the business world.

Badger State

Student Reporter: Eddie Guevara


This summer, Wisconsin will hold its 66th annual Badger Girls State and its 68th annual Badger Boys State events. This year, the Cedar Grove-Belgium representatives are Tyler Weavers and Kelly DelPonte for Sheboygan County and Jake Shanahan and Erika Kirst for Ozaukee County. When asked about being selected, Erika Kirst replied, “I’m honored to be chosen as Badger Girl rep and I’m looking forward to attending the program in June.
Badger State is a school of government training which divides students into two political parties which are the Federalist and the Nationalists. From there students will contrive their own issues, giving them the opportunity to learn government strategies firsthand.
The girl’s event, which is sponsored by The American Legion Auxiliary and the Department of Wisconsin, will be held from June 21-26 at the University of Oshkosh. Badger Boys State, which is sponsored by local American Legion Posts, will be held the week prior from June 13-20 at Ripon College campus.
Congratulations, Kelly, Tyler, Jake, and Erika!

Jarred Lucas Receives Honor

Student Reporter: Tim Baumann


One of Cedar Grove–Belgium’s high school seniors, Jarred Lucas, has been honored with Unanimous First Team All Badger Land. This is an honor for the five best and hardest working hockey players in the Badger Land conference. Being unanimously selected means that every coach in their conference agreed he deserved first team. The conference had a lot of great players, including Matt Pappe from state ranked number one Appleton United, Casey Holmes from the number six Fon du lac Cardinals, and Max McCormick from the number 12 Notre Dame tritons.


Jarred ended the season with 4 goals and 22 assists; great numbers for a defensive player. It is not all about the amount of points they have on the year, but also has to do with the effort and how much they contributed in their team’s success. Jarred averaged forty eight minutes of the fifty one minutes possible during the games. During the games Jarred helped the goalie out protecting the net, and only let 2.9 goals a game.


“It’s an honor to receive this award and it was fairly unexpected, but I have to give a lot of credit to my teammates, I couldn’t have done it without them,” said Jarred Lucas when asked about his award.


On behalf of everyone in the Cedar Grove-Belgium community, congratulations Jarred and good luck to you in the future.

Class of 2009 Salutatorian

Student Reporter: Ariel Beutel


This year the honored salutatorian of the Class of 2009 is Jordan Elizabeth Dykstra. Jordan is the daughter of Linda and Rich Dykstra. She has been a strong student and has worked diligently throughout her four years of high school. Aside from being focused on her studies, Jordan also juggled sports, clubs, church, and work. After graduation, Jordan plans to further her education at Marian University where she will study Elementary Education. Jordan has received the AAA scholarship from Marian University. This scholarship gives Jordan $8,000 per year and was granted to her because of her class rank, ACT score, and grade point average. With this scholarship, Jordan has also been admitted into Marian University’s Honors Program and gets a free laptop.


When asked about being named Salutatorian of the Class of 2009, Jordan replied, “I worked so hard in all my classes since freshmen year, and it’s really neat to see that it paid off. It is a great honor to be salutatorian.” Jordan would like to leave some advice for the underclassman, “…get involved in lots of school activities. Sports and clubs are fun to be a part of and by being involved in them; you can develop good time management skills.”

March Bada Bing Student of the Month

Student Reporter: Lyndsey Weyker


Another month has passed, and once again it’s time to pick a new Bada Bing student of the month. Teachers vote for a student that stood out to them and has shown great academic achievement. They also look for involvement in extracurricular activities and school functions.


This month they chose Mary Asma, daughter of Shirley and Joe Asma. In addition to being a top-ranked student, Mary is involved in cross country, forensics, fast pitch, student council, and the school play. Her favorite classes are Chemistry, Band, and Algebra 2. When asked her feelings about receiving this honor, she stated, “I feel special because most sophomores aren’t picked and I guess hard work pays off.”

Music to build character

Student Reporter: Joe Dettmann



Grammy nominated children’s singer and songwriter Red Grammer has been featured on dozens of television programs including The Today Show, CBS This Morning, Nickelodeon, Showtime, PBS, and The Disney Channel. With a very extensive musical career, Red has reached the hearts of kids and adults alike by speaking messages of integrity, truthfulness, responsibility, character, citizenship and much more.


On Thursday, March 5th, the Cedar Grove-Belgium Elementary and Middle School students welcomed this kind hearted singer by adorning themselves in red clothing. Throughout the day, Red performed some of his Grammy nominated songs and held a night time performance at 6:30 PM. Our school is very lucky to have had the pleasure of hearing Red perform. I’m sure our local kids had a great time and learned quite a few valuable life lessons in the process. It’s good to see such a large amount of support over an extremely positive influence.

Spanish Student of the Month

Student Reporter: Lyndsey Weyker


The Spanish student for the second quarter is freshman, Dustin Groenwald. His favorite class is Spanish and he loves the movie Shanghai Knights. Dustin likes to play videogames and read books by RA Salvatore during his free time. When he is not playing videogames and reading, he is working hard at the County Grove, where he washes dishes. When asked his feelings about being the new Spanish student of the month he said, “I was happy to find out my hard work was paying off.”