Chadron State College’s Scholastics Day

Ryggin Meyer, Staff Writer

November 28, 2023

Alliance High School was invited to Chadron State College’s Scholastics Day on October 25, 2023. CSC Scholastics is when students are selected to perform in a test and compete for a scholarship to Chadron State. Our school had 41 students attend, and took 60 tests overall.

Kinize Bridge, my first interviewee, having taken three tests in total! The three tests she took were Health, Consumer Issues, and Business Communication. When I asked what her tests were about, Kinize responded, “The Health test talked a lot about macromolecules and fitness, the Consumer Issues test had a lot of percentage questions and questions asking about interests in numbers and hypothetical situation questions, the Business Communications test had questions on correct verb usage, sentence structure, spelling, and resumes.” She was 5th in Consumer Issues, 4th in Bussiness Communications, and no result for Health. Another question I asked was if she enjoyed Scholastics Day, and she answered, “I did enjoy Scholastics Day. It is always fun to go to CSC and explore the campus. There are always lots of fun activities to do. For example, before my three tests, I played cornhole with some of my friends and after I was done testing I watched some people from our school play pool.” The last thing I asked Kinize was if this was her first year going, Kinize said no, she also went last year as well!

My next interview was with Henry Hoff, he took the Algebra 2 test. The first question I asked Henry was what his test was about, he answered, “It was about all kinds of algebraic things. I honestly can’t remember the questions too much, but there were a lot of equations I had done before but there was a lot I hadn’t done, like quadratic equations for example.” He placed 17th but Henry has never taken Algebra 2 before! The next thing that I asked Henry was if he enjoyed Scholastics Day, he stated, “I think it was pretty fun. There were quite a lot of things to do, like the game room and the little stands you could go to hosted by different organizations. There were lots of little free things at those stands too, which I definitely didn’t mind. The last question was if he had gone before and Henry said he went last year.

When getting the results back, Alliance High did amazing! We had 17 students take the top ten in the tests they took.

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Top 10 Students:

Abigal Vermillion: American Government

Carlie Schneider: Personal Finance

Emily Mccune: Physics and Advanced Mathematics

Josie Sanders: Animal Science

Kayel Lambert: Nutrition and Family Health

Kinize Bridge: Bussiness Communication and Consumer Issues

Morgan Lemuyan: Chemistry and Accounting

Mason Trumble: Business Management Decisions

Matthias Benzel: Accounting

Olive Radice: Art Drawing

Ryggin Meyer: Human Development and Family Life

Seth Meyring: Animal Science 1 and Business Management Decisions

Sonya Behrends: Chemistry

Tate Thompson: Environment Science and General Biology

William Nollette: Earth Science and Health

About the Contributor

Ryggin Meyer, Staff writer

Ryggin Meyer is a 15 year old sophomore who attends Alliance High school. She was born in Alliance, Nebraska at Box Butte General Hospital on July 16, 2008. Ryggin has lived in many other towns such as Rapid City, South Dakota and Rushville, Nebraska. The reason she ended up moving was because of her mom. Ryggin is currently in her second year of FFA, last year she did competitions such as CCM (Conduct of Chapter’s Meeting) and Vet Science. She made it to state in CCM and her team got bronze on the state level. A main hobby of Ryggin’s is showing dairy goats, she owns 21 dairy goats! All of her dairy goats are Lanchais, Sable Saanens, and Saanens, this is her first year showing goats by herself. Before Ryggin started showing goats by herself, she’d help her cousin, Bayleigh, showing goats. She has also shown horses, last show she went to Ryggin got Reserve Youth Ranch Champion on a horse named Sugar ‘N Grace. That horse was her aunt Sheri’s but personally she owns 2 horses, Mist who is two years old named Mist, and an eleven year old named Shorty. Ryggin is also in dance, this being her 13th year! She currently does tap, jazz, pointe, and lyrical. Ryggin loves dance and it has always been a true passion of hers since she was young, she can’t wait to see what this dance year brings! When Ryggin isn’t at school, she is helping out on the ranch or playing Roblox. Things that she does on the ranch is train her horses, work with cows, work with her dairy goats, or just lend a helpful hand. Some of the games that Ryggin likes to play epic mini games on roblox. When she finishes high school, she is hoping to go to the University of Wyoming for pre-vet and then Vet school in Colorado. She wants to study in Colorado because it is one of the nations best vet schools. The reason she wants to go to the University of Wyoming is because it has beautiful scenery. Once she graduates vet school, she is hoping to work in Riverton, Wyoming at Stock Dock Veterinary Clinic. Ryggin is wanting to move to Riverton, Wyoming in hopes of making more money. Ryggin is an all A student and hopes to continue this throughout high school. She hopes to improve her writing skills and thinks The SPUD will help with this. Ryggin can not wait to write for The SPUD this school year!